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Deportment of Students
Those students who profess to love God and obey the truth
should possess that degree of self-control and strength of religious
principle that will enable them to remain unmoved amid temptations
and to stand up for Jesus in the college, at their boarding houses,
or wherever they may be. Religion is not to be worn merely as a
cloak in the house of God; religious principles should characterize
the entire life. Those who are drinking at the fountain of life will
not, like the worldling, manifest a longing desire for change and
pleasure. In their deportment and character will be seen the rest and
peace and happiness that they have found in Jesus by daily laying
their perplexities and burdens at His feet. They will show that in the
path of obedience and duty there is contentment and even joy. Such
ones will exert an influence over their fellow students which will tell
upon the entire school.
Those who compose this faithful army will refresh and
strengthen the teachers by discouraging every species of unfaith-
fulness, of discord, and of neglect to comply with the rules and
regulations. Their influence will be saving, and their works will not
perish in the great day of God, but will follow them into the future
world; and the influence of their life here will tell throughout the
ceaseless ages of eternity.
One earnest, conscientious, faithful young man in a school is
an inestimable treasure. Angels of heaven look lovingly upon him,
and in the ledger of heaven is recorded every work of righteousness,
every temptation resisted, every evil overcome. He is laying up a
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good foundation against the time to come, that he may lay hold on
eternal life.
Upon Christian youth depend in a great measure the preservation
and perpetuity of the institutions which God has devised as a means
by which to advance His work. Never was there a period when
results so important depended upon a generation of men. Then how
important that the young should be qualified for this great work, that
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