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Our Duty to the Children: 58 total pages.

to subdue self, and to put thoughts of self far away, that there may be no hindrance to the Lord in doing His blessed work. "Except the Loin build the house, . . . except the LORD keep the city, . . . Lo, children are a heritage of the Loan: and the fruit of the womb is his reward." Yet the thought of helping others should be a strong motive in resisting not only wrong acts, but wrong thoughts and feelings. Every re­sistance to evil lessens the power of evil in the world, for others as well as for ourselves. We resist evil for the sake of others when we put away some selfishness, that the Lord may work more fully through us and with us, and that the brightness of heaven may grow within us and shine around us. Especially must we think of this in our relations with the children. Parents -and the thought applies in a less degree to teachers and all who are with children-should faithfully resist every evil act and thought and feeling in their own hearts for the children's sake, that they may bring to them a good and helpful influence and not a poisoned one; that

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