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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
in the school of Christ are meeting with infinite loss. They insult the
divine Teacher by the rejection of the provisions of His grace. The
longer they continue in their course, the more hardened they are in
sin. Their retribution will be proportioned to the infinite value of the
blessings they have spurned.
In the religion of Christ there is a regenerating influence that
transforms the entire being, lifting man above every debasing, grov-
eling vice, and raising the thoughts and desires toward God and
heaven. Linked to the Infinite One, man is made partaker of the
divine nature. Upon him the shafts of evil have no effect; for he is
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clothed with the panoply of Christ’s righteousness.
Every faculty, every attribute, with which the Creator has en-
dowed the children of men is to be employed for His glory; and in
this employment is found its purest, holiest, happiest exercise. While
religious principle is held paramount, every advance step taken in
the acquirement of knowledge or in the culture of the intellect is a
step toward the assimilation of the human with the Divine, the finite
with the Infinite.
The Bible as an Educator
As an educator, the Holy Scriptures are without a rival. The
Bible is the most ancient and the most comprehensive history that
men possess. It came fresh from the Fountain of eternal truth, and
throughout the ages a divine hand has preserved its purity. It lights up
the far-distant past, where human research seeks in vain to penetrate.
In God’s word only do we behold the power that laid the foundations
of the earth and that stretched out the heavens. Here only do we find
an authentic account of the origin of nations. Here only is given a
history of our race unsullied by human pride or prejudice.
In the word of God the mind finds subjects for the deepest
thought, the loftiest aspirations. Here we may hold communion
with patriarchs and prophets, and listen to the voice of the Eternal
as He speaks with men. Here we behold the Majesty of heaven as
He humbled Himself to become our substitute and surety, to cope
singlehanded with the powers of darkness and to gain the victory in
our behalf. A reverent contemplation of such themes as these cannot
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