A Word to Parents by Sel.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 9, 1869

A Word to Parents.

By Sel.

PARENTS: How are you bringing up your children? Do you train them up to spend their evenings at home, or do you allow them on the street, frequenting stores, liquor saloons, where they learn the habits of the infidel? Parents, think of the boys who were your schoolmates, and follow them through life! Do you see any difference between those who were in the habit of spending their evenings at home and those who spent them out, and often not at home until near midnight? If you wish your children to be a blessing both to you and themselves, do not allow them to associate with children that will lead them into bad habits.

Keep your reading table well supplied with books suitable for them to read, that they may find home more attractive than the street or tavern. How many can look over the past and say, If our parents had been more strict with us, we should have been far different from what we now are. Let parents bring up their children in the way that will make them a blessing to them in their old age, and how thankful will their children be when they become of suitable age to see the danger, but for strict discipline in their youth. Let parents set such examples as they wish their children to imitate.—Sel.