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and women of mental strength; and they may become efficient workers
with the great Educator, Jesus Christ.—
Fundamentals of Christian
Education, 432 (1896)
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Bible Greatest of All Educators—The one book that is essential
for all to study is the Bible. Studied with reverence and godly fear,
it is the greatest of all educators. In it there is no sophistry. Its
pages are filled with truth. Would you gain a knowledge of God and
Christ, whom He sent into the world to live and die for sinners? An
earnest, diligent study of the Bible is necessary in order to gain this
knowledge.—
Counsels on Health, 369 (1903)
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Women to Train the Mind—Women professing godliness gen-
erally fail to train the mind. They leave it uncontrolled, to go where
it will. This is a great mistake. Many seem to have no mental power.
They have not educated the mind to think; and because they have
not done this, they suppose they cannot. Meditation and prayer are
necessary to a growth in grace.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:187
(1856)
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Make the Mind a Storehouse of Truth—Oh, what is our excuse,
my sisters, that we do not devote all the time possible to searching the
Scriptures, making the mind a storehouse of precious things, that we
may present them to those who are not interested in the truth? Will
our sisters arise to the emergency? Will they work for the Master?—
Testimonies for the Church 6:118 (1900)
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Organize a Bible Society for Reading and Study—If youth, and
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men and women of mature age, should organize a society where Bible
reading and Bible study should be made the prominent theme, dwelling
upon and searching out the prophecies, and studying the lessons of
Christ, there would be strength in the society. There is no book from
the perusal of which the mind is so much elevated and strengthened and
expanded as the Bible. And there is nothing that will so endow with
new vigor all our faculties as bringing them in contact with stupendous
truths of the Word of God, and setting the mind to grasp and measure
those truths.—
Manuscript Releases 2:244 (1900)
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Regular Study Opens New Truths—The teacher of the truth
should advance in knowledge, growing in grace and in Christian ex-
perience, cultivating habits and practices which will do honor to God
and to His Word. He should show others how to make a practical
application of the Word. Every advance we make in sanctified ability,