When I commenced writing the following pages, I only intended them for my own offspring. Deeply impressed with a sense of my own responsibility as a Parent, and with the value of the souls of my children - I began this address with earnest prayer to the God of all grace to make it useful to their souls. It was written with a hope to affect the children s hearts, not to meet a critic s eye; but I have since thought that the Lord in his infinite mercy may use it for the benefit of some besides my own family - therefore I have allowed it to be published just as it was written. Any parent who...