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Safeguarding the Young
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in His great work. The Lord will bless them as they work for Him.
They can be His helping hand.
Your home is the first field in which you are called to labor.
The precious plants in the home garden demand your first care.
Consider carefully your work, its nature, its bearings, its results,
ever remembering that your looks, your words, your actions, have a
direct bearing on the future of your dear ones. Your work is not to
fashion beauty on canvas, or to chisel it from marble, but to impress
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upon a human soul the image of the divine.
Give your children intellectual culture and moral training. Fortify
their young minds with firm, pure principles. While you have op-
portunity, lay the foundation for a noble manhood and womanhood.
Your labor will be rewarded a thousandfold.
This is your day of trust, your day of responsibility and oppor-
tunity. Soon will come your day of reckoning. Take up your work
with earnest prayer and faithful endeavor. Teach your children that it
is their privilege to receive every day the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Let Christ find you His helping hand to carry out His purposes. By
prayer you may gain an experience that will make your ministry for
your children a perfect success.
Seventh-day Adventist parents should more fully realize their
responsibilities as character builders. God places before them the
privilege of strengthening His cause through the consecration and
labors of their children. He desires to see gathered out from the
homes of our people a large company of youth who, because of the
godly influences of their homes, have surrendered their hearts to Him,
and go forth to give Him the highest service of their lives. Directed
and trained by the godly instruction of the home, the influence of
the morning and evening worship, the consistent example of parents
who love and fear God, they have learned to submit to God as their
teacher and are prepared to render Him acceptable service as loyal
sons and daughters. Such youth are prepared to represent to the
world the power and grace of Christ.
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