| Disgrifiad | Praises God that she and the children got safe to Kefn and trust that the same gracious God will bring them safe to that journey's end, and give them and the writer a happy meeting again at Bangor. Has neither time nor place here to tell her his mind concerning the children. Should have told her the faults he finds in common education and which he would be glad were mended, in theirs, (1) is in relation to religion. Children are commonly taught to say many prayers by rote which they say of course morning and evening and call it praying. though in truth it be nothing like it. They ought to be taught with their prayers to have reverend thoughts of God, to love and honour him and to have their souls fixed and wholly intent upon him, and always to remember that true prayer is the thought of the heart and not the words of the mouth... [see paper catalogue for full description] |