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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

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<strong>Parents</strong>, you are the ones <strong>to</strong> decide whether the<br />

minds of your children shall be filled with<br />

ennobling thoughts or with vicious sentiments. You<br />

cannot keep their active minds unoccupied, neither<br />

can you frown away evil. Only by the inculcation<br />

of right principles can you exclude wrong thoughts.<br />

Unless parents plant the seeds of truth in the hearts<br />

of their children, the enemy will sow tares. Good,<br />

sound instruction is the only preventive of the evil<br />

communications that corrupt good manners. Truth<br />

will protect the soul from the endless temptations<br />

that must be encountered.<br />

Let the youth be taught <strong>to</strong> give close study <strong>to</strong><br />

the word of God. Received in<strong>to</strong> the soul, it will<br />

prove a mighty barricade against temptation. “Thy<br />

word,” the psalmist declares, “have I hid in mine<br />

heart, that I might not sin against Thee.” “By the<br />

word of Thy lips I have kept me from the paths of<br />

the destroyer.” (Psalm 119:11; 17:4)<br />

Teaching Children <strong>to</strong> Be Useful<br />

One of the surest safeguards of the young is<br />

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