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The Desire of Ages
His people will remove the obstructions, He will pour forth the waters
of salvation in abundant streams through the human channels. If men
in humble life were encouraged to do all the good they could do, if
restraining hands were not laid upon them to repress their zeal, there
would be a hundred workers for Christ where now there is one.
God takes men as they are, and educates them for His service,
if they will yield themselves to Him. The Spirit of God, received
into the soul, will quicken all its faculties. Under the guidance of the
Holy Spirit, the mind that is devoted unreservedly to God develops
harmoniously, and is strengthened to comprehend and fulfill the re-
quirements of God. The weak, vacillating character becomes changed
to one of strength and steadfastness. Continual devotion establishes
so close a relation between Jesus and His disciple that the Christian
becomes like Him in mind and character. Through a connection with
Christ he will have clearer and broader views. His discernment will be
more penetrative, his judgment better balanced. He who longs to be of
service to Christ is so quickened by the life-giving power of the Sun
of Righteousness that he is enabled to bear much fruit to the glory of
God.
Men of the highest education in the arts and sciences have learned
precious lessons from Christians in humble life who were designated
by the world as unlearned. But these obscure disciples had obtained
an education in the highest of all schools. They had sat at the feet of
Him who spoke as “never man spake.”
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