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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 6, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 32.

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The Funny Page

By MRS. D. A. FITCH

MRS. D. A. FITCH
Many a child in many a family, and in some Seventh-day Adventist families, is being irreparably injured in his morals by attention to the “funny page” of certain papers. Too much well-directed effort cannot be put forth to discourage this practice.
One mother told me that she foregoes the privilege of reading the newspapers because her little daughter is so fond of the “funny paper.” Wise mother! But who can say it would not be wiser to insist on immediately burning this one page, rather than to permit the child to rule the household to this degree?
The caretaker of a boy objected to his studying this piece of falderal. Insistence on his part necessitated an appeal to his mother, who decided thus: “Not if you have to buy it; otherwise you may read it.”
A youth of high school age, a member of the church, whose mother is sure her boy has no love for such trash, may be seen in the public library intently studying this emanation from the depths.
Parents, one and all, let us do all in our power to furnish our children with that which will be a blessing, rather than a curse; for very soon we must meet them in the judgment. Shall we be willing then to meet their accusations against us? Shall we not see to it that the past is forgiven, our steps retraced, and a work wrought in our homes that shall insure to us and our children a residence where naught but purity reigns?
“When parents and children meet at the final reckoning, what a scene will be presented! Thousands of children who have been slaves to appetite and debasing vice, whose lives are moral wrecks, will stand face to face with the parents who have made them what they are. Who but the parents must bear this fearful responsibility?
“Did the Lord make these youth corrupt? O, no! Who, then, has done this fearful work? Were not the sins of the parents transmitted to the children in perverted appetites and passions? and was not the work completed by those who neglected to train them according to the pattern which God has given? Just as surely as they exist, all these parents will pass in review before God.”—“Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene,” page 76.
Glendale, Cal.