Chapter 8—Training of Workers
Publishing House a Training School—The office was to be an
educating, training school for the youth. Those connected with the
office should have a deep, abiding love for Jesus Christ, and they will
have a care for all the souls for whom He has given His precious life.
There will be the tenderest sympathy exercised toward the motherless
and the fatherless, and these are to be especially the subjects for
determined effort, the subject of wise, well-directed labor, approaching
them with the tenderness of Christ Jesus.
Personal religion will reveal itself in bearing good fruit, sancti-
fication is not the work of a day, but a lifetime. The human heart
becomes a medley of passions, vanities, love of self, love of money,
and love of the world. There should be in the heart of everyone grace
which can bloom in the garden of God. Selfishness will cut out every
precious likeness of Christ, will expel humility and self-denial and
devotion.—
Manuscript 32, 1893
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Education of Apprentices—Much has been presented to me re-
garding the special work which should be done for apprentices by
those who occupy positions of responsibility in our publishing houses.
The Lord will lead us onward and upward if we are willing to be led.
He wants us to reach a higher standard of spirituality than we have
reached in the past. Those carrying responsibilities in our publishing
houses have under their charge apprentices who will be influenced
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by their words and actions. Those who have any part to act in the
education of these apprentices should reveal Christ in their lives.
I have seen for a long time that the apprentices in our publishing
houses have not received sufficient attention. [
In order to provide a
practical training in the areas of writing, editorial work, and public
relations, a program of on-the-job training has been cooperatively
established by the General Conference.—General Conference Pub-
lishing Department Policies, 43.
] It is not enough to see that they work
the stated number of hours in the office. Connected with their work
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