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tion given in the word of God you may go forth with a development
of intellectual and moral power that will cause even angels to rejoice,
and God will joy over you with singing. Under such discipline you
will secure the fullest development of your faculties. Let not the
buoyancy and the lust of youth through manifold temptations make
your day of opportunity and privilege a failure. Day by day put
on Christ, and in the brief season of your test and trial here below
maintain your dignity in the strength of God, as co-workers with the
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highest agencies of heaven.
It is the privilege of the faithful teacher to reap day by day the
visible results of his patient, persevering labor of love. It is his to
watch the growth of the tender plants as they bud, and blossom, and
bear the fruit of order, punctuality, faithfulness, thoroughness, and
true nobility of character. It is his to see a love for truth and right
growing and strengthening in these children and youth for whom he
is held responsible. What can give him greater returns than to see his
pupils developing characters that will make them noble and useful
men and women, fitted to occupy positions of responsibility and
trust—men and women who in the future will wield a power to hold
in check evil influences and help in dispelling the moral darkness of
the world?
As the teacher awakens in the minds of his pupils a realization
of the possibilities before them, as he causes them to grasp the truth
that they may become useful, noble, trustworthy men and women,
he sets in motion waves of influence that, even after he himself has
gone to rest, will reach onward and ever onward, giving joy to the
sorrowing and inspiring hope in the discouraged. As he lights in
their minds and hearts the lamp of earnest endeavor, he is rewarded
by seeing its bright rays diverge in every direction, illuminating not
only the lives of the few who daily sit before him for instruction, but
through them the lives of many others.
For Further Study
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