The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-03
TRAINING OF CHILDREN.
DR.. Harriet S. Maxson Argues
for Christian Culture in
the Home.
THE SEVENTH DAY ADvENTIsTs.
Crowds Of People at the Sunday
Services at BuShrod Park,
North Oakland.

Interest in the work of the Seventh-day
Adventists eliminated yesterday in enor-
nous crowds at the services in Bushrod
Park, North Oakland. For several hours
during the afternoon the retreat swarmed
with those who had come from miles
around to listen to the teachings of the
elders.
Beginning at $50 o'clock in the after
noon, Elder R. s. Owen preached on the
Law and the Testimony" taking his text
from Isaiah, viii 20, ITO the law and to the
testimony, if they speak not according to
the word, it is because there is no light in
them"
"There is test,' said the elder, ''by
which certain ones may be tried, and this
test, as here set forth, is the law and the
testimony. Revelations. xix 10 defines tes-
timony to be the spirit of prophecy, hence
this test includes the law OF God and all
that has been revealed to man through the
agency of Gods holy spirit. In other
words, it is the holy Scriptures entire.
1.-The law is very brief, being compre-
hended in only ten commandments; yet it
contains the whole duty of man. covering
all that shall be brought into judgment.
The law sustains the same relation to the
testimony or spirit of prophecy, that the
constitution does to the laws of the United
States. All the laws of a Government
must be in harmony with its constitution,
| and are only the expanding and drawing
out of that constitution. Thus, the Scrip
| lures written by men under the influence
of Gods spirit are but the principles of the
| law given in detail and expanded"
Closing the services, DIR. Hattie S. Max
| son of st. Helena, who read clever paper
| before the Woman's Congress, gave an in
structive lecture on christian Culture in
| the Home" Her remarks were made with
| special reference to the training of chill
dren. She based her discourse upon the
admonition found in EphesiansI via,
Fathers, provoke not your children to
wrath but bring them up in the nurture
and admonition of the Lord"
| The word nurture" the speaker ex-
| planned, meant ''sustenance," that which
fosters and promotes, and the highest
| encomium pronounced upon Abraham is
| that he commanded his household after
| him."
"Ifthere were perfect discipline in the
family" the speaker continued, "our
| churches would be filled with young peo-
pie with hearts warm for the Masters ser
| vice. For it is true that men are what
their mothers make them. 1t is as much
the duty of parents to give their children
lsspiritual food as it is to give them physical
food. and the medium through which
! spiritual nOurlShment IS ch1eny given the
child is the spiritual atmosphere he
breathes. The specific avenues through
which we may minister to the child's
needs are: Training to faith, training to
reverence, training to regard for Gods
word and training to Sabbath observance.
''Some of the ways in which reverence
may be cultivated are by always hearing
| the word of God spoken of with reverence
| by the parent showing reverence in the
house of God. The children should be
| taught to regard the Sabbath of the Lord
as delight, as the holy of the Lord
The basis of such observance should be
| love. Parents should not fail to teach God
| in nature IS well as in revelation on the
Sabbath day.
| The hour of family prayer on the Sab
| bath should be more attractive than usual
more and sweeter hymns should be sung,
the children should have the companion
ship of their parents more than the duties
of other days will afford the older children
should be trained to feel responsibility
in the entertainment Of their younger
brothers and sisters"
| The subject will be continued at P. M
of each day during the present week.