Word of Warning                            

The Bible says: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)

In the 1950s a psychologist, Stanton Samenow, and a psychiatrist, Samuel Yochelson, sharing the conventional wisdom that crime is caused by environment, set out to prove their point. They began a 17-year study involving thousands of hours of clinical testing of 250 inmates here in the District of Columbia.

To their astonishment, they discovered that the cause of crime cannot be traced to environment, poverty, or oppression. Instead, crime is the result of individuals making, as they put it, wrong moral choices. In their 1977 work The Criminal Personality, they concluded that the answer to crime is a “conversion of the wrong-doer to a more responsible lifestyle.”

In 1987, Harvard professors James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein came to similar conclusions in their book Crime and Human Nature. They determined that the cause of crime is a lack of proper moral training among young people during the morally formative years, particularly ages one to six.

During World War II in the ETO the most fanatical, moral deficient, and ruthless troops the Allies faced were the youth Waffen SS. These troops had been raised and indoctrinated in the Nazi doctrines practically from birth. The importance of training a child cannot be stressed enough.

Many churches are diminishing in number due to several factors. It is not only the lower birthrate but typically it is the failure of parents’ stressing the importance of church attendance. This is typified by a couple of grandchildren coming from a broken home who stated, “Church is for old folks.”

“But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 19:13-14 (KJV) As a society we will be paying a hefty price for not rearing our children “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” Ephesians 4:13 (KJV)

         Daily Chronological Bible Reading: Ezekiel 46-48