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he is a little older the child thanks them for it with all his heart. They have not conquered him; they have helped him to conquer himself, to gain mastery over all his faculties of body, mind, and heart. They have prepared him to go safely into the world, and to obey the laws of God.
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THE TRANSITION.
"When my father and my mother forsake me, then
the LORD will take me u¢."-PSALM xxvii. 10.
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HE lesson of obedience has been learned. The next step in development is for the child to assume the guidance of his own life, which up to this time has been in his parents' care. The Lord, therefore, gives in opening manhood and womanhood the rational faculty, the power not only to know and remember, but to understand, to rise above facts to principles and to see the application of principles to various conditions. The new faculty does not give us power to invent truth. -no human mind has that power, but it does enable us to make for ourselves the applications of truth which before our parents have made for us, and so to look directly
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