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The Ministry of Health and Healing
The knowledge of God as revealed in His Word is the knowledge
to be given to our children. From the earliest dawn of reason, they
should be made familiar with the name and the life of Jesus. Their
first lessons should teach them that God is their Father. Their first
training should be that of loving obedience. Reverently and tenderly
let the Word of God be read and repeated to them in portions suited
to their comprehension and adapted to awaken their interest. Above
all, let them learn of God’s love revealed in Christ, and its great
lesson: “If God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
1
John 4:11
.
Young people should make the Word of God the food of mind
and soul. The cross of Christ should be made the science of all
education, the center of all teaching and all study. Let it be brought
into the daily experience in practical life. In this way the Savior will
become to the youth a daily companion and friend. Every thought
will be brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. With the
apostle Paul they will be able to say: “God forbid that I should glory
except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has
been crucified to me, and I to the world.”
Galatians 6:14
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Thus through faith they come to know God by an experimental
knowledge. They have proved for themselves the reality of His
Word, the truth of His promises. They have tasted, and they know
that the Lord is good.
The beloved John had a knowledge gained through his own
experience. He could testify: “That which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we
have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word
of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness,
and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and
was manifested to us—that which we have seen and heard we declare
to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our
fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.”
1 John
1:1-3
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So all may be able, through their own experience, to certify that
“God is true.”
John 3:33
. They can bear witness to that which they
themselves have seen and heard and felt of the power of Christ. They
can testify: “I needed help, and I found it in Jesus. Every want was
supplied. The hunger of my soul was satisfied. The Bible is to me