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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
Missionary Agencies
I speak to fathers and mothers: You can be educators in your
homes; you can be spiritual missionary agencies. Let fathers and
mothers feel their need of being home missionaries, the need of
keeping the atmosphere of the home free from the influence of
unkind and hasty speech, the need of making the home a place
where angels of God can come in and bless and give success to the
efforts put forth.
Let parents unite in providing a place for the daily instruction of
their children, choosing as teacher one who is apt to teach, and who,
as a consecrated servant of Christ, will increase in knowledge while
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imparting instruction. The teacher who has consecrated herself to
the service of God will be able to do a definite work in missionary
service and will instruct the children in the same lines.
Let fathers and mothers co-operate with the teacher, laboring
earnestly for the salvation of their children. If parents will realize
the importance of these small educating centers, co-operating to do
the work that the Lord desires to have done at this time, the plans of
the enemy for our children will be largely frustrated.
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“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,
he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6
. Children are sometimes
tempted to chafe under restraint; but in afterlife they will bless their
parents for the faithful care and strict watchfulness that guarded and
guided them in their years of inexperience.
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By hasty, unfounded criticism the influence of the faithful, self-
sacrificing teacher is often well-nigh destroyed. Many parents whose
children have been spoiled by indulgence leave to the teacher the
unpleasant task of repairing their neglect; and then by their own
course they make his task almost hopeless. Their criticism and
censure of the school management encourage insubordination in the
children and confirm them in wrong habits.