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regulations, and responsibilities, and through the drilling process. At
first you did nobly and tried to be faithful at your post. You bore trial
better than ever before in your life. But Satan came with his specious
temptations, and you fell a prey to them. The Lord pitied you and laid
His hand upon you to save you. He gave you a rich experience, which
you have not profited by as you should have done. Like the children
of Israel, you soon forgot the dealings of God and His great mercies.
Brother G, you were raised up in answer to prayer, and God gave you
a new lease of life; but you have let jealousy and envy into your soul,
and have greatly displeased Him. He designed to bring you where
you would develop character, where you would see and correct your
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defects.
There was a decided failure in your education and discipline during
childhood and youth. You now have to learn the great lessons of self-
control which ought to have been mastered in earlier days. God brought
you where your surroundings would be changed and where you could
be disciplined by His Holy Spirit, that you might acquire moral power
and self-control to make you a conqueror. It will require the strongest
effort, the most persevering and unfaltering determination, and the
strongest energy to control self. Your spirit has long chafed under
restraint, and your temper has raged like a caged lion when your will
has been crossed. The education which your parents should have
assisted you to obtain must now be gained wholly by yourself. When
young and small the twig might have been easily bent; but now, after
it has grown gnarled and crooked and strong, how difficult the task!
Your parents permitted it to be thus deformed; and now only by the
grace of God, united with your own persistent efforts, can you become
conqueror over your will. Through the merits of Christ you may part
with that which scars and deforms the soul, and which develops a
misshapen character. You must put away the old man with his errors
and take the new man, Christ Jesus. Adopt His life as your guide then
your talents and intellect will be devoted to God’s service.
Oh, if mothers would only work with wisdom, with calmness and
determination, to train and subdue the carnal tempers of their children,
what an amount of sin would be nipped in the bud, and what a host
of church trials would be saved! How many families that are now
miserable would be happy! Many souls will be eternally lost because
of the neglect of parents to properly discipline their children and to