Responsibilities of Parents and Teachers
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parents who neglect their part will be weighed in the balances and
found wanting.
The instruction of Christ from the pillar of cloud to the children
of Israel, defines the duty of parents, and is not indefinite or hard to
be understood. This instruction is for our admonition and benefit.
“Therefore shall ye lay up these My words in your heart and in your
soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as
frontlets between your eyes.” In every work of their hands, they were
to remember the commandment of the Lord. It was to be bound upon
their hands, not literally, but to exert an influence over every transaction
of their lives. It was to be as frontlets between their eyes. Their minds
were to dwell upon the truth of God’s commandments, and they were
to be governed by their principles. “And ye shall teach them your
children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when
thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest
up. And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house, and
upon thy gates; that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
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children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give
them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.” ...
Teach Modesty and Humility
The direction given by the Son of God to Moses, for the instruction
of the children of Israel, is just as essential now as it was then, and it
should be heeded as diligently by parents today as by God’s ancient
people. Religion must be woven into every part of the home life if we
would see the results that God has designed as the fruit of following
His way. Pride, self-esteem, and boldness are marked characteristics
of the children of this day, and they are the curse of the age. When I
see this unchristlike, unlovely manifestation on every side, and then
see parents and teachers seeking to display the ability and proficiency
of their children and scholars, I am pained to the heart; for I know that
it is exactly the opposite course from the one that should be pursued.
Parents and teachers who gather their knowledge from the Bible,
who are governed in mind and action by its holy principles, need not
go astray, and be found in by and forbidden paths. The most sacred
lessons of modesty and humility are to be taught to the children, both
at home and in the Sabbath-school. They are to be instructed as to the