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application, or perseverance, content themselves with an easier place.—
Education, 267
(1903).
Great Possibilities in Life—And as regards life’s possibilities,
who is capable of deciding what is great and what is small? How
many a worker in the lowly places of life, by setting on foot agencies
for the blessing of the world, has achieved results that kings might
envy!—
Education, 266
(1903).
“Something Better”—The Law of True Living—“Something
better” is the watchword of education, the law of all true living. What-
ever Christ asks us to renounce, He offers in its stead something better.
Often the youth cherish objects, pursuits, and pleasures that may
not appear to be evil but that fall short of the highest good. They divert
the life from its noblest aim. Arbitrary measures or direct denunciation
may not avail in leading these youth to relinquish that which they hold
dear. Let them be directed to something better than display, ambition,
or self-indulgence. Bring them in contact with truer beauty, with
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loftier principles, and with nobler lives. Lead them to behold the One
“altogether lovely.”
When once the gaze is fixed upon Him, the life finds its center.
The enthusiasm, the generous devotion, the passionate ardor, of the
youth find here their true object. Duty becomes a delight and sacrifice
a pleasure. To honor Christ, to become like Him, to work for Him,
is the life’s highest ambition and its greatest joy.—
Education, 296,
297
(1903).
Develop Highest Motives for Advancement—Those in training
to be nurses and physicians should daily be given instruction that will
develop the highest motives for advancement. They should attend our
colleges and training schools; and the teachers in these institutions
of learning should realize their responsibility to work with and pray
with the students. In these schools, students should learn to be true
medical missionaries, firmly bound up with the gospel ministry.—
The
Madison School, November 14, 1905, 12.
The Foolish Rich Man’s Selfish Aimlessness—This man’s aims
were no higher than those of the beasts that perish. He lived as if there
were no God, no heaven, no future life; as if everything he possessed
were his own and he owed nothing to God or man. The psalmist
described this rich man when he wrote. “The fool hath said in his
heart, There is no God.”—
Christ’s Object Lessons, 257, 258
(1900).