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Child Guidance
Choose the School Where God Is the Foundation—In planning
for the education of their children outside the home, parents should
realize that it is no longer safe to send them to the public school, and
should endeavor to send them to schools where they will obtain an
education based on a Scriptural foundation. Upon every Christian
parent there rests the solemn obligation of giving to his children an
education that will lead them to gain a knowledge of the Lord and to
become partakers of the divine nature through obedience to God’s will
and way
Consider God’s Counsel to Israel—While the judgments of God
were falling upon the land of Egypt, the Lord directed the Israelites
not only to keep their children within their houses, but to bring in even
their cattle from the fields....
As the Israelites kept their children within their houses during the
time when the judgments of God were in the land of Egypt, so in this
time of peril we are to keep our children separate and distinct from
the world. We are to teach them that the commandments of God mean
much more than we realize. Those who keep them will not imitate the
practices of the transgressors of God’s law.
Parents must regard God’s Word with respect, obeying its teach-
ings. To the parents in this day, as well as to the Israelites, God
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declares: “These words ... shall be in thine heart; and thou shalt teach
them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou
sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when
thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them
for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine
eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on
thy gates.”
Notwithstanding this plain instruction, some of God’s people per-
mit their children to attend the public schools, where they mingle
with those who are corrupt in morals. In these schools their children
can neither study the Bible nor learn its principles. Christian parents,
you must make provision for your children to be educated in Bible
principles
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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 205
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Manuscript 100, 1902
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