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training has been harmful to the character, and it is a sad thing to repro-
duce this defective character and management in the children brought
under his control. We are standing before God on test and trial to see
if we can individually be trusted to be of the number of the family who
shall compose the redeemed in heaven. “And I saw the dead, small
and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another
book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged
out of those things which were written in the books, according to their
works.”
Here are represented the great white throne and He that sat on it,
from whose face the earth and heaven fled away. Let every teacher
consider that he is doing his work in the sight of the universe of
heaven. Every child with whom the teacher is brought in contact has
been purchased by the blood of God’s only-begotten Son, and He who
has died for these children would have them treated as His property.
Be sure that your contact, teachers, with every one of these children
shall be of that character that will not make you ashamed when you
meet them in that great day when every word and action is brought in
review before God, and with its burden of results laid open before you
individually. “Bought with a price,”—O what a price, eternity alone
will reveal!
The Lord Jesus Christ has infinite tenderness for those whom He
has purchased at the cost of His own sufferings in the flesh, that they
should not perish with the devil and his angels, but that He may claim
them as His chosen ones. They are the claim of His love, of His own
property; and He looks upon them with unutterable affection, and the
fragrance of His own righteousness He gives to His loved ones who
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believe in Him. It requires tact and wisdom and human love, and
sanctified affection for the precious lambs of the flock, to lead them
to see and appreciate their privilege in yielding themselves up to the
tender guidance of the faithful shepherds. The children of God will
exercise the gentleness of Jesus Christ.
Teachers, Jesus is in your school every day. His great heart of
infinite love is drawn out, not only for the best-behaved children, who
have the most favorable surroundings, but for children who have by
inheritance objectionable traits of character. Even parents have not
understood how much they are responsible for the traits of character
developed in their children, and have not had the tenderness and wis-