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经文: 你要将这事传与子、子传与孙、孙传与后代。（约珥书一：3）
藉上帝的恩典，直理的活见证以这种简单的方法在这世上活生生地保存下来。主的百姓要将福音的见证传给他们继承者。继而，这真理再分享给下一代。这是我门首要的责任。不从家庭开始服事的人，不是一个好的传道者。我们要以各种方法向异教徒见证，但是家庭是首先要得之处，将主所安排的次序颠倒的人有祸了。教导我们的儿女是个人的责任。我们不能将责任推卸给主日学教员或牧师。他们能帮助我们，但不能取代我们这个圣洁的职责。父母必须效法亚伯拉罕，教导家人敬畏上帝，并且与儿女谈论至高者的奇妙作为。父母的教导是一种天生的责任。谁能比孩童肉身父母更有资格去关心孩童的属灵的生命？忽略对后代的教导比凶暴对待他们更糟。家庭祈祷和研读圣经于民族、家庭、教会都是必须的。撒旦的王国企图不断侵占我们的领土。最有效阻挡它进入的方法却几乎常被忽略，就是在信心的功课上教导儿童。双亲必须明白此事的重要性。向我们的儿女谈论耶稣是一愉快的责任，也常被证明是一可以被接受的工作。藉着父母的祈求和训诫，上帝已拯救了孩童。
Evening, July 11
Scripture: “Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.”(Joel 1:3)
In this simple way, by God’s grace, a living testimony for truth is always to be kept alive in the land－the beloved of the Lord are to hand down their witness for the gospel, and the covenant to their heirs, and these again to their next descendants. This is our first duty, we are to begin at the family hearth: he is a bad preacher who does not commence his ministry at home. The heathen are to be sought by all means, and the highways and hedges are to be searched, but home has a prior claim, and woe unto those who reverse the order of the Lord’s arrangements. To teach our children is a personal duty; we cannot delegate it to Sunday school teachers, or other friendly aids; these can assist us, but cannot deliver us from the sacred obligation; proxies and sponsors are wicked devices in this case: mothers and fathers must, like Abraham, command their households in the fear of God, and talk with their offspring concerning the wondrous works of the Most High. Parental teaching is a natural duty－who so fit to look to the child’s well-being as those who are the authors of his actual being? To neglect the instruction of our offspring is worse than brutish. Family religion is necessary for the nation, for the family itself, and for the church of God. By a thousand plots Popery is covertly advancing in our land, and one of the most effectual means for resisting its inroads is left almost neglected, namely, the instruction of children in the faith. Would that parents would awaken to a sense of the importance of this matter. It is a pleasant duty to talk of Jesus to our sons and daughters, and the more so because it has often proved to be an accepted work, for God has saved the children through the parents’ prayers and admonitions. May every house into which this volume shall come honour the Lord and receive his smile.