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Go Work Today, June 8
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of
the holy is understanding.
Proverbs 9:10
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Capabilities have been entrusted to every soul. These are talents to be
improved by faithful service, that Christ at His coming may receive His own
with usury.
We hear much of the higher education as the world regards the subject.
But those who are ignorant of the higher education as it was taught and
exemplified in the life of Christ, are ignorant of what constitutes the higher
education. Higher education means conformity to the terms of salvation. It
embraces the experience of daily looking unto Jesus, and of working together
with Christ for the saving of the perishing.
Idleness is sin, for there is a world to be labored for. Christ gave His life
to the work of uplifting the fallen and the sinful. Though He was the Prince
of heaven, He lived and suffered and died under the abuse and scorn of fallen
men; and this that He might prepare for the human family mansions in the
heavenly courts. Christ imparted instruction of the highest order. Can we
imagine a higher education than that to be gained in cooperation with Him?
Now is our time to work. The end of all things is at hand; soon the
night cometh in which no man can work. This night is much nearer than
many suppose. Lift up the man of Calvary before those who are living in
sin. By pen and voice labor to sweep back the false ideas that have taken
possession of men’s minds regarding the higher education. To every worker
Christ gives the command, Go work today in My vineyard for the glory of
My name. Represent before a world laden with corruption the blessedness of
true higher education. Light is to shine forth from every believer. The weary,
the heavy-laden, the broken-hearted, and the perplexed, are to be pointed to
Christ, the source of all spiritual life and strength....
Seek for the higher education, which is entire conformity to the will
of God, and you will surely reap the reward that comes as the result of its
reception. When you hourly place yourselves in that position where you
can be the recipients of the blessing of God, the name of the Lord will be
magnified through your lives.—
Letter 102, June 8, 1909
, to E. A. Sutherland
and P. T. Magan, educators formerly at Battle Creek and Berrien Springs, but
now at the school at Madison, Tennessee.
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