add, the neglect of it has led to the most disastrous consequences in thousands of family circles. Very many—alas, how many!—Christian parents, through an utterly false application of the doctrines of grace, have allowed their children to grow up around them in wilfulness and worldliness; and while so doing they have comforted themselves with the thought that they could do nothing, and that in God’s time their children would, if included in the eternal purpose, be gathered in. They have virtually