Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

you your faults, we pledge ourselves to help you in
every way we can.
I was shown that you do not possess that filial
love which you should. The evil in your nature is
exercised in a most unnatural way. You are not
tender and respectful to your parents. Whatever
may be their faults, you have no excuse for the
course you have pursued toward them. It has been
most unfeeling and disrespectful. Angels turned
from you in sadness, repeating these words: "That
which ye sow ye shall also reap." Should time
continue, you would receive from your children the
same treatment which your parents have received
from you. You have not studied how you could
best make your parents happy, and then sacrificed
your wishes and your pleasure to this end. Their
days upon earth are few at most, and will be full of
care and trouble even if you do all you can to
smooth their passage to the grave. "Honor thy
father and thy mother: that thy days may be long
upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
This is the first commandment with promise. It is
binding upon childhood and youth, upon the
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