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Counsels on Sabbath School Work
There is a great field open to the teachers also, and they should
seek to understand how to work in such a way as to lead out and
develop the minds and hearts of the children. They should have the
wisdom that cometh from above, that they may deal successfully with
the youth and children. Many teachers are shortsighted, and take a
course with the youth that does not tend to good results; and instead of
advancement there is retrogression. What both workers and pupils need
is the endowment of the Holy Spirit, that there may not be spasmodic
reforms, but a steady growth in grace, a constant accession of spiritual
life and power.—
Testimonies on Sabbath-School Work, 91-94
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Crippled for True Leadership
Our Sabbath schools which are to instruct the children and youth
are too superficial. The managers of these need to plow deeper. They
need to put more thought and more hard work upon the work they are
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doing. They need to be more thorough students of the Bible, and to
have a deeper religious experience, in order to know how to conduct
Sabbath schools after the Lord’s order, and how to lead children and
youth to their Saviour. This is one of the branches of the work that is
crippling along for the want of efficient, discerning men and women,
who feel their accountability to God to use their powers, not to exhibit
self, not for vainglory, but to do good.—
Testimonies on Sabbath-
School Work, 111
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Mechanical, but Spiritless
We must come up to a higher plane of action. Let the Spirit of
Jesus vitalize the souls of the workers. Then their plans and methods
of labor will be of that character to win souls to Jesus Christ. In our
large churches, where there are many children and youth, there is
great danger of so managing the Sabbath school that it will become a
mere form, mechanical but spiritless. It lacks Jesus.—
Testimonies on
Sabbath-School Work, 14
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The Choosing of Officers
Christian women may exert an influence for good over the youth
and children. Their capabilities are God’s entrusted talents, and should