MAY 3
Parents are under a peculiar obligation, by daily earnest prayer, to commend their children to God’s protection and blessing. You are, secondly, to bless them by your piety. See that you be such persons in all holy conversation, that from you the blessing of God may descend upon your posterity.
The Duties of Husbands and Wives
The debt which a child owes to a parent is so inconceivably great, that he can never hope fully to discharge it himself. He is therefore to seek the assistance of God, and continually to beg Him that has all power in heaven and earth, to return whatever good his parents have done him, sevenfold into their own bosom.
Directions to Children
We have need to apply the general word, “Take up thy cross, and follow Me,” to a thousand little particulars.
Letter, 2nd December, 1778
