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Student Missionary Work
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Helpful Effort in the School
The student has a special work to do in the school itself. In
the schoolroom and in the school home there are missionary fields
awaiting his labors. Here a variety of minds are gathered, many
different characters and dispositions. By proving himself a help
and blessing to these, the student has the privilege of showing the
genuineness of his love for Christ and his willingness to improve
the opportunities for service that come to him. By helpful, kindly
words and deeds he may impart to his associates the grace of God
bestowed on him.
God wants the youth to be a help to one another. Each has trials
to bear, temptations to meet. While one may be strong on some
points, he may be weak on others, having grave faults to overcome.
God says to all, “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the
law of Christ.”
Galatians 6:2
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Not all the youth are able to grasp ideas quickly. If you see
a fellow student who has difficulty in understanding his lessons,
explain them to him. State your ideas in clear, simple language.
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Often minds apparently stolid will catch ideas more quickly from
a fellow student than from a teacher. Be patient and persevering,
and by and by the hesitancy and dullness will disappear. In your
efforts to help others, you will be helped. God will give you power to
advance in your studies. He will co-operate with you, and in heaven
the words will be spoken of you, “Good and faithful servant.”
Let every student realize that he is in the school to help his fellow
students to co-operate with God, to co-operate with the prayers that
are rising in their behalf. In sympathy and love he should help his
associates to press heavenward.
Students, co-operate with your teachers. As you do this, you give
them hope and courage, and at the same time you are helping your-
selves to advance. Remember that it rests largely with you whether
your teachers stand on vantage ground, their work an acknowledged
success. They will appreciate every effort made by you to co-operate
with their work.
Students should have their own seasons of prayer, when they may
offer fervent petitions in behalf of the principal and teachers of the
school that they may be given physical strength, mental clearness,