Chapter 26—God’s Plan for Students and Youth
Young Men and Women Needed as Canvassers—God calls for
ministers, Bible workers, and canvassers. Let our young men and
young women go forth as canvassers, evangelists, and Bible workers,
in company with laborers of experience, who can show them how to
labor successfully. Let canvassers carry our publications from house
to house. When opportunity offers, let them speak of the truth for this
time to those whom they meet, and let them sing and pray with them.
When in our work for God right methods are energetically followed, a
harvest of souls will be gathered.
There is room in the work of God for all who are filled with the
spirit of self-sacrifice. God is calling for men and women who are
willing to deny self for the sake of others, willing to consecrate all they
have and are to His work. Men are needed who, when they encounter
difficulties, will move steadily on, saying, We will not fail or become
discouraged. Men are needed who will strengthen and build up the
work that others are trying to do.—
Messages to Young People, 208
.
Special Duty to Teach Students—When school closes, there is
opportunity for many to go out into the field as evangelistic canvassers.
The faithful colporteur finds his way into many homes, where he leaves
reading matter containing the truth for this time. Our students should
learn how to sell our books. There is need of men of deep Christian
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experience, men of well-balanced minds, strong, well-educated men, to
engage in this branch of the work. Some have the talent, education, and
experience that would enable them to educate the youth for canvassing
work in such a way that much more would be accomplished than is
now being done. Those who have this experience have a special duty
to perform in teaching others.—
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and
Students, 546, 547
. (See
Testimonies for the Church 9:76
.)
Youth Prepared to Meet Error—Young men who desire to enter
the field as ministers, colporteurs, or canvassers should first receive
a suitable degree of mental training, as well as a special preparation
for their calling. Those who are uneducated, untrained, and unrefined
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