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Word and Works of God
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It is written in the prophets: “O thou afflicted, tossed with tem-
pest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors,
and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy win-
dows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of
pleasant stones. And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord;
and great shall be the peace of thy children. In righteousness shalt
thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt
not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.”
Isaiah
54:11-14
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“This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law in their
inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and
they shall be My people. And they shall teach no more every man
his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:
for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest
of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will
remember their sin no more.”
Jeremiah 31:33, 34
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“And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up
to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob;
and He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for the
law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”
Micah 4:2
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The Old Testament Scriptures were the lesson book of Israel....
There are practical lessons in the word of God, lessons that Christ
would have teachers and parents present to the children in the school
and in the home. That word teaches living, holy principles, which
prompt men to do unto others as they would have others do unto
them—principles which they are to bring into the daily life here
below, and carry with them into the school above. This is the higher
education. No learning of human origin can gain these heights; for
they reach into eternity, and are immortalized. We know altogether
too little of the greatness of the love and compassion of God.
Let students put to the stretch their mental faculties, that they
may comprehend the forty-fifth chapter of Isaiah. Such chapters as
this should be brought into our schools as a valuable study. They
are better than romance and fables. Why have our schools been so
dependent upon books which tell so little of the city we claim to be
seeking, whose builder and maker is God? Our lesson books should