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should in an effort to fit ourselves for greater usefulness.—
Counsels
to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 209
(1903).
Combine Natural With Spiritual and Reach for Highest At-
tainments—The natural and the spiritual are to be combined in the
studies of our schools. The operations of agriculture illustrate the
Bible lessons. The laws obeyed by the earth reveal the fact that it
is under the masterly power of an infinite God. The same principles
run through the spiritual and the natural world. Divorce God and His
wisdom from the acquisition of knowledge, and you have a lame,
one-sided education, dead to all the saving qualities which give power
to man, so that he is incapable of acquiring immortality through faith
in Christ. The author of nature is the author of the Bible. Creation and
Christianity have one God.
All who engage in the acquisition of knowledge should aim to
reach the highest round of progress. Let them advance as fast and as
far as they can; let their field of study be as broad as their powers can
compass, making God their wisdom, clinging to Him who is infinite in
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knowledge, who can reveal the secrets hidden for ages, who can solve
the most difficult problems for minds that believe in Him who only
hath immortality, dwelling in the light that no man can approach unto.
The living witness for Christ, following on to know the Lord, shall
know that His goings forth are prepared as the morning. “Whatsoever
a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (
Galatians 6:7
). By honesty and
industry, with a proper care of the body, applying every power of the
mind to the acquisition of knowledge and wisdom in spiritual things,
every soul may be complete in Christ, who is the perfect pattern of
a complete man.—
Special Testimonies On Education, 215
, April 22,
1895. (
Fundamentals of Christian Education, 375, 376
.)
Correct Lessons Cannot Impress Minds Who Know Not the
Truth of God’s Word—But the fallen race will not understand. The
science of nature is supposed to control the God of nature. Correct
lessons cannot impress the minds of those who know not truth or the
Word of God. When the heart and mind is submitted to God, when
man is willing to be instructed as a little child, the science of education
will be found in the Word of God. Higher education of the world has
proved itself a farce. When teachers and students come down from
their stilts and enter Christ’s school to learn of Him, they will talk
intelligently of higher education because they will understand that it