How criminal is the negligence of the father and the mother who do not provide the right attractions at home for the children because they themselves are so deeply immersed in business or society that they have no time for the discharge of the greatest duties which ever come to any human being! No children belonging to homes of the sort about which we are talking need run the streets after dark if the right spirit is in the father or mother. . . . There are many children lost, wandering in the mazes of the world's temptations and sins, gone astray, many of them, through ignorance of the world's ways, or the strength of inherited passion. Let us try to save them, imitating the example of him who braved the storm on the mountains that he might bring home the one sheep that had wandered from the fold. But it is better to prevent than to save. Let us call for higher ideals of home life; for a deeper sense of responsibility on the part of those to whom God has given the greatest of all gifts, a little child. Let it be known and realized in every American home that there is no service more divine, more worth the doing, than rearing to a noble manhood or womanhood a little child. Better than to win a great fortune, or to write a great book, or to be known and talked about as a social or a political success,—better than all this is it to be a good father or a good mother.—E. S. Parsons, in Pittsburg Christian Advocate.