Section VI
Lessons In Practical Virtues
Date ________CG-SG 32.10
A. Read pages 119-136.CG-SG 32.11
B. Check your knowledge:CG-SG 32.12
1. How early in life should the child be given daily tasks to perform? (119:1)
CG-SG 32.13
2. Complete: “Give your little _______________________ something to do, and let them have the _______________________ of supposing they help you.” (119:3)CG-SG 32.14
3. When should a child be taught to cultivate his God-given faculties? (120:0)
CG-SG 32.15
4. If children are not taught to be industrious, what will Satan make of their minds? (120:1)
CG-SG 33.1
5. Complete: Children “should be taught that _______________________ are _______________________.” (120:2)CG-SG 33.2
6. At what age is a child to learn he is to share life’s burdens? (120:3) _______________________CG-SG 33.3
7. As we go about our work, what attitude will link us with angels? (121:1) _______________________CG-SG 33.4
8. Complete: “One of the surest safeguards of the young is useful _______________________.” (122:1)CG-SG 33.5
9. What is one of the greatest sins parents commit against their children? (122:5)
CG-SG 33.6
10. Complete: “If children have proper home _______________________, they will not be found upon the _______________________.” (123:1)CG-SG 33.7
11. Complete: Abundance of idleness spoils “_______________________ and _______________________.” (123:2)CG-SG 33.8
12. Complete: We are to “regard time as a precious _______________________, a _______________________ from God, for which every human being must give an _______________________.” (123:2)CG-SG 33.9
13. What can we never recover? (123:4)
CG-SG 33.10
14. What two things are not fruits of the Christian tree? (124:2)
CG-SG 33.11
15. What is a great curse to the human family? (124:3)
CG-SG 34.1
16. Persons who are slow may overcome what habits? (125:2)
CG-SG 34.2
17. What is the best discipline a child can have? (126:1)
CG-SG 34.3
18. Complete: “Innocent pleasure is never half so satisfying as when it follows _______________________.” (127:1)CG-SG 34.4
19. Complete: “Parents should not allow the love of _______________________ to control their _______________________.” (128:1)CG-SG 34.5
20. What habits will prove an untold blessing in later life? (129:1)
CG-SG 34.6
21. What constitutes the actual discipline of life? (129:3, 130:0)
CG-SG 34.7
22. What are we to learn and teach to our children? (131:2)
CG-SG 34.8
23. What is an essential part of education? (131:3)
CG-SG 35.1
24. How many members of the family should practice self-denial? (132:2)
CG-SG 35.2
25. How early in life are children to be taught self-denial? (132:3)
CG-SG 35.3
26. How are children to be taught to react toward trials and disappointments? (132:5, 133:0)CG-SG 35.4
27. Complete: “They should be taught to subdue the hasty _______________________, to withhold the _______________________ word, to manifest _______________________ kindness, _______________________, and _______________________.” (133:2)CG-SG 35.5
28. What three habits are better for both parents and children than a rich dowry? (134:1)
CG-SG 35.6
29. Who are to be taught to support God’s work now? (134:2)
CG-SG 36.1
30. Complete: “Do not . . . absorb means in embellishing your _______________________; for it is God’s _______________________, and it will be _______________________ you again.” (134:3)CG-SG 36.2
31. What should never be thrown away? (135:4)
CG-SG 36.3
32. How are children to be taught the right use of money? (136:1)
CG-SG 36.4
33. Complete: “Let children be taught to keep an _______________________.” (136:3)CG-SG 36.5
C. Rate yourself as a worker: Diligent_____ Regular_____ Slave driver_____ Lazy_____CG-SG 36.6
1. My best qualification as a worker isCG-SG 36.7
2. I need to improve inCG-SG 36.8
D. Discuss with others:CG-SG 36.9
1. Why should children be taught to work at home early in life?
CG-SG 36.10
2. Illustrate: Make your children a part of the family firm.CG-SG 36.11
3. How can work be made a pleasure to our children and to us?
CG-SG 37.1
4. Discuss the “untold value in industry” in child training.
CG-SG 37.2
5. Why is ignorance (in knowing how to work) not acceptable to God?
CG-SG 37.3
6. How can we “barricade our children” with principle in work habits?
CG-SG 37.4
7. What effect does work have on nerves, body organs, and muscles?
CG-SG 37.5
8. How can we best organize a day’s work program in the home?
CG-SG 37.6
9. What is wrong with being slow, dilatory, or lackadaisical?
CG-SG 37.7
10. Discuss work as a form of discipline. What relationship?
CG-SG 37.8
11. Why is there nobility in work? What has work to do with character building?
CG-SG 37.9
12. Can we overwork children in the home? Can work discourage a child?
CG-SG 37.10
13. Why should children be trained to work thoroughly and with dispatch?
CG-SG 37.11
14. What is wrong with the statement “I don't want my child to have the hard life I have had—to work like I have had to work”?
CG-SG 37.12
15. How can we train children that they are not the center of the home life?
CG-SG 37.13
16. Discuss: Teaching children to be unselfish.
CG-SG 37.14
17. Why should the child be taught to tithe and save for mission giving?
CG-SG 37.15
18. Is our indulgence of our children a sign of our love for them?
CG-SG 37.16
19. How shall we teach our children to economize? By example? By stinginess?
CG-SG 37.17
20. What about teaching children to keep personal accounting records?
CG-SG 37.18
21. Why not blame children and scold them when in their work they break things or have accidents? Should they pay for damage done?
CG-SG 37.19
E. Think on these things:CG-SG 38.1
1. Do my children enjoy helping me?
CG-SG 38.2
2. If not, why not?
CG-SG 38.3
3. Do I give each child something to do each day?
CG-SG 38.4
4. Do I demand adult perfection?
CG-SG 38.5
5. Have I sinned by giving my children nothing to do?
CG-SG 38.6
6. Do I keep the fourth commandment, including the ninth verse?
CG-SG 38.7
7. Do I waste things because I have money and can buy more?
CG-SG 38.8
8. Do I (and my children) keep account of what we spend?
CG-SG 38.9
F. Name one thing in this lesson that has helped me to be a better (husband, wife, son, daughter).CG-SG 38.10
INDIVIDUAL RATING SHEETCG-SG 38.11
______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ DaughterCG-SG 38.12