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student remember that it is in his power to help, and not hinder, the
cause of education.
Students in our institutions of learning may either form characters
after the divine similitude, or degrade their God-given powers, and
bring themselves down to a low level, and they will have no one to
blame but themselves if they degrade themselves. Everything that
God could do has been done in behalf of man. Every want has been
anticipated; every difficulty, every emergency, has been provided for.
The crooked places have been made straight, the rough places smooth,
and therefore no one will be excused in the day of judgment, if he has
cherished unbelief and resisted the workings of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ has given Himself as a complete offering in behalf
of every fallen son and daughter of Adam. O what humiliation He
bore! How He descended, step after step, lower and lower in the path
of humiliation, yet He never degraded His soul with one foul blot of
sin! All this He suffered, that He might lift you up, cleanse, refine,
and ennoble you, and place you as a joint heir with Himself upon His
throne. How shall you make your calling and election sure? What is
the way of salvation? Christ says, “I am the way, the truth, and the
life.” However sinful, however guilty you may be, you are called, you
are chosen. “Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you.” Not
one will be forced against his will to come to Jesus Christ. The Majesty
of heaven, the only-begotten Son of the true and living God, opened
the way for you to come to Him, by giving His life as a sacrifice on
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Calvary’s cross. But while He suffered all this for you, He is too pure,
He is too just, to behold iniquity. But even this need not keep you
away from Him; for He says, “I came not to call the righteous, but
sinners to repentance.” Let perishing souls come to Him just as they
are, without one plea, and plead the atoning blood of Christ, and they
will find acceptance with God, who dwelleth in glory between the
cherubim above the mercy seat. The blood of Jesus is a never-failing
passport, by which all your petitions may find access to the throne of
God.—
“Christian Education” (Supplement), 1893
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