W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS, Author of "Sunshine of Domestic Life," "Records of Noble Lives," HECA "Childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day." MILION. BIBL LONDON: T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW; BO HE Child is father of the Man." So says the poet; and it is the object of these unpre tending pages to prove the truth of the thesis, and by examples borrowed from modern biography to show the importance of cultivating the mind and disciplining the heart in youth, with a view to a noble, generous, and truthful manhood. The Boy makes the Man! If this be true-and the exceptions to the rule are neither numerous nor important-how incumbent it is upon our masters and instructors to watch every movement of the young with gentle but vigilant eyes, and carefully-without over-strictness, but with all needful firmness--to train them up to habits of thought, devotion, and manly rectitude. In accomplishing such an object, it is hoped this little volume may prove of some assistance, from the wise maxims it collects, and the inspiring examples it brings together. The dignity of work, the value of perseverance, the excellence of truthfulness, the pleasures of knowledge, the benefits of prayer and scriptural study, these are the topics enforced and illustrated, chiefly by anecdote and quotation, in the following pages. |