If a child is taught, from the first, to pray to Jesus Christ, all that perplexity, doubt, and difficulty which many feel in regard to Jesus Christ and the place he is to hold in their devotions will be escaped. Then, if they feel any doubts as to whether they understand correctly about the Father, and whether they are required to worship him distinctively, these doubts will easily be removed by these words of Christ. “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father. I am in the Father, and the Father in me. The Father dwelleth in me. Believe me, I am in the Father, and the Father in me. And whatsoever ye ask in my name, _that will I do_; that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye ask anything in my name, I will do it.” The writer has seen a family of four children, the youngest four and the eldest not nine, where the mother, who pursued this course, remarked that these children seemed to be aided in overcoming faults, and strengthened in doing right, by love to the Saviour, just as true Christians are; and that if they continued their present habits of feeling and conduct, she should not know where to date the time when they became pious. There is also a mode of practical teaching in regard to _right_ and _wrong_, _sin_ and _holiness_, which tends much to aid a child’s right apprehension of truth. Let the child be taught that Jesus Christ created all his creatures for the purpose of making them _good_ and _happy_; that it is not possible for any one to be perfectly good and happy, unless he has such a character as Jesus Christ, and that the nearer we come to possessing such a character, the better and happier we are. Then set forth the character and example of Christ, as a _perfectly benevolent and self-denying being_, living not to gratify himself, but to do good to others. Show the child that he _has not_ such a character, that he is living to please himself, and not to do good, and that this is _selfishness_ and _sin_. Set before him the misery to which selfishness leads, and the consequences of it, both here and hereafter. Teach the child that the great business of life, to us all, is, by the aid of God’s Spirit, _to change our characters_, in order to become like Christ; that it is a difficult work, and one that we can never accomplish without this aid from God. Show him that all the commands of Christ are designed to keep us from doing what will injure ourselves or injure others, and that these rules are so many and so strict, that no one ever will, in this life, _perfectly_ obey them _all_. Teach him that the _true_ children of Jesus Christ are those who love him, and who _earnestly are striving_ to obey _all_ his commands. Set before the child the command of Christ, “Deny thyself daily, and take up thy cross and follow me,” and then teach and encourage him every day to practise some _self-denial_ in _doing good_.