FIRST CONDITION.
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Ch.aptef II.
FIRST CONDITION OF SUCCESSFUL CHILD-
TRAINING.
CHILDREN spend their infancy under very
different circumstances. Some have their
mothers snatched away from them by the hand of
death a few hours after their birth; others are made
fatherless within one or two years after; in some
cases, others are deprived of both parents while
they are yet unable to wash their faces, comb
their hair, or dress themselves—and thus are
made orphans in early life. Some are born of
rich parents, and, therefore, are surrounded by
every thing that can minister to their comfort;
others enter this world in the abodes of squalid
poverty. Some become orphans as soon as they
have reached childhood; while others are made
so amid the waywardness of reckless youth.
But, in every instance, God provides for their
training. Sometimes an aunt, a grand-aunt, or
an uncle, or a grand-uncle, or a grandmother or
grandfather, takes the place of their parents;
sometimes a friendly neighbor, or an absolute
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