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Show Benefits of Parents' Classes The benefits that result from the discussions in the Parents' Classes should be incalculable. But are they? We fear not. In the discussion of such subjects of every-day family concern as are considered con-sidered in the Parents' Classes each Sunday the Latter Day Saints have a power that should make for family betterment, to say nothing of better citizenship that no other church organization has,' for other religious bodies confine their Sunday school work to a study of the scriptures, giving no concern on the Sabbath to secular matters. If those who meet from Sunday to Sunday and listen to the advice of those who know, and the recital of actual experiences in those affairs that concern one in his every-day life, would but attempt seriously to put their knowledge into practice, there would follow such a reformation that the result, in the attitude and conduct of the people toward one another, would be truly marvelous. We fear, however, that the people do not go away from the classes with a resolve to put, or even to attempt to put, the valuable suggestions which they have learned into actual practice. It should be understood that when we say "the people" peo-ple" we mean as a whole, for there are many exceptions. ex-ceptions. Perhaps the greatest opportunity for results from the Parents' Class work is in the instruction in-struction of children. If even a small part of the good advice and the valuable suggestions given in the class respecting the control and development of children were put into actual, conscientious practice, the children of the community would be "be ltmay " be tna a; majority, of the children whose conduct shows a lack of training are the children of parents who seldom attend the Parents' Par-ents' Classes or any other meeting that has for its object the making of better citizens, but w.ho ignore ig-nore the good that comes from such instructions, and permit their children, like themselves, to idle tbeir time away in any sort of amusement that may suggest itself. This would make it appear that much of the valuable efforts of the Parents' Classes are fruitless. |