Chapter 36—The Training of Children Dear Brother and Sister G,I am troubled in reference to your case. I see dangers that you seem never to have realized. Have you thoughtfully and prayerfully considered your duty to the children you have taken the responsibility of bringing into the world? Have you thought whether these children are receiving from you an education and discipline that will lead them to honor their Creator in the days of their youth? Have you considered that if you fail to teach them to respect you, their father and mother, and to yield to your authority, you are educating them to dishonor God? Every time you allow them to trample on your authority, and their will to control yours, you are fostering a defect which will be carried with them into all their experience should they become religiously inclined, and will teach them to disregard and trample upon divine authority. {5T 323.1}

Kære bror og søster G: Jeres tilfælde volder mig besvær. Jeg ser farer, det er som om, I aldrig har set. Har I bønligt og betænksomt tænkt over jeres forpligtelse over for de børn som I under ansvar har sat i verden? Har I tænkt over om disse børn får en opdragelse og uddannelse fra jer, som vil få dem til at ære deres Skaber i deres ungdoms dage? Har I tænkt over, at hvis I ikke lærer dem at respektere jer, deres fader og moder og give efter for jeres myndighed, så opdrager I dem til at vanære Gud? Hver gang I lader dem træde på jeres myndighed og deres vilje styre jeres, opfostrer I en mangel som følger med dem i al deres erfaring, dersom de bliver religiøst sindede og det vil lære dem at vanrygte og nedtræde guddommelig autoritet.