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The Voice in Speech and Song
Way of Making Work Pleasant—Make your work pleasant with
songs of praise.—
Child Guidance, 148
.
Song in the Home—Evening and morning join with your children
in God’s worship, reading His Word and singing His praise. Teach
them to repeat God’s law. Concerning the commandments, the Is-
raelites were instructed: “Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy
children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and
when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when
thou risest up.” Accordingly, Moses directed the Israelites to set the
words of the law to music....
If it was essential for Moses to embody the commandments in
sacred song, so that as they marched in the wilderness the children
could learn to sing the law verse by verse, how essential it is at this
time to teach our children God’s Word! Let us come up to the help of
the Lord, instructing our children to keep the commandments to the
letter. Let us do everything in our power to make music in our homes,
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that God may come in.—
Evangelism, 499
.
Family Union in Song—Happy the father and mother who can
teach their children God’s written Word with illustrations from the
open pages of the book of nature; who can gather under the green
trees, in the fresh, pure air, to study the Word and to sing the praise
of the Father above. By such associations parents may bind their
children to their hearts, and thus to God, by ties that can never be
broken.—
Education, 251
.
Songs by Children—Let the services be brief and full of life,
adapted to the occasion, and varied from time to time. Let all join in
the Bible reading, and learn and often repeat God’s law. It will add to
the interest of the children if they are sometimes permitted to select the
reading. Question them upon it, and let them ask questions. Mention
anything that will serve to illustrate its meaning. When the service is
not thus made too lengthy, let the little ones take part in prayer, and let
them join in song, if it be but a single verse.—
Child Guidance, 522
.
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