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Show j j jostle Valley Comments ... J : A friend of mine told me the first' spelling bee fe d in Grand County was J909 and that it was "eld in Castleton because more people lived there : Jin Moab. How things have changed! Congratulations to Al Marie Duncan. They ; ve a baby girl Homestead Hints When house cleaning comes most of us ; tomemakers need not oaly something to go on but something to make us jtopat least now and :. (ten. But the problem itb our children is to get tern started in regular I bits of neatness, and i jeeing to it that they do ! their share of helping ; around the house. "Cleanliness is next to " Godliness" goes an old 5 saying that was coined by : Susana Wesley, mother of i John Wesley. I sometimes f wonder if we stop to work i out effective ways of ' teaching our children the '' lessons we want them to 1 learn. If our training ef- k forts are hit or miss, we ; usually end up by nag- JS t P"?- j How did Susana Wesley . ' go about making tidiness !: attractive to her 11 young-sters? young-sters? (Eight of her 19 children died in infancy.) J1 Despite the number of her ": offspring (and the absence rti of labor saving devices in U i that day,) she planned her V time so that she could give !u one full hour of individed ' attention to each child k once a week. Thus, in addition to the experi-' experi-' ences they all shared as a : I family, the mother estab-jj estab-jj lished a special rapport '' with each child. ; One of Susana Wesley ' s ' j techniques was great pati-1 pati-1 ence in repeating to a I child just what she expect-' expect-' ed of him. Her husband " often commented on this. ; "I should think you'd be wearied sick," he said ' on one occasion, "telling 'tj that child the same thing . j over and over again. Why, V this must be the 20th o;'i time!" "It may be," his tj wife replied, "but you see ,1 if 1 did not tell him this 20th time, I might lose the fruits of all my labor." j, Hw much rapport have you with your youngster? And how much patience? Is "operation clean-up" a pitched bottle or a cold war at your house? How can mothers today train youngsters to assume as-sume their share of responsibilities re-sponsibilities for tidiness around the house? One plan, of course, won't work for every family. fam-ily. But its kind of like getting a stubborn old mule to move. You need to dangle carrots in front of him and then he will go. Rewards and awards are always fun (good carrots). We give out a "worker of the month" award each month, and the winner gets a day off from all work. With younger children, child-ren, charts are great with stars placed on it next to each name. Find something some-thing that will work for you. Mothers have the most important job in the whole world. So it is important that we do our best to teach our children principles princi-ples that are going to help them all of their lives. I just covered one important import-ant principle today cleanliness clean-liness or neatness; and I wanted to show that it can be fun for all in learning, if we remember to use "carrots," patience, and love. Today's Thought "The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." foot washing... Last week as Christians worldwide prepared to observe ob-serve Holy Week, Moab and Castle Valley Seventh Day Adventists were preparing pre-paring to participate in one of the rites established establish-ed by Christ just before His death, reports R. L. Watts, pastor. "Before partaking of the Last Supper the day before His crucifixion," Watts says, "Jesus washed wash-ed the disciples feet in the manner of a servant of that era. He told them that as He had done to them, so they should do to one another." "This beautifully symbolic sym-bolic act, which we call the ordinance of humility, prepares us to humble ourselves before we take the bread and the cup of the Lord's communion. All members of the church, insofar as they are physically able, observe the rite. Men and women occupy different rooms' of the church." Pastor Watts notes that Pope Paul VI practiced foot washing on Maundy Thursday (March 23) at an annual observance in the Vatican. "Other Christian denominations .have also adopted this act in keep- J ing with Christ's com- Jmand." "It is not a closed f meeting," he added, "so that anyone wishing to join in this sacred service is invited to participate on 1 April 1 (Saturday) in the Moab Church." This service serv-ice was observed in the . Castle Valley Church last week on March 25. Adventists practice foot washing and take communion com-munion quarterly, according accord-ing to Watts. He says there is no theological significance to the timing of the observance. |
