you. father and mother if I am damned
it is by copying the example you place before me by Archibald
Brown from do not sin against the child 1870 do not sin against
the child Genesis chapter 42 verse 22 One way of sinning against a
child is by bad example. The characters of the parents
are carefully watched and imitated by their children. You profess,
dear friend, to be a Christian, and your child knows you are
a member of this church. He has seen you partake of the
Lord's Supper And then, when you've gone home, he has in a
moment detected the discrepancy between your behavior at church
and your daily life at home. The angry temper, the selfish
spirit, the worldly conversation, all these have been so many sins
against the child. by some evil example seen by
them in early life, an impression may be made upon their souls,
the effects of which will remain to their dying day and beyond. Oh, how dreadful the thought
that by our own hypocritical lives we may be sinning against
the little darlings we often feel we could die for! God forbid
that at the last great day any of our children should turn to
us with blanched cheek and say, Father and Mother, if I am damned,
it is by copying the example you placed before me. You may
also sin against the child by neglecting the means of its salvation. Do you have to confess before
the Lord that the eternal interests of your children find but a small
space in your prayers? Oh, do not sin so against the
child. He is worth praying for. What
are you doing to try to bring them to Jesus? Do you ever with
the tear in your eye tell them of the love of Jesus? Have you
ever tried to show them their need of a savior and pointed
them to him who said let the little children come to me? These
are solemn questions, for I say to you, dear parents, in all
love and from the very depths of my heart, if you neglect the
means for bringing your little ones to Christ, you are sinning
against the child, and his blood will be required of you. If you
do not teach them, the devil will. Oh friends, it is a crying
shame that in our prayer meetings there are to be found men who
pray as if they were dying to see the world converted and yet
never pray for their own children. It is a sad, sad fact that there
are many who seem wondrously in earnest about the conversion
of strangers who yet let their own children go to hell without
a warning or in treaty.