You should be a priest unto your family,--a
leader in home-communion with God. Your children have a right to expect
this from you. If you are a church member, how strange and startling must
be the enunciation in heaven, that you are a prayerless Christian, and your
home destitute of the altar! And do you think that, continuing thus, you
will be admitted into that heavenly home where there is one unbroken voice
of prayer and praise to God? Do you not tremble at the prospect of those
tremendous denunciations which the Lord has uttered against those who
neglect and abuse the privilege of prayer? "Pour out thy fury upon the
families that have not called upon thy name." Oh then, make your home a
house of prayer; lead your little flock in sweet communion with God.
Establish in them the habit of devotion: Shape their consciences by prayer.
In this way you shall secure for yourself and them the blessing of God: His
smile shall ever rest upon your household: Salvation shall be the heritage
of your children; they will grow up in the divine life; and will live amid
the blessing's of prayer, and be faithful to its requisitions:
"Hold the little hands in prayer, teach the weak knees their kneeling;
Let him see thee speaking to thy God; he will not forget it afterwards;
When old and gray will he feelingly remember a mother's tender piety,
And the touching recollection of her prayers shall arrest the strong man
in his sin!"
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