Basic HTML Version
82
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
were once enchanted with the pleasures of sin. We need the mercy
and forbearance of God every hour, and how unbecoming for us to
be impatient with the errors of the inexperienced youth! So long as
God bears with them, dare we, fellow sinners, cast them off?
We should ever look upon the youth as the purchase of the blood
of Christ. As such they have demands upon our love, our patience,
our sympathy. If we would follow Jesus we cannot restrict our
interest and affection to ourselves and our own families; we cannot
give our time and attention to temporal matters and forget the eternal
interests of those around us.... “Love one another, as I have loved
you” (
John 15:12
), is the command of Jesus. Look at His self-denial;
behold the manner of love He has bestowed upon us; and then seek
to imitate the Pattern.—
Testimonies for the Church 5:21-35
; read in
College Hall, December, 1881.
* * * * *
If we ever know the truth, it will be because we practice it. We
must have a living experience in the things of God before we are
able to understand His word. This experimental knowledge is what
strengthens the intellect and builds us up into Christ our living Head.
[98]