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good. The world’s wisdom was weighed in the balances, and found
wanting. You are giving the students under your guardianship ideas
that are not correct. If they had received far less of them, they would
have been better fitted for the prosecution of their work. You do not
properly consider the instruction and the method of our Lord Jesus
Christ, yet He was the only perfect Educator in our world. “Now we
have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of
God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can
he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is
spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For
who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But
we have the mind of Christ.”
You need to be learning in the school of Christ today. The Lord
has power to work with His own agents. You are loading down poor
finite men with weighty advantages to do a large work, when they
will have no opportunity or call to use a large share of the burden
of studies that they have undertaken to master. Golden opportunities
are passing into eternity, and counsel has been given that should have
been withheld; and much more and better work might have been done,
than has been done, if the period spent in Battle Creek by many of the
workers had been materially shortened. They should have been set at
work communicating the light and knowledge they have received to
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those who are in darkness. The God of all grace will give grace for
grace. Those who go to work in the Lord’s vineyard will learn how to
work, and will call to remembrance the instruction they have received
during their student life. The Lord is not pleased with encouraging
these workers to spend years in accumulating knowledge which they
will have no opportunity to impart. Precious youth, who ought to be
laboring for God, have come to Battle Creek to receive an education,
and to gain a better knowledge as to how to work. They ought to have
been taught that which is essential in a very short period. They ought
not to require years for their education before they can respond to the
call, “Go work today in my vineyard.” Instead of sending them forth
as laborers after they have put in months and years at the College,