"There is a third mode of treatment more common perhaps among us than either of the preceding which though much milder in its character than they we still class among the violent measures on account of its operation 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 in this life and in that to come intended to awaken feelings of alarm and distress in the mind of the child as a means of promoting repentance and reformation. These are not violent measures it is true so far as outward physical action is concerned; but the effects which they produce are sometimes of quite a violent nature in their operation on the delicate nervous and mental susceptibilities which are excited and agitated by them. If the mother is successful in making the impression which such a mode of treatment is designed to produce the child especially if a girl is agitated and distressed. Her nervous system is greatly disturbed. If calmed for a time the paroxysm is very liable to return. She wakes in the night perhaps with an indefinable feeling of anxiety and terror and comes to her mother's bedside to seek in her presence and in the sense of protection which it affords a relief from her distress."