Chapter 38—Our College
The education and training of the youth is an important and solemn
work. The great object to be secured should be the proper development
of character, that the individual may be fitted rightly to discharge the
duties of the present life and to enter at last upon the future, immortal
life. Eternity will reveal the manner in which the work has been
performed. If ministers and teachers could have a full sense of their
responsibility, we should see a different state of things in the world
today. But they are too narrow in their views and purposes. They do
not realize the importance of their work or its results.
God could not do more for man than He has done in giving His
beloved Son, nor could He do less and yet secure the redemption of
man and maintain the dignity of the divine law. He poured out in our
behalf the whole treasure of heaven; for in giving His Son He threw
open to us the golden gates of heaven, making one infinite gift to those
who shall accept the sacrifice and return to their allegiance to God.
Christ came to our world with love as broad as eternity in His heart,
offering to make man heir of all His riches and glory. In this act He
unveiled to man the character of His Father, showing to every human
being that God can be just and yet the justifier of him that believeth in
Jesus.
The Majesty of heaven pleased not Himself. Whatever He did was
in reference to the salvation of man. Selfishness in all its forms stood
rebuked in His presence. He assumed our nature that He might suffer
in our stead, making His soul an offering for sin. He was stricken
of God and afflicted to save man from the blow which he deserved
because of the transgression of God’s law. By the light shining from
the cross, Christ proposed to draw all men unto Him. His human heart
yearned over the race. His arms were opened to receive them, and He
invited all to come to Him. His life on earth was one continued act of
self-denial and condescension.
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Since man cost heaven so much, the price of God’s dear Son, how
carefully should ministers, teachers, and parents deal with the souls
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