Students to do Missionary Work While in Training
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Wherever possible, students should, during the school year, en-
gage in city mission work. They should do missionary work in the
surrounding towns and villages. They can form themselves into bands
to do Christian help work. Students should take a broad view of their
present obligations to God. They are not to look forward to a time,
after the school term closes, when they will do some large work for
God, but should study how, during their student life, to yoke up with
Christ in unselfish service for others.—
Counsels to Parents, Teachers,
and Students, 547
.
It is not enough to fill the minds of the youth with lessons of deep
importance; they must learn to impart what they have received.—
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 545
.
From our colleges and training schools missionaries are to be sent
forth to distant lands. While at school, let the students improve every
opportunity to prepare for this work. Here they are to be tested and
proved, that it may be seen what their adaptability is, and whether they
have a right hold from above.—
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and
Students, 549
.
Encourage a Missionary Spirit
The teachers and students in our schools need the divine touch.
God can do much more for them than He has done, because in the
past His way has been restricted. If a missionary spirit is encouraged,
even if it takes some hours from the program of regular study, much
of Heaven’s blessing will be given, provided there is more faith and
spiritual zeal, more of a realization of what God will do.—
Counsels to
Parents, Teachers, and Students, 546
.
When School Closes
When school closes, there is opportunity for many to go out into the
field as evangelistic canvassers. The faithful colporteur finds his way
into many homes, where he leaves reading matter containing the truth
for this time. Our students should learn how to sell our books. There
is need of men of deep Christian experience, men of well-balanced
minds, strong, well-educated men, to engage in this branch of the
work. Some have the talent, education, and experience that would
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