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The Ministry of Healing
The time, means, and study that so many expend for a compara-
tively useless education should be devoted to gaining an education
that would make them practical men and women, fitted to bear life’s
responsibilities. Such an education would be of the highest value.
What we need is knowledge that will strengthen mind and soul,
that will make us better men and women. Heart education is of far
more importance than mere book learning. It is well, even essential,
to have a knowledge of the world in which we live; but if we leave
eternity out of our reckoning, we shall make a failure from which
we can never recover.
A student may devote all his powers to acquiring knowledge;
but unless he has a knowledge of God, unless he obeys the laws that
govern his own being, he will destroy himself. By wrong habits, he
loses the power of self-appreciation; he loses self-control. He cannot
reason correctly about matters that concern him most deeply. He is
reckless and irrational in his treatment of mind and body. Through
his neglect to cultivate right principles, he is ruined both for this
world and for the world to come.
If the youth understood their own weakness, they would find in
God their strength. If they seek to be taught by Him they will become
wise in His wisdom, and their lives will be fruitful of blessing to
the world. But if they give up their minds to mere worldly and
speculative study, and thus separate from God, they will lose all that
enriches life.
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