Our Youth and Children Demand Our Care
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Eternity is not to be lost out of our reckoning. The highest education
will be that which will teach our children and youth, our teachers and
educators, the science of Christianity, that will give them an exper-
imental knowledge of God’s ways, and impart to them the lessons
which Christ gave to his disciples of the paternal character of God.
“Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man
glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise
loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in
these things I delight, saith the Lord.” “He hath showed thee, O man,
what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly,
and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” “Who is a God
like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression
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of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger forever,
because he delighteth in mercy.” “Wash you; make you clean; put
away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do
evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the
fatherless, plead for the widow.” Let us seek to follow the counsel of
God in all things: for he is infinite in wisdom. Though we have come
short of doing what we might have done for our youth and children
in the past, let us now repent and redeem the time. The Lord says,
“Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though
they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and
obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: but if ye refuse and rebel,
ye shall be devoured with the sword.”
The Review and Herald, April
28, 1896
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