p. 70 | THE CHILD'S EARLY IMPRESSIONS

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 29, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 5

THE CHILD'S EARLY IMPRESSIONS.

A MOTHER once said to a clergyman, “When should I commence the religious education of my child?” He asked her, “How old is your child?” She replied, “Four years old.” The clergyman answered, “Madam, if you have not begun already, you have lost four years.”

I knew it was the custom of a certain mother, who had raised a large family, to let the child have its own way the first year, but after that she made it do her own will. An eminent statesman once said, in a public lecture, that the man was made between the ages of two and six years. Another great and good man once said, “Children always write with indelible ink; if they are wax to receive, they are adamant to retain, impressions.”—Selected.