Parents-in-law and grandparents: happy is the human family that includes the qualities of wisdom and selfless love that these men and women derive from God, and that they have learned through long experience to express.
How simple it would be if bringing children up rightly were only a matter of strong discipline as opposed to permissiveness! But one does not need to look far to find families where enforced righteous living was the rule but the youngsters have strayed.
Despite the immense output of secular books in the world today—recently, in a single year there were more than twenty-three thousand new titles published in Great Britain alone, and roughly the same number in the United States—the Bible remains the world's annual best seller.
A teacher facing a mixed class of young school children may wonder: boys, girls, black, white, tall, short, European, Asiatic—they appear very different.
