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know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also
we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But
the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they
are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he
himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the
Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
You need to be learning in the school of Christ today. The Lord
has power to work with his own agents. You are loading down poor
finite men with weighty advantages to do a large work, when they
will have no opportunity or call to use a large share of the burden
of studies that they have undertaken to master. Golden opportunities
are passing into eternity, and counsel has been given that should have
been withheld; and much more and better work might have been done,
than has been done, if the period spent in Battle Creek by many of the
workers had been materially shortened. They should have been set at
work communicating the light and knowledge they have received to
those who are in darkness. The God of all grace will give grace for
grace. Those who go to work in the Lord’s vineyard will learn how to
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work, and will call to remembrance the instruction they have received
during their student life. The Lord is not pleased with encouraging
these workers to spend years in accumulating knowledge which they
will have no opportunity to impart. Precious youth, who ought to be
laboring for God, have come to Battle Creek to receive an education,
and to gain a better knowledge as to how to work. They ought to have
been taught that which is essential in a very short period. They ought
not to require years for their education before they can respond to the
call, “Go work today in my vineyard.” Instead of sending them forth
as laborers after they have put in months and years at the College,
they are advised to take other studies, and to make progress along
additional lines. They are counseled to spend months and years in
institutions where the truth is denied and controverted, and where error
of a most specious, unscriptural character is insidiously introduced,
These doctrines become mingled with their studies. They become
engrossed in advancing in educational lines, and they lose their love
for Jesus; and before they know what is the matter with them, they are
far from God, and are all unprepared to respond to the command, “Go