Parents, if you love your children, do all that lies in your power to train them to a habit of prayer. Show them how to begin. Tell them what to say. Encourage them to persevere. Remind them if they become careless and slack about it. As the first steps in any undertaking are always the most important, so is the manner in which our children’s prayers are prayed, a point which deserves our closest attention. Few seem to know how much depends on this. We must beware lest they get into a way of saying them in a hasty, careless and irreverent manner. Reader, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the seedtime of a prayerful habit pass away.