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REARING CHILDREN IN DIVINE FAVOR 255
in serving God as its parents do . Besides hearing
the Bible truths at the parents' mouth and at the
congregational meetings to which the parents
take it, the child must be instructed, disciplined
and trained to take part in actively serving God,
to appreciate that faith without works is dead .
The parents must help the child to get a practical
view of the truth and of the way that God's
visible organization works on earth . The parents
must give the child a practical demonstration of
how the work is actually done in the field and how
both rough and pleasant experiences are met with,
by taking it along to the witness work in the field .
Deuteronomy 11 :19 says in regard to teaching
God's words to children : "Ye shall teach them
your children, speaking of them when thou sittest
in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
when thou liest down, and when thou risest up ."
When the parent is on the road, walking by the
way from house to house in publishing the Kingdom
message, then with his child by his side he
can teach it God's words . How? Both by talking
to it and by letting it listen in on the witnessing
that the parent gives to persons at the doors . In
this way the parent fulfills God's will and gives
parental training in the direct service of the Creator,
whom the child should remember in the days
of its youth .-Ecclesiastes 12 :1 .
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A child can be trained for no greater career
than that of being God's minister. A child can
never be too young in intelligence to begin ministering
to its Creator . Samuel's mother dedicated
13 . How early may one begin ministering to God?