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Christian Education
superior intellectual attainments is now being led captive by his power.
The sanctified knowledge which God imparts is of the right quality,
and will tell to his glory.
The work of the teachers in our College will be laborious. Among
those who attend the school, there will be some who are nothing less
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than Satan’s agents. They have no respect for the rules of the school,
and they demoralize all who associate with them. After the teachers
have done all they can to reform this class; after they have, by personal
effort, by entreaties and prayer, endeavored to reach them, and they
refuse all the efforts made in their behalf, and continue in their course
of sin, then it will be necessary to separate them from the school, that
others may not be contaminated by their evil influence.
To maintain proper discipline, and yet exercise pitying love and
tenderness for the souls of those under his care, the teacher needs
a constant supply of the wisdom and grace of God. Order must be
maintained. But those who love souls, the purchase of the blood of
Christ, should do their utmost to save the erring. These poor, sinful
ones are too frequently left in darkness and deception to pursue their
own course, and those who should help them let them alone to go to
ruin.
It has been shown me that personal effort, judiciously put forth,
will have a telling influence upon these cases considered so hardened.
All may not be so hard at heart as they appear. We have seen a good
work done in the salvation of many who have come to our College,
but much more can be accomplished by personal effort.
Educators should understand how to guard the health of their stu-
dents. They should restrain them from taxing their minds with too
many studies. If they leave college with a knowledge of the sciences,
but with shattered constitutions, it would have been better had they not
entered the school at all. Some parents feel that their children are being
educated at considerable expense, and they urge them forward in their
studies. Students are desirous of taking many studies in order to com-
plete their education in as short a time as possible. The professors have
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allowed some to advance too rapidly. While some may need urging,
others need holding back. Students should ever be diligent, but they
ought not to crowd their minds so as to become intellectual dyspeptics.
They should not be so pressed with studies as to neglect the culture
of the manners; and above all, they should let nothing interfere with