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Parental Discipline

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 28, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 12, No. 23.

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Parental Discipline.

[THE following valuable item may be of worth to some parents who are endeavoring to train up their children in the "nurture and admonition of the Lord." It is taken from Dr. Clarke's comments on Eph. vi, 4.—
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Fathers provoke not your children to wrath. Avoid all severity; this will hurt your own souls, and do them no good; on the contrary, if punished with severity or cruelty, they will only be hardened and made desperate in their sins. Cruel parents generally have bad children. He who corrects his children according to God and reason, will feel every blow on his own heart more sensibly than the child feels it on his body. Parents are called to correct, not to punish, their children. Those who punish them, do it from a principle of revenge; those who correct them do it from a principle of affectionate concern.