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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
is revealed. Whatever line of investigation we pursue with a sincere
purpose to arrive at truth, we are brought in touch with the unseen,
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mighty Intelligence that is working in and through all. The mind
of man is brought into communion with the mind of God, the finite
with the Infinite. The effect of such communion on body and mind
and soul is beyond estimate.—
Education, 14
.
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In the Teacher sent from God all true educational work finds its
center. Of this work today, as verily as of the work He established
eighteen hundred years ago, the Saviour speaks in the words, “I am
the first and the last, and the Living One.” “I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the beginning and the end.”
Revelation 1:17, 18
;
21:6
, R.V.
In the presence of such a Teacher, with such opportunity for
divine education, what worse than folly is it to seek an education
apart from Him—to seek to be wise apart from Wisdom; to be true
while rejecting Truth; to seek illumination apart from Light, and
existence without the Life; to turn from the Fountain of living waters,
and hew out broken cisterns, that can hold no water!—
Education,
83
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Dear teacher, as you consider your need of strength and
guidance,—need that no human source can supply,—I bid you con-
sider the promises of Him who is the wonderful Counselor. “Behold,”
He says, “I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut
it.”
Revelation 3:8
. “Call unto Me, and I will answer thee.”
Jeremiah
33:3
. “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt
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go: I will guide thee with Mine eye.”
Psalm 32:8
. “Even unto the
end of the world,” “I am with you.”
Matthew 28:20
.
As the highest preparation for your work I point you to the
words, the life, the methods, of the Prince of teachers. I bid you
consider Him. Here is your true ideal. Behold it, dwell upon it, until
the Spirit of the divine Teacher shall take possession of your heart
and life. “Reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord,” you will
be “transformed into the same image.”
2 Corinthians 3:18
, R.V.—
Education, 282
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