in the Church and before the World, but who neglect their own families. We are held responsible for our children. Our weakness in restraining them is sin, which will be inevitably followed, not only by their punishment, but by our own. Better do less in the Church and the world than allow your children to grow up a misery to themselves and a reproach to you. Remember that one essential qualification for office in the Primitive Church was the wise and wholesome rule of house and children. If a man