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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
is to be made prominent, our school will become unpopular; that
those who are not of our faith will not patronize the college. Very
well, then let them go to other colleges, where they will find a system
of education that suits their taste. Our school was established, not
merely to teach the sciences, but for the purpose of giving instruction
in the great principles of God’s word and in the practical duties of
everyday life. This is the education so much needed at the present
time.
If a worldly influence is to bear sway in our school, then sell it
out to worldlings, and let them take the entire control; and those who
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have invested their means in that institution will establish another
school, to be conducted, not upon the plan of popular schools nor
according to the desires of principal and teachers, but upon the plan
which God has specified.
In the name of my Master I entreat all who stand in responsible
positions in that school to be men of God. When the Lord requires
us to be distinct and peculiar, how can we crave popularity or seek
to imitate the customs and practices of the world? God has declared
His purpose to have one college in the land where the Bible shall
have its proper place in the education of the youth. Will we do our
part to carry out that purpose? ...
Through the medium of the press, knowledge of every kind is
placed within the reach of all; and yet how large a share of every
community are depraved in morals and superficial in mental attain-
ments! If the people would but become Bible readers, Bible students,
we should see a different state of things.
In an age like ours, in which iniquity abounds, and God’s char-
acter and His law are alike regarded with contempt, special care
must be taken to teach the youth to study, to reverence and obey the
divine will as revealed to man. The fear of the Lord is fading from
the minds of our youth because of their neglect of Bible study.
Principal and teachers should have a living connection with God
and should stand firmly and fearlessly as witnesses for Him. Never
from cowardice or worldly policy let the word of God be placed in
the background. Students will be profited intellectually, as well as
morally and spiritually, by its study....
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