Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

provision for the members of his family to receive
an education and training that will fit them for the
future, immortal life. His children are to be taught
the principles of heaven. He is the priest of the
household, accountable to God for the influence
that he exerts over every member of his family. He
is to place his family under the most favorable
circumstances possible, so that they shall not be
tempted to conform to the habits and customs, the
evil practices and lax principles, that they would
find in the world.
Setting a right example in the home, parents are
able to exert a good influence in the church. They
will not carry into the church the hasty spirit that
causes dissension, making it almost impossible for
two members to agree, unless the one come to the
other's ideas and ways. Church-members should
remember that no two leaves on a tree are exactly
alike. They should recognize the fact that while as
brethren and sisters in Christ Jesus they are
connected with one another and with Christ as the
leaves of a tree are connected with its branches and
trunk, yet they are not all cut after the same pattern.
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