Youth To Be Burden-Bearers
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The Need of Training Workers
The youth must soon bear the burdens that older workers are now
carrying. We have lost time in neglecting to give young men a solid,
practical education. The cause of God is constantly progressing, and
we must obey the command, Go forward. There is need of young men
and women who will not be swayed by circumstances, who walk with
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God, who pray much, and who put forth earnest efforts to gather all
the light they can.
The worker for God should put forth the highest mental and moral
energies with which nature, cultivation, and the grace of God have
endowed him; but his success will be proportionate to the degree of
consecration and self-sacrifice in which his work is done, rather than to
either natural or acquired endowments. Earnest, continuous endeavor
to acquire qualifications for usefulness is necessary; but unless God
works with humanity, nothing good can be accomplished. Divine
grace is the great element of saving power; without it all human effort
is unavailing.
Whenever the Lord has a work to be done, He calls not only for the
commanding officers, but for all the workers. Today He is calling for
young men and women who are strong and active in mind and body.
He desires them to bring into the conflict against principalities and
powers and spiritual wickedness in high places, their fresh, healthy
powers of brain, bone, and muscle. But they must have the needed
preparation. Some young men are urging their way into the work who
have no real fitness for it. They do not understand that they need to
be taught before they can teach. They point to men who, with little
preparation, have labored with a measure of success. But if these men
were successful, it was because they put heart and soul into the work.
And how much more effective their labors might have been if at the
first they had received suitable training!
The cause of God needs efficient men. Education and training are
rightly regarded as an essential preparation for business life; and how
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much more essential is thorough preparation for the work of presenting
the last message of mercy to the world. This training cannot be gained
by merely listening to preaching. In our schools our youth are to
bear burdens for God. They are to receive a thorough training under
experienced teachers. They should make the best possible use of their