"For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not," 1 Samuel 3:13.

(The synopsis of a sermon preached in Faith Free Presbyterian Church,Greenville, South Carolina, USA, on 28th October 1993.)

I know the subject that has been given to me is rather general but I want to, as it were, be a little bit more particular and speak on this general subject but applying it to that which faces us as parents in these days.

I was thinking coming to the meeting that really my wife should be here to speak on this subject. She has many years of experience as a teacher and as a principal in our Christian school. She had a number of years of experience in a state school before that. And I suppose even more important she is the mother of six children and that I'm sure, by way of experience, has eclipsed all the years in schools of every description. And I suppose you can even add to that she's had to look after me and perhaps that has eclipsed it all.