Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

children are to sustain so close a relation to God
that the heavenly angels can communicate with
them. These messengers are shut out from many a
home where iniquity and impoliteness to God
abound. Let us catch from His Word the spirit of
heaven, and bring it into our life here below.
Some may say, "If we believe the Bible, why
does not the Lord work miracles for us?" He will,
if we will let Him. When a human mind is allowed
to come under the control of God, that mind will
reveal the miracle-working power of God; the
power of the mind in action is like the miracleworking
power of God.
In our prayers we are to hold on by faith to the
children in our home; and we are to do faithfully
the duties that belong to us. From the light that God
has given me, I know that the husband and the wife
are to be, in the home, minister, physician, nurse,
and teacher, binding their children to themselves
and to God, training them to avoid every habit that
will in any way militate against God's work in the
body, and teaching them to care for every part of
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