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INFLUENCE OF PARENTS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 14, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 2.

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INFLUENCE OF PARENTS.

It is the parent, truly remarks the Sabbath Recorder, who creates or who dissipates the atmosphere of God around the child. No one else so surrounds and environs the child, and environment is that which most surely molds the character and most perceptibly confirms it. What we want to have form in part or wholly the child’s character, we put into his immediate surroundings. Speaking to parents in reference to their children, Dr. Bushnell says, “If you will put in Christ, you must put him on.” The more truly parents put on the Spirit of Christ in their own soul and life, the more sure they may be that they will succeed in putting him into the character and the very being of their dear children.