Education and the Meaning of Duty

Seventh-Day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 31, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 5

Education and the Meaning of Duty

No PLAN of a child's education (nor of an adult's education) is worth much, which leaves out of its vocabulary the word “duty.” That word is simply another form of the word “debt,” and the aspect under which it presents life is not that of self-pleasing or of self-pampering, but that of rendering to God the things that are God's, and to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's. “Ye are not your own; ye are bought with a price;” and therefore not your own culture, nor even your own salvation is to be the chief end of your activity, but to do the things which are “due” to God, and which we rightly name “duty.”—S. S. Times.