Peace be to you.

In treating the commandments, it was said that the first three treat of our duties to God,

and the last six of our duties to neighbor.

In between the two is the fourth commandment, which is honor thy father and thy mother. This commandment has been placed in

between the two because it is a bond between both God and neighbor. The justice that we

owe our parents is very close to the justice that we owe to God.

And it is also related to the justice we owe our neighbor.

After God, it was our parents who gave us life.

And this fourth commandment, therefore, is the commandment which not only links the two,

but which also provides best of all for the future of our civilization.

Napoleon was once asked, when does the education of a child begin?

And he answered 20 years before the child is born. the education of a child begin?

And he answered 20 years before the child is born,

and the education of the mother.

There is much truth to this, because the parents take the place of God in the home.

A child is so much clay in the hands of the parent.

And how that child is molded, will decide the future of it.

When God gave to the parents a child, he made a crown for that child in heaven.

Woe be to the parents who do not fulfill the high destiny and vocation of that child.

Hence one of the gravest dangers facing children can be the example of their parents. Delinquency begins at home. Parental delinquency

becomes juvenile delinquency. The divine law, therefore, regarding the truth, has been clearly put in sacred scripture.

There is a double relationship.

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