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world. At the same time they would be earning money to enable
them to attend school where they could continue their 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 practical training,
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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
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 now 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
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volumes,
Christ’s Object Lessons
and
The 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.