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God Has Appointed Her Work—Would that every mother could
realize how great are her duties and her responsibilities and how great
will be the reward of faithfulness
The mother who cheerfully takes up the duties lying directly in her
path will feel that life is to her precious, because God has given her a
work to perform. In this work she need not necessarily dwarf her mind
nor allow her intellect to become enfeebled
The mother’s work is given her of God, to bring up her children
in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The love and fear of God
should ever be kept before their tender minds. When corrected, they
should be taught to feel that they are admonished of God, that He is
displeased with deception, untruthfulness, and wrongdoing. Thus the
minds of little ones may be so connected with God that all they do and
say will be in reference to His glory; and in after years they will not
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be like the reed in the wind, continually wavering between inclination
and duty
To lead them to Jesus is not all that is required.... These children
are to be educated and trained to become disciples of Christ, “that
our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters
may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace.”
This work of molding, refining, and polishing is the mother’s. The
character of the child is to be developed. The mother must engrave
upon the tablet of the heart lessons as enduring as eternity; and she will
surely meet the displeasure of the Lord if she neglects this sacred work
or allows anything to interfere with it.... The Christian mother has
her God-appointed work, which she will not neglect if she is closely
connected with God and imbued with His Spirit
Her Grand and Noble Commission—There are opportunities of
inestimable worth, interests infinitely precious, committed to every
mother. The humble round of duties which women have come to regard
as a wearisome task should be looked upon as a grand and noble work.
It is the mother’s privilege to bless the world by her influence, and in
doing this she will bring joy to her own heart. She may make straight
paths for the feet of her children through sunshine and shadow to the
7
The Signs of the Times, October 11, 1910
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8
Pacific Health Journal, June, 1890
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9
Good Health, January, 1880
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10
Ibid
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