A Better Country, Conflict and Courage, Feb 18

Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. Hebrews 11:16.  {CC 55.1}        When Lot entered Sodom he fully intended to keep himself free from iniquity and to command his household after him. But he signally failed. . . .  {CC 55.2}        Many are still making a similar mistake. . . . Their children are surrounded by temptation, and too often they form associations that are unfavorable to the development of piety and the formation of a right character. The atmosphere of lax morality, of unbelief, of indifference to religious things, has a tendency to counteract the influence of the parents. Examples of rebellion against parental and divine authority are ever before the youth; many form attachments for infidels and unbelievers, and cast in their  ...