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False and the True in Education
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The widespread use of such books at this time is one of the
cunning devices of Satan. He is seeking to divert the minds of old and
young from the great work of character building. He purposes that
our children and youth shall be swept away by the soul-destroying
deceptions with which he is filling the world. Therefore he seeks to
divert their minds from the Word of God and thus prevent them from
obtaining a knowledge of those truths that would be their safeguard.
Never should books containing a perversion of truth be placed
in the hands of children or youth. Let not our children, in the very
process of obtaining an education, receive ideas that will prove to
be seeds of sin. Even people with mature minds would be far safer
if they had nothing to do with such books, and their example and
influence on the right side would make it much easier to guard the
youth from temptation.
We have an abundance of that which is real, that which is divine.
Those who thirst for knowledge need not go to polluted fountains.
The Lord says:
“Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise,
And apply your heart to My knowledge. ...
That your trust may be in the Lord;
I have instructed you today, even you.
Have I not written to you excellent things
Of counsels and knowledge,
That I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth,
That you may answer words of truth
To those who send to you?”
“He established a testimony in Jacob,
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers,
That they should make them known to their children;”
“Telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.”
“That the generation to come might know them,
The children who would be born,
That they may arise and declare them to their children,