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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
“Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the
Lamb.”
Revelation 7:10
. But before this work can be accomplished,
we must experience here in our own country the work of the Holy
Spirit upon our hearts.
Worldly Plans Not to Be Followed
God has revealed to me that we are in positive danger of bringing
into our educational work the customs and fashions that prevail in
the schools of the world. If teachers are not guarded, they will place
on the necks of their students worldly yokes instead of the yoke of
Christ. The plan of the schools we shall establish in these closing
years of the message is to be of an entirely different order from those
we have instituted.
For this reason, God bids us establish schools away from the
cities, where, without let or hindrance, we can carry on the education
of students upon plans that are in harmony with the solemn message
committed to us for the world. Such an education as this can best be
worked out where there is land to cultivate and where the physical
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exercise taken by the students can be of such a nature as to act a
valuable part in their character building and fit them for usefulness
in the fields to which they shall go.
God will bless those schools that are conducted according to His
design. When we were laboring to establish the educational work in
Australia, the Lord revealed to us that this school must not pattern
after any schools that had been established in the past. This was to
be a sample school. It was organized on the plan that God had given
us, and He has prospered its work.
New Methods
I have been shown that in our educational work we are not to
follow the methods that have been adopted in our older established
schools. There is among us too much clinging to old customs,
and because of this we are far behind where we should be in the
development of the third angel’s message. Because men could not
comprehend the purpose of God in the plans laid before us for the
education of workers, methods have been followed in some of our