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True Higher Education Found in the Word of God, April 26
Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the
words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:5
, NKJV.
There is no time now to fill the mind with false ideas of what is called higher
education. There can be no higher education than that which comes from the Author
of truth. The Word of God is to be our study. We are to educate our children in
the truths found therein. It is an inexhaustible treasure; but men and women fail to
find this treasure because they do not search until it is within their possession. In
this Word is found wisdom, unquestionable and inexhaustible wisdom, that did not
originate in the finite mind, but in the infinite mind.
When men and women are willing to be instructed as little children, when they
submit wholly to God, they will find in the Scriptures the science of education.
When teachers and students enter Christ’s school, to learn from Him, they will
talk intelligently of higher education, because they will understand that it is that
knowledge which enables people to understand the essence of science.
Those who would seek successfully for the hidden treasure must rise to higher
pursuits than the things of this world. Their affections and all their capabilities must
be consecrated to this search. Men and women of piety and talent catch views of
eternal realities, but often they fail to understand, because the things that are seen
eclipse the glory of the unseen. By many human wisdom is thought to be higher
than the wisdom of the divine Teacher, and God’s lesson book is looked upon as
old-fashioned, so much so indeed as to be thought tame and stale. But by those who
have been vivified by the Holy Spirit it is not so regarded. They see the priceless
treasure, and would sell all to buy the field that contains it....
Those who make the Word of God their study, who dig for the treasures of truth,
will appreciate the weighty principles taught, and will digest them. As a result,
they will be imbued with the Spirit of Christ; and by beholding, they will become
changed into His likeness. They will teach like disciples who have been sitting at
the feet of Jesus, who have accustomed themselves to learn of Him, that they might
know Him whom to know aright is life eternal.—
The Review and Herald, July 3,
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