Gold Nugget 222 - Parental Goodness

Parental goodness gives children a chance.  Think how many children are born into the world over-weighted with disabilities.  For extreme cases, take the vicious and criminal classes.  But the fact is for us more effectively illustrated by cases of self-indulgence in youth, which involve weakened healthy and lowered moral tone.  Good parents give their children a fair chance in the struggle of life.  The children are not burdened with low vitality, self-indulgent appetite, or inability to find pleasure in pure things.  Sometimes good people’s children fail, but reasons for the exceptional cases can usually be found.

      Parental goodness if recognized by blessing s on their children.  And this is the form of reward that parents best appreciate.  They live over again in houourable, successful, and pious children. … No nobler ambition possesses humanity than the passion to make the coming generation wiser, stronger, and better than the passing one.

      Parental goodness is the one ground of hope for the race.  Napoleon was asked what one thing France supremely needed.  His reply was almost an inspiration.  He said, “Better mothers.”

The Pulpit Commentary, Psalms III p.47, Psalms 112:2, (R. Tuck)

Gold Nugget 222 – Parental Goodness

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