The parents must themselves learn to be examples for their children. No theory has influence without practice. It is natural that parents, however taken up by the wickedness or folly of life, should wish their children to be different and better than themselves. But it is difficult; the child is impressionable and it develops that impression which it first received. Once the child sees in its parents a tendency towards drink or any other form of degeneration, it takes it for granted as it grows up that it must be the right or natural thing; for it says, "If these things were not right my parents would not have done them." In life the wrong thing attracts quickly, though the seeking of the soul is for what is right.