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Counsels on Sabbath School Work
The Supreme Joy
To those who are accepted as teachers in our schools is opened a
field of labor and cultivation, for the sowing of the seed and for the
harvesting of the ripening grain. What can give greater satisfaction
than to be laborers together with God in educating and training the
children and youth to love God and keep His commandments? Lead the
children whom you are instructing in the day school and the Sabbath
school to Jesus. What can give you greater joy than to see children
and youth following Christ, the Great Shepherd, who calls, and the
sheep and lambs hear His voice and follow Him? What can spread
more sunshine through the soul of the interested, devoted worker than
to know that his persevering, patient labor is not in vain in the Lord,
and to see his pupils have the sunshine of joy in their souls because
Christ has forgiven their sins? What can be more satisfying to the
worker together with God, than to see children and youth receiving
the impressions of the Spirit of God in true nobility of character and
in the restoration of the moral image of God—the children seeking the
peace coming from the Prince of peace?—
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