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The Highest Learning, July 1
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath
shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6.
This knowledge—the knowledge of the glory of God—is the highest
class of learning that mortals can obtain. And “we have this treasure in
earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not
of us” (2 Corinthians 4:7).
Human fallacies are abundant and specious. Unseen agencies are at
work to make falsehood appear as truth; errors are clothed with a deceptive
garb that men may be led to accept them as essential to higher education.
And these fallacies will deceive many of our students unless they are
thoroughly guarded, and unless they are led by the Spirit of God to take the
grand and holy truths of the Word into their hearts and minds, accepting
these as the principles underlying the higher education. No instruction
can exceed in value the pure instruction of God, which comes for the
enlightenment of all who will be enlightened.... There can be no education
higher than that which was given by the Great Teacher .1
There is nothing more detrimental to the soul’s interest, its purity, its
true and holy conceptions of God and of sacred and eternal things than
constantly giving heed to and exalting that which is not from God. It
poisons the heart and degrades the understanding. Pure truth can be traced
to its divine Source by its elevating, refining, sanctifying influence upon
the character of the receiver.2
At this time when every conceivable thing is being brought in to confuse
the people of God, let your spiritual eyesight be strengthened; let your faith
in the Word of God be firm. Know for yourselves that the words and
teachings of Christ, which are the words and teachings of Jehovah, contain
the highest instruction it is possible for men to gain. When any would seek
to confuse your minds, repeat to them the words of Christ, “No man can
serve two masters” (Matthew 6:24). Let the Word of the Lord stand forth
clearly and distinctly. 3 [189]
1 Letter 98, 1909.
2 Letter 12, 1890.
3 Letter 98, 1909.
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