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of men who have never had a connection with God. They will honor
finite wisdom far less, and will feel a deep soul hunger for that wisdom
which comes from God.
To the question Christ put to the twelve, “Will ye also go away?”
Peter answered: “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words
of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ,
the Son of the living God.”
John 6:67-69
. When teachers bring these
words into the work of their classrooms, the Holy Spirit will be present
to do its work upon minds and hearts.
The Teacher’s Work
Teachers are to be laborers together with God in promoting and
carrying forward the work which Christ by His own example has taught
them to do. They are to be indeed the light of the world, because they
manifest those gracious attributes revealed in the character and work
of Christ, attributes which will enrich and beautify their own lives as
Christ’s disciples.
What a solemn, sacred, important work is the endeavor to represent
Christ’s character and His Spirit to our world! This is the privilege of
every principal and of every teacher connected with him in the work of
educating, training, and disciplining the minds of youth. All need to be
under the inspiring, assuring conviction that they are indeed wearing
the yoke of Christ and carrying His burden.
Trials will be met in this work; discouragements will press in upon
the soul as teachers see that their labors are not always appreciated.
Satan will exercise his power over them in temptations, in discour-
agements, in afflictions of bodily infirmities, hoping that he can cause
them to murmur against God and close their understanding to His
goodness, mercy, and love, and the exceeding weight of glory that is to
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be the reward of the overcomer. But God is leading these souls to more
perfect confidence in their heavenly Father. His eye is upon them every
moment; and if they lift their cry to Him in faith, if they will stay their
souls upon Him in their perplexities, the Lord will bring them forth as
gold purified. The Lord Jesus has said: “I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee.”
Hebrews 13:5
. God may permit a train of circumstances
to come that will lead them to flee to the Stronghold, by faith pressing
to the throne of God amid thick clouds of darkness; for even here His