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Parents should allow nothing to prevent them from giving to their
children all the time that is necessary to make them understand what it
means to obey and trust the Lord fully
Parents, Awake From Your Deathlike Slumber—From the in-
difference of their parents, many children are left to feel that their
parents have no care for their souls. This ought not to be so, but those
who have children should so manage their domestic and business af-
fairs that nothing may come in between them and the children that
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would lessen the parents’ influence in directing them to Christ. You
should teach your children the lesson of the love of Jesus, that they
may be pure in heart, in conduct, and conversation....
The Lord would work upon the hearts of the children if the parents
would but co-operate with the divine agencies, but He will not under-
take to do that which has been appointed as your part of the work.
Parents, you must awake from your deathlike slumber
Our Great Hope Is Home Religion—Parents are asleep. Their
children are going to destruction before their eyes, and the Lord would
have His messengers present before the people, by precept and exam-
ple, the necessity of home religion. Urge this matter home upon your
congregations. Press the conviction of these solemn duties, so long
neglected, home upon the conscience. This will break up the spirit of
Pharisaism and resistance to the truth as nothing else can. Religion
in the home is our great hope and makes the prospect bright for the
conversion of the whole family to the truth of God
Satan’s Power May Be Broken—Parents have a more serious
charge than they imagine. The inheritance of children is that of sin.
Sin has separated them from God. Jesus gave His life that He might
unite the broken links to God. As related to the first Adam, men receive
from him nothing but guilt and the sentence of death. But Christ steps
in and passes over the ground where Adam fell, enduring every test
in man’s behalf.... Christ’s perfect example and the grace of God are
given him to enable him to train his sons and daughters to be sons and
daughters of God. It is by teaching them, line upon line, precept upon
precept, how to give the heart and will up to Christ that Satan’s power
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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 129
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14
The Review and Herald, October 25, 1892
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15
Manuscript 21, 1894
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