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to the Lord as our standard of truth and our Teacher. The rational faculty is not given that a young man may turn from dependence upon his parents to dependence upon himself, but to dependence upon the Lord; that he may advance from indirect obedience to Him to direct obedience. "When my father and
OUR DUTY TO THE CHILDREN
my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up."
When circumstances remove children from their parents' care; when parents die, when children leave home for college or for work; when though they still live with their parents, they outgrow the dependence of childhood, then they should be prepared to transfer their dependence to the Lord. It is to enable them to do this that rationality is given them. This is the essence of the change from boy- and girlhood to man-and womanhood.
To see clearly what the change is, is a help in knowing our duty to children at this transition period of life. If we have the change in mind as something that is coming, we can do much to prepare the children for it, so that at the right time they can make the change safely and happily.
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