ENGLAND'S BEST HOPE. 85 well as of those who are to work and to serve ? Why are these most important beings, the very beings in this enlightened country whose immortal interests are the most neglected ? The Apostle tells us, that " he who provides not for his own house has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." If this be true of temporal, what shall be said of him who neglects to make " for his own" a spiritual provision ? Does not he far more emphatically deny " that faith" which is violated even in the other inferior case ? If we have begun to instruct the poor with a view to check the spirit of in- subordination, that spirit requires little less suppression in our own families. In all ranks it is the prevailing evil of the present day. The diminished obedience of children to parents, of servants to masters, of subjects to sovereigns, all spring from one common root an abatement of reverence for the authority of God.
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