To Teachers
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“And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.” “I have given unto
them the words which Thou gavest Me; and they have received them,
and have known surely that I came out from Thee, and they have
believed that Thou didst send Me.” Here is the work laid before us, to
be representatives of Christ, as He in our world was the representative
of the Father. We are to teach the words given us in the lessons of
Christ. “I have given unto them the words which Thou gavest Me.”
We have our work, and every instructor of the youth in any capacity
is to receive in a good and honest heart what God has unfolded and
recorded in His holy word in the lessons of Christ, meekly to accept
the words of life. We are in the antitypical day of atonement, and not
only are we to humble our hearts before God and confess our sins but
we are, by all our educating talent, to seek to instruct those with whom
we are brought in contact, and to bring them by precept and example
to know God and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent.
O I so much wish that the Lord of heaven would open many eyes
that are now blind, that they might see themselves as God sees them,
and give to them a sense of the work to be done in the fields of labor.
But I have no hope that all the appeals I make will avail, unless the
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Lord speaks to the soul and writes His requirements upon the tablets of
the heart. Cannot every living human agent have a high and elevated
sense of what it means to have a large and important field of home
missionary work appointed to him, without the necessity of going to
far-off lands? And while some must proclaim the message of mercy
to them that are afar off, there are many who have to proclaim the
message to those who are nigh. Our schools are to be educating
schools to qualify youth to become missionaries both by precept and
example. Let the one who is acting in the capacity of teacher ever bear
in mind that these children and youth are the purchase of the blood of
the Son of God. They must be led to believe in Christ as their personal
Saviour. The name of each separate believer is graven on the palms
of His hands. The Chief Shepherd is looking down from the heavenly
sanctuary upon the sheep of His pasture. “He calleth His own sheep
by name, and leadeth them out.” “If any man sin, we have an advocate
with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” O precious, blessed truth!
He does not treat one case with indifference.