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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
principles of truth will work with increasing energy. No circum-
stances can alter their determination to attain to the highest possible
standard. And that which they have received they will impart to
others. As they themselves drink from the fountain of living water,
from them will flow living streams to bless and refresh others.
The diligent Bible student will constantly increase in knowledge
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and discernment. His intellect will grasp elevated subjects and lay
hold of the truth of eternal realities. His motives of action will be
right. He will use his talent of influence to help others to understand
more perfectly their God-given responsibilities. His heart will be a
wellspring of joy as he sees success attend his efforts to impart to
others the blessings he has received.
The talent of knowledge, sanctified and put to use in the Master’s
service, is never lost. A self-sacrificing effort to do good will be
crowned with success. “We are laborers together with God.”
1
Corinthians 3:9
. The Lord will co-operate with the human worker.
To Him is to be given the praise and the glory for what we are able
to accomplish.
The Lord is dishonored by the deterioration or the perversion of
the talents He has entrusted to men. It is the duty and the privilege of
the Christian to improve his talents. Christ gave His life to purchase
for men the privilege of being co-workers with God. Yet thousands
who have received much light and many opportunities, do not grasp
the blessings that are within their reach.
That education only is wholesome and essential which leads to
a knowledge of the value that God has placed upon mankind. The
students in our schools are to be taught that they are of value in the
sight of God, that they have been bought with an infinite price. They
should be made to realize the importance of putting to a right use
every faculty of the being. They are to put on Christ; then all their
powers will be used in persevering, taxing labor in His service.
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The students are to be taught to help those who need encourage-
ment. As they seek to help others they themselves will “grow in
grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ”
(
2 Peter 3:18
), and their efficiency will be increased. “Ye are God’s
husbandry, ye are God’s building.”
1 Corinthians 3:9
. Christians
will fulfill the purpose of God for them only as they increase in