PARENTS, TEACH YOUR CHILDREN.
By Mrs. L. Flora Plummer
Home teaching is the best teaching. No teaching in schools or churches should be allowed to take its place. The word of God is for all. The children need it. Parents need it. Why not study it together? Amid the hurry of our busy lives, sufficient time is not given to the study of the Sabbath-school or Reading Circle lessons. The study of these lessons should be regarded a matter of great importance in each home. How can we expect the precious truths of God’s word to abide in our hearts when our study of them is only hasty and superficial? It is a sad condition that makes the statement true in some cases that a teacher or a comparative stranger has more influence for good with a child than the parents have. When this is true, mothers and fathers are743standing in the way of their children. How strange it is that parents who love their children, and who pray and toil and sacrifice for them, will entirely commit unto others the work of instructing them in the way of eternal life. The most powerful influences for good that can possibly be thrown around the youth are in the safeguard of home religious training. The idea should not be simply to acquire a knowledge of the words of truth, but each truth should be made practical to the daily life of each member of the family. There is power in the word of God to enable us to resist temptation. That power will be plainly manifest in the homes where his word is a frequent topic of conversation. It is not always necessary to take unoccupied time for family study. While at work, at the dinner hour, or whenever opportunity offers, the points of the lesson may be spoken of. “Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.” Isa. 28 : 9, 10. “And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house; and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.” Deut. 6 : 6, 7.