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Our Duty to the Children: 58 total pages.

Our Duty to the Children

and formation, gives us our best opportunity to

children when first impressions are received, and

So we plant in our gardens the seeds of choice

tendencies of character. The general principle of

How real a factor heredity is in the problem of

In gen­eral, the inheritance from the mother is

the children and their faults; they show us that

herited from him; he perhaps feels that by his

born and to grow up in the world may, if he

he is guilty, not before. "The soul that sinneth,

pleasing ways may sometimes be a hindrance rather

be for our good. It gives the opportunity to

are the handles by which, with the Lord's help,

because the Lord does His part, it does not

to subdue self, and to put thoughts of self far

HEREDITY

until it becomes of principle, is superficial and

evil is postponed and comes to our con­sciousness

for good with every little child are influences

those who impart more of the light of truth.

The use of this store of innocent states and

to evil as it arises in the life, is taught in

conscious­ness. Yet it is the strongest tie. We

to see a ragged child playing with a few sticks

opening faculties in sympathetic ways, and to

Knowing the purpose of the Lord for little

of love. Who shall say that her own cheerful,

OUR DUTY TO THE CHILDREN

deprive them of this precious help. We need not

with the Lord and angels in laying up the store

our text presents simply and beautifully the

his tools, and trains his hand to follow the

pleasant, if it is forbidden, and to yield their

has learned to yield his will promptly and

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When we understand obedience in its broad and

this lies the real benefit of manual training as

doing at different seasons of the year. Children

plane of life. We have seen its use in developing

and careful thought children may add the ability

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to what is right. We must help the children to

the yielding of their natural will, to duty. We

lesson of obedience! What firmness and what

he is a little older the child thanks them for it

to the Lord as our standard of truth and our

From the first we can cultivate the thought that

If we love them we must teach them about the Lord

is no longer possible, is he well prepared to

better prepares a child for the responsibility of

Ness Cultivated In The Years Of Boy And Girlhood

Growing Hard And Critical; He Finds Him Self

and its hard intellectualness may be soft­ened by

affec­tionate child comes into this critical,

beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did

dangers and temptations meet the children in

and often, with almost his old childlike docility,