Religious Education in the Home

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 28, 1911

Religious Education in the Home

THERE is no cheap way of making Christians of our children. It is not sufficient that we have our children sent to Sabbath-school in childhood, while our own minds are occupied with things far from God. Spiritual comradeship with their children is, alas, a thing of which many parents know nothing. In as far as we delegate this most precious of duties — the religious education of our children — to others, we fall short of God's ideal of parenthood. The Sabbath-school, the church, were not instituted to supplant domestic religion, but to strengthen it. In these days many are too prone to manifest their religion through public institutions rather than in domestic relations. Indeed, there is no cheap way of making Christians of our children.—Selected.