Our Children by Ellen G. White

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 5, 1909

Our Children

By Ellen G. White

ALTOGETHER too little attention has been given our children and youth. The older members of the church have not looked upon them with tenderness and sympathy, desiring that they might be once advanced in the divine life, and the children have therefore failed to develop in the Christian life as they should have done. Some church-members who have loved and feared God in the past are allowing their business to be all-absorbing, and are hiding their light under a bushel. They have forgotten to serve God, and are making their business the grave of their religion.

Shall the youth be left to drift hither and thither, to become discouraged, and to fall into temptations that are everywhere lurking to catch their unwary feet? The work that lies nearest to our church-members is to become interested in our youth, with kindness, patience, and tenderness giving them line upon line, precept upon precept. O, where are the fathers and mothers in Israel? There ought to be a large number who, as stewards of the grace of Christ, would feel not merely a casual interest, but a special interest in the young. There ought to be many whose hearts are touched by the pitiable situation in which our youth are placed, who realize that Satan is working by every conceivable device to draw them into his net. God requires the church to arouse from its lethargy, and see what manner of service is demanded in this time of peril.—Mrs. E. G. White.