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Fundamentals of Christian Education
step taken in the acquirement of knowledge or in the culture of the
intellect should be a step toward the assimilation of the human to the
divine.
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. But what constitutes the most essential
education, unless it be 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 opinions that are human and erring.
Those who seek the education that the world esteems so highly are
gradually led farther and farther from the principles of truth until they
become educated worldlings. At what a price have they gained their
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education! They have parted with the Holy Spirit of God. They have
chosen to accept what the world calls knowledge in place of the truths
that God has committed to men through His ministers and prophets
and apostles.
Upon fathers and mothers devolves the responsibility of giving a
Christian education to the children intrusted to them. In no case are
they to let any line of business so absorb mind and time and talents
that their children are allowed to drift until they are separated far from
God. They are not to allow their children to slip out of their grasp into
the hands of unbelievers. They are to do all in their power to keep
them from imbibing the spirit of the world. They are to train them
to become workers together with God. They are to be God’s human
hand, fitting themselves and their children for an endless life.
There is earnest work to be done for the children. Before the
overflowing scourge shall come upon all the dwellers on the earth, the
Lord calls on those who are Israelites indeed to serve Him. Gather your
children into your own houses; gather them in from the classes who are
voicing the words of Satan, who are disobeying the commandments of
God. Let us in our educational work embrace far more of the children
and youth, and there will be a whole army of missionaries raised up to
work for God.
Our educational institutions are to do much toward meeting the
demands for trained workers for the mission fields. Workers are needed
all over the world. The truth of God is to be carried to foreign lands,