Where Is Your Cable Fastened? by Wm. Lewsadder

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 3, 1907

Where Is Your Cable Fastened?

By Wm. Lewsadder

WE are on the great ocean of time, and our bark is being tried by the tempest and every wind of doctrine. The storm is gathering fast, soon to burst upon us to do its work of destruction. Are our loved ones all on board with us?

“Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord.” The Lord will require of every one his own when he comes. Matt. 25: 27. Parents who have been indifferent to the education of their children in this truth will be worse than the man who failed in the using of the one talent, for they will not have that to return which the Lord gave them, much less the usury.

“True education is missionary training.” Then if the youth were educated in the true way, there would be laborers for the fields that are white unto the harvest, and they would come bringing their sheaves with them, and the Lord would receive his own with usury.

I never knew a parent, whose child was a missionary, to lose interest in the truth or to neglect the family altar; but I have known families where the children were not educated in the right way, to drift, drift, drift, until it was very evident that their cable was not anchored to that within the vail.

There is one great object for the home, the church, and the conference; that is to educate workers for the Lord’s vineyard. WM. LEWSADDER.