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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 9, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 23.

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Testimonies for the Church, Vol. VIII

If you are interested in the advancement of the third angel's message, and if you know why our headquarters are being moved to another place, you should also know the instruction given to our people with reference to this move. “Trees that are planted too thickly do not flourish,” says the Testimony. You will be interested in the remainder of this chapter addressed to the lay members.
Have you children? Do they need an education? We quote: “I am instructed to warn parents whose children have not firmness of principle or clear Christian experience, not to send them away from home to distant places to be absent for many months,” etc. And again: “Parents, guardians, place your children in training-schools where the influences are similar to those of the rightly conducted home school.” The foregoing quotations are extracts from the chapter on the training of our youth, and the wholesome instruction given makes it plain when the one or the other is applicable. You need to know for your children's sake.
From the chapter on “God in Nature,” we note the following:—
“Men of the greatest intellect can not understand the mysteries of Jehovah as revealed in nature. Divine inspiration asks many questions which the most profound scholar can not answer. These questions were not asked that we might answer them, but to call our attention to the deep mysteries of God, and to teach us that our wisdom is limited; that in the surroundings of our daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of finite minds; that the judgment and purposes of God are past finding out. His wisdom is unsearchable.
“Skeptics refuse to believe in God, because with their finite minds they can not comprehend the infinite power by which he reveals himself to men. But God is to be acknowledged more from what he does not reveal of himself than from that which is open to our limited comprehension.”
The preceding are only a taste of the good things given consideration in this volume. If you have not yet secured a copy of Volume VIII, do not delay. You can not afford to be without it. Bound in cloth, 75 cents, in flexible leather, $1.25.