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Our Children and Youth Demand Our Care
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time. We must be aroused to see what needs to be done in Christ’s
spiritual vineyard, and go to work.
A Liberal Education to Be Provided
As a people who claim to have advanced light, we are to de-
vise ways and means by which to bring forth a corps of educated
workmen for the various departments of the work of God. We need
a well-disciplined, cultivated class of young men and women in
our sanitariums, in the medical 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 have a high intellectual
culture, in order that they may do the best work for the Lord. We
have done something toward reaching this standard, but still we are
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far behind where we should be.
As a church, as individuals, if we would stand clear in the judg-
ment, 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. We should lay wise
plans, in order that the ingenious minds of those who have talent
may be strengthened and disciplined, and polished after the highest
order, that the work of Christ may not be hindered for lack of skillful
laborers, who will do their work with earnestness and fidelity.
All to Be Trained
The church is asleep, and does not realize the magnitude of this
matter of educating the children and youth. “Why,” one says, “what
is the need of being so particular to educate our youth thoroughly?
It seems to me that if you take a few who have decided to follow a
literary calling or some other calling that requires a certain discipline,
and give due attention to them, that is all that is necessary. It is not
required that the whole mass of our youth be so well trained. Will
not this answer every essential requirement?”
I answer, No, most decidedly not. What selection should we
be able to make out of the numbers of our youth? How could we
tell who would be the most promising, who would render the best
service to God? In our judgment we might look upon the outward