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First of Sciences
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your school as the foundation of true education. The cross of Christ
is just as near our teachers, and should be as perfectly understood
by them, as it was by Paul, who could say, “God forbid that I should
glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world
is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”
Galatians 6:14
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Let teachers, from the highest to the lowest, seek to understand
what it means to glory in the cross of Christ. Then by precept and
example they can teach their students the blessings it brings to those
who bear it manfully and bravely. The Saviour declares, “If any man
will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and
follow Me.”
Matthew 16:24
. And to all who lift it and bear it after
Christ, the cross is a pledge of the crown of immortality that they
will receive.
Educators who will not work in this line are not worthy of the
name they bear. Teachers, turn from the example of the world,
cease to extol professedly great men; turn the minds of your students
from the glory of everything save the cross of Christ. The crucified
Messiah is the central point of all Christianity. The most essential
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lessons for teachers and students to learn are those which point, not
to the world, but from the world to the cross of Calvary.
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Godliness—Godlikeness—is the goal to be reached. Before the
student there is opened a path of continual progress. He has an
object to achieve, a standard to attain, that includes everything good,
and pure, and noble. He will advance as fast and as far as possible
in every branch of true knowledge. But his efforts will be directed
to objects as much higher than mere selfish and temporal interests
as the heavens are higher than the earth.
He who co-operates with the divine purpose in imparting to the
youth a knowledge of God, and molding the character into harmony
with His, does a high and noble work. As he awakens a desire
to reach God’s ideal, he presents an education that is as high as
heaven and as broad as the universe; an education that cannot be
completed in this life, but that will be continued in the life to come;
an education that secures to the successful student his passport