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training are to be given, not with reference to this short, uncertain life,
but to the immortal life, which measures with the life of God. It is
not His design that those whose services He has purchased, shall be
trained to serve mammon, trained to receive human praise, human
glorification, or to be subservient to the world.
“Then said Jesus unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except
ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life
in you. Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath eternal
life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is meat indeed,
and My blood is drink indeed. He that eateth My flesh, and drinketh
My blood, dwelleth in Me, and I in Him.” These are the terms of life
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made by the world’s Redeemer, before the foundations of the earth
were laid. Are the teachers in our schools giving the students to eat
of the bread of life? Many of them are leading their students over the
same track that they themselves have trod. They think this the only
right way. They give students food which will not sustain spiritual life,
but which will cause those who partake of it to die. They are fascinated
by that which God does not require them to know.
Those teachers who are as determined as were the priests and
rulers to carry their students over the same old path in which the world
continues to travel will go into still greater darkness. Those who
might have been co-laborers with Christ, but who have spurned the
messengers and their message, will lose their bearings. They will walk
in darkness, knowing not at what they stumble. Such are ready to be
deceived by the delusions of the last day. Their minds are preoccupied
with minor interests, and they lose the blessed opportunity of yoking
up with Christ, and being laborers together with God.
The tree of knowledge, so-called, has become an instrument of
death. Satan has artfully woven himself, his dogmas, his false theories
into the instruction given. From the tree of knowledge he speaks the
most pleasing flattery in regard to the higher education. Thousands
partake of the fruit of this tree, but to them it means death. Christ
says to them: “Ye spend money for that which is not bread. You are
using your God-intrusted talents to secure an education which God
pronounces foolishness.”
Satan is striving to gain every advantage. He desires to secure, not
only students, but teachers. He has his plans laid. Disguised as an
angel of light, he will walk the earth as a wonder-worker. In beautiful