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study of the sciences with a keener appreciation; they may become
learned as did Daniel, with a purpose to develop and employ every
power to glorify God. But it becomes every student to learn of God,
who giveth wisdom, how to learn to the best advantage; for all are
candidates for immortality.
The Lord God came down to our world clothed with the habiliments
of humanity, that He might work out in His own life the mysterious
controversy between Christ and Satan. He discomfited the powers
of darkness. All this history is saying to man, I, your substitute and
surety, have taken your nature upon Me, showing you that every son
and daughter of Adam is privileged to become a partaker of the divine
nature, and through Christ Jesus lay hold upon immortality. Those
who are candidates for this great blessing should in everything act in a
manner to represent the advantages of their association with the Lord
through His revealed truth and through the sanctification of his Holy
Spirit. This will enlarge the mind of the human agent, fasten it upon
sacred things, set it to receive truth, to comprehend truth, which will
lead to the working out of truth through the sanctification of heart,
soul, and character.
Those who have this experience will not condescend to engage
in the amusements that have been so absorbing and so misleading in
their influence, revealing that the soul has not been eating and drinking
the words of eternal life. The departure from the simplicity of true
godliness on the part of the students was having an influence to weaken
character and lessen mental vigor. Their advancement in the sciences
was retarded, while if they were like Daniel, hearers and doers of the
word of God, they would advance as he did in all branches of learning
they entered upon. Being pure minded, they would become strong
minded. Every intellectual faculty would be sharpened. Let the Bible
be received as the only food for the soul, as it is the very best and most
effectual for the purifying and strengthening of the intellect.—
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