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Testimonies for the Church Volume 6
Inspection by General Conference Auditor
The light given me by the Lord is that wise men, men of financial
ability, should visit our schools in every country and keep an account
of their financial standing. This matter should not be left to ministers
or committee-men, who have no time to take this burden. The teachers
are not to be left with this responsibility. These matters of school
business call for talent which has not been provided.
If the leaders had exercised clear-sighted judgment in past years,
the discouraging financial conditions that have so hindered the cause
in recent years would never have been permitted to exist.
If our educational work had been carried on in accordance with
the instruction given for our guidance, the dark shadow of heavy debt
would not today be hanging over our institutions.
The Church Schools
The same principles which, if followed, will bring success and
blessing to our training schools and colleges, should govern our plans
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and work for the church schools. Let all share the expense. Let the
church see that those who ought to receive its benefits are attending the
school. Poor families should be assisted. We cannot call ourselves true
missionaries if we neglect those at our very doors who are at the most
critical age and who need our aid to secure knowledge and experience
that will fit them for the service of God.
The Lord would have painstaking efforts made in the education of
our children. True missionary work done by teachers who are daily
taught of God would bring many souls to a knowledge of the truth
as it is in Jesus, and children thus educated will impart to others the
light and knowledge received. Shall the members of the church give
means to advance the cause of Christ among others and leave their
own children to carry on the work and service of Satan?
As church schools are established, the people of God will find it a
valuable education for themselves to learn how to conduct the school
on a basis of financial success. If this cannot be done, close the school
until, with the help of God, plans can be devised to carry it on without
the blot of debt upon it. Men of financial ability should look over the
accounts once, twice, or thrice a year, to ascertain the true standing of