Parents, Educate Your Children
By F. G.
Who can realize the value of a human soul? An eternity of usefulness and happiness is before every individual who properly realizes the worth of his own soul; but the majority of the people of the world do not sense the value of the future. This is particularly true of children and young people. This world looks bright; but it is the work of Christian education to set before these young people the future in its true light, to cause them to realize their duty to God, to their fellow men, and to themselves. Those who receive this education are the ones whom God will use in service to himself and to their fellow men. The carpenter must not only have a tool, but it must be a sharp tool, one with which he can do his work quickly and accurately. But the tools are not sharpened except by a grinding process. Neither are minds properly trained and educated for the work of life except through the means which God has provided. True parents desire to send forth their children into the world and its work with sharp, keen minds, and strong purposes for the right. Such children are an honor to their parents and a blessing to the world; and, indeed, they are an honor to God. Every Christian parent should dedicate his child to God, as did Hannah of old. We are rapidly being whirled into the world's greatest crisis; it is the closing one, and we need the keenest minds and the strongest hearts to meet the issues that are upon us. Parents everywhere should now feel as never before the necessity of giving to their children a proper training for the hour. This may require self-sacrifice and denial, but the reward will be not only the useful, faithful service which the children render to God here, but the privilege of rendering him such service throughout all eternity.