Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

their sins, that they may be pardoned and blotted out. These sins in a short time will berevealed in just their enormity. God’s eye does not slumber. He knows every sin thatis hidden from mortal eye. The guilty know just what sins to confess that their soulsmay be clean before God. Jesus is now giving them opportunity to confess, to repentin deep humility, and purify their lives by obeying and living out the truth. Now is thetime for wrongs to be righted and sins to be confessed, or they will appear before thesinner in the day of God’s wrath.Parents generally put too much confidence in their children; for often when theparents are confiding in them, they are in concealed iniquity. Parents, watch yourchildren with a jealous care. Exhort, reprove, counsel them when you rise up andwhen you sit down, when you go out and when you come in, line upon line, preceptupon precept, here a little, and there a little. Subdue your children when they are young.With many parents this is sadly neglected. They do not take as firm and decided a standas they should in regard to their children. They suffer them to be like the world, to lovedress, and associate with those who hate the truth and whose influence is poisonous.By so doing they encourage in their children a worldly disposition.I saw that there should always be a fixed principle with Christian parents to beunited in the government of their children. There is a fault in this respect with someparents—a lack of union. The fault is sometimes with the father, but oftener with themother. The fond mother pets and indulges her children. The father’s labor calls himfrom home often, and from the society of his children. The mother’s influence tells.Her example does much toward forming the character of the children.Some fond mothers suffer wrongs in their children which should not be allowedin them for a moment. The wrongs of the children are sometimes concealed from thefather. Articles156