Possibilities in Sabbath-School Work
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Great Light for the Earnest Seeker
As soon as the seeker for truth opens the Bible to read the utterances
of God with reverence, possessing an earnest desire to know “what
saith the Lord,” light and grace will be given him, and he will see
wondrous things out of God’s law. He will not regard the law of
Jehovah as a yoke of bondage, but as the gracious commands of
One who is all-wise and full of compassion. He will make haste to
fulfill His requirements. Great truths which have been neglected and
unappreciated for ages, will be revealed by the Spirit of God, and new
meaning will flash out of familiar texts. Every page will be illuminated
by the Spirit of truth. The Bible is not sealed but unsealed. The most
precious truths are revealed; the living oracles are heard by wondering
ears, and the consciences of men are aroused into action.
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Gather the infants with lisping lips, the youth and the aged, and
set them to the task of solving mysteries which have not been compre-
hended by the wise men of earth, although possessed of giant minds.
The weighty truths of God’s Word are for those who are humble and
willing to learn at the feet of the Divine Teacher. Jesus rejoiced in
spirit because of this fact, and said, “I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of
heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise
and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father; for
so it seemed good in Thy sight.”
Let not narrow ideas proscribe and bind about your labors. “The
field is the world.” The doctrines of truth are plainly revealed on every
page of the Word of God, and yet the enemy has power to blind the
minds of the self-sufficient, so that the plainest and simplest utterances
may not be understood. Let the truth be taught to our children. Let
them be armed with the revelation of the Word of God. Let them be
able to tell what is written in the Scriptures of truth. Let the minister
from the desk, with lips touched with a coal from off the altar of
heaven, speak the words of life that will burn their way into the heart
and soul of those who, although wise in the wisdom of the world, do
not comprehend the wisdom that is from above.
The question, “What is truth?” should be asked with decided inter-
est. We must respond to the command of God, and go forward from
light to a greater light. There is no such thing as the soldiers of Christ
standing still, careless and inactive. There are constant improvements