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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 8, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 19.

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Two Great Assets

By G. F. WATSON

G. F. WATSON
IN looking over the field far and near, we see a change rapidly taking place, a change (were it not for our schools and young people) that would stop the giving of the last message of mercy to this fallen world so far as present workers are concerned; but our training-schools, and our twenty thousand young people in our schools, are the two greatest assets that this denomination has. Look out on all the fields; they are white, ready to harvest. The old reapers are few, and every year cuts the number down, and younger men and women have to take their places. Thus the field is being manned with young men, a change that a few years ago would have been looked upon as detrimental.
In view of these facts, should not our schools have the best equipment possible for the training of the youth? But I hear some one say, “Our school is in debt, and we must not add any more to our equipment until our debts are paid.” Thank the Lord for the plan now being set before all the people whereby our school debts can be paid. Let us all read and reread what Elder A. G. Daniells and others have written in the REVIEW about this plan, and make it our very own to be carried out just as we carry out any good plan in our homes. If we as a people will give this plan a little careful thought, I am sure it will appear beautiful to us; and as we take hold of it, we shall learn to love our schools more than we ever have, for we shall see them in a way we have not seen them before. Too many of us have looked on our schools as a great clog to the wheels of the gospel car, but without them the gospel car would stop. Let us thank God for every good training-school among us, and view the schools as they really are, a part of God’s great missionary plan. Yes, our training-schools are a part of the great missionary plan just as truly as the man who goes to a foreign field to preach and teach the saving gospel is a part of the missionary plan.
We are sure that if as much thought had been given to our institutional work as has been given to our missionary operations, our institutions would be on a much better financial basis. Let us see to it that we do our part.