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

My dear brother and sister, you should take
hold unitedly and perseveringly to right your
mismanagement of your children. Sister G has
been too indulgent; yet unitedly and in love you
can do much, even now, to bind your children to
your hearts and instruct them in the good and right
way. You have a work to do in setting your own
hearts and house in order. You should cultivate
harmonious action. The transforming influence of
the Spirit of God can do a great work for you both,
and will unite your hearts and efforts in the work of
reform in your own family. All repining,
murmuring, and hasty irritability should cease. Its
effects are to weaken you both and to destroy the
influence you must exert if you succeed in training
your children for heaven.
Satan now has the field. Your poor children are
his captives; he has control of their minds and
causes them to take a low turn. Their moral
sensibilities seem paralyzed. They have practiced
self-abuse and gloried in their iniquities. Such boys
are capable of poisoning an entire neighborhood or
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