“A Godly Example in the Home”
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if they succeed in overcoming sin and perfecting a Christian character.
This copy they should find in the lives of their parents. If they enter
the city of God and rejoice in the overcomer’s reward, someone must
show them the way. By living before their children godly, consistent
lives, parents may make the work before them clear and plain.
It is God’s desire that parents should be to their children the embod-
iment of the principles laid down in His Word. Let them make it their
aim to train their children for God. To keep the feet of their children
in the narrow path will call for faithful effort and constant prayer, but
it is possible to train the children and youth to love and serve God. It
is possible to inculcate the principles of righteousness, line upon line,
precept upon precept, here a little, and there a little, until the desires
and inclinations of the heart are in harmony with the mind and will
of God. When fathers and mothers realize the responsibility resting
upon them, and respond to the appeals of God’s Spirit in behalf of
this neglected work, there will be seen in the homes of the people
transformations that will cause the angels to rejoice.
Parents to study 2 Peter 1
Let parents study the first chapter of the second epistle of Peter.
Here is represented the exalted excellence of Bible truth. It teaches that
the Christian’s experience is to be one of steady growth, of constant
gain in graces and virtues that will give strength to the character and
fit the soul for eternal life....
It is the privilege of parents and children to grow together in the
grace of Christ. Those who comply with the conditions laid down in
the Word will find full provision for their spiritual needs, and for power
to overcome. Feeling the need of that grace which Heaven alone can
furnish, and which Christ imparts to all who seek, they will become
partakers of the heavenly gift.
Those who have accepted Bible truth are to keep the truth circum-
spectly. They are to follow on to know the Lord, gathering into their
souls the light of heaven. But they must not stop there. They are to
communicate the light and knowledge received. The Lord expects
parents to make earnest, united efforts in the training of their children
for Him. In the home they are to cultivate the graces of the Spirit, in
all their ways acknowledging Him who through the sanctification of