Early Home Life
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When you are the product of a home where the parents bear each other a sincere affection, you therefore have not been over loved so as to injuriously exalt your concept of self-importance. Neither has your personality suffered distortion in consequence of your parents’ loveless maneuvering for your confidence and loyalty, the one against the other. You have enjoyed that parental love which insures laudable self-confidence and which fosters normal feelings of security.
Love is the supreme reality of the universe when bestowed by all-wise beings, but it is a dangerous and oftentimes semiselfish: trait as it is manifested in the experience of mortal parents. Thus, when married with children, make sure that your love is admonished by wisdom and guided by intelligence.
A child is wholly dependent on his parents and the associated home life for all his early concepts of everything intellectual, social, moral, and even spiritual since the family represents to the young child all that he can first know of either human or divine relationships. The child must derive his first impressions of the universe from the mother’s care; he is wholly dependent on the earthly father for his first ideas of the heavenly Father. The child’s subsequent life is made happy or unhappy, easy or difficult, in accordance with his early mental and emotional life, conditioned by these social and spiritual relationships of the home. A human being’s entire afterlife is enormously influenced by what happens during the first few years of existence.
It is our sincere belief that the gospel of Jesus’ teaching, founded as it is on the father-child relationship: can hardly enjoy a world-wide acceptance until such a time as the home life of the modern civilized peoples embraces more of love and of wisdom. The acceptance of Jesus’ gospel will result in the immediate improvement of home life. The love life of a wise home and the loyal devotion of true religion exert a profound reciprocal influence upon each other. Such a home life enhances religion, and genuine religion always glorifies the home.
As long as we teach the child to pray, “Our Father who is in heaven,” a tremendous responsibility rests upon all earthly fathers so to live and order their homes that the word father becomes worthily enshrined in the minds and hearts of all growing children.
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