Remarks at the Los Angeles Camp Meeting
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of ancient Israel, should understand the will of the Lord concerning
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themselves and their children. In planning for the education of their
children outside the home, they should realize that it is not safe now
to send them to public schools. Parents should endeavor to send their
children to schools where they can obtain an education based on a
scriptural foundation—an education to be gained gradually, line upon
line, precept upon precept, here a little, and there a little.
Christian schools
Some may ask, “How are such schools to be established?” We are
not a rich people, but if we pray in faith, and let the Lord work in
our behalf, He will open ways before us to establish small schools in
retired places for the education of our youth not only in the Scriptures
and in book learning, but in many lines of manual labor.
Neglect of parents in the home school
The necessity for establishing such schools is urged upon me very
strongly because of the cruel neglect of many parents properly to
educate their children in the home school. Multitudes of fathers and
mothers have seemed to think that if the lines of control were put into
the hands of their children, they would develop into useful young men
and young women. But the Lord has instructed me in regard to this
matter. In the visions of the night I saw standing by the side of these
neglected children the one who was cast out of the heavenly courts
because he originated sin. He, the enemy of souls, was standing by,
watching for opportunities to gain control of the mind of every child
whose parents had not given faithful instruction in regard to Satan’s
snares.
Home to be a child’s first school
Upon every Christian parent there rests the solemn obligation
of giving to his children an education that will lead them to gain a
knowledge of the Lord, and to become partakers of the divine nature
through obedience to God’s will and way. A child’s first school should
be his home. His first instructors should be his father and his mother.
His first lessons should be the lessons of respect, obedience, reverence,