The spirit of modern so-called liberty has penetrated into our family life, and some parents, from a mistaken view of duty or from want of thought as to their sacred calling or from love of ease, have no place for such a word as command, which God here uses. They have not seen the heavenly harmony between authority and love, between obedience and liberty. Parents are more than friends and advisers; they have been clothed by God with a holy authority to be exercised in leading their children in the way of the Lord. There is an age when the will of the child is in their hands, and the quiet,
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