Keep us, O Lord, through the night, from all harm. Give us peaceful sleep. And when the night of death shall come, may we sleep in Jesus, and awake in heaven. This we ask through Jesus Christ, our blessed Redeemer. Amen. Learn also the Lord’s prayer, and help your children to learn it. You should often say it as a morning prayer; going down upon your knees with your little ones, and all repeating it aloud together. THE LORD’S PRAYER. “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.” * * * * * As soon as you learn to read, let your prayers be accompanied by the reading daily of at least a few verses out of the Bible. Take great pains also to teach your children to pray. There are a great many pretty little prayers they can learn, and some of them are in verse. I will give two of these, though I dare say some of you know them already. PRAYER FOR A LITTLE CHILD ON GOING TO BED. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take; And this I beg for Jesus’ sake. Amen.” CHILD’S MORNING PRAYER. “Now I awake, and see the light; ’Tis God who kept me through the night. To him I lift my voice, and pray That he would keep me through the day. If I should die before ’tis done, O God, accept me through thy Son. Amen.” Teach your children to fear God and to keep his commandments. Train them up for him. Remember they are given to you to be brought up for some good and useful end. Let them have every advantage within your reach for their improvement. And above all, set them a good example yourselves, which will have more effect in making them good children than any lessons which you or others may give them. A HAPPY HOME. Try to make your house a happy home for yourselves and for your children. So far as you can, keep the children clean and neat. Especially take care that they don’t learn bad ways, by getting into the company of bad children. Make things as pleasant as you can in and around your house. What a difference there is! Some cottages or cabins look very pretty, and some look very bad. It is easy to tell what sort of people live in a house, by the very looks of it. Dirty within and dirty without tells a bad story of the inmates. On the other hand, when we pass a log-cabin where things look tidy, we are apt to say to ourselves, “Some nice people live there.”