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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 6, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 8

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SLEEPY PRAYERS.

By Sylvia M. Wilson

I THINK all will agree with me that God would be more honored, and we receive a richer blessing, by assembling ourselves for family worship as soon as convenient after the day's labor is ended, than to wait until so late an hour that the children get sleepy, or, perhaps lie down and go to sleep, while the older ones hardly seem to realize that they are bowed before the Maker of the heavens and the earth, who requireth those who worship him to worship in spirit and in truth. If we live out the Health Reform we shall not be so weary when evening comes as to need rest long before attending to this duty.
Perhaps some may think it would make no difference about the children, for they would not understand anything that might be read or spoken. But if they are instructed in such portions of truth as their young minds are capable of understanding, many of them will become more or less interested and so their minds will be filling up with that which is good and useful, leaving less room for evil to creep in. I have seen a child but three and a half years old that could often tell something of what was read in the previous family lesson. Let us not neglect the children.
SYLVIA M. WILSON.
Faribault, Minn.