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Manifest Working of the Holy Spirit
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the whole heart; it is life and is to be incorporated into our very
existence. Thus received, the word of God will humble man at the
footstool of mercy and separate him from every corrupting influence.
“In the year that King Uzziah died,” says Isaiah, “I saw also the
Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted
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up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims;
each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with
twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried
unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the
whole earth is full of His glory. And the posts of the door moved at
the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.”
Beholding this grand and glorious representation, the prophet dis-
cerned his own imperfections, and those of the people with whom he
dwelt. “Woe is me!” he cried, “for I am undone; because I am a man
of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:
for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”
Isaiah 6:1-5
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Oh, how many who are engaged in this work of responsibility need
to behold God as did Isaiah; for in the presence of His glory and
majesty self will sink into nothingness.—
Special Testimonies On
Education, 165-170
; written from Melbourne, Australia, February
10, 1894, to the teachers in Battle Creek College.
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Only as the higher life is brought to view, as shown in the teach-
ings of Christ, can any learning and instruction rightly be called
higher education; and only by the aid of the Holy Spirit can this
education be gained. Man’s study of the science of nature, unaided
by the Holy Spirit, falls short of the precious things Christ desires
him to learn from the things of the natural world; for he fails to
be instructed in the great and important truths which concern his
salvation.
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There are great possibilities in the human understanding when
connected with the True Teacher, who in His presentation of the
things of the natural world revealed truth in its practical bearings.
God works all unseen upon the human heart; for without the divine
power operating upon the understanding, the mind of man cannot
grasp the sentiments of elevating, ennobling truth. It cannot read