Chapter 52—Student Loyalty
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.
Character and Deportment
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....
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 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
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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 God may
use them as His instruments! Their Maker has claims upon them which
are paramount to all others....
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