True Method of Spirit Culture.

Children are social. The ties of friendship are the ties of divine love. The life of the infinite God flows through the social affections. There is no life where there is no love. Heart touches heart in the sphere of heavenly friendship. The lips grow rosy and dewy with tender and eloquent words of wisdom under the magic influence of unselfish affection. The tongue and the eye are the true organs of instruction. Conversation It is the heavenly method of teaching. The intuitions and the thinking faculties are touched and strengthened by living words. The fields of Nature lend endless charms to the quickened intelligence. The realms of science, philosophy, literature, art and music, belong to the spirit The youthful heart is full of aphorisms. The infallible words of God's truth, on the wings of genius, come forth when the right questions are lovingly put. Forms and strict routine are required only for the external and fleetings purposes of education. Austere text-books and solemn teachers are adapted to schools where children are to be instructed and "finished" for an outward work in the busy world of things and sense. But we are reminded that "Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness."

True education is addressed to the Reason through the social affections; whereby the child-nature is made to grow in goodness, and to bear the fruits of righteousness.