3. Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. Tradition was of the utmost service to the people of God in the olden
time, before the more sure word of prophecy had become complete and generally
accessible. The receipt of truth from the lips of others laid the instructed
believer under solemn obligation to pass on the truth to the next generation.
Blessed be God, we have now the less mutable testimony of written revelation,
but this by no means lessens our obligation to instruct our children in divine
truth by word of mouth. Ministers and Sabbath-school teachers were never meant
to be substitutes for mothers’ tears and fathers’ prayers.
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