-denying. They obey their parents
through love. Alas! such a family is rarely found upon this sin-cursed
earth. But such is taught and commanded in the Bible, and it is possible.

If a father and mother and children lived toward each other just as the
Bible says they should live, we would have a scene that would fitly
represent heaven. It is our privilege to have just such a home. "Ask, and
it shall be given you." A happy home life is the most blessed life on
earth. "Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house:
thy children like olive plants round about thy table." Psa. 128:3.

Duty Of Children To Parents.

It was the original design of God that children should be a blessing to
their parents. "My son, be wise, and make my heart glad." Prov. 27:11.
"The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth
a wise child shall have joy of him. Thy father and thy mother shall be
glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice." Prov. 23:24, 25. "A wise son
maketh a glad father." Prov. 15:20.

You will observe, children, in each of the above texts that it is wisdom
in a child that makes parents rejoice. Then you should "seek wisdom, seek
understanding." "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom."
Prov. 4:7. What is wisdom? "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom."
The highest honor a child can pay to a true parent is to honor and obey
God: "And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice
according to all I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all
thine heart and with all thy soul." Deut. 30:2. "Remember now thy Creator
in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not." Eccl. 12:1.

The duty of children is to fear their parents: "Ye shall fear every man
his mother, and his father." Lev. 19:3. To honor them: "Honor thy father
and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy
God giveth thee." Ex. 20:12. This, it is true, is an old-time commandment,
but the spirit or principle of it is carried into the dispensation of the
gospel. "Honor thy father and mother." Eph. 6:2.

Children should attend to the faithful instruction of their parents: "My
son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy
mother; for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy heart, and chains
about thy neck." Prov. 1:8, 9. "Hear, ye children, the instruction of a
father." Prov. 4:1. "My son, keep thy father's commandme