Chapter 20—The Divine Teacher
(Copied March 23, 1896.)
Those who are daily learning of Jesus Christ are fitted to take their
position as laborers together with God, and whatever their trade or
business may be, they may exert their God-given powers after the
similitude of Christ’s character while he tabernacled in the flesh. The
young will carry with them just the influence they received in their
home life and school education. God holds teachers responsible for
their work as educators. They must learn daily in the school of Christ,
in order to uplift the youth who have had a lax training at home, who
have not formed studious habits, who have little knowledge of the
future immortal life, for which the highest price was paid by the God
of heaven in giving his only begotten Son to live a life of humiliation
and die a most shameful death, “that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.”
God has given us a probation in which we may prepare for the
higher school. For this school the youth are to be educated, disciplined
and trained by forming such characters, moral and intellectual, as God
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will approve. They are to receive a training, not in the customs and
amusements and games of this worldly-polluted society, but in Christ’s
lines, a training which will fit them to be co-laborers with the heavenly
intelligences. But what a farce is that education obtained in literary
lines, if it must be stripped from the learner if he is counted worthy to
enter upon that life which measures with the life of God, he himself
saved as by fire.
In the past, education has consisted in laboriously loading the
minds of the students with material which cannot be of the least value
to them, and which will not be recognized in the higher school. The
teachers of the Jewish nation professed to educate the youth to under-
stand the purity and excellence of the laws of that kingdom which is
to stand for ever and ever, but they perverted truth and purity. Though
they said of themselves, “The temple of the Lord, the temple of the
Lord are we,” yet they crucified the originator of all the Jewish econ-
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