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Training Children a Sacred Responsibility, July 9
“Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch
what is unclean, and I will receive you.” “I will be a Father to you, and you
shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
2
Corinthians 6:17, 18
, NKJV.
When parents and children meet at the final reckoning, what a scene will be
presented! Thousands of children who have been slaves to appetite and debasing
vice, whose lives are moral wrecks, will stand face to face with the parents who
made them what they are. Who but the parents must bear this fearful responsibility?
Did the Lord make these youth corrupt? Oh, no! Who, then, has done this fearful
work? Were not the sins of the parents transmitted to the children in perverted
appetites and passions? And was not the work completed by those who neglected
to train them according to the pattern which God has given? Just as surely as they
exist, all these parents will pass in review before God.
Satan is ready to do his work; he will not neglect to present allurements which
the children have no will or moral power to resist. I saw that, through his temp-
tations, he is instituting ever-changing fashions, and attractive parties and amuse-
ments, that mothers may be led to devote their time to frivolous matters, instead of
to the education and training of their children. Our youth need mothers who will
teach them from the cradle to control passion, to deny appetite, and to overcome
selfishness. They need line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a
little....
Woman should fill the position which God originally designed for her, as her
husband’s equal. The world needs mothers who are mothers not merely in name,
but in every sense of the word. We may safely say that the distinctive duties of
woman are more sacred, more holy, than those of man. 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 home in the
better world....
I entreat Christian mothers to realize their responsibility, and to live, not to
please themselves, but to glorify God. Christ pleased not Himself, but took upon
Him the form of a servant. He left the royal courts, and clothed His divinity with
humanity, that by His own example He might teach us how we may be exalted to
the position of sons and daughters in the royal family, children of the heavenly
King.—
Christian Education, 177-179
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