WHICH DO YOU? by W. W. Wheeler

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 9, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 23.

WHICH DO YOU?

By W. W. Wheeler

“Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath; but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” Eph. 6:4. “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him.” Ps. 103:13. So reads the Word of God.

Fathers, did it ever occur to you that some of you have so far neglected to live out the first scripture that it is almost impossible for your children to grasp the mercy and long-suffering of God as revealed in the second scripture?

As you stop to think of it, is it not so? Well, don’t serve Satan one moment longer by sitting still and mourning about it, till you are an eyesore to yourself and every one else; but let the Word of God, given in the first scripture, convert you, now, into a true father. Then will your children more truly know God’s care and love for them, and your prayers for them will probably be effectual, because accompanied by true faith,—that faith which works prove to be alive. Can not mothers also profit by God’s instruction on this point?

W. W. WHEELER.

Waddington, Cal.