The Truth | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 25, 1872

The Truth.

Do Christian mothers realize the importance of absolute truthfulness in their dealings with their children?

I was recently spending a few days in a family of which the mother is one of those women who shine at home, who lives her religion day by day; one who, while insisting upon exact truthfulness in her children, practices the same herself. I have known her sometimes to make quite a sacrifice that she might keep a promise made to a child; her word, once given, is held sacred.

During my visit, I heard one morning a little five-year-old daughter telling an older playmate something that the latter seemed to doubt. “How do you know it is so?” she asked. “Oh!” replied the five-year-old child confidently, “mamma says so.”

Still the playmate doubted; when rising with flushed cheeks and sparkling eyes, the surprised and indignant little one exclaimed: “What! don’t you believe my mamma? Why, she never, never told me anything that was not true.”

Can our little ones always say: “My mamma never, never told me anything that was not true?”—American Messenger.