Diligently Lead Your Children to God

We must labor to do good to our children even from their earliest years.  If Satan begins so early to do them harm, we must not be behind him in diligence to lead them to God.  How soon in life a child becomes responsible and accountable, is a difficult question to solve.  Perhaps far sooner than many of us suppose.  One thing, at all events, is very clear-it is never too soon to strive and pray for the salvation of the souls of children-never too soon to speak to them as moral beings, and tell them of God, Christ, right and wrong.  The devil, we may be quite sure, loses no time in endeavoring to influence the minds of young people.  He begins with them even from childhood.  Let us work hard to counteract him.

J.C. Ryle