KEEP YOUR WORD WITH THE CHILDREN.-

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 19, 1867

KEEP YOUR WORD WITH THE CHILDREN.—

It is related that the Earl of Chatham had promised that his son should be present at the demolition of a wall about the estate, but through accident it was pulled down in his absence. His Lordship felt the importance of his word being kept sacred, so he ordered the wall to be rebuilt, that his son might be present when it was again demolished, as he had promised. It was not that a child’s whim might be humored, but that his faith in his father’s word might be unshaken.