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

consecrated servant of Christ, will increase in
knowledge while imparting instruction. The
teacher who has consecrated herself to the service
of God will be able to do a definite work in
missionary service and will instruct the children in
the same lines.
Let fathers and mothers co-operate with the
teacher, laboring earnestly for the salvation of their
children. If parents will realize the importance of
these small educating centers, co-operating to do
the work that the Lord desires to have done at this
time, the plans of the enemy for our children will
be largely frustrated.
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“Train up a child in the way he should go: and
when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
(Proverbs 22:6) Children are sometimes tempted to
chafe under restraint; but in afterlife they will bless
their parents for the faithful care and strict
watchfulness that guarded and guided them in their
years of inexperience.
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