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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
preparation for wider usefulness in the Lord’s cause. In the school
they would receive encouragement and inspiration from teachers
and students to continue their work of selling books; and when the
time came for them to leave school, they would have received a prac-
tical training fitting them for the hard, earnest, self-sacrificing labor
that has to be done in many foreign fields, where the third angel’s
message must be carried under difficult and trying circumstances.
How much better is this plan than for students to go through
school without obtaining a practical education in field work, and,
at the end of their course, leave under a burden of debt, with but
little realization of the difficulties they will have to meet in new and
untried fields! How hard it will be for them to meet the financial
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problems that are connected with pioneer work in foreign lands! And
what a burden someone will have to carry until the debts incurred
by the student have been paid!
On the other hand, how much might be gained, if the self-
supporting plan were followed! The student would often be enabled
to leave the educational institution nearly or wholly free from per-
sonal indebtedness; the finances of the school would be in a more
prosperous condition; and the lessons learned by the student while
passing through these experiences in the home field would be of
untold value to him in foreign fields.
Let wise plans be laid to help worthy students to earn their own
schooling by handling these books, if they so desire. Those who
earn sufficient means in this way to pay their way through a course
at one of our training schools will gain a most valuable practical
experience that will help fit them for pioneer missionary work in
other fields.
A great work is to be done in our world in a short time, and
we must study to understand and appreciate, more than we have
in past years, the providence of God in placing in our hands the
precious volumes,
Christ’s Object Lessons
and
Ministry of Healing
,
as a means of helping worthy students to meet their expenses while
in training, as well as a means of liquidating the indebtedness on our
educational and medical institutions.
Great blessings are in store for us as we wisely handle these
precious books given us for the advancement of the cause of present
truth. And as we labor in accordance with the Lord’s plan we shall