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occupying positions of trust themselves, be educating by precept and
example all who are associated with them.
Through a selfish ambition some have kept from others the knowl-
edge they could have imparted. Others have not cared to tax themselves
by educating anyone else. Yet this would have been the very best kind
of work they could have done for Jesus. Says Christ: “Ye are the light
of the world,” and for this reason we are to let our light shine before
men.
If all that the Lord has spoken in reference to these things had been
heeded, our institutions would today occupy a higher and holier place
than they do. But men have been satisfied with small attainments.
They have not sought with all their might to rise in mental, moral,
and physical capabilities. They have not felt that God required this of
them; they have not realized that Christ died that they might do this
very work. As the result they are far behind what they might be in
intelligence and in the ability to think and plan. They could have added
virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge, and thus have become
strong in the Lord. But this they have failed to do. Let each go to work
now with a firm determination to rise. The present need of the cause is
not so much for more men as for greater skill and consecration in the
laborers.
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