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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
In counsels and knowledge,
That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth;
That thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that
send unto thee?”
Proverbs 22:17-21
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“He established a testimony in Jacob,
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers,
That they should make them known to their children;”
“Showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath
done.”
“That the generation to come might know them,
Even the children which should be born;
Who should arise and declare them to their children:
That they might set their hope in God.:”
Psalm 78:4-7
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“The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich,
And He addeth no sorrow with it.”
Proverbs 10:22
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Christ’s Teaching
So also Christ presented the principles of truth in the gospel.
In His teaching we may drink of the pure streams that flow from
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the throne of God. Christ could have imparted to men knowledge
that would have surpassed any previous disclosures, and put in the
background every other discovery. He could have unlocked mystery
after mystery and could have concentrated around these wonderful
revelations the active, earnest thought of successive generations till
the close of time. But He would not spare a moment from teaching
the science of salvation. His time, His faculties, and His life were
appreciated and used only as a means for working out the salvation
of the souls of men. He had come to seek and to save that which
was lost, and He would not be turned from His purpose. He allowed
nothing to divert Him.
Christ imparted only that knowledge which could be utilized.
His instruction of the people was confined to the needs of their own
condition in practical life. The curiosity that led them to come to