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a lower standard.—
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 67
(1896)
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Schools to Reflect the Order of Heaven
Teachers to Talk and Pray With Students—Our teachers need
to be converted men and women, who know what it means to wrestle
with God, who will not be at rest until the hearts of the children are
turned to love, praise, and glorify God. Who will be earnest workers
for souls in our Sabbath schools? Who will take the youth separately,
and talk and pray with them, and make personal appeals to them,
beseeching them to yield their heart to Jesus, that they may be as a
sweet savor to Christ? As we view the magnitude of the work, and
see how little it is appreciated, we feel like groaning in spirit, and
exclaiming, Who will accept these grave responsibilities, and watch
for souls as they that must give an account?
We are Christ’s representatives upon the earth. How do we fulfill
our mission? Christ’s representatives will be in daily communion with
Him. Their words will be select, their speech seasoned with grace,
their hearts filled with love, their efforts sincere, earnest, persevering,
to save souls for whom Christ has died. Let all do their utmost to work
for the salvation of the dear children and youth, and by and by they
will listen with joy to the words of Jesus, “Well done, good and faithful
servant; ... enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” What is this joy? It
is beholding the redeemed saints saved through their instrumentality,
through the blood of Jesus Christ.—
Sabbath-School Worker, July 1,
1885
.
“Nicest Work” Ever Given to Humans
[89]
Great Care to Be Taken to Call Forth Highest Mental Pow-
ers—It is the nicest work [
Ellen White here uses “nicest work” in the
context of being the most important, the finest, most noble work that
God calls people to do for him.
] ever assumed by men and women
to deal with youthful minds. The greatest care should be taken in
the education of youth to vary the manner of instruction so as to call
forth the high and noble powers of the mind. Parents, and teachers
of schools, are certainly disqualified to educate children properly, if