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Testimonies on Sabbath-School Work
wholly to the Lord, to be used by Him in His cause. There should
be zealous, faithful workers in our Sabbath-schools, who will watch
and discern upon whom the Spirit of God is moving, and cooperate
with the angels of God in winning souls for Christ. There are sacred
responsibilities intrusted to Sabbath-school workers, and the Sabbath-
school should be the place where, through a living connection with
God, men and women, youth and children, may be so fitted up that
they shall be a strength and blessing to the church. They should help
the church upward and onward, as far as it lies in their ability, going
from strength to greater strength.
Important Questions
What is the reason that there are many found in our churches who
are not settled, rooted, and grounded in the truth? Why are there found
in the church those who walk in darkness and have no light, whose
testimonies are half-hearted, cold, and full of complaint? Why are
there those whose feet seem ready to stray into by and forbidden paths,
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who always have a pitiful tale to tell of temptation and defeat? Have
the members of the church felt their responsibility? Have the elders
and deacons of the church looked after the weak and straying ones?
And have they realized that the wavering are in danger of losing their
souls? Have you tried both by precept and example to plant the feet of
the straying on the eternal Rock? Have Sabbath-school teachers and
officers realized that they have a work to do in leading the feet of the
young into safe paths, and that they should count every selfish interest
as nothing, that they may be winners of souls for the Master? There is
a decided need of reformation in every branch of the work.
Wonderful opportunities are passing by unimproved in our
Sabbath-school work. Let men and women of varied gifts come into
the work, and in the fear of God do their best to save our youth. Let
not those who have a mechanical way of doing things, take complete
charge of the school, and mould it into formal ways, into precise habits,
and have all its life stifled in a multiplicity of regulations. It is essential
to have order, but we need a great deal more spiritual knowledge along
with our rules and regulations. We need a life-giving power, a zeal-
ous enthusiasm, a true animation, that our schools may become filled
with an atmosphere of true piety and purity; that there may be real