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Patriarchs and Prophets
A well-ordered Christian household is a powerful argument in
favor of the reality of the Christian religion—an argument that the
infidel cannot gainsay. All can see that there is an influence at work in
the family that affects the children, and that the God of Abraham is
with them. If the homes of professed Christians had a right religious
mold, they would exert a mighty influence for good. They would
indeed be the “light of the world.” The God of heaven speaks to every
faithful parent in the words addressed to Abraham: “I know him, that
he will command his children and his household after him, and they
shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the
Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of him.”
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