Train Your Child for Heaven

“TRAIN up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Prov. 22:6. The statement is based upon sound physiological principles. As a rule, men keep on through life in the channel they have become accustomed to in early life. The seaman is not satisfied with any avocation on earth so long as his energies meet the demands of a sea‑faring life. The railroader cannot content himself with a change to any business that does not run on wheels. And so the majority of men continue in the course of life to which they become inured in youth. So likewise men are apt to pass their days in control of those moral elements under which their prenatal existence and early life were moulded. How very important, therefore, that life is launched aright, in order to secure a happy voyage, and reach a blissful heaven. In meeting the responsibilities resting upon parents, and those in charge of children,