Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

parents had not given faithful instruction in regard
to Satan's snares.
The Home School
Upon every Christian parent there rests the
solemn obligation of giving to his children an
education that will lead them to gain a knowledge
of the Lord, and to become partakers of the divine
nature through obedience to God's will and way. A
child's first school should be his home. His first
instructors should be his father and his mother. His
first lessons should be the lessons of respect,
obedience, reverence and self-control. If he is not
instructed aright by his parent, Satan will instruct
him in evil through agencies that are most
objectionable. How important, then, is the school
in the home! Here the character is first shaped.
Here the destiny of souls is often largely
influenced. Even the parents who are endeavoring
to do their best, have not a hundredth part of the
realization they should have of the value of a
human soul.
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