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course; for it means to you the loss of eternal life. The Heart-searcher
knows what is your attitude toward your parents; for He is weighing
moral character in the golden scales of the heavenly sanctuary. O,
confess your neglect of your parents, confess your indifference toward
them, and your contempt of God’s holy commandment....
The hearts of your parents have been drawn out in tender sympathy
toward you, and can you return their love with cold ingratitude? They
love your souls, they want you to be saved; but have you not often
despised their counsel and done your own will, your own way? Have
you not followed your own independent judgment, when you knew
that such a stubborn course would not meet the approval of God?
Many fathers and mothers have gone down broken-hearted to the
grave because of the ingratitude, the lack of respect, shown them by
their children.—
The Youth’s Instructor, June 22, 1893
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