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the jlaimpt rapt!. Sabbath Vol. 112 Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., U. S. A., August 22, 1935 No. 34 I * Take Thou my torch, lest I should let it fall, • Take For I have run my race and hold the flame In readiness for younger, stronger hands. Grasp well, my son, the beacon, as the call, Thou * "Go forward," echoes, and One calls thy name; Bear it with honor into darkened lands, + Or keep it burning where the pleasant tones M y And happy accents of thy fathers sound. + 7 Take thou my torch, and with it light the fire • + I Torch That kindles thine own hearthstone. May the moans Of those who cast their signals to the ground t 1 Ring in thine ears, shouldst thou grow lax or tire. + Run well thy course unto the glorious end, By Nor falter at discouragement and woe. + 7 44 Hold fast! The goal is just before thine eyes; + I The Master is thy judge, thy guide, thy friend; MAY COLE KUHN In confidence and faith and courage, go! 4 4. ▪ I And win eternal life, the victor's prize. + + O daughter, take my torch and hold it fast. Thy' gentle hands may tremble and grow weak, + I Thy feet may falter, and the way seem hard. + T It matters not if thou be first or last, = Thou needst not scale the loftiest mountain peak; I Only be true, that thou may'st not retard + + The passing of the light to other hands. * 1 Be pure, so that thy flame may clearly glow; Be brave, lest others fail because of thee; * I + I Be kind, for hearts are bowed with grief and care. 4* + I Then shalt thou speed thy course; yet shalt thou know That victory is won on bended knee; 4 That honor, though it seem to them that wear * + I The laurel in the eyes of men, is found 4 I Within the heart of innocence; and joy 4* I Comes to the meek, and those who daily bear Their gleam aloft, forgetting glory's lure; * + So others find the way; for trial shall not destroy + The brilliance of the signal thou dost bear, IIV4 Be thy soul white; the prize is to the pure. + Shanghai, China. * • + + +++++++4 +++++.+ + + ++ +++ + .44 + + + + ++ 4* ++ + k+ 4* + + + + + + + ++ + 4 + + + + + • 4. *T.+++ 4* 44++ ++++++++ ing and bringing into active exercise all their faculties. The work at our colleges S HEART-TO-HEART TALKS WITH OUR READERS and training schools should be strength- ened year by year; for in them our youth By- The Editor are to be prepared to go forth to serve the Lord as efficient laborers. The Lord calls upon the youth to enter our schools, s and quickly fit themselves for active work. Time is short. Workers for True Higher Education Christ are needed everywhere. Urgent inducements should be held out to those who ought now to be engaged in earnest I HAVE spoken in previous articles tion of these principles will be found effort for the Master."—Id., p. 493. of some of the dangers threatening the remedy for the difficulties which "In the grand work of education, in- the church at large. I wish to con- we face. Our study and burden of struction in the sciences is not to be of sider now the question of Christian heart should be to follow closely the an inferior character, but that knowledge must be considered of first importance education—what does it embrace, divine pattern instead of the pattern which will fit a people to stand in the how is it related to secular education, of the world, and when we do this great day of God's preparation. Our what dangers, if any, threaten it in we shall not need to feel undue con- schools must be more like the schools of our experience as a church? cern over the future. When we faith- the prophets. They should be training The value of Christian education fully obey God, He will take care schools, where the students may be brought under the discipline of Christ, was recognized in the early days of of results. May Heaven make us and learn of the Great Teacher."—Id., this movement. While the public true and faithful to the instruction p. 152. schools offered an excellent fitting we have received. In this path of "The Lord does not choose or accept for the usual vocations of life, a obedience only will we find true suc- laborers according to the numerous ad- gi vantages which they have enjoyed, or ac- 111. preparation for intelligent citizen- cess and meet the mind and purpose cording to the superior education which ship and for the youth to take their of the Great Teacher. they have received. The value of the places in society and to make a suc- It is proper for us to consider first human agent is estimated according to cess of professional and business call- what is embraced in Christian educa- the capacity of the heart to know and ings, the pioneers in this movement tion. understand God."—"Special Testimonies on Education," p. 114. recognized that this education could Christian Education Defined not, in the very nature of the case, Christian education embraces a A High Plane of Mental and Moral Endowment take into account the preparation training of the spiritual, mental, and for the life to come; nor could it physical powers. While Christian education has to properly fit the youth of this move- "The true object of education is to re- do with a preparation of heart and ment for Christian service, for the store the image of God in the soul."— mind for life here and for life in the proclamation of the gospel message "Christian Education," p. 63. world to come, its standard of ex- for this day and generation. "True education means more than the cellence is not to be one whit lower 111 In view of this the establishment pursual of a certain course of study. It than the standard of the public means more than a preparation for the of schools of our own became a prime life that now is. It has to do with the school. Rather, it is to aim higher necessity. That they have accom- whole being, and with the whole period than any system of worldly educa- plished a great work through the of existence possible to man. It is the tion, and to produce a moral and years we all must recognize. Today harmonious development of the physical, mental development unobtainable in the mental, and the spiritual powers. It we may well believe they are render- prepares the student for the joy of serv- the secular school. ing the most efficient service in their ice in this world, and for the higher joy In attempting to attain the object history. Our teachers as a group of wider service in the world to come."— of our schools, the highest ideals are men and women whose hearts "Education," p. 13. should be placed before the students. God has touched, and who sense the One purpose in the establishment "Higher than the highest human solemn responsibility of their high of our schools was that the study of thought can reach is God's ideal for His and holy calling. May God bless the sciences might be combined with children. Godliness—godlikeness—is the them in their truly noble work. goal to be reached. Before the student MI the study of the Holy Scriptures, there is opened a path of continual prog- Much has been said in the writings and thus our youth be prepared for ress. He has an object to achieve, a of the Spirit of prophecy regarding Christian service. standard to attain, that includes every- the character of our schools, the ob- "One great object of our schools is the thing good, and pure, and noble. He will jectives they should constantly keep training of youth to engage in service in advance as fast and as far as possible in our institutions and in different lines of every branch of true knowledge. But before them, the education of heart his efforts will be directed to objects as and mind and body which should be gospel work."—"Testimonies," Vol. VI, p. 133. much higher than mere selfish and tem- given to the children of the church, poral interests as the heavens are higher "God designs that all our institutions than the and the snares and pitfalls by which shall become instrumentalities for educat- earth."—"Education," p. 18. the enemy of all righteousness would ing and developing workers of whom He "We are not at liberty to teach that will not be ashamed, workers who can which shall meet the world's standard or seek to pervert this high and holy the standard of the church, simply be- purpose. I feel that from time to be sent out as well-qualified missionaries to do service for the Master; but this cause it is the custom to do so. The time this instruction should be re- object has not been kept in view."—Id., lessons which Christ taught are to be viewed by every reader of our church p. 135. the standard."—"Testimonies," Vol. VI, p. 142. paper. I recognize that many of our "There is danger that our college will "We are not to elevate our standard brethren and sisters do not have the be turned away from its original design. God's purpose has been made known,— just a little above the world's standard; books in which this instruction is but we are to make the distinction de- lip that our people should have an oppor- cidedly found, and therefore there is all the tunity to study the sciences, and at the apparent."—Id., pp.