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Dear Young Christian:
“Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding” (Proverbs 4:1).
In Canada and the United States, yesterday was “Father’s Day.” Many of us have had godly fathers for which we ought to be very thankful. The story is told of how John Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides, used to crouch outside his father’s bedroom door to hear him pray. He later wrote: “If everything else in religion were by some accident blotted out, my soul would go back to those days of reality. For sixty years my father kept up the practice of family prayer. No day passed without it, no hurry for business, no arrival of friends, no trouble or sorrow, no joy or excitement ever prevented us from kneeling around the family altar.”
Some don’t always value fathers who take the time, with spiritual conviction, to read and pray with their family. If you have such a father, thank God for it, and learn to appreciate those times set aside for family devotions.
Your Christian Friend
Jim Hyland
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