The strongest fortification which the human
heart can throw up against temptation is the Home. Certain men are
almost invincible against the onslaughts of the many base allurements
which wreak such misery on all sides of us. Why are they so firm? It is
because a glorious example has stood before their minds, a liberal and
older knowledge of the world has aided their early endeavors, and a
plentiful advice has fastened in their understandings the wisdom of
virtue and industry. If your sons have Homes of their own, you can leave
them, as a great General leaves his lieutenants to occupy a country,
here a fortress held in safety, there a cantonment with natural
defenses, and there a "city on a hill," while you advance into those
other regions which are written on the map of your destiny, "sustained
by the unfaltering trust" that you have kept the great obligation
imposed on you, and handled your forces for the best advantage of the
cause you served.
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DUTIES OF PARENTS.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.
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