Chapter 42—The Basis of True Education
True education is a grand science; for it is founded on the fear of
the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom. Christ is the greatest
Teacher this world ever knew, and it is not the pleasure of the Lord
Jesus that the subjects of His kingdom, for whom He died, shall be
educated in such a way that they will be led to place the wisdom of
men in the forefront, and delegate to the wisdom of God, as revealed
in His holy word, a place in the rear. True education is that which will
train children and youth for the life that now is, and in reference to that
which is to come; for an inheritance in that better country, even in an
heavenly. They are to be trained for the country for which patriarchs
and prophets looked. “These all died in faith, not having received
the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of
them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and
pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that
they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country
from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have
returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:
wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He hath
prepared for them a city.”
The general method of educating the youth does not meet the stan-
dard of true education. Infidel sentiments are interwoven in the matter
placed in schoolbooks, and the oracles of God are placed in a ques-
tionable or even an objectionable light. Thus the minds of the youth
become familiar with Satan’s suggestions, and the doubts once enter-
tained become to those who entertain them, assured facts, and scientific
research is made misleading on account of the way its discoveries are
interpreted and perverted. Men take it upon themselves to rein up the
word of God before a finite tribunal, and sentence is pronounced upon
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the inspiration of God according to finite measurement, and the truth
of God is made to appear as a thing uncertain before the records of
science. These false educators exalt nature above nature’s God, and
above the Author of all true science. At the very time when teachers
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