1. Just continue to give him every thing he wants. In this way he will grow up to believe that everybody should cater to his selfish whims. 2. Never give him any spiritual training. Wait until he’s “ on his own and then he can decide for himself.” Never teach him anything about God so that he will surely have no Rock of Ages on which to anchor his life. 3. Never make him responsible for anything. Just continue to pick up after him. In this way he will became adept in throwing all respon sibility on others and when he reaches manhood, he will expect everybody else to do his work for him. 4. Never correct him, lest you de velop in him this thing called “ guilt complex.” Spare the rod and you will nurture a horrible rascal. 5. Smother him with love. Never turn him loose so that he learns gradually to be on his own. When he complains about teachers or the “ kids,” you just join in with him
condemning everyone so that he will have good training for that later-in- life complaint of the typical alcoho lic: “Nobdy loves me.” 6 . Never guide him to solve his own problems, so that he will cer tainly never learn that life contains a goodly portion of difficulties. Thus when problems do arise for him when he is out on his own he will most certainly seek refuge from them in a bottle. 7. And there’s another thing that will help him became an alcoholic or perhaps emotionally ill in some way: when he plays in a game, al ways expect him to win and if the ball game doesn’t suit Junior, tell him to pick up his ball and bat, break up the game and go home. He’s sure to remain a poor sport the rest of his life, and he will never take defeat graciously. 8 . Therefore, encourage his tan trums, and he will forever feel that he should always have his own way.
Alcoholics Are Homemade
by R . P. Serving
A Sure Winner (continued from page 21)
town he met a little girl, who, upon catching sight of him, pulled her shawl more tightly around her as if trying to conceal something. He saw the movement and roughly jerked the shawl away from her shoulders, and as he did so a little New Testament fell from her hands. He picked it up with an oath and took it with him to his home. After sobering up he began to read it, and as he read, the Holy Spirit convicted him of his sin. He continued to read, and soon Juan Garcia, the robber and highwayman, became a sincere, humble, and gentle follower of Jesus Christ, and gave his life to the work of telling others the good news. Our hope of heaven is to be found in the Word of God. “He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:11, 12). “Verily, verily, I say unto you, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into con demnation; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24). “ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever” (Isaiah 40:8). “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matthew 24:35). The Word of God may pass into proverbs, it may pass into laws, it may pass into literature, it may pass into doctrine, but it will never pass away. The Word of God is like God Himself, the same yesterday, today and forever. He who teaches the Word of God identifies himself with the eternal message and the eternal victory.
We do not manufacture the message, rather we receive it by divine inspiration from the Holy Book of God. We are nothing but voices, crying in the wilderness of this world, pleading the cause of heaven. We but reflect the glory of the message we read in the Holy Scriptures. More and more of these sacred words we ought to present in all of our Sunday School literature. By every way and by every method at our command, we ought to present the living Word of the living God. It is the power of God unto salvation. We are convicted by the Word of God. “ For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the diving asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow, and is a discemer of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do” (Hebrews 4:12, 13). We are saved through the Word of God. “ Being bom again by the word of God. . . . And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you” (I Peter 1:23, 25). “ Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth” (James 1:18). “We are sanctified, we are cleansed, with the washing of water by the word” (Ephesians 5:26). A missionary in Mexico tells of Juan Garcia, a notori ous highwayman, who was returning to his mountain haunts on one occasion after a season of gambling and debauchery in the little town. Just at the outskirts of the
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