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Education
“It cannot be gotten for gold,
Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,
With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it
And the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine
gold.
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls:
For the price of wisdom is above rubies.”
Job 28:15-18
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Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God’s ideal
for His children. Godliness—godlikeness—is the goal to be reached.
Before the student there is opened a path of continual progress. He has
an object to achieve, a standard to attain, that includes everything good,
and pure, and noble. He will advance as fast and as far as possible
in every branch of true knowledge. But his efforts will be directed to
objects as much higher than mere selfish and temporal interests as the
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heavens are higher than the earth.
He who co-operates with the divine purpose in imparting to the
youth a knowledge of God, and molding the character into harmony
with His, does a high and noble work. As he awakens a desire to reach
God’s ideal, he presents an education that is as high as heaven and
as broad as the universe; an education that cannot be completed in
this life, but that will be continued in the life to come; an education
that secures to the successful student his passport from the preparatory
school of earth to the higher grade, the school above.
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