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Counsels on Sabbath School Work
A Broad, Important Field
Superintendents and the workers in our Sabbath schools have a
very important, broad field to cultivate. They need to be baptized with
the Holy Spirit of God, that their minds may be impressed to use the
very best methods, and follow the best plans to make their work wholly
successful. The Lord will work with their efforts; for the youth are
the purchase of the blood of the only-begotten Son of God. The Lord
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loved these youth, and gave Jesus to die, that “whosoever believeth in
Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
There is a great work of education to be carried on. The teachers
should often pray for and with the children and youth, that they may
“behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
They should teach the youth their accountability to God, and help
them to understand what Jesus expects of them. Exert every influence
you can possibly command to interest them in the Scriptures. Labor
for their souls, that they themselves shall become zealous workers,
using their talents to impart to others that which has been imparted to
them.—
Testimonies on Sabbath-School Work, 83
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Worthy of Long Service
The Sabbath school should be a place where the jewels of truth are
searched for and rescued from their environment of error, and placed
in their true setting in the framework of the gospel. Precious gems
of truth, long lost sight of, are now to be restored to the children of
God. The themes of justification by faith, the righteousness of Christ,
should be presented in our schools, that the youth and children may
understand these important subjects, and teachers and scholars may
know the way of salvation. Sacred and eternal principles connected
with the plan of salvation have long been lost from sight, but they must
be restored to their proper place in the plan of salvation, and made
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to appear in their heavenly light, and penetrate the moral darkness in
which the world is enshrouded.
Let the youth take heed to the words of the wise man, “Trust in the
Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
Let them walk softly, prayerfully, and carefully before the Lord, in
continual dependence upon Him, and at the same time exerting all