Care for the Children

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 24, 1870

Care for the Children.

“It is right to learn even from an enemy,” says the old proverb. The following paragraph shows how a Romanist came to reveal the secret of their policy toward their youth and children, which is the great source of strength with that colossal system of iniquity. How many Protestants might learn a lesson from this disclosure:—

“A Romish priest on a certain occasion, was journeying in company with several Protestant clergymen, and in the familiarity growing naturally out of the intimate companionship of travel, was betrayed into a disclosure of their sentiments. ‘How utterly silly,’ he said, ‘are all you Protestants! You give up the children till they have grown up possessed of the devil, then you go at the work of reclaiming them with horse, foot and dragoons, and find that your grown-up devil is too much for you. We know the difficulty of doing anything with adults, and devote nearly all our energies to the children, well knowing that every child is as plastic clay under our hands.’”