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Our Duty to the Children: 58 total pages.

the children and their faults; they show us that the way of heaven is open to every child, but that the Lord's providence needs our co-operation ; they teach us that the first help we owe the children is to resist for their sakes the evil in ourselves. If tendencies to evil come to children through no wrong of theirs, how tenderly we must feel towards them and their faults; especially towards those who are born in conditions which seem to make their burden heavy. We may hate the evil thoroughly, and use every means to correct it; but we can feel only pity for the children, and the tenderest desire to free them from the evil ten­dencies before they deliberately choose them and make them their own. And if we look tenderly upon all children, most of all must parents regard tenderly their own children when they recognize the children's faults as theirs. A child shows a disorderly ap­petite, a hasty temper, a natural deceitfulness, a complaining or critical spirit, and the parent recognizes it as a fault which his child has in- 10 OUR DUTY TO THE CHILDREN

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