Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Instruct the Children
Fathers and mothers, do you realize the
importance of the responsibility resting upon you?
Do you realize the necessity of guarding your
children from careless, demoralizing habits? Allow
your children to form only such associations as will
have a right influence upon their characters. Do not
allow them to be out in the evening unless you
know where they are and what they are doing.
Instruct them in the principles of moral purity. If
you have neglected to teach them line upon line,
precept upon precept, here a little and there a little,
begin at once to do your duty. Take up your
responsibilities and work for time and for eternity.
Let not another day pass without confessing your
neglect to your children. Tell them that you mean
now to do your God-appointed work. Ask them to
take hold with you in the reform. Make diligent
efforts to redeem the past. No longer remain in the
condition of the Laodicean church. In the name of
the Lord I call upon every family to show its true
colors. Reform the church in your own home.
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