A grown person and an infant, what a contrast! True it is, that many a child has become very unmanageable, but this may always be traced to early neglect.

If from the earliest infancy the young mind is trained to little acts of obedience, they will soon become habitual and pleasant to perform; but if improper indulgence and foolish kindness be practised towards children, they must, of course, grow up peevish, fretful, and ill-tempered, obstinate, saucy, and unmanageable.

"Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he reap." Let this truth be ever engraved upon the minds of all parents.

A constant exercise of parental love in allowing all that is fit and proper, and a firm and judicious use of parental authority, in strictly refusing and forbidding all that is unsuitable or wrong, should harmoniously unite their power in training up the young.

Punishments, as a last resource, ought to be used; but never in a spirit of anger, wrath, or revenge.