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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
sociability are powerful factors in winning the affections of the
youth.
Teachers, take hold of the schoolwork with diligence and pa-
tience. Realize that yours is not a common work. You are laboring
for time and for eternity, molding the minds of your students for
entrance into the higher school. Every right principle, every truth
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learned in an earthly school, will advance us just that much in the
heavenly school. As Christ walked and talked with His disciples
during His ministry on this earth, so will He teach us in the school
above, leading us beside the river of living waters and revealing to
us truths that in this life must remain hidden mysteries because of
the limitations of the human mind, so marred by sin. In the heav-
enly school we shall have opportunity to attain, step by step, to the
greatest heights of learning. There, as children of the heavenly King,
we shall ever dwell with the members of the royal family; there we
shall see the King in His beauty and behold His matchless charms.
The Training of Missionaries
It is important that we should have intermediate schools and
academies. To us has been committed a great work—the work
of proclaiming the third angel’s message to every nation, kindred,
tongue, and people. We have but few missionaries. From home and
abroad are coming many urgent calls for workers. Young men and
women, the middle-aged, and in fact all who are able to engage in the
Master’s service, should be putting their minds to the stretch in an
effort to prepare to meet these calls. From the light God has given me,
I know that we do not use the faculties of the mind half as diligently
as we should in an effort to fit ourselves for greater usefulness. If
we consecrate mind and body to God’s service, obeying His law, He
will give us sanctified moral power for every undertaking.
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Every man and woman in our ranks, whether a parent or not,
ought to be intensely interested in the Lord’s vineyard. We cannot
afford to allow our children to drift away into the world and to fall
under the control of the enemy. Let us come up to the help of the
Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty. Let us do all in our
power to make our schools a blessing to our youth. Teachers and
students, you can do much to bring this about by wearing the yoke