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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
self-seeking. As He went about doing good He made plain the
character of God’s law and the nature of His service.
Christ might have opened to men the deepest truths of science.
He might have unlocked mysteries which have required many cen-
turies of toil and study to penetrate. He might have made suggestions
in scientific lines that till the close of time would have afforded food
for thought and stimulus for invention. But He did not do this. He
said nothing to gratify curiosity or to stimulate selfish ambition. He
did not deal in abstract theories, but in that which is essential to the
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development of character, that which will enlarge man’s capacity
for knowing God, and increase his power to do good. Instead of
directing the people to study men’s theories about God, His word, or
His works, Christ taught them to behold Him as manifested in His
works, in His word, and by His providences. He brought their minds
in contact with the mind of the Infinite. He unfolded principles that
struck at the root of selfishness.
Those who are ignorant of education as it was taught and ex-
emplified in the life of Christ are ignorant of what constitutes the
higher education. His life of humiliation and death of shame paid the
redemption price for every soul. He gave Himself for the uplifting
of the fallen and the sinful. Can we imagine an education higher
than that to be gained in co-operation with Him?
To everyone Christ gives the command, “Go work today in My
vineyard for the glory of My name. Represent before a world laden
with corruption the blessedness of true education. The weary, the
heavy-laden, the brokenhearted, the perplexed—point them to Christ,
the source of all strength, all life, all hope.” To teachers the word is
spoken, “Be faithful minutemen. Seek for the higher education, for
entire conformity to the will of God. You will surely reap the reward
that comes from its reception. As you place yourselves where you
can be recipients of the blessing of God, the name of the Lord will
be magnified through you.”
Not lip service, not profession, but humble, devoted lives, is that
for which God is seeking. Teachers and students are to know by
experience what it means to live consecrated lives, which reveal the
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sacred principles that are the basis of Christian character. Those
who give themselves to learn the way and will of God are receiving
the highest education that it is possible for mortals to receive. They