Mother’s Position and Responsibilities
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A Co-worker With the Minister—The minister has his line of
work, and the mother has hers. She is to bring her children to Jesus for
His blessing. She is to cherish the words of Christ and teach them to her
children. From their babyhood she is to discipline them to self-restraint
and self-denial, to habits of neatness and order. The mother can bring
up her children so that they will come with open, tender hearts to hear
the words of God’s servants. The Lord has need of mothers who in
every line of the home life will improve their God-given talents and fit
their children for the family of heaven.
The Lord is served as much, yea, more, by faithful home work
than by the one who teaches the word. As verily as do the teachers in
the school, fathers and mothers are to feel that they are the educators
of their children
The Christian mother’s sphere of usefulness should not be nar-
rowed by her domestic life. The salutary influence which she exerts
in the home circle she may and will make felt in more widespread
usefulness in her neighborhood and in the church of God. Home is not
a prison to the devoted wife and mother
She Has a Life Mission—Let woman realize the sacredness of her
work and, in the strength and fear of God, take up her life mission. Let
her educate her children for usefulness in this world and for a fitness
for the better world. We address Christian mothers. We entreat that
you feel your responsibility as mothers and that you live not to please
yourselves, but to glorify God. Christ pleased not Himself, but took
upon Him the form of a servant
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The world teems with corrupting influences. Fashion and custom
exert a strong power over the young. If the mother fails in her duty to
instruct, guide, and restrain, her children will naturally accept the evil
and turn from the good. Let every mother go often to her Saviour with
the prayer, “Teach us, how shall we order the child, and what shall we
do unto him?” Let her heed the instruction which God has given in
His word, and wisdom will be given her as she shall have need
Sculpturing a Likeness of the Divine—There is a God above,
and the light and glory from His throne rests upon the faithful mother
16
Manuscript 32, 1899
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17
Pacific Health Journal, June, 1890
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18
Testimonies For The Church 3, 565
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19
Patriarchs and Prophets, 572, 573
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