Study God by L. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 31, 1904

Study God

By L. A. S.

“God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” Studying God, we shall always get light — truth. Not so when we study fallen man — his words and works. Plenty of darkness is to be found in them. This is the fault of the world’s system of education. It is based on the idea that “the proper study of mankind is man.” In the world’s schools the pupil studies the character, the doings, the literature, the institutions, the laws, etc., of the men of former times. He

drinks at the fountain of the “accumulated wisdom” of the ages, and it is a poisoned fountain, full of intellectual and moral error. It fosters pride, conceit, worldly ambition, and those things that lead the mind away from the knowledge of God and the love of spiritual truth. The Christian system of education, on the other hand, centers about God. Its constant aim is a greater knowledge of him; and as he is the creator of all things, the knowledge of him gives a knowledge of the things of creation. Only thus can one have a knowledge of the nature of visible things. The Bible, being the chief revelation of God to man, is the natural text-book of the Christian system. This system does not strive to compass all knowledge in a few brief years of earthly life, since it insures an eternity of existence under far better conditions than can be afforded by this present world. It is essential, however, that the beginning of its course of study should be here and now.

L. A. S.