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Fundamentals of Christian Education
Why are our people so slow to understand what the Lord would
have them do? Our leading workers should prepare beforehand to use
their opportunities at our large and small gatherings to present these
books to our people, and call for volunteers who will engage in their
sale. When this work is entered into with the earnestness which our
times demand, the indebtedness which now rests upon our schools will
be greatly lessened. And then the people who are now being called
upon to give largely of their means to support these institutions, will
be free to turn a larger part of their offerings to missionary work in
other needy places, where special efforts have not yet been made.
Great good will result from bringing these books to the attention of
the leaders in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. We should
invite these workers to our meetings, and give them an opportunity
to become acquainted with our people. Place these precious books in
their hands, and tell them the story of their gift to the cause, and its
results. Explain how, by the sale of “Ministry of Healing,” patients
may be brought to the sanitarium for healing who could never get there
unaided; and how through this means assistance will be rendered in the
establishment of sanitariums in places where they are greatly needed.
If our sanitariums are wisely managed by men and women who have
the fear of God before them, they will be a means of bringing us in
connection with workers in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union,
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and these workers will not be slow to see the advantage of the medical
branch of our work. As a result of their contact with our medical work,
some of them will learn truths that they need to know for the perfection
of Christian character.
One point that should never be forgotten by our workers is that
the Lord Jesus Christ is our chief director. He has outlined a plan by
which the schools may be relieved of their indebtedness; and He will
not vindicate the course of those who lay this plan aside for lack of
confidence in its success. When His people will come up unitedly to
the help of His cause in the earth, no good thing that God has promised
will be withheld from them.
In places like Los Angeles, where the population is constantly
changing, wonderful opportunities are presented for the sale of our
books. A great loss has been sustained because our people have not
more fully embraced this opportunity. Why should not the teachers and
students from the San Fernando School make Los Angeles a special