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Child Guidance
made in our behalf.... Parents and children are to sustain so close a
relation to God that the heavenly angels can communicate with them.
These messengers are shut out from many a home where iniquity and
impoliteness to God abound. Let us catch from His Word the spirit of
heaven and bring it into our life here below
How to Teach Reverence—Parents can and should interest their
children in the varied knowledge found in the sacred pages. But if they
would interest their sons and daughters in the Word of God, they must
be interested in it themselves. They must be familiar with its teachings
and, as God commanded Israel, speak of it “when thou sittest in thine
house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and
when thou risest up.”
Deuteronomy 11:19
. Those who desire their
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children to love and reverence God must talk of His goodness, His
majesty, and His power, as revealed in His Word and in the works of
creation
Reverence Is Revealed by Obedience—Let children be shown
that true reverence is revealed by obedience. God has commanded
nothing that is unessential, and there is no other way of manifesting
reverence so pleasing to Him as by obedience to that which He has
spoken
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Patriarchs and Prophets, 504
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