Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

and must be watched, and cannot act as children.
But let the teachers join in the amusements of the
children, be one with them, and show they want
them to be happy, and it will give the children
confidence. They can be controlled by love, but not
by a stern, strict, unbending rule, to follow them in
their meals and in their amusements.—Letter 42,
1886.
Our talents are lent us in trust, to use and
increase by their use. Oh, if parents would only
realize that the families on earth may be symbols of
the family in heaven. If they would realize their
accountability to keep their homes free from every
taint of moral evil. God designs that we shall have
far more of heaven in our families than we now
enjoy.
Pleasant Scenes and Interesting Work.—From
their earliest years the children are learners, and if
pleasant scenes are kept before them in the home,
they will become familiar with Christian courtesy,
kindness, and love. Their minds are built up by
what they see and hear, and parents are sowing the
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