form. These instructions are a precious heritage, and should be in
the hands of all our young people of today. The General Conference
Missionary Volunteer Department has, therefore, gone over all that
she has written in our periodicals from the beginning of her work, and
has made selections of matter pertaining to young people and young
people’s problems. While it has not always been possible to preserve
the entire article, care has been exercised to make such selections
as would give clearly the author’s ideas on the subject treated. To
make a well-balanced book of instruction, we have also included much
material already in book form, but not widely distributed to the young
people.
The work of gathering and arranging the articles comprising this
volume was entered into unitedly by the Trustees of the Ellen G. White
Publications and the Secretaries of the Missionary Volunteer Depart-
ment. Through the painstaking efforts of the Southern Publishing
Association, this counsel is sent forth in this attractive form. It is
hoped that the interest of our young people in this book will lead them
to a careful study of all the messages that have come to the remnant
church through the spirit of prophecy.
It is our most earnest prayer that these messages may be a great
strength to the young people of the advent movement all round the
world, in perfecting Christian character, and in giving new impetus
toward the completion of our great task—“The Advent message to all
the world in this generation.
M. E. Kern, Secretary of General Conference Missionary Volunteer
Department.
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