Part 8 (1/2)

Deut. xxvii. 16. Prov. x.x.x. 17.

VI. It is a parent's _duty_ to enforce obedience. Allowed disobedience brings misery into the home. 1 Tim. iii. 4; v. 4.

Eli. 1 Sam. ii. 23.

David. 1 Kings, i. 6.

How solemn then, Mothers, is your responsibility.

How earnest should be your prayers that _your_ commands may agree with _G.o.d's_. Gen. xviii. 19. Deut. x.x.xii. 46. Eph. vi. 1.

Seek for wisdom in commanding.

Firmness in insisting.

XX. CONVERSION.

We meet time after time at our Mothers' Meeting, but how few of us are truly converted, and changed in heart.

Ask yourselves this night two questions.

I. Do you earnestly seek your own conversion? 'What shall it profit you, if you gain the whole world, and lose your own soul?'

Mark, viii. 36, 37.

Delay not. Isa. lix. 1.

II. Do you earnestly seek for the conversion of your children?##

1. Perhaps you do not _care_ for it. You do not seek _first_ for them the kingdom of G.o.d. Matt. vi. 33. Be honest to yourselves in this matter. Are you ready to give up for them anything that keeps them from Christ?

Matt. v. 29, 30.

2. Perhaps you do not _pray_ for it.

Observe how the mother prayed. Matt. xv. 22, 28. David. 1 Chron.

xxix. 19. Job, i. 5.

3. Perhaps you place _hindrances_ in the way.

You draw them to the world instead of to Christ. Matt. xviii. 6.

4. Perhaps you forget the necessity of the _Holy Spirit's power_. Isa.

xliv. 3, 4, 5.