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Child Guidance
in the judgment. The Lord will then inquire, “Where are the children
that I gave you to train for Me? Why are they not at My right hand?”
Many parents will then see that unwise love blinded their eyes to their
children’s faults and left those children to develop deformed characters
unfit for heaven. Others will see that they did not give their children
time and attention, love and tenderness; their own neglect of duty made
the children what they are
Parents, if you lose your opportunity, God pity you; for in the day
of judgment God will say, “What have you done with My flock, My
beautiful flock?”...
Suppose you should get to heaven and none of your children be
there. How could you say to God, “Here am I, Lord, and the children
which Thou hast given me”? Heaven marks the neglect of parents. It
is recorded in the books of heaven
Families Will Pass in Review Before God—When parents and
children meet at the final reckoning, what a scene will be presented!
Thousands of children who have been slaves to appetite and debasing
vice, whose lives are moral wrecks, will stand face to face with the
parents who made them what they are. Who but the parents must bear
this fearful responsibility? Did the Lord make these youth corrupt?
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Oh, no! He made them in His image, a little lower than the angels.
Who, then, has done the fearful work of forming the life character?
Who changed their characters so that they do not bear the impress of
God and must be forever separated from His presence as too impure
to have any place with the pure angels in a holy heaven? Were the sins
of the parents transmitted to the children in perverted appetites and
passions? And was the work completed by the pleasure-loving mother
in neglecting to properly train them according to the pattern given her?
All these mothers will pass in review before God just as surely as they
exist
In Heaven Is a Pictorial Record—Let parents and children re-
member that day by day they are each forming a character, and that
the features of this character are imprinted upon the books of heaven.
God is taking pictures of His people, just as surely as an artist takes
pictures of men and women, transferring the features of the face to the
2
Testimonies For The Church 4:424
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3
Manuscript 62, 1901
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4
Testimonies For The Church 3:568, 569
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