Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

is in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him?"
Parents can learn this lesson in all its
significance. Children who ask for something that
is not for their best good are not to be rebuffed, but
kindly told, "That would not be for your good. You
can not have it, because it would injure you. But
although we can not give it to you, we will try in
every way possible to make you happy."
The father should always feel kindly disposed
toward his children. How sad it is that the father's
disposition is not always that which it should be!
The father of boys is to come in to close
connection with his sons, giving them the benefit
of his larger experience, and talking with them in
such simplicity and tenderness that he binds them
to his heart. He is to let them see that he has their
best interest, their happiness, in view all the time.
Parents, let us constantly keep before our
children the relation that we sustain to our
heavenly Father. Let us tell them that we are His
children, and that we desire to treat them as He
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