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among others and leave their own children to carry on the work and
service of Satan
While we should put forth earnest efforts for the masses of the
people around us, and push the work into foreign fields, no amount
of labor in this line can excuse us for neglecting the education of our
children and youth. They are to be trained to become workers for God.
Both parents and teachers, by precept and example, are so to instill the
principles of truth and honesty into the minds and hearts of the young,
that they will become men and women who are as true as steel to God
and His cause
Pray in Faith; God Will Open Ways—Some may ask, “How are
such schools to be established?” We are not a rich people, but if we
pray in faith and let the Lord work in our behalf, He will open ways
before us to establish small schools in retired places for the education
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of our youth, not only in the Scriptures and in book learning, but in
many lines of manual labor
“Let Us Arise and Build.” [
Note: this is a portion of an address
given July 14, 1902, urging the building of a church school near
her own home.
]—We should establish the work in right lines here at
Crystal Springs [Sanitarium, California]. Here are our children. Shall
we allow them to be contaminated by the world—by its iniquity, its
disregard of God’s commandments? I ask those who are planning to
send their children to the public schools, where they are liable to be
contaminated, How can you take such a risk?
We desire to erect a church school building for our children. Be-
cause of the many calls for means, it seems a difficult matter to secure
sufficient money or to arouse an interest great enough to build a small,
convenient schoolhouse. I have told the school committee that I would
lease to them some land for as long a time as they care to use it for
school purposes. I hope that interest enough will be aroused to enable
us to erect a building where our children can be taught the Word of
God, which is the lifeblood and the flesh of the Son of God.... Will
you not take an interest in the erection of this school building in which
the Word of God is to be taught? One man, when asked how much
he was willing to give to the school in labor, said that if we would
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Testimonies For The Church 6:217
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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 165
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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 204
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