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Let Children Share Home Burdens—Make the life of your chil-
dren pleasant, and at the same time teach them to be obedient and
helpful, bearing small burdens as you bear larger ones. Educate them
to habits of industry, so that the enemy will not make a workshop of
their minds. Give your children something to think of, something to
do, that they may be fitted for usefulness in this life and in the future
life
From their earliest years they should be trained to carry their share
of the home burdens. They should be taught that obligations are
mutual. They should also be taught to work quickly and neatly. This
education will be of the greatest value to them in after years
Each member of the family should understand just the part he is
expected to act in union with the others. All, from the child six years
old and upward, should understand that it is required of them to bear
their share of life’s burdens
A Source of Experience and Pleasure—How important that fa-
thers and mothers should give their children, from their very babyhood,
the right instruction. They are to teach them to obey the command,
“Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the
land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” And the children as they
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grow in years are to appreciate the care that their parents have given
them. They are to find their greatest pleasure in helping father and
mother
A Charm May Surround the Humblest Employment—If chil-
dren were taught to regard the humble round of everyday duties as the
course marked out for them by the Lord, as a school in which they
were to be trained to render faithful and efficient service, how much
more pleasant and honorable would their work appear. To perform
every duty as unto the Lord throws a charm around the humblest em-
ployment and links the workers on earth with the holy beings who do
God’s will in heaven. And in our appointed place we should discharge
our duties with as much faithfulness as do the angels in their higher
sphere
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3
Manuscript 62, 1901
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4
The Signs of the Times, December 11, 1901
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5
Testimonies For The Church 2:700
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6
Manuscript 129, 1903
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7
The Signs of the Times, October 11, 1910
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