86 ENGLAND'S BEST HOPE. Fathers should therefore keep up in their offspring, as long as possible, a dependence on themselves, without which they will gradually shake off their de- pendence on their Maker. Independence of every kind, as it is the prevailing wish, so it is the most alarming danger. With filial obedience, obedience to Di- vine authority will become connected ; but the . muzzle of domestic restraint shaken off, there will be no control of any kind left. Might not a more exact Christian institution help to arrest the same spirit which has, within a few years, so frequently broken out in our, in many respects, excellent public schools ? wemean not altogether to censure these honourable seminaries. Do not the youth carry thither, rather than acquire there, this want of subordination ? Is it not too often previously fostered at home by the habits of luxury, the taste for expense, the unrestrained indulgences, the unsubdued tempers, which so ill pre- pare them to submit to moral discipline ?
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