On Spanking:
From the book:
Spanking: Why, When, How? by Roy Lessin (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1982) pages 21 and 22.
"God is love; His love desires the best and highest for every individual. Since real love chooses the best, it must bring correction to anything within an individual's life that will keep that one from the best. Without true discipline there is not true love, and without true love there is not true discipline."
C.H. Spurgeon on Spoiling "The Child"
From the book:
C.H. Spurgeon's Autobiography by C. H. Spurgeon (London: Passmore Alabaster, 1897) page 20.
"How often I have gone to [my grandmother's] kneading-trough; for it had a little shelf in it, and there would be placed "something for the child!" A bit of pastry, which was called by me, according to its size, a pit or a rabbit, which had little ears, and two currants for eyes, was carefully placed in that sacred shrine, like the manna in the ark. Dear grandmother, how much you laboured to spoil that "child"! Yet your memory is more dear to him than that of wiser folks, who did not spoil "the child". Do you now look down from your mansion above upon your petted grandson? Do you feel as if he would have been better if you had been sour and hard? Not a bit of it.