Educational Journal
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excellent glory, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with
Him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in
a dark place, until the day dawn, and the Daystar arise in your hearts:
knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private
interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of
man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost.”
Misleading Guideposts—The Lord has called out a people from
among men, and has given them great light and knowledge in regard
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to His word. In
Exodus 31:12-18
He declares the relation which they
are to sustain to Him. God has not authorized us to exalt men, and
keep the minds of students directed toward those who evidently do
not bear the signature which He has placed upon His chosen people.
“Verily My Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between Me and you
throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that
doth sanctify you.” Those who refuse to stand as God’s chosen people,
sanctified and made holy through doing His word, are as guideposts
pointing in the wrong direction. So also are they who would encourage
the youth to study as a pattern the so-called wise men, who have not
been wise enough to know God and do His commandments.
Let not the editors of the Educator and the Instructor divert minds
from God to man, and encourage the study of books written by men
who have been disloyal to the God of heaven. The Lord will not be
pleased by any turning aside of those whom He has made depositaries
of sacred truth, to inquire of the gods of Ekron. Let us seek that God
shall be honored, and His name glorified in all that appears in our
periodicals. Let them not be devoted to the publication of the ideas of
education held by the wise men of the world. Our work is to educate
those who shall carry the light of truth to men, seeking to prepare a
people for the second appearing of Christ in the clouds of heaven.
Instead of the constant reference to authors in our papers, instead
of the publication of the lives of men, and what they have done or are
doing, let a decided message to the world come from the pens of men
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whose writings reveal that they are under the influence of the Holy
Spirit, who understand and heed the admonition of Paul to Timothy,
“Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been