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    SERMONS FOR FAMILIES. *

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    Great perplexity is often felt by heads of families who wish to provide sufficient religious instruction for all who are under their care , as to the best method of supplying the wants of each . No one method will do all that is needful for the various members of a family . Children must be encouraged to lay open their little minds to their parents , to relate their hopes and fears about reward and punishment , to ex press their narrow conceptions of the

    Divine attributes , their curiosity about things unseen , their love for Jesus , and their wonder at his miracles , with a freedom which a parent alone should witness , and a simplicity which , while it causes the parent ' s heart to glow , would excite a smile in any other hearer . The information given to children at such times is unsuitable to servants , and to the older persons in a family ; while the admonitions and instruction which domestics may require are equally inappropriate to other members of the household .

    Children must be taught at the parents' knees ; their older brethren must be animated by sweet converse held at other times ; and servants must be instructed and admonished in private , with needful plainness and familiarity . But it is in the highest degree desirable to bring together these differing minds , and unite them in the pursuit of religious improvement . It is desirable to promote the increase of religious principle and feeling in each by

    sympathy with all the rest ; and every conscientious parent will be anxious to testify his regard for sacred things by making those most dear to him participate frequently with himself in the privilege of prayer and praise , and in the pursuit of the highest wisdom . He will express the same determination with one f who in no variation of circumstances forfeited the word he had pledged , that " wherever he had a tent , God should have an altar . "

    The greatest drawback from the advantage and pleasure of family religious instruction is the difficulty in the choice of a form , and in the selection of

    * Sertnous , designed to be used in Families . Edited by the Rev . J . R . Beard . 8 vo . |> p % 440 . Manchester : T . Forrest . 1829 , t Howard the Philanthropist .

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    THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XXXI .

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    JULY ,, 1829 .

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    VOL . III . 2 I

    Sermons For Families. *

    SERMONS FOR FAMILIES . *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1829, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2574/page/1/