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experience will allow. Thus Elijah educated the youth of Israel in the
schools of the prophets; and young men today are to have a similar
training. It is not possible to advise in every particular the part that the
youth should act; but they should be faithfully instructed by the older
workers, and taught to look ever to Him who is the author and finisher
of our faith.—
Gospel Workers, 101, 102
(1915).
To Work With, but Not Copy, Experienced Workers—The in-
experienced ones should not be sent out alone. They should stand
right by the side of older and experienced ministers, where they could
educate them. But they should say to them, “You must not copy my
gestures, nor the tone of my voice, so that nobody will know whether
you are speaking or whether I am speaking. You are to stand in your
own armor, with your own phase of character, sanctified by God. You
are not to take my phase of character, nor my gestures, nor my tone of
voice, nor my expressions, nor my words.”
I think this has been shown me twenty times in my lifetime, and I
have tried to tell it to the brethren, but the evil is not remedied. When
one of these men who have not an experience in the work stands by
your side he is not to think in everything just as you think, and look at
everything just as you look at it; that if you should give up the truth
he would say, “I might as well give it up.” Let them stand to obtain a
symmetry of character from the God of heaven; not that they should
have your ideas, and you have a molding influence on them; but you
should carry them right to the Bible as their pattern. The importance
of these things has been shown me so many times that I feel a burden
on this point.—
Manuscript 19b, 1890
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Not to Repress or Discourage New Workers—God never de-
signed that one man’s judgment and plans should be regarded as
supreme. He says, Ye are laborers together with God. Let no man
undertake to repress or discourage. Let him not seek to put his armor
upon his brother, for he has not proved it.... And the ministers are never
to copy any man’s gestures, his habits, his attitude, his expressions, the
tones of his voice. They are to become no man’s shadow, in thought,
in sentiment, or in devising and executing the great whole. If God has
made you a shepherd of the flock, He has given you qualification to
do that work.—
Manuscript 104, 1898
.
Young Men Called to Front-Line Service—Men of gray hairs
should walk circumspectly and should give the young men who are