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unless it is properly nourished. By the nurture of life we mean the process of aiding growth by providing right conditions and proper nourishment. The idea of nurture is familiar to students of the New Testament. Jesus gave expression to it when he said to Simon Peter, "Feed my Iambs. . Feed. my sheep" (John 21. 15, 17). The word is used by Paul in commanding parents to bring up their children "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." The nurture of the physical life is a distinct study in itself. With this study we are not concerned in this course. Our interest is rather in the nurture of the moral and religious life.
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Everyone knows that moral and religious nurture is the responsibility, first of all, of the home. No one else can take the place of the father and the mother in nurturing the child in religion. But next to the home this responsibility rests upon the church, and secondly only to the parents the sacred responsibility and glorious opportunity of the nurture of the religious life devolves upon
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