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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 6, 1879

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1. To Parents. When your children vex and trouble you by their disobedience, ill-temper, or insubordination, do not be too eager to throw all blame or responsibility upon them. For first, they are simply what you have trained them to be, unless there was something abnormally perverse, or inclined to evil, in their natural disposition; and secondly, if this were the case, the question would at once arise, how far they may have inherited these native tendencies from you.

2. To Children. If you observe, or fancy that you observe, in yourselves any particularly good qualities, do not become self-conceited and vain, or give yourselves any special credit for the possession of them. For the fair presumption is, in most cases, that you must either have inherited them from your father or mother, or you must owe them to the care and training which they devoted to you in your early years.

“What have ye that ye have not received?”