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Teachers and Teaching
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The Holy Spirit has often come to our schools and has not been
recognized, but has been treated as a stranger, perhaps even as an
intruder. Every teacher should know and welcome this heavenly
Guest. If the teachers will open their own hearts to receive the Spirit,
they will be prepared to co-operate with It in working for their
students. And when It is given free course, It will effect wonderful
transformations. It will work in each heart, correcting selfishness,
molding and refining the character, and bringing even the thoughts
into captivity to Christ.
The great aim of the teacher should be the perfecting of Christian
character in himself and in his students. Teachers, let your lamps
be trimmed and burning, and they will not only be lights to your
students, but will send out clear and distinct rays to the homes and
neighborhoods where your students live, and far beyond into the
moral darkness of the world.—
Special Testimonies On Education,
47-52
; written May 15, 1896.
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Our brethren say the plea comes from ministers and parents
that there are scores of young people in our ranks who need the
advantages of our training schools, but they cannot attend unless
tuitions are lower.
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Those who plead for low tuition should carefully weigh matters
on all sides. If students cannot of themselves command sufficient
means to pay the actual expense of good and faithful work in their
education, is it not better that their parents, their friends, or the
churches to which they belong, or largehearted, benevolent brethren
in their conference, should assist them, than that a burden of debt
should be brought upon the school? It would be far better to let the
many patrons of the institution share the expense, than for the school
to run in debt.
The churches in different localities should feel that a solemn
responsibility rests upon them to train youth and educate talent to
engage in missionary work. When they see those in the church who
give promise of making useful workers, but who are not able to sup-
port themselves in the school, they should assume the responsibility
of sending them to one of our training schools. There is excellent