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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
ability in the churches that needs to be brought into service. There
are persons who would do good service in the Lord’s vineyard, but
many are too poor to obtain without assistance the education that
they require. The churches should feel it a privilege to take a part in
defraying the expenses of such.
Those who have the truth in their hearts are always openhearted,
helping where it is necessary. They lead out, and others imitate their
example. If there are some who should have the benefit of the school,
but who cannot pay full price for their tuition, let the churches show
their liberality by helping them.
Besides this, in each conference a fund should be raised to lend to
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worthy poor students who desire to give themselves to the missionary
work; in some cases such students should even receive donations.
When the Battle Creek College was first opened, there was a fund
placed in the Review and Herald office for the benefit of those who
wished to obtain an education, but had not the means. This was used
by several students until they could get a good start; then from their
earnings they would replace what they had drawn, so that others
might be benefited by the fund.
Some provision should now be made for the maintenance of such
a fund to lend to poor but worthy students who desire to prepare
themselves for missionary work. The youth should have it plainly
set before them that they must work their own way as far as possible,
and thus partly defray their expenses. That which costs little will be
appreciated little, but that which costs a price somewhere near its
real value will be estimated accordingly.
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A teacher’s advantages may have been limited, so that he does
not possess as high literary qualifications as he might desire; yet
if he has true insight into human nature, if he has an appreciation
of the magnitude of his work, and a genuine love for it; if he has
a willingness to labor earnestly and humbly and perseveringly, he
will comprehend the needs of his pupils, and by his sympathetic
spirit will win their hearts and leads them onward and upward. His
efforts will be so well directed that the school will become a living,
growing power for good, full of the spirit of real advancement.
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