What question must every unfaithful parent meet?
Answer
"Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?" Jer. 13:20.
NOTE - Happy will those parents be who can say, "Behold, here am I and the children Thou
gavest me." See Isa. 8:18
THE oldest university was not on India's strand, Nor in the valley of the Nile, nor on Arabia's sand;
From time's beginning it has taught and still it teaches free Its learning mild to every child-the school of
Mother's Knee.
The oldest school to teach the law, and teach it deeply, too, Dividing what should not be done from what
each one should do, Was not in Rome nor Ispahan nor by the Euxine Sea; But it held its sway ere history's
day-the school of Mother's Knee.
The oldest seminary, where theology was taught, Where love to God, and reverent prayer, and the Eternal
Ought Were deep impressed on youthful hearts in pure sincerity, Came to the earth with Abel's birth-the
school of Mother's Knee.
The oldest, and the newest, too, it still maintains its place, And from its classes, ever full, it graduates the
race. Without its teaching, where would all the best of living be? 'Twas planned by Heaven this earth to
leaven-the school of Mother's Knee.
What place has the will in determining whether man shall have life?
In what condition are all men?
Of what kind of doctrines should we beware?
6. Until what time were the saints, times, and law of the Most High to be given into the hands of the little horn?
What did Charlemagne's Sunday law of 800 require?
What scene in heaven was presented to the prophet as the seventh trumpet was about to sound?
Where do the dead sleep?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle