Parents should redouble their efforts for the salvation of their children. They should faithfully instruct them, not leaving them to gather up their education as best they can. The young should not be suffered to learn good and evil indiscriminately, with the idea that at some future time the good will predominate and the evil lose its influence. The evil will increase faster than the good. It is possible that the evil they have learned may be eradicated after many years; but who will venture this? Time is short. It is easier and much safer to sow clean and good seed in the hearts of your children than to pluck up the weeds afterward. It is the duty of parents to watch lest surrounding influences have an injurious effect upon their children. It is their duty to select the society for them and not suffer them to choose for themselves. Who will attend to this work if the parents do not? Can others have that interest for your children which you should have? Can they have that constant care and deep love that parents have? {1T 399.3}

Forældre bør fordoble deres bestræbelser for børnenes frelse. De bør undervise dem med troskab og ikke overlade det til dem at oplæres, som de bedst kan. Man bør ikke lade de unge lære godt og ondt (400) uden forskel i den tro, at engang i fremtiden vil det gode blive det overvejende og det onde tabe sin indflydelse. Det onde vil tiltage hurtigere end det gode. Det er muligt, at det onde, de har lært, kan udryddes efter mange års forløb; men hvem vil vove denne risiko? Tiden er kort. Det er lettere og langt sikrere at så ren og god sæd i børnenes hjerter end senere at luge ugræsset bort. Det er forældrenes pligt at se til, at ikke omgivende indflydelser øver en skadelig virkning på deres børn. Det er deres pligt at vælge deres selskab og ikke tillade dem selv at vælge. Hvem vil tage sig af denne opgave, om ikke forældrene gør det? Kan andre nære den interesse for jeres børn, som I nærer? Kan de have den samme stadige omhu og dybe kærlighed, som forældrene har?