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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
the Scriptures nor the power of God. When you have taken your
students through the course of study you have followed in the past,
they will have to unlearn much that they have learned, and this they
will find very difficult to do. Objectionable ideas have taken root in
their minds, like weeds in a garden, and some will never be able to
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distinguish between right and wrong. The good and the evil have
been intermingled in your work. Doctrines containing a little truth,
but with which are woven the opinions and sayings and doings of
men, are repeated. The youth will never know the way of life so
long as they depend on such instruction.”
By every teacher in our schools the only true God is to be uplifted.
The prayer of Christ for His disciples was: “I have glorified Thee on
the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. And
now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self with the glory
which I had with Thee before the world was. I have manifested Thy
name unto the men which Thou gavest Me out of the world: Thine
they were, and Thou gavest them Me; and they have kept Thy word.
Now they have known that all things whatsoever Thou hast given
Me are of Thee. For I have given unto them the words which Thou
gavest Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that
I came out from Thee, and they have believed that Thou didst send
Me.”
John 17:4-8
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Who among our teachers are awake and as faithful stewards of
the grace of God are giving the trumpet a certain sound? Who are
voicing the message of the third angel, calling upon the world to
make ready for the great day of God? The message we bear has the
seal of the living God. July 20, 1899.
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