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TEACHING THE CHILDREN

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 4, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 49.

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TEACHING THE CHILDREN.

By Mrs. P. Alderman

MRS. P. ALDERMAN.
No OTHER WORK brings such large returns. “To teach a child is like inscribing on marble.” Every lesson lives in the mind, and is not forgotten like the teachings of after-years.
If we did but rightly estimate the privilege of teaching a child even one good thought, of making one good impression, which would help to mold the character, should we not be more anxious to do it? If we give the children words of love, and show an interest in their welfare, we almost always find a ready response.
A young business man from New York was visiting in the family yesterday. I had lost sight of him for years; but he remembered me, and said that, when he was a little boy, I took him on my lap and told him a Bible verse—“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” I was glad. Let us be ready to instruct children while their young minds are reaching out for knowledge, before the enemy sows the tares. And none can know how far reaching the work may be. This molding of character is largely the mother’s work, and so the mothers make the world.