Work of Our Training Schools
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in the canvassing work, should not be bound down to mechanical
employment.
The youth are to be encouraged to attend our schools, which should
become more and more like the schools of the prophets. Our schools
have been established by the Lord; and if they are conducted in har-
mony with His purpose, the youth sent to them will quickly be pre-
pared to engage in various branches of missionary work. Some will
be trained to enter the field as missionary nurses, some as canvassers,
some as evangelists, some as teachers, and some as gospel ministers.
The Lord has plainly instructed me that our young people should
not be encouraged to devote so much of their time and strength to
medical missionary work as it has been carried forward of late. The
instruction they receive regarding Bible doctrines is not such as to
fit them to perform properly the work that God has intrusted to His
people.
Satan is earnestly striving to lead souls away from right principles.
Multitudes who profess to belong to God’s true church are falling
under the enemy’s deceptions. They are being led to swerve from their
allegiance to the blessed and only Potentate.
A Present Duty
All our denominational colleges and training schools should make
provision to give their students the education essential for evangelists
and for Christian business men. The youth and those more advanced
in years who feel it their duty to fit themselves for work requiring the
passing of certain legal tests should be able to secure at our Union
Conference training-schools all that is essential, without having to go
to Battle Creek for their preparatory education.
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Prayer will accomplish wonders for those who give themselves
to prayer, watching thereunto. God desires us all to be in a waiting,
hopeful position. What He has promised He will do, and if there are
legal requirements making it necessary that medical students shall take
a certain preparatory course of study, let our colleges teach the required
additional studies in a manner consistent with Christian education.
The Lord has signified His displeasure that so many of our people are
drifting into Battle Creek; and since He does not want so many to go
there, we should understand that He wants our schools in other places