School Management and Finance
I wish that I could command language to express clearly the im-
portance of the proper management of our schools. All should feel
that our schools are the Lord’s instrumentalities, through which He
would make Himself known to man. Everywhere men and women are
needed to act as channels of light. The truth of God is to be carried to
all lands, that men may be enlightened by it.
As a people having advanced light, we should devise means by
which to develop an army of educated missionaries to enter the various
departments of the work of God. We need well-disciplined, cultivated
young men and women in our schools, in our sanitariums, in the medi-
cal missionary work, in the offices of publication, in the conferences
of different states, and in the field at large. We need young men and
women, who, having high intellectual culture, are fitted to do the best
work for the Lord. We have done something toward reaching this
standard, but still we are far behind that which the Lord has designed.
As a church, as individuals, if we would stand clear in the judgment
we must make more liberal efforts for the training of our young people,
that they may be better fitted for the various branches of the great work
committed to our hands. As a people who have great light, we should
lay wise plans in order that the ingenious minds of those who have
talent may be strengthened and disciplined and polished, that the work
of Christ may not be hindered by lack of skillful laborers who will do
their work with earnestness and fidelity.
Some would be content with the thorough education of a few of
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the most promising of our youth; but they all need an education that
they may be fitted for usefulness in this life, qualified for places of
responsibility in both private and public life. There is great necessity
for making plans that there may be a large number of competent
workers, and many should fit themselves as teachers, that others may
be trained and disciplined for the great work of the future. The church
should take in the situation and by their influence and means seek to
bring about this much-desired end.
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