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Our Duty to the Children: 58 total pages.

From the first we can cultivate the thought that the children are the Lord's children. We shall not selfishly wish to keep them in igno­rance of their Heavenly Father, and claim all their affections for ourselves. We shall teach them about the Lord, and shall be glad to see their thoughts and affections turn to Him in childlike ways. If little children look up to us 44 THE TRANSITION and think us very wise and good, we shall in our own hearts transfer their reverence to the Lord, knowing that whatever goodness or wis­dom they find in us is from Him; and as the children grow older we shall not hide it from them that we are but giving them what the Lord gives us. It may be a trial to our natural feel­ings to think in this way of the children, as the Lord's, and gradually to lead their thoughts and affections beyond ourselves to Him. It is a process of weaning; it is a taking the child to the tabernacle and lending him to the Lord for-ever. But we must remember that we cannot always nurse and lead the children; they will outgrow us.

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