The Fourth Exception

The Fourth Exception.

A Fourth person perhaps will not blush to say, I want opportunity to attend this work, my employment will not suffer me.

But let no man argue so — man, have you time to feed your family and no time to teach them? The poorest among you all should say, as in (Psalms 119:92), 'The law of your mouth is better to me, than thousands of gold and silver.' It is better to lay up for your family the riches of God's law, than thousands of pounds. Nothing, nothing should put by their instruction in the way of peace. If you do not want a heart, you will not want a time for the instruction of your families. No man could have more business lying on his hands than David had, who had the affairs of a mighty kingdom to distract him; yet of him could his own son say, as in (Proverbs 4:4), 'He taught me.'