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Messages to Young People
the inhabitants of other worlds from sin. Every world throughout
immensity engages the care and support of the Father and the Son;
and this care is constantly exercised for fallen humanity. Christ is
mediating in behalf of man, and the order of unseen worlds also is
preserved by His mediatorial work. Are not these themes of sufficient
magnitude and importance to engage our thoughts, and call forth our
gratitude and adoration to God?
Intellectual Development
Open the Bible to our youth, draw their attention to its hidden
treasures, teach them to search for its jewels of truth, and they will
gain a strength of intellect such as the study of all that philosophy
embraces could not impart. The grand subjects upon which the Bible
treats, the dignified simplicity of it inspired utterances, the elevated
themes which it presents to the mind, the light, sharp and clear, from
the throne of God, enlightening the understanding, will develop the
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powers of the mind to an extent that can scarcely be comprehended,
and never fully explained.
The Bible presents a boundless field for the imagination, as much
higher and more ennobling in character than the superficial creations of
the unsanctified intellect as the heavens are higher than the earth. The
inspired history of our race is placed in the hands of every individual.
All may now begin their research. They may become acquainted with
our first parents as they stood in Eden, in holy innocency, enjoying
communion with God and sinless angels. They may trace the intro-
duction of sin and its results upon the race, and follow, step by step,
down the track of sacred history, as it records the disobedience and
impenitence of man and the just retribution for sin.
The Highest Culture
The reader may hold converse with patriarchs and prophets; he may
move through the most inspiring scenes; he may behold Christ, who
was Monarch in heaven, equal with God, coming down to humanity,
and working out the plan of redemption, breaking off from man the
chains wherewith Satan had bound him, and making it possible for him
to regain his godlike manhood. Christ taking upon Himself humanity,