B.T. Roberts: Where Are Your Children?

One of our liveliest, most earnest members in a church of which we were pastor, was a man past middle life. He had grown up wicked, and had been miraculously converted after his younger children were of an age to attend Sunday-school. We urged him to bring them, but he never would. He said, "I don't want my boys brought up formalists; I want them to know when they are converted." Before we left the charge, one Sunday, while the parents were at church, one of the older boys had an eye knocked out, and another one had his arm broken in a bar-room fight in a country tavern! We learned that some of these boys afterwards went to State's prison, but have never heard that one of them was ever converted.

Brother, do you take your children with you to church regularly? Do you see that they are not serving Satan while you are serving God?

Roberts, B.T. Pungent Truths (Kindle Locations 1737-1744). Unknown. Kindle Edition. 

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