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was represented in Christ, and the attention in education must be of
that character that they will look to Him and believe in Him as the
likeness of God. He had a most wonderful mission to this world, and
His work was not in a line to give a full relation of His personal claims
to deity, but His humiliation was a concealment of His claims. This
is why the Jewish nation did not acknowledge Christ as the Prince of
life; because He did not come with display and outward appearance,
for He hid under the garb of humanity His glorious character.
The human family was to consider Him in the light of the holy
Scriptures, which were to testify of the manner of His coming. Had
He come, displaying His glory that He had with His Father, then His
pathway toward the cross would have been thwarted by the purpose of
men, who would have taken Him by force, and made Him king. He
was to close His life by making a solemn oblation of Himself. Type
was to reach antitype in Jesus Christ. His whole life was a preface
to His death on the cross. His character was a life of obedience to
all God’s commandments, and was to be a sample for all men upon
the earth. His life was the living of the law in humanity. That law
Adam transgressed. But Christ, by His perfect obedience to the law
redeemed Adam’s disgraceful failure and fall.
The prophecies are to be studied, and the life of Christ compared
with the writings of the prophets. He identifies Himself with the
prophecies, stating over and over again, They wrote of Me; they testify
of Me. The Bible is the only book giving a positive description of
Christ Jesus; and if every human being would study it as his lesson
book, and obey it, not a soul would be lost.
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All the rays of light shining in the Scriptures point to Jesus Christ,
and testify of Him, linking together the Old and New Testament Scrip-
tures. Christ is presented as the author and finisher of their faith,
Himself the one in whom their hopes of eternal life are centered. “For
God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.”
What book can begin to compare with the Bible? It is essential
for every child, for youth, and for those of mature age to understand;
for it is the word of God, the word to guide all the human family to
heaven. Then why does not the word from God contain the chief
elements which constitute education? Uninspired authors are placed in