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Counsels on Sabbath School Work
fail to prove a blessing to them. Parents and children should work
in harmony with superintendent and teachers, thus giving evidence
that they appreciate the labor put forth for them. Parents should take
special interest in the religious education of their children, that they
may have a more thorough knowledge of the Scriptures.—
Testimonies
on Sabbath-School Work, 8
.
Diligent Study Richly Rewarded
The close application of those Hebrew students [Daniel and his
companions] under the training of God was richly rewarded. While
they made diligent effort to secure knowledge, the Lord gave them
heavenly wisdom. The knowledge they gained was of great service
to them when brought into strait places. The Lord God of heaven
will not supply the deficiencies that result from mental and spiritual
indolence. When the human agents shall exercise their faculties to
acquire knowledge, to become deep thinking men; when they, as
the greatest witnesses for God and the truth, shall have won in the
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field of investigation of vital doctrines concerning the salvation of
the soul, that glory may be given to the God of heaven as supreme,
then even judges and kings will be brought to acknowledge, in the
courts of justice, in parliaments and councils, that the God who made
the heavens and the earth is the only true and living God, the author
of Christianity, the author of all truth, who instituted the seventh-
day Sabbath when the foundations of the world were laid, when the
morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted together
for joy.—
Fundamentals of Christian Education, 374, 375
.
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