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Seek Constantly to Improve Your Powers, November 1
For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge
and understanding.
Proverbs 2:6
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You need to seek constantly the highest culture of mind and soul, that
you may bring to the education and training of your children a restful
spirit, a loving heart; that you may imbue them with pure aspirations,
and cultivate in them a love for things honest and pure and holy.... Seek
constantly to improve your powers, that you may do the most perfect,
thorough work at home, by both precept and example
You should not follow your own inclinations. You should be very
careful to set a right example in all things. Do not be inactive. Arouse
your dormant energies.... Take up the duties essential to be done. Study
how to perform with alacrity the plain, uninteresting, homely, but most
needful duties
Parents have not yet aroused to understand the amazing power of
Christian culture. There are mines of truth to be worked that have been
strangely neglected. This careless indifference does not meet the approval
of God. Parents, God calls upon you to look at this matter with anointed
eyes. You have as yet only skimmed the surface. Take up your long-
neglected work, and God will co-operate with you. Do your work with
wholeheartedness, and God will help you to make improvement. Begin by
bringing the gospel into the home life
The higher soul-culture, which gives purity and elevation to the
thoughts and a spiritual fragrance to words and actions, requires care-
ful, painstaking effort. It takes patience to keep every evil motive weeded
from the garden of the Lord
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The Review and Herald, September 15, 1891
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2
Child Guidance, 74
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3
Child Guidance, 72, 73
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4
Manuscript 128, 1901
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