We cannot overrate the vital importance of family reading and prayer. You would—oh, how willingly—run to the rescue of your child who is in peril, but greater by far are the moral perils of this world which beset the minds and hearts of our children, yet we deliberately neglect what might be the saving of them. How can parents expect their children to be preserved from evil if not fenced round by the Scriptures and prayer? Why send them out to the world defenseless? You are digging their moral grave. You send them into the world to battle with the devil without God. It is an unequal contest, and no wonder that your children are not saved; yea, if they sow their wild oats, at whose door will the blame lie?

The high aim of every Christian parent should be the salvation of God of each member of the household, FOLLOWED BY a career of Christian usefulness and activity in fellowship with the people of God. You may send your children to accredited schools and colleges for secular accomplishments. You may design them for a prominent place in the world and spare neither trouble nor expense to accomplish your end. What have you gained? "The world passeth away," but heaven lasts for ever. Eternity dwarfs time entirely, and glory beyond eclipses the brightest scenes of earth.

Oh near-sighted Christian parents, rouse up to your responsibility to train your children for Christ. What if wealth is strewn around the feet of your son or daughter; what if the applause of the ever fickle multitude ring in their ears; what if their name be honored in the University, or enrolled on the scrolls of the mighty? What of it all and they lose their soul, or lose life's end of true value for time and eternity—A LIFE FOR CHRIST!

—Walter Scott