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to express. Shall this work that has been nobly begun fail or languish
for want of consecrated workers? Shall selfish projects and ambitions
find room in this enterprise? Will the workers permit the love of gain,
the love of ease, the lack of piety, to banish Christ from their hearts
and exclude Him from the school? God forbid! The work is already
far advanced. In educational lines everything is arranged for an earnest
reform, for a truer, more effective education. Will our people accept
this holy trust? Will they humble themselves at the cross of Calvary,
ready for every sacrifice and every service?
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Parents and teachers should seek most earnestly for that wisdom
which Jesus is ever ready to give; for they are dealing with human
minds at the most interesting and impressible period of their devel-
opment. They should aim so to cultivate the tendencies of the youth
that at each stage of their life they may represent the natural beauty
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appropriate to that period, unfolding gradually, as do the plants and
flowers in the garden.
The management and instruction of children is the noblest mis-
sionary work that any man or woman can undertake. By the proper use
of objects the lessons should be made very plain, that their minds may
be led from nature up to nature’s God. We must have in our schools
those who possess the tact and skill to carry forward this line of work,
thus sowing seeds of truth. The great day of God alone can reveal the
good this work will do.
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Special talent should be given to the education of the little ones.
Many can put the crib high and give food to the sheep, but it is a more
difficult matter to put the crib low and feed the lambs. This is a lesson
which primary teachers need to learn.
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The eye of the mind needs to be educated, or the child will find
pleasure in beholding evil.