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erring, neglected ones enjoyed the same home advantages, they might
have shown far more nobility of soul and greater talent for usefulness
than many who have been watched over day and night with gentlest
care and overflowing love. Angels pity these stray lambs; angels weep,
while human eyes are dry, and human hearts are closed against them.
If God had not given me another work, I would make it the business of
my life to care for those whom others will not take the trouble to save.
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In the day of God somebody will be held responsible for the loss
of these dear souls.
Parents who have neglected their God-given responsibilities must
meet that neglect in the judgment. The Lord will then inquire: Where
are the children that I gave you to train for Me? Why are they not at
My right hand?” Many parents will then see that unwise love blinded
their eyes to their children’s faults and left those children to develop
deformed characters, unfit for heaven. Others will see that they did not
give their children time and attention, love and tenderness; their own
neglect of duty made the children what they are. Teachers will see
where they could have worked for the Master by seeking to save the
apparently incorrigible cases that they cast off in the youth of tender
years. And the members of the church will see that they might have
done good service for the Master in seeking to help those who most
needed help. While their interest and love were lavished upon their
own families, there were many inexperienced youth who might have
been taken to their hearts and homes, and whose precious souls could
have been saved by interest and kindly care.
Educators should understand how to guard the health of their stu-
dents. They should restrain them from taxing their minds with too
many studies. If they leave college with a knowledge of the sciences
but with shattered constitutions, it would have been better had they not
entered the school at all. Some parents feel that their children are being
educated at considerable expense, and they urge them forward in their
studies. Students are desirous of taking many studies in order to com-
plete their education in as short a time as possible. The professors have
allowed some to advance too rapidly. While some may need urging,
others need holding back. Students should ever be diligent, but they
ought not to crowd their minds so as to become intellectual dyspeptics.
They should not be so pressed with studies as to neglect the culture
of the manners; and, above all, they should let nothing interfere with
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