"Duties of Parents to Children," The Pilgrim’s Banner vol. 2 no. 1 (Jan. 1895)
AUTHOR: | Jennings, Rufus H. |
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If we would instruct our children properly, we must set them a good example. All our kindly admonitions will amount to nothing if our example is bad. Don’t come home from town with your breath smelling like a whiskey barrel if you would raise a sober boy. Such will encourage him at first to “social drinking,” and then the door is open for other vices and sins which often result in shame and disgrace both with the son and his father as well…
Teach your children to avoid bad company. Remember God says, “Evil communications corrupt good morals.” Under good discipline your boy may do well enough while at home, but if you allow him to associate with drunkards and those who use so much profanity, he is almost sure to bring your gray hairs in sorrow to the grave, unless the grace of God intervenes.
Let all who are entrusted with the care of children arouse to their duties. You cannot save your boy with an eternal salvation, but you might save him from the penitentiary by a close study and conformity to God’s word. |
