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Our Children and Youth Demand Our Care
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High Aims
God would not have us in any sense behind in educational work.
Our colleges should be far in advance in the highest kind of educa-
tion.... If we do not have schools for our youth, they will attend other
seminaries and colleges, and will be exposed to infidel sentiments,
to cavilings and questionings concerning the inspiration of the Bible.
There is a great deal of talk concerning higher education, and many
suppose that higher education consists wholly in an education in
science and literature; but this is not all. The highest education
includes the knowledge of the word of God, and is comprehended
in the words, “That they might know Thee the only true God, and
Jesus Christ, whom Thou has sent.”
John 17:3
.
The highest class of education is that which will give such knowl-
edge and discipline as will lead to the best development of character,
and will fit the soul for that life which measures with the life of
God. Eternity is not to be lost out of our reckoning. The highest
education is that which will teach our children and youth the science
of Christianity, which will give them an experimental knowledge of
God’s ways, and will impart to them the lessons that Christ gave to
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His disciples, of the paternal character of God.
“Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man
glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth Me.”
Jeremiah 9:23, 24
.... Let us seek to
follow the counsel of God in all things; for He is infinite in wisdom.
Though we have come short of doing what we might have done for
our youth and children in the past, let us now repent, and redeem the
time.—
Special Testimonies On Education, 197-202
; written April
28, 1896.
The Responsibility of Church Members
There is no work more important than the education of our youth.
I am glad that we have institutions where they can be separated
from the corrupting influences so prevalent in the schools of the
present day. Our brethren and sisters should be thankful that in the
providence of God our colleges have been established, and should