Children and Church Attendance

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1880

Children and Church Attendance

It is held by some that the Sunday-school and public worship are too much for the average child in our day. We have no sympathy with this view, and it is clearly disproved by the fact that the children of a generation ago were not only able to attend church, but two sessions of the school. The sin of this failure, we believe, must be traced to a want of faithful instruction and a lack of parental authority. Children should be impressed with the duty of church-going; they should be trained to the habit of regular attendance upon the preaching services, and no frivolous excuses should be allowed for their neglect.— Baptist Weekly.