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Teaching Lessons of Helpfulness
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Our schools are the Lord’s special instrumentality to fit the chil-
dren and youth for missionary work. Parents should understand their
responsibility and help their children to appreciate the great privi-
leges and blessings that God has provided for them in educational
advantages.
But their domestic education should keep pace with their edu-
cation in missionary lines. In childhood and youth practical and
literary training should be combined. Children should be taught to
have a part in domestic duties. They should be instructed how to help
father and mother in the little things that they can do. Their minds
should be trained to think, their memories taxed to remember their
appointed work; and in the training to habits of usefulness in the
home they are being educated in doing practical duties appropriate
to their age.
If children have proper home training, they will not be found
upon the streets, receiving the haphazard education that so many
receive. Parents who love their children in a sensible way will not
permit them to grow up with lazy habits and ignorant of how to do
home duties. Ignorance is not acceptable to God and is unfavorable
for the doing of His work.
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