p. 7 | What These Times Mean to Parents

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 2, 1910

What These Times Mean to Parents

WE are living in strenuous times. Everything is going with a rush. Intensity has seized upon every agency of human endeavor. Let us take heed that we be not dragged from our moorings, lose our bearings, and be swept into the fearful maelstrom. And let us see that our children are taught true principles, and their young minds filled with an unselfish desire to give to others the precious light which God has given us. It is only through this constant training that we may hope so to hold before our children these high ideals as to save them from the awful vortex of ruin which yawns just before their feet. God has a place in his work for every educated and consecrated young person. Are you training your boy and your girl to fill their places?

Can we expect our children to breathe in the very atmosphere of doubt and unbelief for five days in the week, year after year, following worldly methods, seeking to attain worldly ideals, associated constantly with those actuated only by these motives, and yet come forth unscathed and unsullied, with motives pure and faith unfeigned? May God help us to sense the awful responsibilities resting upon us as parents in view of the times upon which we have fallen, and the demands of the hour that are pressing upon us.—Selected.