Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

egin to talk unbelief in regard to some scriptures, claiming that they cause them todoubt the inspiration of the Bible, we should be afraid of them, for God is at a greatdistance from them.*****Chap. 72 - Parents and ChildrenI have been shown that while parents who have the fear of God before them restraintheir children, they should study their dispositions and temperaments, and seek to meettheir wants. Some parents attend carefully to the temporal wants of their children;they kindly and faithfully nurse them in sickness, and then think their duty done. Herethey mistake. Their work has but just begun. The wants of the mind should be caredfor. It requires skill to apply the proper remedies to cure a wounded mind. Childrenhave trials just as hard to bear, just as grievous in character, as those of older persons.Parents themselves do not feel the same at all times. Their minds are often perplexed.They labor under mistaken views and feelings. Satan buffets them, and they yield tohis temptations. They speak irritably, and in a manner to excite wrath in their children,and are sometimes exacting and fretful. The poor children partake of the same spirit,and the parents are not prepared to help them, for they were the cause of the trouble.Sometimes everything seems to go wrong. There is fretfulness all around, and all havea very miserable, unhappy time. The parents lay the blame upon their poor childrenand think them very disobedient and unruly, the worst children in the world, when thecause of the disturbance is in themselves.Some parents raise many a storm by their lack of self-control. Instead of kindlyasking the children to do this or that, they order them in a scolding tone, and at thesame time a384