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DOMESTIC EDUCATION.
stranger is moved to become foster-mother or
foster-father. Such persons are guardians, but
they are held to the responsibilities of parents by
that God who has promised to be a father to the
fatherless and the orphan children.
Whether they be parents or guardians, the
first condition of successful training is unity in
respect to the order, law, and government of the
household. There must be unity on the part of
the parents or guardians of a child. There must
be no dissension, no antagonism between them;
for if such a thing as disagreement or antagonism
exists in the family, no child can be trained under
the ideas, principles, and sentiments involved in
the divine command. That command is not su¬
perficial, but is as deep as the very essence of
the complex and immortal nature of a child.
His body, his soul, and his spirit are all compre¬
hended in it. It holds within its grasp all of the
present and all of the future in the character and
history of the young heir of the crown of life.
Therefore, there must be an unbroken oneness in
its training.
Here, in this thing, no mother nor father,
no grandmother nor grandfather, nor aunt, nor
uncle can be allowed to intermeddle. No brother
nor sister can be suffered to interfere. No! not
for a moment! I am in earnest; I plead for the
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