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True Education
the things to come—events for which, since our first parents turned
their steps from Eden, God’s children have watched and waited,
longed and prayed!
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Things of True Value
At this time, as before the world’s first destruction, men and
women today are absorbed in the pleasures and pursuits of sense.
They have lost sight of the unseen and eternal. They are sacrificing
imperishable riches for the things that perish with the using. Their
minds need to be uplifted, their views of life broadened. They need
to be aroused from the lethargy of worldly dreaming.
From the rise and fall of nations, as made plain in the Scrip-
tures, they need to learn how worthless is mere outward and worldly
glory. Babylon, with all its power and magnificence—power and
magnificence which to the people of that day seemed so stable and
enduring—how completely has it disappeared! As “the flower of
the grass” it has perished. So perishes all that does not have God
for its foundation. Only that which is bound up with His purpose
and expresses His character can endure. His principles are the only
steadfast things our world knows.
It is these great truths that old and young need to learn. We need
to study the working out of God’s purpose in the history of nations
and in the revelation of things to come, that we may estimate the true
value of things seen and things unseen and may learn the true aim
of life. Learning here the principles of His kingdom and becoming
its subjects and citizens, we may be prepared to possess it at His
coming.
The day is at hand. For the lessons to be learned, the work to
be done, the transformation of character to be effected, the time
remaining is all too brief.
“‘None of My words will be postponed any more, but the word
which I speak will be done,’ says the Lord God.”
Ezekiel 12:27, 28
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