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The Ministry of Health and Healing
gifts, and rightly to employ. He desires the youth to cultivate every
power of their being and to bring every faculty into active exercise.
He desires them to enjoy all that is useful and precious in this life, to
be good and to do good, laying up a heavenly treasure for the future
life.
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It should be their ambition to excel in all things that are unselfish,
high, and noble. Let them look to Christ as their Pattern. They are to
cherish the holy ambition that He revealed in His life—an ambition
to make the world better for their having lived in it. This is the work
to which they are called.
A Broad Foundation
The highest of all sciences is the science of soul saving. The
greatest work to which human beings can aspire is the work of win-
ning men and women from sin to holiness. For the accomplishment
of this work, a broad foundation must be laid. A comprehensive ed-
ucation is needed—an education that will demand from parents and
teachers such thought and effort as mere instruction in the sciences
does not require. Something more is called for than the culture of the
intellect. Education is not complete unless the body, mind, and heart
are equally educated. The character must receive proper discipline
for its fullest and highest development. All the faculties of mind and
body are to be developed and rightly trained. It is a duty to cultivate
and exercise every power that will render us more efficient workers
for God.
True education includes the whole being. It teaches the right
use of one’s self. It enables us to make the best use of brain, bone,
and muscle, of body, mind, and heart. The faculties of the mind, as
the higher powers, are to rule the kingdom of the body. The natural
appetites and passions are to be brought under the control of the
conscience and the spiritual affections. Christ stands at the head of
humanity, and it is His purpose to lead us, in His service, into high
and holy paths of purity. By the wondrous working of His grace we
are to be made complete in Him.
Jesus received His education in the home. His mother was
His first human teacher. From her lips and from the scrolls of the
prophets, He learned of heavenly things. He lived in a peasant’s