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prayers. Teach them to overcome evil with good. Teach them to exert
an influence that is elevating and ennobling. Lead them to unite with
God, and then they will have strength to resist the strongest temptation.
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They will then receive the reward of the overcomer
Your compassionate Redeemer is watching you in love and sympa-
thy, ready to hear your prayers and render you the assistance which you
need in your lifework. Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness,
faith, and charity are the elements of the Christian character. These
precious graces are the fruits of the Spirit. They are the Christian’s
crown and shield
A Word of Encouragement to Those Who Have Erred—Those
who have been training their children in an improper way need not
despair; let them become converted to God and seek for the true spirit
of obedience, and they will be enabled to make decided reforms. In
conforming your own customs to the saving principles of God’s holy
law, you will have an influence upon your children
Some Children Will Refuse to Heed Parental Counsel—
Parents may do everything in their power to give their children every
privilege and instruction, in order that they may give their hearts to
God; yet the children may refuse to walk in the light and, by their evil
course, cast unfavorable reflections upon their parents who love them,
and whose hearts yearn after their salvation.
It is Satan who tempts children to follow in a course of sin and
disobedience.... If they refuse to walk in the light, if they refuse to
submit their will and way to God, and persist in following a course
of sin in their impenitence, the light and privileges they have had will
rise up in judgment against them, because they did not walk in the
light, and knew not whither they went. Satan is leading them, and they
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become a subject of remark in the world. People will say, “Why, look
at those children! Their parents are very religious, but you see they are
worse than my children, and I do not profess to be a Christian.” In this
way children who receive good instruction and yet do not heed it cast
a reproach upon their parents, dishonoring them, and putting them to
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The Review and Herald, July 9, 1901
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12
Pacific Health Journal, September, 1890
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13
The Signs of the Times, September 17, 1894
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