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Education a Fitting for Service
The true object of education is to fit men and women for service
by developing and bringing into active exercise all their faculties.
The work at our colleges and training schools should be strengthened
year by year, for in them our youth are to be prepared to go forth
to serve the Lord as efficient laborers. The Lord calls upon the
youth to enter our schools and quickly fit themselves for active
work. Time is short. Workers for Christ are needed everywhere.
Urgent inducements should be held out to those who ought now to
be engaged in earnest effort for the Master.
Our schools have been established by the Lord; and if they are
conducted in harmony with His purpose, the youth sent to them will
be quickly prepared to engage in various branches of missionary
work. Some will be trained to enter the field as missionary nurses,
some as canvassers, some as evangelists, and some as gospel minis-
ters. Some are to be prepared to take charge of church schools, in
which the children shall be taught the first principles of education.
This is a very important work, demanding high ability and careful
study.
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Satan is trying to lead men and women away from right prin-
ciples. The enemy of all good, he desires to see human beings so
trained that they will exert their influence on the side of error, in-
stead of using their talents to bless their fellow men. And multitudes
who profess to belong to God’s true church are falling under his
deceptions. They are being led to turn away from their allegiance to
the King of heaven.
The signs which show that Christ’s coming is near are fast ful-
filling. The Lord calls upon our youth to labor as canvassers and
evangelists, to do house-to-house work in places where the truth
has not yet been proclaimed. He speaks to our young men, saying,
“Know ye not that ... ye are not your own? for ye are bought with a
price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which
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