The Knowledge of God distinct from Morality.––Again, the knowledge of God is distinct from morality, or what the children call ‘being good’, though ‘being good’ follows from that knowledge. But let these come in their right order. Do not bepreach the child to weariness about ‘being good’ as what he owes to God, without letting in upon him first a little of that knowledge which shall make him good.
We are no longer suffering from an embarrassment of riches; these limitations shut out so much of the ordinary teaching about divine things that the question becomes rather, What shall we teach? than, How shall we choose?