CHRISTIAN EDUCATION!     DFO1039  24/6/81

         1. THE MAIN THING THAT THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS (FOUND IN 1947) PROVED WAS THAT THE DANIEL PROPHECIES WERE ACTUAL PROPHECIES & not just recordings of past events, because it was the first time that any actual writings had been discovered pre-dating some of those events which he predicted. It was another sign to me that the Lord's doing everything He can in these Last Days to help people believe.
         2. THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT SOME MEN LIVED IN CAVES AFTER THEY WERE DRIVEN OUT OF THE GARDEN. However, some men immediately built cities, so they didn't gradually evolve from caves to cities. When man lost the Garden he just lived wherever he could, & it wasn't billions of years ago either. It wasn't even millions of years ago. In fact, it wasn't even hundreds of thousands, it was only 6,000 years ago! (See ML No.736.)
         3. NEARLY ALL MODERN TEXTBOOKS ARE THE DEVIL'S BIBLES DESIGNED TO DENY THE TRUTH OF GOD, they're the lies of the Devil! These recommended books do not necessarily mean we recommend everything they say, but that they're the best we can find for the subjects on educational material for our older children. If you buy the books, maybe you can just as well tear out the first few pages or statements that deal with unrecorded history which are actually man's guesswork & not Bible or fact.
         4. THE ANTI-GOD, ANTI-BIBLE, ANTI-CHRIST TEACHING OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL ONLY SLIGHTLY WORRIED THE CHURCHES, but when their kids began to get into drugs, vice & crime, well, that was a little different story & they began to start their own schools. I will say this for the encouragement of our Family regarding their children & the compulsory education laws, we kept our children out of public schools for literally years either by travel--during which we did have them taking correspondence courses most of the time as a sort of an excuse in case anybody asked--& by keeping them in Christian schools part-time! Part-time on the road, part-time in Christian schools & part-time in public schools.
         5. REALLY WE FELT THAT IT WAS GOOD FOR THEM TO GET THE EXPERIENCE OF A TASTE OF SYSTEM PUBLIC SCHOOLS, JUST TO SEE HOW AWFUL THEY WERE! If anything cures a Christian young person of any desire to be in the System, just give them a little taste of public school when they're old enough! That'll usually cure them! (Maria: It seems like it's better for the older children than the little small ones, because they don't have enough of a basis.) Yes. Keep the little ones at home!
         6. AS LONG AS OUR CHILDREN ARE WELL-TRAINED AT HOME & INSULATED FROM ANY FALSE DOCTRINES & twisted interpretations of history, I would feel perfectly safe to send our children to a Catholic school--as long as they were taught the truth at home & they know the difference between right & wrong, the same way they have to know the difference between right & wrong in public school.
         7. AND THERE MAY BE GOOD SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST SCHOOLS OR EVEN EVANGELICAL SCHOOLS NEARBY where we could send our children & be relieved of all the work & trouble of having to teach them the minimum of secular education required by the State under the compulsory education law! Many of those teachers, those monks & nuns etc., are extremely dedicated & conscientious & sincere & really love the Lord the best they know how in their way. Their heart is in their work, devoted & dedicated, usually working at very low salaries on their mere expenses, & they are there because they want to be in a Christian school & preach & teach Christ, whether they be Protestant or Catholic.
         8. AND OF COURSE, AS A LAST RESORT WE CAN ALWAYS ORGANISE OUR OWN SCHOOL. You can use any textbooks you want, printed wherever you want. You don't even have to have credentials as a teacher or accreditation by anybody. The one-room school teacher is a genius, like the master of a five-ring circus or a one-arm paper hanger with the hives! (Maria: Just the kind of experts our mothers are getting to be with five, six & seven children that they have to teach all at once!) They can keep so many things going at once & they always make very good use of the older students in the upper grades for tutoring & supervising the younger children to help them with their lessons & read to them & help them understand their studies.
         9. I'D SAY ANY OF THEM ARE BETTER THAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS! They will be associating with children from better homes, Christian homes, usually middle class homes that can afford to pay for their children to go to a private school, better behaved & more Christian in their outlook. Our children are supposed to be becoming-one anyway with their mission fields! We love them & we believe in becoming one on our mission fields. My children were always well-behaved, good students & really had the same convictions & goals & aims & ideals & standards or even better than the local Christian schools.
         10. SO I WOULDN'T HESITATE TO SEND MY CHILDREN TO A GOOD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF ALMOST ANY KIND. And we might even find that the Catholics & the Seventh Day Adventists are not even as much against us as a Family as are the Evangelicals. And if worse comes to worst, as a last resort we can organise our own! It's extra trouble & extra expense etc., but it's not all that hard to do. I've had a lot of experience with Christian schools & taught in one for years, so I know exactly how it's done. So don't worry about it, trust the Lord. PTL! God will take care of His own. In Jesus' name, amen! GBY! WLY! Give your kids a Christian education!--Amen? They deserve it & you owe it to'm!--Amen?