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XVI.
The Home
Chapter 180
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Child Training
1. HOW should parents
train their children?
"Train up a child in the way he
should go: and when he is old, he will not
depart from it." Prov. 22:6. "And, ye fathers,
provoke not your children to wrath: but bring
them up in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord." Eph. 6:4.
2. How diligently
should parents teach children God's Word?
"These words, which I command thee
this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou
shalt teach them diligently unto thy children."
"Ye shall teach them your children, speaking
of them when thou sittest in thine house, and
when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest
down, and when thou risest up." Deut. 6:6,7;
11:19.
3. What high ideal
should be placed before the young?
"Let no man despise thy youth; but
be thou an example of the believers, in
word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in
faith, in purity." 1 Tim. 4:12.
4. What duty does God
require of children?
"Honor thy father and thy mother."
Ex. 20:12.
5. What is to be one of
the prominent sins of the last days?
"For men shall be lovers of their own
selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy." 2 Tim. 3:2.
6. Why did God reprove
Eli?
"In that day I will perform against
Eli all things which I have spoken concerning
his house: when I begin, I will also make an
end. For I have told him that I will judge his
house forever for the iniquity which he knoweth;
because his sons made themselves vile, and he
restrained them not." 1 Sam. 3:12,13.
7. How should the youth
be taught to regard the aged?
"Thou shalt rise up before the
hoary head, and honor the face of the old
man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord." Lev.
19:32.
8. What are some good
fruits of proper child training?
"Correct thy son, and he shall
give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto
thy soul." Prov. 29:17.
9. What will result if
correction is withheld?
"The rod and reproof give wisdom: but
a child left to himself bringeth his mother
to shame." Verse 15. See Prov. 22:15.
10. Is there danger of
delaying correction too long?
"Chasten thy son while there is
hope, and let not thy soul spare for his
crying." Prov. 19:18. See Prov. 23:13,14.
11. Does proper
correction evidence a want of parental love?
"He that spareth his rod hateth his
son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him
betimes." Prov. 13:24.
NOTE.-One Christian mother writes thus
concerning the importance of child training:
"Children who are allowed to come up to
manhood or womanhood with the will
undisciplined and the passions uncontrolled,
will generally in after-life pursue a course
which God condemns. The neglect of parents
to properly discipline their children has
been a fruitful source of evil in many
families. The youth have not been restrained
as they should have been. Parents have
neglected to follow the directions of the
Word of God in this matter, and the children
have taken the reins of government into
their own hands. The consequence has been
that they have generally succeeded in ruling
their parents, instead of being under their
authority. False ideas and a foolish,
misdirected affection have nurtured traits
which have made the children unlovely and
unhappy, have embittered the lives of the
parents, and have extended their baleful
influence from generation to generation. Any
child that is permitted to have his own way
will dishonor God and bring his father and
mother to shame."
12. Whom does the Lord
chasten?
"For whom the Lord loveth He
chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He
receiveth." Heb. 12:6.
NOTE.-From this we may learn that all child
training should be done in love, and that
proper child training is an evidence of true
love.
13. Against what evil
should fathers guard?
"Fathers, provoke not your
children to anger, lest they be
discouraged." Col. 3:21.
NOTE.-Correction should never be given in
anger, for anger in the parent stirs up
anger in the child. It is well to pray with
a child before correcting him, and
frequently mild but faithful instruction,
admonition and prayer are all the training
necessary,- are, in fact, the best training
that can be given. But in any case of
perverseness, stubbornness, or willful
disobedience, the correction, whatever it
may be, should be persisted in until the
child yields submissively to the will and
wishes of the parent. It is best, generally,
that correction should be done in private,
as this tends to preserve the self-respect
of the child, a very important element in
character building. No correction nor
training should be violent or abusive, or
given for the purpose of breaking the will
of the child, but rather to direct the will,
bring it into proper subjection, and the
child to a realizing sense of what is right
and duty.
14. How are the present
effects and future results of chastisement
contrasted?
"Now no chastening for the present
seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the
peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them
which are exercised thereby." Heb. 12:11.
15. What question must
every unfaithful parent meet? "Where
is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful
flock?" Jer. 13:20.
NOTE.-Happy will those parents be who can
say, "Behold, here am I and the children
Thou gavest me." See Isa. 8:18.
THE
OLDEST university was not on India's strand,
Nor in the valley of the Nile, nor on Arabia's
sand;
From time's beginning it has taught and still it
teaches free
Its learning mild to every child- the school of
Mother's Knee.
The
oldest school to teach the law, and teach it
deeply, too,
Dividing what should not be done from what each
one should do,
Was not in Rome nor Ispahan nor by the Euxine
Sea;
But it held its sway ere history's day- the
school of Mother's Knee.
The
oldest seminary, where theology was taught,
Where love to God, and reverent prayer, and the
Eternal Ought
Were deep impressed on youthful hearts in pure
sincerity,
Came to the earth with Abel's birth- the school
of Mother's Knee.
The
oldest, and the newest, too, it still maintains
its place, And from its classes, ever full, it
graduates the race.
Without its teaching, where would all the best
of living be?
'Twas planned by heaven this earth to leaven-
the school of Mother's Knee. |
