A Solemn Appeal - James White

intemperance, and it is impossible for them to
exercise patience.
Parents wonder that children are so much more
difficult to control than they used to be. In most
cases their own criminal management has made
them so. The quality of food they bring upon their
tables, and encourage their children to eat, is
constantly exciting their animal passions, and
weakening the moral and intellectual faculties.
Very many children are made miserable dyspeptics
in their youth by the wrong course their parents
have pursued toward them in childhood. Parents
will be called to render an account to God for thus
dealing with their children.
Many parents do not give their children lessons
in self-control. They indulge their appetite, and
suffer them to form, in their childhood, habits of
eating and drinking according to their own desires.
So will they be in their general habits in their
youth. Their desires have not been restrained, and
as they grow older, they will not only indulge in
the common habits of intemperance, but they will
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