Chapter 5—Remarks at the Los Angeles Camp
Meeting
Preview
“A child’s first school should be his home,” Ellen White said in
1902. But because the spiritual well-being of young children was
grossly neglected in most homes, God’s servant urged the establish-
ment of Christian elementary schools
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A concise formula for child guidance is offered. Briefly summa-
rized, it consists of instilling four virtues in children: respect, obedi-
ence, reverence, and self-control. Then these are to be coupled with an
understanding that God watches all we do and think, on the one hand,
and a working definition of purity, on the other
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Remarks
I read from the second epistle of Peter: “Simon Peter, a servant and
an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious
faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ: grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge
of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath
given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through
the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby
are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust” (
2 Peter 1:1-4
).
Establishment of new schools
This scripture is full of instruction for those who are engaged in
educational work for our youth. Our brethren in positions of respon-
sibility should give special study to the management of matters in
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connection with the establishment of new schools for the training of
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