Basic HTML Version
Our Responsibility
Nothing is of greater importance than the education of our chil-
dren and young people. The church should arouse and manifest a
deep interest in this work; for now as never before, Satan and his
host are determined to enlist the youth under the black banner that
leads to ruin and death.
God has appointed the church as a watchman, to have a jealous
care over the youth and children, and as a sentinel to see the approach
of the enemy and give warning of danger. But the church does not
realize the situation. She is sleeping on guard. In this time of peril,
fathers and mothers must arouse and work as for life, or many of the
youth will be forever lost.
While we should put forth earnest efforts for the masses of the
people around us, and push the work into foreign fields, no amount
of labor in this line can excuse us for neglecting the education of our
children and youth. They are to be trained to become workers for
God. Both parents and teachers, by precept and example, are so to
instill the principles of truth and honesty into the minds and hearts
of the young that they will become men and women who are true as
steel to God and His cause.
[166]
Parents and teachers do not estimate the magnitude of the work
given them in training the young. The experience of the children
of Israel was written for us “upon whom the ends of the world are
come.”
1 Corinthians 10:11
. As in their day, so now the Lord would
have the children gathered out from those schools where worldly
influences prevail, and placed in our own schools, where the word
of God is made the foundation of education.
If ever we are to work in earnest, it is now. The enemy is pressing
in on all sides, like a flood. Only the power of God can save our
children from being swept away by the tide of evil. The responsibil-
ity resting upon parents, teachers, and church members, to do their
part in co-operation with God, is greater than words can express.
136