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workers are ever to keep in mind that God requires perfection in all
things connected with His service. Let all who enter our institutions
to receive instruction understand this. Let opportunity be given for
all to acquire the greatest possible efficiency. Let them become ac-
quainted with different lines of work so that, if called to other fields,
they will have an all-round training and thus be qualified to bear varied
responsibilities.
Apprentices should be so trained that, after the necessary time spent
in the institution, they can go forth prepared to take up intelligently
the different lines of printing work, giving momentum to the cause
of God by the best use of their energies and capable of imparting to
others the knowledge they have received.
All the workers should be impressed with the fact that they are
not only to be educated in business lines, but to become qualified to
bear spiritual responsibilities. Let every worker be impressed with the
importance of a personal connection with Christ, a personal experience
of His power to save. Let the workers be educated as were the youth in
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the schools of the prophets. Let their minds be molded by God through
His appointed agencies. All should receive a training in Bible lines,
should be rooted and grounded in the principles of truth, that they
may keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment. Let every
effort be made to arouse and encourage the missionary spirit. Let the
workers be impressed with a sense of the high privilege proffered them
in this last work of salvation, to be used by God as His helping hand.
Let each be taught to work for others, by practical labor for souls just
where he is. Let all learn to look to the word of God for instruction
in every line of missionary effort. Then, as the word of the Lord is
communicated to them, it will supply their minds with suggestions for
working the fields in such a way as to bring to God the best returns
from all parts of His vineyard.
God’s Purpose Fulfilled
Christ desires by the fullness of His power so to strengthen His
people that through them the whole world shall be encircled with an
atmosphere of grace. When His people shall make a wholehearted
surrender of themselves to God, this purpose will be accomplished.
The word of the Lord to those connected with His institutions is: “Be