Education in the Home

The S.D.A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1880

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 14

Education in the Home

There is a process of education constantly going on in every dwelling which care and thought can make an unspeakable advantage, and at the same time contribute to make a happy home. To keep objects of pure and high interest before the children's minds, in a natural and suitable way—to have them supplied with such books as will occupy and interest—to talk not so much to them as with them about objects—to take note of and encourage any advance they make, and to direct the flow not of a part of, but of the whole of their life—physical, mental, moral without apparent interference or violence; this happy art—to be sought, prayed for, labored for—under God's blessing, goes far to make a happy home. The tastes of children are naturally simple. Your child's wooden gun, cut with your own hand, perhaps, and made a link of connection between your little boy and you, may be more to him, more influential over his character, more potent in binding his heart to you while living, his memory to you when you are

dead, than a costly gift that you ordered at the store. And when you, living a loving, natural life before your children, and with them, bend the knee in their midst, and speak to God of them and of yourself, there is a powerful restraint being put on natural evil, there is a pleasant type of Heaven where the whole family that is named after Jesus shall be gathered together.—Dr. John Hall.