Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

Students were taught how to pray, how to approach their
Creator, how to exercise faith in Him, and how to understand and
obey the teachings of His Spirit. The presence of God's Spirit was
evident in prophecy and sacred songs.
Uplifting Music Taught
Music was made to lift the thoughts to what is pure and
elevating, and to awaken devotion and gratitude to God in the soul,
but how many use this gift to exalt self instead of to glorify God! A
love for music becomes one of the most successful agencies that
Satan uses to draw the mind away from duty and from thinking on
eternal things.
Music forms a part of God's worship in the courts above, and in
our songs of praise we should try to approach as nearly as possible
to the harmony of the heavenly choirs. Singing is as much an act of
worship as is prayer. The heart must feel the spirit of the song to
give it right expression.
Aren't there some lessons that the educators of our day might
be able to learn well from the ancient schools of the Hebrews? Real
success in education depends on faithfulness in carrying out the
Creator's plan.
The true object of education is to restore the image of God in
the soul. Sin has nearly erased the image of God in human beings--
to bring them back to the perfection in which they were first created
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