Mother’s Position and Responsibilities
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Majesty of heaven will write the name of that faithful mother in the
book of immortal fame
The Moments Are Priceless—The whole future life of Moses,
the great mission which he fulfilled as the leader of Israel, testifies to
the importance of the work of the Christian mother. There is no other
work that can equal this... Parents should direct the instruction and
training of their children while very young, to the end that they may be
Christians. They are placed in our care to be trained, not as heirs to the
throne of an earthly empire, but as kings unto God, to reign through
unending ages.
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Let every mother feel that her moments are priceless; her work
will be tested in the solemn day of accounts. Then it will be found that
many of the failures and crimes of men and women have resulted from
the ignorance and neglect of those whose duty it was to guide their
childish feet in the right way. Then it will be found that many who
have blessed the world with the light of genius and truth and holiness
owe the principles that were the mainspring of their influence and
success to a praying, Christian mother
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23
The Signs of the Times, September 13, 1877
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24
Patriarchs and Prophets, 244
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