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in the books of heaven as unbelievers. By their precept and example
they intercept the rays of light that would come to the students. Their
danger is in being self-centered, and too wise to be instructed. Thus it
was with the Jews.
We are in a world full of corruption, and if we do not receive the
living Christ into our hearts, believing and doing his words, we shall
be left as blind as were the Jews. All teachers need to grasp every ray
of heavenly light shed upon their pathway; for as instructors they need
light. Some say, “Yes; I think I am anxious for this;” but they deceive
themselves. Where do you get your light? From what fountain have
you been drinking? I have the word of the Lord that not a few of the
teachers in our schools have left the snow waters of Lebanon for the
turbid streams of the valley. God alone can guide us safely in paths
which lead to the better country, even a heavenly. But the teachers
who are not earnestly and intelligently seeking that better country, are
leading those under their influence to be careless and to neglect the
great salvation bought for them at an infinite price.
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A close connection with God must be maintained by all our teach-
ers. If God should send his Holy Spirit into our schools to mold and
fashion the hearts, elevate the intellect, and give divine wisdom to the
students, there are those who, in their present state, would interpose
themselves between God and those who need the light. They would
not understand the work of the Holy Spirit; they have never understood
it; in the past it has been to them as great a mystery as were Christ’s
lessons to the Jews. The working of the Holy Spirit of God is not to
create curiosity; it is not for men to decide whether they shall lay their
hands upon the manifestations of the Spirit of God. We must let God
work.
When teachers are willing to sit in the school of Christ and learn of
the Great Teacher, they will know far less in their own estimation than
they do now. When God becomes the teacher, he will be acknowledged,
his name will be magnified; the students will be as were the young
men in the schools of the prophets, who caught the Spirit of God, and
prophesied. But the great adversary of souls is seeking to bring a dead,
lifeless spiritual atmosphere into all our institutions. He works to turn
and twist every circumstance to his own advantage, to the exclusion
of Jesus Christ. Today, as in the days of Christ, God cannot do many
mighty works because of the unbelief of those who stand in responsible