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knowledge of the way of holiness. Knowledge is power when united
with true piety
Student’s Responsibility to Uphold His School
Those students who profess to love God and obey the truth should
possess that degree of self-control and strength of religious principle
that will enable them to remain unmoved amid temptations and to
stand up for Jesus in the college, at their boardinghouses, or wherever
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they may be. Religion is not to be worn merely as a cloak in the house
of God, but religious principle must characterize the entire life.
Those who are drinking at the fountain of life will not, like the
worldling, manifest a longing desire for change and pleasure. In their
deportment and character will be seen the rest and peace and happiness
that they have found in Jesus by daily laying their perplexities and
burdens at His feet. They will show that there is contentment and even
joy in the path of obedience and duty. Such will exert an influence
over their fellow students which will tell upon the entire school.
Those who compose this faithful army will refresh and strengthen
the teachers and professors in their efforts by discouraging every
species of unfaithfulness, of discord, and of neglect to comply with the
rules and regulations. Their influence will be saving, and their works
will not perish in the great day of God, but will follow them into the
future world; and the influence of their life here will tell throughout
the ceaseless ages of eternity.
One earnest, conscientious, faithful young man in school is an
inestimable treasure. Angels of heaven look lovingly upon him. His
precious Saviour loves him, and in the Ledger of Heaven will be
recorded every work of righteousness, every temptation resisted, every
evil overcome. He will thus be laying up a good foundation against
the time to come, that he may lay hold on eternal life.
Upon Christian youth depend in a great measure the preservation
and perpetuity of the institutions which God has devised as means by
which to advance His work. This grave responsibility rests upon the
youth of today who are coming upon the stage of action. Never was
there a period when results so important depended upon a generation
of men; then how important that the young should be qualified for the
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