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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
established on eternal principles. He could have made disclosures in
the sciences that would have placed the discoveries of the greatest
men in the background as utter littleness; but this was not His mission
or His work. He had come to seek and to save the lost, and He would
not permit Himself to be turned from His object. He revealed truths
that had been buried under the rubbish of error, and He freed them
from the exactions and traditions of men, and bade them stand fast
forever. He rescued truth from its obscurity, and set it in its proper
framework, that it might shine with its original luster. What wonder
that crowds followed in the footsteps of the Lord and gave Him
homage as they listened to His words!
Christ presented to men that which was entirely contrary to the
representations of the enemy in regard to the character of God, and
sought to impress upon men the love of the Father, who “so loved the
world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16
. He
urged upon men the necessity of prayer, repentance, confession, and
the abandonment of sin. He taught them honesty, forbearance, mercy,
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and compassion, enjoining upon them to love not only those who
loved them, but those who hated them and treated them despitefully.
In all this He was revealing to them the character of the Father, who
is long-suffering, merciful, and gracious, slow to anger, and full of
goodness and truth.
When Moses asked the Lord to show him His glory, the Lord
said, “I will make all My goodness pass before thee.” “And the Lord
passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God,
merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness
and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and trans-
gression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty.... And
Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and wor-
shiped.”
Exodus 33:19
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34:6-8
. When we are able to comprehend
the character of God, as did Moses, we, too, shall make haste to bow
in adoration and praise.
The wisdom of God alone can unfold the mysteries of the plan
of salvation. The wisdom of men may or may not be valuable, as
experience shall prove; but the wisdom of God is indispensable.
Miss what you may in the line of worldly attainments, but you must