But there is no' school like the family school with respect to the character of its lessons and other instruments of instruction. Books and school - such as books and school commonly are often become irksome even when they are intelligible. They are regarded as mere task-work. Whereas the books and lessons of the family school are seldom, if ever, either stale or unwelcome.

The time will probably come in the history of this world it might even now come, if we were willing to receive it - when there will be not only the disposition, but the ability, to render all our houses places of instruction and education. The parents, grand parents, and eldest brothers and sisters, will be teachers of the younger members of the family, and will have time and means for discharging their duty. But before this blessed hour can arrive, man must learn that he is not only his brother's keeper, but his brother's educator; and that in order to educate, rightly, body, soul, and spirit, he must not only deny, himself ungodliness and worldly lust, but must also possess so much of the spirit of Christ, as to be willing to deny himself the use of very many of those things which custom has rendered all but necessary.

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