360 EPHESIANS,

term, and is correctly rendered admonition. It is the act of reminding one of his faults or duties. Children are not to be allowed to grow up without care or con- trol. They are to be instructed, disciplined, and ad- monished, so that they be brought to knowledge, self- control, and obedience. This whole process of educa- tion is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. It is the nurture and admonition of the Lord, which is the appointed and the only effectual means of attaining the end of education. Where this means is neglected or any other substituted in its place, the result must be disastrous failure. The moral and religious element of our nature is just as essential and as universal as the intellectual. Religion therefore is as necessary to the development of the mind as knowl- edge. And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and ad- monition of the Lord. That is, the whole process of instruction and discipline must be that which he pre- scribes, and which he administers, so that his authority should be brought into constant and immediate contact with the mind, heart and conscience of the child. It will not do for the parent to present himself as the ulti- mate end, the source of knowledge and possessor of authority to determine truth and duty. This would be to give his child a mere human development. Nor will it do for him to urge and communicate every thing on the abstract ground of reason; for that would be to merge his child in nature. It is only by making God,