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begin with the hugging and kissing
eventually lose their virtue com–
pletely." Not necessari ly from
promiscuity, or freq uency, he
explains, but it happens.
Most people will not believe
these facts . But they are based
upon investigation and upon actual
records. The truth is that the real
facts
are far worse than most
people
w
ANT
to believe.
1
know
parents of high school and college
chi ldren who simply scoff at any
such statements of conditions as
outlined above-and whose very
own children are on the same road
right now, in its earlier stages-and
yet these parents would never
believe it, and are doing nothing to
prevent it.
They have never taught their
children frankly and honestly about
sex problems. They have not
brought them up in sound religious
teaching. They have not trained
them in self-discipline and self-con–
trol and right direction. They have
permitted them to grow up follow–
ing blind impulse, desire, inclina–
tion and whim. Their chi ldren have
been equipped with no safeguard–
no protection. They're getting a
good dose of evolution and atheistic
teacbings in school-and they're
out on wild parties continually. Are
they hell-bound?
Pa rental Responsibility
The parents of today simply do not
realize the
DANGER.
Never has the
pathway of youth been paved with
so many temptations and pitfalls–
and st rewn with so many moral
casualties-as today. Never has the
responsibility of child rearing and
parental guidance and training
been so grave.
You who are parents-if you
]ove your children--do not under–
estimate the danger. The school
influence-the outside in–
fluences-all must be counter–
acted. The responsibility falls
squarely upon the shoulders of you
parents.
·
The alert, watchful, thinking
parent need not be alarmed. The
danger líes in ignorance, in laxity
and in blinding the eyes to existing
facts and conditions. Don' t under–
estimate the inftuences your chil-
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dren will be called upon to face.
Be a pal '
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and a chum to your
children. Get, and hold, their confi–
dence. Take an interest in their
interests. Try to
understand
their
point of view. You may need, tact–
fully and wisely, to help them alter
it. Get them to confide in you, and
make them
want
to come to you
with all their problems and trou–
bles.
Don't be ashamed to teach them
frankly, yourself, the sacred and
holy mysteries of sex'
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- teach them
young-before they become in–
formed in a wrong way from other
children. Ignorance of these mat–
ters is their worst handicap–
knowledge, if imparted in a right
and sacred way, is their greatest
protection. Virtually
ALL
wrongdo–
ing, of every possible nature, is
merely a result of
LAC K
of under–
standing!
Above all, teach your child self–
discipline. Teach him to resist incli–
nation and impulse-todo what he
OUGHT
to do, instead of what he
WANTS
tOdo.
Bring your children up in sound
Bible doctrine-it is the one best
protection against al! forms of temp–
tation and evil in all the world. Teach
the cbildren to
UNDERSTAND.
Explain the
WHY
of Christian doc–
trine.
It
is reasonable, rational–
don't let them regard itas something
foolish or silly. Let them realize that
a true Spirit-filled Christian life is a
FULL
life-a happy life- a joyful
life-a peacefullife-a life of power,
of strength, of service, of accom–
plishment.
Jesus was humble. He was meek.
He was lowly. But Jesus was
STRONG-POWERFUL.
He
ÍS
the
most powerful man who ever
walked on the face of this earth–
the actual Maker and Creator of
this very earth itself! And yet, with
all this supreme power, he was
humble and meek. That is the way
we should be. Not self-exalting–
not glorying in self- not vain-but
realizing that all power and
strength comes from God, through
the Holy Spirit, and then seeking
all of it we can get, and giving the
praise where it belongs- to the
Eterna]!
We parents need to realize that
times have changed. Our young–
sters face inftuences and conditions
far different from those we faced.
Don' t justify your own laxity by
saying,
"1
don't believe conditions
are as bad as they're painted."
An ostrich can't escape threat–
ened danger by sticking his head in
the ground and hiding bis eyes
from the danger. Young people
today are thinking frankly, talking
openly, about subjects and prob–
lems that never used to be dis–
cussed. They're asking questions.
Don't think you can hush them up.
Safety lies in open, frank, honest,
straightforward, God-fearing ex–
planation-in knowledge and un–
derstanding.
The adolescents of today have
hungry minds and hungry hearts.
Their fate líes in
our
hands.
Let's not make the fatal mistake
of thinking we can steer them safe–
ly from the shoals of worldly temp–
tations merely by saying: "Don't
dance! Don't go to movies! Don't
smoke! Don't drink!"
Their starved emotions, their
pent-up energies, are going to find
an outlet, one way or the other.
If
we don't want them to fall victim to
this world's tawdry imitations, then
we must show them the
REAL
THING.
If you don't give your chil–
dren something constructively
BET–
TER,
they
wi/1
dance, they
will
drink, they
wi/1
dissipate, in spite
of you. Never have we needed the
help and the power of God as we
need it now! o
" Benjamin Barr Lindsey, 1869-1943. From
1900 to 1927 (the year this article was written)
world-famous judge of Juvenile Court, Denver,
Colorado. Later, judge, Superior Court, Califor–
nia. Authority on juvenile court laws and juvenile
delinquency. Author of books on this subject, and
the explosive book that s hocked the world, late
1927,
The Companionate Marriage.
" 1 had to learn that this advice, written before
my two sons were born. was unsound. 1 tried to
practice this advice. But when my sons were 3 and
5 years old. and
1
41,
1
learned
1
could not reduce
my thinking and manner to the 5-year leve), and
they cou ld not ascend to the 41-year leve!.
1
started
by calling my eldest son , Dick, "My Pal." When
Garner Ted carne along, he said one day, "Well ,
l'm your Pal. too!" Thereafter Dick became "Pal
One," and Ted , "Pal Two."
But we were not really "pals." \Ve were father
and sons. Today
1
would change the above advice
io read: "Be a sympat hetic, understanding parent
and counselor. maintaining close and loving com–
panionship with your children."
" We now have available the proper textbook to
help parents in this:
The Missing Dimension in
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