Discipline
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One of the first lessons a child needs to learn is the lesson of obedience.
Too much management is as bad as too little. The effort to "break the will" of a child is a terrible mistake. Minds are constituted differently; while force may secure outward submission, the result with many children is a more determined rebellion of the heart.
--The beast is taught only submission to its master.
--For the beast, the master is mind, judgment, and will.
--This method, sometimes employed in the training of children, makes them little more than automatons.
Mind, will, conscience, are under the control of another. It is not God's purpose that any mind should be thus dominated. Those who weaken or destroy individuality assume a responsibility that can result only in evil.
The will should be guided and molded, but not ignored or crushed.
Save the strength of the will; in the battle of life it will be needed.
Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Joshua 24:15. Everyone may place his will on the side of the will of God, may choose to obey Him, and by thus linking himself with divine agencies, he may stand where nothing can force him to do evil.