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with God to give you a spirit of supplication. Do not feel that your
work as teachers is done unless you can lead your scholars to faith
in Jesus and love for him. Let the love of Christ pervade your own
souls, and then you will unconsciously teach it to others. When you as
instructors commit yourselves unreservedly to Jesus, for him to lead,
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to guide, to control, you will not fail. Teaching your students to be
Christians is the greatest work before you. Go to God; he hears and
answers prayers. Put from you questionings, doubts, and unbelief.
Let no harshness come into your teaching. Be not too exacting, but
cultivate tender sympathy and love. Be cheerful. Do not scold, do
not censure too severely; be firm, be broad, be Christlike, pitiful,
courteous. “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
I cannot express to you the intense desire of my soul that you
should all seek the Lord most earnestly while he may be found. We
are in the day of God’s preparation. Let nothing be regarded as of
sufficient worth to draw your minds from the work of preparing for
the great day of Judgment. Get ready. Let not cold unbelief hold
your souls away from God; but let his love burn on the altar of your
hearts.—“Testimony,” No. 33, pp. 117, 118.