Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

of present truth. And one of the principal agencies
He has ordained for our use is the printed page. In
our schools and sanitariums, in our home churches,
and particularly in our annual camp meetings, we
must learn to make a wise use of this precious
agency. With patient diligence, chosen workers
must instruct our people how to approach
unbelievers in a kindly, winning way, and how to
place in their hands literature in which the truth for
this time is presented with clearness and power.
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Only by the aid of that Spirit who in the
beginning “was brooding upon the face of the
waters;” of that Word by whom “all things were
made;” of that “true Light, which lighteth every
man that cometh into the world” (Genesis 1:2,
R.V., margin; John 1:3, 9), can the testimony of
science be rightly interpreted. Only by their
guidance can its deepest truths be discerned. Only
under the direction of the Omniscient One shall we,
in the study of His works, be enabled to think His
thoughts after Him.
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