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Essential Knowledge
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for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”
2 Peter
1:5-11
.
When the word of God is laid aside for books that lead away from
God, and that confuse the understanding regarding the principles
of the kingdom of heaven, the education given is a perversion of
the name. Unless the student has pure mental food, thoroughly
winnowed from the so-called “higher education,” which is mingled
with infidel sentiments, he cannot truly know God. Only those who
co-operate with heaven in the plan of salvation can know what true
education in its simplicity means.
Those who seek the education that the world esteems so highly
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are gradually led farther and farther from the principles of truth, until
they become educated worldlings. At what a price have they gained
their education! They have parted with the Holy Spirit of God. They
have chosen to accept what the world calls knowledge in the place
of the truths which God has committed to men through his ministers
and apostles and prophets.
And there are some who, having secured this worldly education,
think that they can introduce it into our schools. There is constant
danger that those who labor in our schools and sanitariums will
entertain the idea that they must get in line with the world, study the
things the world studies, and become familiar with the things the
world becomes familiar with. We shall make grave mistakes unless
we give special attention to the searching of the word. The Bible
should not be brought into our schools to be sandwiched between
infidelity. God’s word must be made the groundwork and subject
matter of education. It is true that we know much more of this word
than we knew in the past, but there is still much to be learned.
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The true higher education is that imparted by Him with whom
is “wisdom and strength,” out of whose mouth “cometh knowledge
and understanding.”
Job 12:13
;
Proverbs 2:6
. In a knowledge of
God all true knowledge and real development have their source.
Wherever we turn, in the mental, the physical, or the spiritual realm;
in whatever we behold, apart from the blight of sin, this knowledge