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Important educational hints
20th June 1841
Andr. H. Willing wants to know what is to be done with a "porcelain vessel" when it has received some small "crack" through a careless thrust, so that it now lets the noble juice (which should first reach it’s full age solidity, like wine, in this vessel) seep through and therefore also makes us fear that the noble juice will finally be completely lost and only the grape dross belonging to the world will remain in the cracked vessel.
[1] Listen, it is such a vessel, difficult to putty together as long as any liquid is still contained in it and thus keeps the crack constantly moist, so that the resinous putty cannot and may not engage.
[2] But if you notice that your vessel has been leaking for some time, it will have become a little empty from above. Behold, there you take the vessel, and so you tilt it, that the emptiness comes just under the crack. Then heat the cracked part of the vessel and put the putty over it, so that the vessel will already come together again at the crack. And the remaining noble juice will no longer be able to seep through and finally lose itself completely, but will be well preserved. Especially if you also take off the plug and fill the vessel with the juice of childlike love and then replug it again well with the plug of clearly shown childlike duties towards God and towards the will of the parents.
[3] But listen, you have to move the young "Corner stone" to one side! Otherwise the vessel always runs a new risk of being completely broken over time. You will understand what I mean!
[4] But your wife has too little love for children. And because of your office you cannot always be with the children. But when the "young vine" begins to grow, it looks for an object to wrap around. If there are no "vines" set, the vine also grabs the nearest tree and wraps it. But when it has grown it’s thick foliage, over time the vine is initially weakened and finally often even destroyed.
[5] But since your wife has a lack of "vines", which here is the love of the mother, so take an honest teacher into your house, that is, one who knows how to work with your "female rebel" through love, advice and action, and who knows how to lead her by her own example to just and virtuous gratification, so you will be relieved of much effort, and all will be well again in My name.
[6] But for the boys, take any wise man of understanding, set in the house, who will give them moral and scientific help. And besides, let a competent so-called school instructor come into the house, and you will do well there also in My name.
[7] But do not neglect religion with your daughters and keep praying with them, also with the boys, so you will soon easily notice the abundance of blessings in your house.
[8] And divide the time for young people to do and learn one thing and the other, firmly and definite, so you will accustom them early on to the necessary order, which is the foundation of all wisdom and love.
[9] And so do, and believe, and love, and you will do well in My name.
[10] Understand well from Whom this advice comes. Amen.