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sad after-influence to destroy self-respect or bar the way to usefulness.
If they can take Jesus with them, and maintain a prayerful spirit, they
are perfectly safe....
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Our Stewardship of Talents
Young friends, the fear of the Lord lies at the very foundation of
all progress; it is the beginning of wisdom. Your heavenly Father has
claims upon you; for without solicitation or merit on your part He gives
you the bounties of His providence; and more than this, He has given
you all heaven in one gift, that of His beloved Son. In return for this
infinite gift, He claims of you willing obedience. As you are bought
with a price, even the precious blood of the Son of God, He requires
that you make a right use of the privileges you enjoy. Your intellectual
and moral faculties are God’s gifts, talents intrusted to you for wise
improvement, and you are not at liberty to let them lie dormant for
want of proper cultivation, or be crippled and dwarfed by inaction. It
is for you to determine whether or not the weighty responsibilities that
rest upon you shall be faithfully met, whether or not your efforts shall
be well directed and your best.
We are living in the perils of the last days. All heaven is interested
in the characters you are forming. Every provision has been made for
you, that you should be a partaker of the divine nature, having escaped
the corruption that is in the world through lust. Man is not left alone to
conquer the powers of evil by his own feeble efforts. Help is at hand,
and will be given every soul who really desires it. Angels of God, that
ascend and descend the ladder that Jacob saw in vision, will help every
soul who will to climb even to the highest heaven. They are guarding
the people of God, and watching how every step is taken. Those who
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climb the shining way will be rewarded; they will enter into the joy of
their Lord.—
Fundamentals of Christian Education, 82-86
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A High Ideal to Reach
Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God’s ideal
for His children. Godliness—godlikeness—is the goal to be reached.
Before the student there is opened a path of continual progress. He has
an object to achieve, a standard to attain, that includes everything good,