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the dead, He was with His disciples forty days, and in this time He
gave them much precious instruction. He laid down to His followers
the principles underlying the higher education. And when He was
about to leave them and go to His Father, His last words to them were,
“I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.”
To many who place their children in our schools, strong temptations
will come, because they desire them to secure what the world regards
as the most essential education. Who knows what constitutes the
most essential education, unless it is the education to be obtained
from that Book which is the foundation of all true knowledge? Those
who regard as essential the knowledge to be gained along the line of
worldly education are making a great mistake, one which will cause
them to be swayed by individual opinions that are human and erring.
To those who feel that their children must have what the world calls the
essential education, I would say, Bring your children to the simplicity
of the word of God, and they will be safe. We are going to be greatly
scattered before long, and what we do must be done quickly.
The light has been given me that tremendous pressures will be
brought upon every Seventh-day Adventist with whom the world can
get into close connection. Those who seek the education that the
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world esteems so highly, are gradually led further and further from the
principles of truth until they become educated worldlings. At what
a price have they gained their education! They have parted with the
Holy Spirit of God. They have chosen to accept what the world calls
knowledge in the place of the truths which God has committed to
men through His ministers and prophets and apostles. And there are
some who, having secured this worldly education, think that they can
introduce it into our schools. But let me tell you that you must not take
what the world calls the higher education and bring it into our schools
and sanitariums and churches. We need to understand these things. I
speak to you definitely. This must not be done.
Upon the mind of every student should be impressed the thought
that education is a failure unless the understanding has learned to
grasp the truths of divine revelation, and unless the heart accepts the
teachings of the gospel of Christ. The student who, in the place of
the broad principles of the word of God, will accept common ideas,
and will allow the time and attention to be absorbed in commonplace,
trivial matters, will find his mind becoming dwarfed and enfeebled. He