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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
God’s appointments and grants in our behalf are without limit.
The throne of grace is itself the highest attraction, because occupied
by One who permits us to call Him Father. But Jehovah did not deem
the plan of salvation complete while invested only with His love. He
has placed at His altar an Advocate clothed in His nature. As our
intercessor, Christ’s office work is to introduce us to God as His sons
and daughters. He intercedes in behalf of those who receive Him.
With His own blood He has paid their ransom. By virtue of His
own merits He gives them power to become members of the royal
family, children of the heavenly King. And the Father demonstrates
His infinite love for Christ by receiving and welcoming Christ’s
friends as His friends. He is satisfied with the atonement made. He
is glorified by the incarnation, the life, death, and mediation, of His
Son.
The science of salvation, the science of true godliness, the knowl-
edge which has been revealed from eternity, which enters into the
purpose of God, expresses His mind, and reveals His purpose—this
Heaven deems all-important. If our youth obtain this knowledge,
they will be able to gain all else that is essential; but if not, all the
knowledge they may acquire from the world will not place them
in the ranks of the Lord. They may gather all the knowledge that
books can give, and yet be ignorant of the first principles of that
righteousness which will give them characters approved of God.
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The Peril in Worldly Education
To many who place their children in our schools, strong tempta-
tions will come because they desire them to secure what the world
regards as the most essential education. To these I would say, Bring
your children to the simplicity of the word, and they will be safe.
This Book is the foundation of all true knowledge. The highest
education they can receive is to learn how to add to their “faith
virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and
to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness
brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.” “If these
things be in you, and abound,” the word of God declares, “they make
you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge
of our Lord Jesus Christ.... If ye do these things, ye shall never fall: