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The Word and Works of God
God calls upon teachers to behold the heavens and to study His
works in nature. “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the
firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech,
and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor
language, where their voice is not heard.”
Psalm 19:1-3
. Shall we
not strive to understand the wonderful works of God? We should
do well to read often the nineteenth psalm, that we may understand
how the Lord binds up His law with His created works.
Can we find for our schools any textbook filled with such deep,
earnest declarations as is the word of the living God? Then why
should this Book be laid aside for the writings of infidel authors?
What more valuable book could be placed in the hands of students
than that which teaches them how they may inherit eternal life?
The lessons of Bible history should be kept before the youth in our
schools, that those who have no love for God and no interest in
spiritual things may become interested, and learn to love the word.
Christ is the center of all true doctrine. All true religion is found
in His word and in nature. He is the One in whom our hopes of
eternal life are centered; and the teacher who learns from Him finds
a safe anchorage.
All that the mind can grasp is opened before us in the Bible. This
is our spiritual food. We are to contemplate the wonderful works of
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God and repeat to our children the lessons learned, that we may lead
them to see His skill, His power, and His grandeur in His created
works.
What a God is our God! He rules over His kingdom with dili-
gence and care, and He has built a hedge—the Ten Commandments—
about His subjects to preserve them from the results of transgression.
In requiring obedience to the laws of His kingdom, God gives His
people health and happiness, peace and joy. He teaches them that the
perfection of character He requires can be attained only by becoming
familiar with His word.
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