" CHILDREN OBEY YOUR PARENTS" - TAKEN FROM "GOSPEL MINUTES".

                         "Children obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right."  (Ephesians 5:1)

                         "My dear boy," said a father to his son, "you are in bad company."

                              "The lads with whom you associate indulge in bad habits"

                          "They drink, smoke, swear, gamble, and engage in lewd practices."

                               "They are not safe company for you. I beg you to quit their society."

                           "You needn't be afraid of me, father," replied the boy, laughingly;

                                   I guess I know a thing or two, I know how far to go and when to stop."

                           The lad left his father's house twirling his cane in his fingers

                                And laughing at the"old man's notions."

                            A few years later that lad, grown to manhood, stood at the bar of

                                a court, before a jury which had just brought in a verdict of guilty

                            against him for some crime that he had committed.

                                 Before he was sentenced, he addressed the court, and among

                            other things,  said, "My downward course began in my disobedience 

                                  to my parents. I thought I knew as much as they did, and I ignored

                             my father's advice about evil companions; but as soon as I turned my

                                   back on my home, temptation came upon me like a pack of

                             wolves and hurried me into ruin."

                             Mark that confession, ye boys who are beginning to be wiser than your

                                                             Parents!

                             Mark it and learn that disobedience is the first step on the road to ruin.

                             Mark - it and  DO  NOT  TAKE  THAT FIRST STEP!!! 

                             You will, probably, be sorry all your life, if you do. 

                                                        (Selected and adapted)