A Solemn Appeal - James White

holy light shine from her useful, pure, and virtuous
life, to brighten all around her, she is doing the
work left her of the Master, and will hear from his
divine lips, "Well done, good and faithful servant,
enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." These women
who are doing what their hands find to do with
ready willingness, and with cheerfulness of spirit,
aiding their husbands to bear their burdens, and
training their children for God, are missionaries in
the highest sense. They are engaged in an
important branch of the great work to be done on
earth to prepare mortals for a higher life. They will
receive their reward. Children are to be trained for
Heaven, and fitted to shine in the courts of the
Lord's kingdom. When parents, especially mothers,
have a true sense of the responsible work God has
left for them to do, they will not be so much
engaged in the business which concerns their
neighbors, with which they have nothing to do.
They will not engage in the fashionable gossip
from house to house, dwelling upon the faults and
inconsistencies of their neighbors. They will feel so
great a burden of care for their own children that
they can find no time to take up a reproach against
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