Parents have not given their children the right education. Frequently they manifest the same imperfections which are seen in the children. They eat improperly, and this calls their nervous energies to the stomach, and they have no vitality to expend in other directions. They cannot properly control their children because of their own impatience, neither can they teach them the right way. Perhaps they take hold of them roughly and give them an impatient blow. I have said that to shake a child would shake two evil spirits in, while it would shake one out. If a child is wrong, to shake it only makes it worse. It will not subdue it. When the system is not in a right condition, when the circulation is broken up, and the nervous power has all that it can do to take care of a bad quality of food, or too great a quantity even of that which is good, parents have not self-command. They cannot reason from cause to effect. Here is the reason why—in every move they make in their families they create more trouble than they cure. They do not seem to understand and reason from cause to effect, and they go to work like blind men. They seem to act as though it would especially glorify God for them to move like wild men, and if anything wrong should occur in their families, to put it down with roughness and violence. {2T 365.2}


Vidnesbyrd for menigheden bind 2 kapitel 54. 387.     Fra side 387 i den engelske udgave.tilbage

Yderligheder i helsereformen

Bror C behøver en gennemgribende omvendelse. Han kan ikke se sig selv. Hvis han havde mindre selvfølelse mere ydmyghed, kunne hans viden bruges mere praktisk. Han har et arbejde at gøre for sig selv som ingen andre kan gøre for ham. Han vil ikke opgive hans synspunkter eller dømmemåde til noget levende menneske, medmindre han er tvunget til det. Han har karaktertræk som er meget uheldige og som burde overvindes. Han har et større regnskab at aflægge end B og hans sag er værre end hans; for han er mere intelligent og har mere kundskab. B har været skyggen for hans tanker.

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