... account of itsoperation and effects. It consists of stern and harsh rebukes, denunciations of the heinousness of the sin of falsehood, with solemn premonitions of the awful consequences of it, ... and the power of appreciating "the necessity and propriety of things," and of bringing considerations of future, remote, and perhaps contingent good and evil torestrain and subdue the ... years of life; and that, moreover, one of the chief and expressly intended objects of theestablishment of the parental relation is to provide, in the mature reason and reflection of the father and mother,...