RULES FOR CHILD REARING If a child lives w ith criticism, he learns to condemn; if he lives with hostility, he learns to fight. If a child lives w ith fear, he learns to be appre hensive; if he lives with pity, he learns to feel sorry for himself. If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to hate; but if he lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident. If a child lives with praise, he learns to be apprecia tive and if he lives with acceptance, he learns to. love. If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice, and if he lives with honesty, he learns what truth is. The Christian, however, has some thing of even greater importance and help. That is an inerrant and infallible Guide Book, the Bible, by which young lives can be directed properly. Our prime responsibility is to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord so that when they are old, they w ill not depart from it. STRANGE PEOPLE WE HAVE MET People who talk about prayer, but who never pray. People who say tithing is right, but who never tithe. People who make good salaries and then only give nickels and dimes to• the Lord. People who say that the Bible is God’s Word to mankind, but who still never take time to read it. People who de clare that eternity is of more impor tance than time, but then who go out and live only for this present life. People who criticise others for things they do themselves. People who stay away from.church for the most trivial of reasons, and then, when they do attend, sing w ith all their might, “Oh, How 1 Love Jesus.” People who repeat a scandalous rumor adding that they don’t believe that it is true. “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves” (James 1:22). DISCIPLINE IN THE HOME A Chinese philosopher once said, “Parents who are afraid to ‘put their foot down’ usually have children who 33
BROADCAST ILLUSTRATIONS DEFINITION OF A HOME
Homes are not built of wood, brick or stone but of truth and loyalty. Un pleasant sounds, the friction of living, the clash of personalities, are not dead ened by Persian rugs or polished floors but by conciliation, concession and self-control. The house is not a struc ture where bodies meet, but a hearth stone on which flames mingle and sep arate, and which the more perfectly they unite the more clearly they shine and the straighter they rise toward Christ and heaven. As a believer, your home is your fortress in a warring world. It may well be where a woman’s hand buckles on your armour in the morning and soothes your fatigued mind at night. The beauty of a house is harmony. The security of a house is loyalty. The joy of a house is love. The plenty of a house is in children. The rule of a house is service. The comfort of a house is in contented spirits. The maker of a house, of a real human house, is the Lord Himself, for “Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.” “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” TEN THINGS FOR WHICH YOU WILL NEVER BE SORRY 1. For doing good to everyone. 2. For being patient towards others. 3. For hearing before fudging. 4. For thinking before speaking. 5. For holding an angry tongue. 6. For being kind to the distressed. 7. For asking pardon and forgiveness for all wrongs. 8. For speaking evil of no one. 9. For stopping the ears to talebearers. 10. For disbelieving most of the ill re ports we hear.
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