Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

y wise direction. Parents are to teach their
children pleasantly, without scolding or
faultfinding, seeking to bind the hearts of the little
ones to them by the silken cords of love. Let all,
fathers, and mothers, teachers, older brothers and
sisters, become an educating force to keep up every
spiritual interest, and create a wholesome
atmosphere in the home and school life that will
train the younger children in the nurture and
admonition of the Lord.
Our children are the Lord's property; they have
been bought with a price. This thought should be
the mainspring of our labors for them. The most
successful methods of assuring their salvation, and
keeping them out of the way of temptation, is to
instruct them constantly in the Word of God. And
as parents become learners with their children, they
will find their own growth in a knowledge of the
truth more rapid. Unbelief will disappear; faith and
activity will increase; assurance and confidence
will deepen as they thus follow on to know the
Lord. Their prayers will undergo a transformation,
become more earnest and sincere. Christ is the
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