A Solemn Appeal - Ellen G. White

troubles mountain high. Persons thus situated are
unfitted to properly train their children. Their life
will be marked with extremes. Sometimes they are
very indulgent, at other times severe, censuring for
trifles which deserve no notice.
The mother frequently sends her children from
her presence, because she thinks she cannot endure
the noise occasioned by their happy frolics. But
with no mother’s eye over them to approbate or
disapprove at the right time, unhappy differences
often arise. A word from the mother would set all
right again. They soon become weary, desire
change, and go into the street for amusement; and
pure, innocent-minded children are driven into bad
company, and evil communications breathed into
their ears corrupt their good manners. The mother
often seems to be asleep to the interests of her
children until she is painfully aroused by the
exhibition of vice. The seeds of evil were sown in
their young minds, promising an abundant harvest.
And it is a marvel to her that her children are so
prone to do wrong. Parents should begin in season
to instill into infant minds good and correct
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