Author : John Wylde
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781458936400
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (364 download)
Book Synopsis The Religious Training of Children by : John Wylde
Download or read book The Religious Training of Children written by John Wylde and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. !T.ii-e of the Soul. At the risk of seeming to dwell tediously long on one subject, we propose to say a little more on the necessity that those who bring up children should recognize that they have souls as well as minds. Well-meaning persons even, who are themselves deeply attached to the Church, seem unable to work themselves out of that unhappy groove of thought and treatment of the young, by which the souls of children are condemned to lie all but fallow until they come to that most perilous age when childhood is opening out into youth; and this on the plea that they are not yet old enough to understand religion. One of our Bishops told the writer some few years ago that he considered the age usually fixed by the Bishops for Confirmation to be exactly the worst that could be selected, coinciding as it does with the period when fresh temptations of every kind have just begun to assail the soul, and have found it for the most part utterly unprepared by previous discipline and training; and allParish Priests will heartily re-echo this Bishop's opinion. Habits of sin and indifference have by that time taken possession of the young soul that has not been brought up as a true child of the Church, and those habits can never be rooted out by any but dogmatic teaching. We are all familiar enough with the question How are we to retain our youth after Confirmation ? which we hear asked from all quarters in the most piteous tones. For the real solution of the question we must go further back than Confirmation. Why should you wait till Confirmation to get a hold of them ? Why don't you retain them after Baptism ? Why not from the beginning bring them up as children of the Church, to look forward to their Confirmation and First Communion, instead of letting the whole ...