Look into
some families of professors...
Follow them through the history of
only one week, and see...
Their worldly-mindedness, their gaiety, their frivolity...
Their unsanctified tempers, their worldly reading, their amusements...
Their homage to talent, their low esteem of holiness...
Their negligence of family prayer, their neglect of godly instruction to their children...
And who can wonder that
young
people brought up amidst such scenes, do not become religiously devoted-but go
off into the world or into sin?
Too often the children are like their parents, and bring into the church no higher or better kind of religion than what they have learned at home!
Too often the children are like their parents, and bring into the church no higher or better kind of religion than what they have learned at home!
And thus a low tone of reverence, a
lukewarm Laodicean spirit-is extended and perpetuated.
There must be a revival of reverence in the parents!
There must be a revival of reverence in the parents!
It is vain to
expect that a worldly-minded father, whose spirituality,
if he ever had any, has been utterly evaporated by the
exclusiveness of concern about business and politics.
Or a
frivolous, pleasure-loving mother, who thinks far more
about adorning the bodies of her children, than about saving their
souls-should be at all concerned about the God Fearing education of
their children.
Recollect what a solemn thing it is to be a parent!
Recollect what a solemn thing it is to be a parent!
What a weighty
responsibility attaches to those
who have the immortal souls of their children
committed to their care!
Eph 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
