But these we only name, and now offer one suggestion to the young themselves: "Children, obey your parents in the Lord;" or, "Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord."--These are the Scriptural injunctions, from which there can be no swerving without committing sin. Did parents issue some command contrary to the Word of God, then a Christian child must decline obeying it, for that child is bound by a higher allegiance to God; but in all common cases, the parent is in God's place to the child. The parent's will is law--a law which cannot be broken without guilt. That law, indeed, is to be administered with the sceptre of love, and not with a rod of iron; and while children are to obey their parents, "parents are not to provoke their children to wrath." But still, the unvarying rule is--the parent's will is supreme; and wherever filial affection reigns, that law will be sacredly observed, because it is founded on the authority of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is guarded on the one hand by the promise of blessings to the obedient, and on the other by such words as these: "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind." Insubordination here is the root of wrath and woe. MASTER AND SERVANT. Next to the relation of husband and wife, and parent and child, stands that of master and servant; and here also our homes should be presided over by Christian principle. On the one hand, there is obedience due even to the forward; and on the other, there is care and kindness--kindness to the souls of our domestics, as well as in other respects. In our mercenary and utilitarian age, when human beings are often regarded by hard-minded men, only as so much living machinery, and when the chief question concerning them is too often the same as that which is employed concerning the beasts that perish--How can their flesh and blood be turned to most profitable account?--this relation is often formed or conducted upon principles the reverse of Christian. The employed are too ready to prey upon the employer, while he treats them with lordly indifference or with heartless disregard. They are thus often arrayed against each other, like natural enemies, instead of being united, as mutually dependent.