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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
a revelation of the great truths applicable to this time. Unveil the
mysteries of redemption before the students in the school and before
the congregations who assemble to hear the word. This is knowledge
needed by the educated and the unlearned. The highest education
will be found in studying the mystery of godliness. The great truths
of God’s word, if believed and received and carried into the life
practice, will result in education of the highest order.
The Saviour in His teachings ever showed the relation between
cause and effect. To His followers in every age He speaks, saying,
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
Matthew 5:16
.
The man or woman who has a knowledge of the truth, but whose
life does not express its principles, is hiding his light. My brethren,
let the light be brought from under the bushel, that it may make
known the truths of the gospel. Invisible agencies will work through
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the visible; the supernatural will co-operate with the natural, the
heavenly with the earthly; unknown things will be revealed through
the known. Let the grace of Christ be revealed to teach that man
may be renewed in the likeness of God.
The Saviour’s promise, “Whosoever hath, to him shall be given”
(
Matthew 13:12
), applies also to the reception of truth. To him who
seeks to understand its teachings will be given increased understand-
ing. To him who reveals that he possesses the spirit of truth will
be given a larger measure of the Spirit, that he may work out his
own salvation. The work of reflecting Christ to the world will not be
done boastingly, but in fear and trembling, yet in the power of the
Spirit.
The most desirable education is a knowledge of the mysteries of
the kingdom of heaven. He who serves the world sees not the great
things of eternal interest prepared for the one who opens his heart to
the light of heaven. But he who enters this path of knowledge and
perseveres in his search after the hidden wisdom, to him heavenly
agencies teach the great lessons which through faith in Christ enable
him to be an overcomer. Through this knowledge spiritual perfection
is reached; the life becomes holy and Christlike.
Christ’s teachings were not impressed upon His hearers by any
outward gestures, but by the words and acts of His daily life, by the
spirit He revealed. In the higher life that He led as He worked the