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Home Schools
As we go forward in establishing church schools we shall find a
work to be done for the children in places where it has been thought
a school could not be maintained. As far as possible, all our children
should have the privilege of a Christian education. To provide this
we must sometimes establish home church schools. It would be
well if several families in a neighborhood would unite to employ a
humble, God-fearing teacher to give to the parents that help that is
needed in educating their children. This will be a great blessing to
many isolated groups of Sabbathkeepers, and a plan more pleasing
to the Lord than that which has been sometimes followed, of sending
young children away from their homes to attend one of our larger
schools.
Our small companies of Sabbathkeepers are needed to hold up
the light before their neighbors; and the children are needed in their
homes, where they may be a help to their parents when the hours
of study are ended. The well-ordered Christian home, where young
children can have parental discipline that is after the Lord’s order, is
the best place for them.
The tender years of childhood are years of heavy responsibility
for fathers and mothers. Parents have a sacred duty to perform in
teaching their children to help bear the burdens of the home, to be
content with plain, simple food, and neat, inexpensive dress. The
requirements of the parents should always be reasonable; kindness
should be expressed, not by foolish indulgence, but by wise direction.
Parents are to teach their children pleasantly, without scolding or
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faultfinding, seeking to bind the hearts of the little ones to them by
silken cords of love. Let all, fathers and mothers, teachers, elder
brothers and sisters, become an educating force to strengthen every
spiritual interest and to bring into the home and the school life a
wholesome atmosphere, which will help the younger children to
grow up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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