School for Bible Study
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Fixing the Lesson in the Memory
As a means of intellectual training, the opportunities of the Sabbath
are invaluable. Let the Sabbath school lesson be learned, not by a
hasty glance at the lesson scripture on Sabbath morning, but by careful
study for the next week on Sabbath afternoon, with daily review or
illustration during the week. Thus the lesson will become fixed in the
memory, a treasure never to be wholly lost.—
Education, 251, 252
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Our Daily Spiritual Food
We need to understand these words of Christ, “The flesh profiteth
nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they
are life”—the Holy Word accepted and brought into the practical life.
Spiritual life consists in Christ’s being the light and life of the soul
temple, as the blood is the life of the body. All who study the word
are represented as eating the word, feeding on Christ.... Even as the
bodily necessities must be supplied daily, so the word of God must be
daily studied—eaten, and digested, and practiced. This sustains the
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nourishment, to keep the soul in health. The neglect of the word means
starvation to the soul. The word describes the blessed man as one
meditating day and night upon the truths of God’s word. We all are to
feast upon the word of God. The relation of the word to the believer
is a vital matter. Appropriating the word to our spiritual necessities
is the eating of the leaves of the tree of life that are for the healing
of the nations. Study the word, and practice the word, for it is your
life.—Ellen G. White
Letter 4, 1902
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Cooperation in the Home
While it is essential that wise, patient efforts should be made by
the teacher, the work must not be left altogether to the Sabbath school
and church worker, but it must find its foundation and support in the
work of the home. Parents have a sacred responsibility and charge
committed to them, and they are called upon to keep their charge, to
bear their responsibility in the fear of God, watching for the souls of
their children as they who must give an account.
Home missionary work has been strangely neglected. Those who
have had the greatest reason for earnest, Christlike solicitude for the