17/21 Do I, as an antidote to timidity, cultivate the fear of God and self-respect? Do I realize that I must meet each child at the judgment-seat, and hear from it what my influence over it has been as a mother? Do I realize that it is in my power to exert such an influence that Christ shall see in each the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied? Do I realize that my children will obey God much as they do me? Do I impress on my children that little faults in Christian families may be as dangerous to the soul, and as evil in their tendencies, as larger faults where there is no Christian education? |