Shew children a house, and make them comprehend that this house did not build itself. The stones or bricks, say you, were not elevated without some one's carrying them so high. It may be as well, too, to shew them the masons at work: then make them contemplate heaven and earth, and the principal things which God has made for the use of man: say to them "how much more beautiful and better made is the world than a house! Was it made of itself? No--assuredly it was made by the hands of the Almighty." First follow the method of scripture. Strike their imaginations in as lively a manner as possible--propose to them nothing which may not be clothed with sensible images. Represent God as seated on a throne--with eyes more brilliant than the rays of the sun, and more piercing than the lightning--represent him with ears that hear every thing; with hands that support the universe; with arms always stretched out to punish the wicked; and with a tender and paternal heart to make those happy who love him. The time will come when this information may be rendered more exact. Observe every opening of the mind which a child presents to you: try her by different methods, so that you may discover how these great truths will best occupy her attention. Above all, talk of nothing new, without familiarising her to it by some obvious comparison. For example--ask her if she would rather die than renounce Jesus Christ--she will answer--_Yes_. Then say--"how, would you suffer your head to be cut off in order to enter paradise?" _Yes._ The child will now think she has sufficient courage to do it. But you, who are willing to make her sensible that nothing can be effected without _grace_, will gain nothing, if you merely say that grace alone is sufficient to produce faithfulness--the child does not understand those words; and if you accustom her to repeat them without understanding them, you gain nothing by it. What then is to be done? Relate to her the history of St. Peter: represent him saying, in a presumptuous tone of voice--"I will follow thee even unto death, though all the rest should desert thee, yet will I never abandon thee." Then describe his fall: he denies his master, Christ, three times--even a servant makes him tremble. Declare why God permitted this weakness--then make use of the comparison of a child or sick person who cannot walk alone--and make her comprehend, that as an infant must be supported in the arms of its nurse, so we stand in need of the Almighty's assistance. Thus you will make her sensible of the mystery of grace.