"The Experience Of A Sinner," The Gospel Messenger vol. 14 no. 1 (Jan. 1892)
Parents, no doubt, have often made great efforts and sacrificed much to get wealth for their children, and to educate them for the high places of the world, and at the same time have thoughtlessly neglected them religiously; and thus they have unwittingly instilled into their minds more or less contempt for their religion and great and undue respect for the honors and riches of the world. And there are now, no doubt, men and women in high worldly stations whose parents were Old Baptists, and who would be ashamed for it to be known that their parents were what the world calls “Hardshells.” This may sometimes be the fault of the parents; not their fault that their children are not Christians, but their fault that they have so little respect for their religion. Children cannot, in their hearts, have much respect for the religion of parents whose lives are more devoted to worldly greed and honors than to God. |
