The Sacred Temple of the Body
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20. That perfection […]
Obedience an Element of Greatness
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Ephesians 6:1. Jesus has given to childhood and youth a perfect example. Study the Pattern, Christ Jesus, and copy it if you would be like Him—pure, holy, sinless, and undefiled. Study the childhood of Christ. He was the Son of God, yet the Bible […]
Teach the Source of True Happiness
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6. By their neglect to exercise proper restraint, many parents are creating great unhappiness for their children. The youth who are left to constantly seek for pleasure in amusement or selfish gratification are […]
The Home Training Ground
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. Psalm 119:35. Men have taught that God’s law has been done away. Were this the case we would have no standard of character, and would have nothing to show us God’s righteous claims. We should be adrift upon an ocean […]
Make Your Mark in the World
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy 4:12. The period of childhood and youth—how much is bound up in these years of probation! God desires that you shall improve this time, dear youth, by […]
Graces Increased by Exercise
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. Titus 2:7, 8. A healthy, growing Christian will not be a passive recipient among […]