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Chapter 34—True Education, a Missionary
Training
True education is missionary training. Every son and daughter
of God is called to be a missionary; we are called to the service of
God and our fellow men; and to fit us for this service should be the
object of our education.
Training for Service
This object should ever be kept in view by Christian parents
and teachers. We know not in what line our children may serve.
They may spend their lives within the circle of the home; they may
engage in life’s common vocations, or go as teachers of the gospel
to heathen lands; but all are alike called to be missionaries for God,
ministers of mercy to the world.
The children and youth, with their fresh talent, energy, and
courage, their quick susceptibilities, are loved of God, and He de-
sires to bring them into harmony with divine agencies. They are to
obtain an education that will help them to stand by the side of Christ
in unselfish service.
Of all His children to the close of time, no less than of the
first disciples, Christ said, “As Thou hast sent Me into the world,
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even so have I also sent them into the world” (
John 17:18
), to be
representatives of God, to reveal His Spirit, to manifest His character,
to do His work.
Our children stand, as it were, at the parting of the ways. On ev-
ery hand the world’s enticements to self-seeking and self-indulgence
call them away from the path cast up for the ransomed of the Lord.
Whether their lives shall be a blessing or a curse depends upon the
choice they make. Overflowing with energy, eager to test their un-
tried capabilities, they must find some outlet for their superabound-
ing life. Active they will be for good or for evil.
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