Rightly understood, both the revelations of science and the experiences of life are in harmony with the testimony of Scripture to the constant working of God in nature.

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TRUE EDUCATION IS WELL DEFINED AS THE HARMONIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF ALL THE FACULTIES --A FULL AND ADEQUATE PREPARATION FOR THIS LIFE AND THE FUTURE ETERNAL LIFE. IT IS IN THE EARLY YEARS IN THE HOME AND IN THE FORMAL SCHOOLWORK THAT THE MIND DEVELOPS, A PATTERN OF LIVING IS ESTABLISHED, AND CHARACTER IS FORMED.

 

 

The Holy Scriptures are the perfect standard of truth, and as such should be given the highest place in education. To obtain an education worthy of the name, we must receive a knowledge of God, the Creator, and of Christ, the Redeemer, as they are revealed in the sacred word.

 

Instead of educated weaklings, institutions of learning may send forth men strong to think and to act, men who are masters and not slaves of circumstances, men who possess breadth of mind, clearness of thought, and the courage of their convictions.

 

Such an education provides more than mental discipline; it provides more than physical training. It strengthens the character, so that truth and uprightness are not sacrificed to selfish desire or worldly ambition. It fortifies the mind against evil. Instead of some master passion becoming a power to destroy, every motive and desire are brought into conformity to the great principles of right. As the perfection of His character is dwelt upon, the mind is renewed, and the soul is re-created in the image of God.

 

What education can be higher than this? What can equal it in value?

 

"It cannot be gotten for gold,

 

Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

 

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir,

 

With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

 

The gold and the crystal cannot equal it

 

And the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

 

No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls:

 

For the price of wisdom is above rubies." Job 28:15-18.

 

Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God's ideal for His children. Godliness--godlikeness--is the goal to be reached.

 

 Before the student there is opened a path of continual progress. He has an object to achieve, a standard to attain, that includes everything good, and pure, and noble. He will advance as fast and as far as possible in every branch of true knowledge.

 

 But his efforts will be directed to objects as much higher than

mere selfish and temporal interests as the heavens are higher than the earth.

He who co-operates with the divine purpose in imparting to the youth a knowledge of God, and molding the character into harmony with His, does a high and noble work.

 

As he awakens a desire to reach God's ideal, he presents an education that is as high as heaven and as broad as the universe; an education that cannot be completed in this life, but that will be continued in the life to come; an education that secures to the successful student his passport from the preparatory school of earth to the higher grade, the school above.