ness from all harmful influences to their mind, heart, and conscience. Their daily living and developing character should be the parents' daily study, in order to the most effective training for the best re sults, preeminently to make them self-respecting, self-governing, God-fearing, and Christ-trusting" ( Butler's Topical Works, p. 128). What kind of a home do you live in? Does love abound? Is patience enduring? Has mutual loyalty grown? I hope yours is not a home where authoritarianism is rife, where argument prospers, and mis trust breeds. If Love does not begin in the home it is worthless anywhere else.
are afraid of principals, principals of administrators, administrators of the Board of Education, and the Board of Education of the parents, and the parents of their children. But, the children are afraid of no body. "The child's place in the family," said Bishop Butler, "is one of dig nity. Children are to be respected, regarded and treated as souls in trust for God, and to whom an ac count shall be given. They are to be guided with patient and persis tent endeavor in the knowledge of Cod and in their duty to man. They are to be governed with reason and love, and with thoughtful con sideration of their natural infirmi ties, and ever under the sense of responsibility to God. They are to be guarded with watchful tender
Walter Burke (right), President of McDonald-Douglas Astronautics Divi sion was a recent chapel speaker at Talbot Seminary. He is pictured here with Dr. O'Neal of the Seminary faculty. Page 41
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