Parents and Their Pastor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 22, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 37.

Parents and Their Pastor

THE following from the Congregationalist is worthy of serious thought. How many parents who deplore their children's indifference to religious exercises realize that they themselves have laid the foundation of that indifference? Let parents take warning from this incident:—

"Those who habitually criticise their pastor in their families, work effectively against their own higher interests. A woman who was known to do this, as she saw her children growing indifferent to the church and to Christian things, said to her pastor, with tears, 'Doctor, can't you help me to save my boys?' He replied, 'Madam, I have no influence with your boys; you have talked it all away.' Speak with respect of your minister, that those whom you love best may honor the truth he proclaims."