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Child Guidance
Look Constantly to Jesus—Parents, ... use every spiritual sinew
and muscle in the effort to save your little flock. The powers of hell
will unite for its destruction, but God will lift up for you a standard
against the enemy. Pray much more than you do. Lovingly, tenderly,
teach your children to come to God as their heavenly Father. By your
example teach them self-control and helpfulness. Tell them that Christ
lived not to please Himself.
Gather up the rays of divine light that are shining upon your path-
way. Walk in the light as Christ is in the light. As you take hold of
the work of helping your children to serve God, the most provoking
trials will come; but do not lose your hold; cling to Jesus. He says,
“Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me;
and he shall make peace with me.”
Isaiah 27:5
. Difficulties will arise;
you will meet with obstacles; but look constantly to Jesus. When an
emergency arises, ask, Lord, what shall I do now? If you refuse to fret
or scold, the Lord will show you the way. He will help you to use the
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talent of speech in so Christlike a way that peace and love will reign
in the home. By following a consistent course of action, you may be
evangelists in the home, ministers of grace to your children
This Work Pays—It costs something to bring children up in the
way of God. It costs a mother’s tears and a father’s prayers. It calls
for unflagging effort, for patient instruction, here a little and there a
little. But this work pays. Parents can thus build around their children
bulwarks which will preserve them from the evil that is flooding our
world
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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 156, 157
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