Chapter 63—The Work of Our Training Schools
The work of our colleges and training schools should be strength-
ened year by year.
No Time For Delay
Time is short. Workers for Christ are needed everywhere. There
should be one hundred earnest, faithful laborers in home and foreign
mission fields where now there is one. The highways and the byways
are yet unworked. Urgent inducements should be held out to those
who ought now to be engaged in missionary work for the Master.
The signs which show that Christ’s coming is near are fast fulfilling.
The Lord calls upon our youth to labor as canvassers and evangelists,
to do house-to-house work in places that have not yet heard the truth.
He speaks to our young men, saying, “Ye are not your own; for ye are
bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God’s.” Those who will go forth to the work under
God’s direction will be wonderfully blessed. Those who in this life do
their best will obtain a fitness for the future, immortal life.
The Lord calls for volunteers who will take their stand firmly on
His side, and will pledge themselves to unite with Jesus of Nazareth
in doing the very work that needs to be done now, just now.
There are among us many young men and women who, if induce-
ments are held out, would naturally be inclined to take several years’
course of study at Battle Creek. But will it pay? The talents of God’s
people are to be employed in giving the last message of mercy to the
world. The Lord calls upon those connected with our sanitariums,
publishing houses, and other institutions to teach the youth to do evan-
gelistic work. Our time and money must not be so largely employed in
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establishing sanitariums, food factories, food stores, and restaurants,
that other lines of work shall be neglected. Young men and young
women who should be engaged in the ministry, in Bible work, and
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