Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

children! Mrs. Wesley never considered herself discharged from the care
of her children. Into all situations she followed them with her prayers and
counsels; and her sons, even when at the university, found the utility of
her wise and parental instructions. They proposed to her all their doubts,
and consulted her in all difficulties.
I consider the time spent at boarding school in teaching girls music,
drawing, painting, and dancing, as almost totally lost. Reason and the
necessities of the case, if consulted, would dictate that young women
should be taught such things as might fit them for social and domestic
life. But this is so far from being the case, that, when married, they are
generally found utterly ignorant of the several duties incumbent on them;
therefore the expectations of the husband are disappointed; he finds to his
sorrow that the fine, well bred young lady knows better how to play on
the harpsichord, drop a courtesy, sketch a landscape, or paint a rose, than
to behave herself as a wife and mother, or conduct her domestic affairs
with discretion. All these things, therefore, should be considered so many
useless conformities to the world, which can be of no advantage in the
most important departments and relations of life.
It is easier for most men to walk with a perfect heart in the church, or
even in the world, than in their own families. How many are as meek as
lambs among others, when at home they are wasps or tigers! The man
who, in the midst of family provocations, maintains a Christian character,
being meek, gentle, and long suffering, to his wife, children, and his
servants, has got a perfect heart, and adorns the doctrine of God his
Saviour in all things.
How can that family expect the blessing of God where the worship of
God is not daily performed? No wonder their servants are wicked, their
children profligate, and their goods cursed. What an awful reckoning
shall such heads of families have with the Judge in the great day, who
have refused to petition for that mercy which they might have had for
asking!