Thought for April 18

[Thompson, Darryl]

     The prevailing influence in the world is to suffer the youth to
follow the natural turn of their own minds. And if very wild in youth,
parents say they will come right after a while and, when sixteen or
eighteen years of age, will reason for themselves and leave off their
wrong habits and become at last useful men and women. What a mistake!
For years they permit an enemy to sow the garden of the heart; they
suffer wrong principles to grow, and in many cases all the labor
afterward bestowed on that soil will avail nothing. Adventist Home, p.
200