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Title: With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Stall, Sylvanus, 1847-1915
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e right.The doing of the right may at first afford us but very little pleasure,yet we are to continue to do right, and after a while it will becomepleasant for us to do right. At first it may not be very pleasant for a boy to go to school.He prefers not to exert himself; not to put forth any mental effort.But after he be-comes accustomed togoing to school, andto putting forthmental effort, it be-comes more andmore natural to him,and finally he comesto love study. Afterhe has completed hisstudies in the pri-mary school, he goesto the intermediate,and to the grammarschool, and highschool, and possiblyto college, and con-tinues to be a studentall his life. So it is with going to church; those who begin when they areyoung and go regularly, Sunday after Sunday, become regularchurch attendants all their lives. Habits are formed very much like the channel of a river.Gradually, year after year, the river wears its course deeper anddeeper, until finally through the soft soil and the hard rock,
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Feet Bound. 124 ROPES. through the pleasant meadow and the beautiful woodlands, it hasworn out for itself a very deep channel in which it continues toflow to the ocean. So the mind, by repeated action, marks out its course.Whether the mental effort or manual work be pleasant or difficult,we become so accustomed to it, that we go on day by day, and yearby year doing the same thing. The Bible gives very wise instruction to parents when it says,Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,he will not depart from it. (Prov. xxii: 6.) It has also beenwisely said, Sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit andyou reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny. Be careful, boys and girls, what you do, for by doing any-thing you are forming a habit. If you do wrong things you willform bad habits, but if you do right things you will form goodhabits, which are always the best. Questions.—Are small ropes or strings used to make big ropes? Can youtie a boys hands and

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