Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2 - Second Advent Revival

members of their own family. Do not permit your actions and your words to be of a
nature that your children will be provoked to wrath. Yet they must be faithfully
disciplined and corrected when they do wrong, but never in anger.--MS 47, 1908.
{2MCP 518.5}
A parent gives way to temper before the child and then wonders why the child is so
difficult to control. But what could he expect? Children are quick to imitate, and the child
is but putting into practice the lessons taught him by his parents in their outbursts of
anger.... {2MCP 519.1}
You may have to punish your child with the rod. This is sometimes essential. But
never, never strike him in anger. To correct him thus is to make two wrongs in trying to
cure one. Defer the punishment till you have talked with yourself and with God. Ask
yourself, Have I submitted my will to God's will? Am I standing where He can control
me? Ask God to forgive you for transmitting to your child a disposition so difficult to
manage. Ask Him to give you wisdom that you may deal with your wayward child in a
way that will draw him nearer to you and to his heavenly Father.--RH, July 8, 1902.
{2MCP 519.2}
Violent Emotions Endanger Life.--The giving way to violent emotions endangers
life. Many die under a burst of rage and passion. Many educate themselves to have
spasms. These they can prevent if they will, but it requires willpower to overcome a
wrong course of action. All this must be a part of the education received in the school,
for we are God's property. The sacred temple of the body must be kept pure and
uncontaminated, that God's Holy Spirit may dwell therein.--Lt 103, 1897. (HC 265.)
{2MCP 519.3}
The Fruitage of Each Outburst of Anger.--One class have come up without
self-control; they have not bridled the temper or the tongue; and some of these claim to
be Christ's followers, but they are not. Jesus has set them no such example.... They are
unreasonable and not easily
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persuaded or convinced. They are not sane; Satan for the time has full control. Every
one of these exhibitions of wrath weakens the nervous system and the moral powers
and makes it difficult to restrain anger on another provocation.--YI, Nov 10, 1886. (SD
142.) {2MCP 519.4}
Intoxicated With Wrath.--How Satan exults when he is enabled to set the soul into
a white heat of anger! A glance, a gesture, an intonation, may be seized upon and used
as the arrow of Satan to wound and poison the heart that is open to receive it.--ST
Sept. 21, 1888 {2MCP 520.1}
When one once gives place to an angry spirit, he is just as much intoxicated as the
man who has put the glass to his lips.--MS 6, 1893 {2MCP 520.2}
Christ treats anger as murder. . . Passionate words are a savor of death unto death.
He who utters them is not cooperating with God to save his fellowman. In heaven this