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THE CHILDREN OUT OF THE WAY

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 18, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 4.

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THE CHILDREN OUT OF THE WAY.

“I wish my children were large enough to be out of my way,” said a mother; “they are so much trouble.”
Children are a trouble sometimes; but is not their company more pleasure than all the trouble they make? Does not their innocent prattle drive away many a dark cloud from a mother’s brow? When she sees her little son or daughter come to her with its sweet, smiling face, and reach up its little arms and put them round her neck, is she not abundantly repaid? Little children grow up, and get out of the way—but too often to their mother’s sorrow.
As a young woman said not long ago, “I do not love my mother.” “Why?” “Because she never loved me.”
The same mother afterwards said, “I do not care for my daughter.” “Why?” “She does not care for me.”
Who ought to care first—the mother or the daughter? Mothers, sow the seed of love in the early spring of life in your children’s hearts; then love will grow with them, and they will not be “out of the way” in time of need.