Each Generation Is Responsible For The Next Poem by Daniel Partlow

Each generation is responsible for the next
To instill respect for the Word which heals and protects

Train, yes, bring up a child in the way that he should go
Then as older, he will not be blown wherever the storm doth blow

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children unto wrath
But bring them up in the nurture and admonition of His holy path

For the wrath of man worketh not God’s true righteousness.
So let everyone be swift to hear-slow to speak and slow to wrath-swift to bless.

Lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of that which is naughty and drôle.
Receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your soul.

Be ye doers of the word, not just hearers and thus deceive yourself
For if any who is not a doer of the word and puts his faith upon a shelf

He is like a man who sees his natural face in a mirror
But straight away forgets how he looks – So be a doer not just a hearer.

But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty, and does what there he reads
He being not a forgetful hearer, this man shall be blessed in his deeds.

If any man among you seems to be religious, but bridles not his tongue,
He deceives his own heart, his religion is in vain, a ladder with only broken rung.

Pure religion and to be undefiled before God and the Father is this:
To care for the fatherless and widows whom others may dismiss.
To remain unblemished by the world – and lead others to His bliss.


(Prv.22: 6, Eph 6: 4, Jms 1: 27)