The City Field Training School
Laying the Foundation for Service—Before a person is prepared
to become a teacher of the truth to those who are in darkness, he must
become a learner.... Whenever a special effort is to be made in an
important place, a well-arranged system of labor should be established,
so that those who wish to become colporteurs and canvassers, and those
who are adapted to give Bible readings in families, may receive the
necessary instruction....
There should be connected with our missions, training schools for
those who are about to enter the field as laborers. They should feel
that they must become as apprentices to learn the trade of laboring for
the conversion of souls. The labor in these schools should be varied.
The study of the Bible should be made of primary importance, and at
the same time there should be a systematic training of the mind and
manners, that they may learn to approach people in the best possible
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way. All should learn how to labor with tact and with courtesy, and
with the Spirit of Christ.—
The Review and Herald, June 14, 1887
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Training Workers During Evangelistic Series—A well-
balanced work can be carried on best in the cities when a Bible school
for the training of workers is in progress while public meetings are
being held. Connected with this training school or city mission should
be experienced laborers of deep spiritual understanding, who can give
the Bible workers daily instruction, and who can also unite whole-
heartedly in the general public effort. And as men and women are
converted to the truth, those standing at the head of the mission should,
with much prayer, show these new converts how to experience the
power of the truth in their hearts. Such a mission, if conducted by
those who know how to manage wisely, will be a light shining in a
dark place.—
Gospel Workers, 364, 365
The Field School in Action—Brother and Sister Haskell have
rented a house in one of the best parts of the city, and have gathered
round them a family of helpers, who day by day go out giving Bible
readings, selling our papers, and doing medical missionary work.
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