Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Head of his church, the dependence of His people;
he will give the needed grace to those who seek
him for wisdom and instruction.
I speak to fathers and mothers: You can be
educators in your home churches; you can be
spiritual missionary agencies. Let fathers and
mothers feel the need of being home missionaries,
the need of keeping the home atmosphere free from
the influence of unkind and hasty speech, and the
home schools a place where angels of God can
come in and bless and give success to the efforts
put forth.
Let parents unite in providing a place for the
daily instruction of their children, choosing as
teacher one who is apt to teach, and who as a
consecrated servant of Christ will increase in
knowledge while imparting instruction. The
teacher who has consecrated self to the service of
God will be able to do a definite work in
missionary service, and will instruct the children in
the same lines. Let fathers and mothers co-operate
with the teacher, laboring earnestly for the
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