Gold Nugget 335 - Losing the Great Advantage

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      We sow in youth what we reap in young manhood; as we go on our way we gather in the harvest of the thought and toil of years that came before it.  But this applies to our moral and spiritual character more perfectly than to anything else.  How, then, can we afford to lose the great advantage of building up from the beginning?  Or manhood will be much the weaker for an ill-spent youth, and much the stronger for a well-spent one.  Our whole life will be greatly impoverished by the one, greatly enriched by the other.

      Godly youth is a source of pure and deep joy to those whom the young should be most desirous of pleasing – to those that have loved them and served them with tenderest solicitude and unfailing devotion. …

      No deadlier injury can be done to the young than forcing religious habit; constraining them to affect a language and to make a profession which is unreal, which will soon break down, and which will leave the heart far less open to all heavenly influences than it would have been.  To encourage it in every way that is in our power; more particularly by the exhibition of a consistent life and the manifestation of a loving spirit toward them.

 

The Pulpit Commentary, II Chronicles p.418, II Chronicles 34:3, (W. Clarkson)

 

Gold Nugget 335

Losing the Great Advantage

 

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