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Child Guidance
individuality of their pupils merged in themselves, and to be mind,
will, and conscience for them, assume fearful responsibilities. These
scholars may, upon certain occasions, appear like well-drilled sol-
diers. But when the restraint is removed, there will be seen a want of
independent action from firm principle existing in them
Through Skill and Patient Effort—It requires skill and patient
effort to mold the young in the right manner. Especially do children
who have come into the world burdened with a heritage of evil, the
direct results of the sins of their parents, need the most careful culture
to develop and strengthen their moral and intellectual faculties. And
the responsibility of the parents is heavy indeed. Evil tendencies are
to be carefully restrained and tenderly rebuked; the mind is to be
stimulated in favor of the right. The child should be encouraged in
attempting to govern himself. And all this is to be done judiciously, or
the purpose desired will be frustrated
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13
Testimonies For The Church 3:133, 134
.
14
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 138
.