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Fundamentals of Christian Education
of spiritual life. Not a jot or tittle of the after-influence of an education
in that line will fit you to meet the severe conflicts in these last days.
What kind of education are our teachers and students receiving? Has
God devised and planned this kind of exercise for you, or is it brought
in by the human inventions and human imaginations? How is the mind
prepared for contemplation and meditation, and serious thoughts, and
the earnest, contrite prayer, coming from hearts subdued by the Holy
Spirit of God? “As it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the
days of the Son of Man.” “And God saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually.”
The Lord opened before me the necessity of establishing a school
at Battle Creek that should not pattern after any school in existence.
We were to have teachers who would keep their souls in the love and
fear of God. Teachers were to educate in spiritual things, to prepare
a people to stand in the trying crisis before us; but there has been a
departure from God’s plan in many ways. The amusements are doing
more to counteract the working of the Holy Spirit than anything else,
and the Lord is grieved.
“Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from
before Mine eyes; cease to do evil [but do not rest here; move onward
in following the Light of the world]; learn to do well; seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come
now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be
as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool.” Here is your field in which to exercise
your intellect and give you change of exercise. “If ye be willing and
obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.”
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“How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Thy silver is become
dross, thy wine mixed with water: thy princes are rebellious, and
companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after
rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the
widow come unto them.”
“O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the
Lord.” “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein
is he to be accounted of?” “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son
of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth