p. 22 | Economy | AdventAI

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 6, 1909

Economy

THIS is the season of the school year when there is a constant tendency to a needless expenditure of money on the part of students. This is true of students in all the grades, but especially of our graduating classes. It is quite a custom in our schools at the close of the year to exchange photographs and other remembrances of friendship. While the spirit which prompts these feelings is natural, it should be curbed and controlled in a right manner.

It is a mistake for our young people to spend unnecessarily these large sums of money. In Europe are hundreds of our young brethren and sisters who do not have the privilege of attending school. The only way in which they can be educated is for some one to loan or give them the money with which to attend school. An effort is on foot to raise substantial sums of money among our young people of America for the education of those in less favored lands. We in this land do not appreciate the blessings of prosperity

which come to us. We need to know more of the spirit of sacrifice, self-denial, and economy, that we may thus help to prepare men and women for efficient service.

A young man or woman who comes to the years of accountability and is trained for efficient service is a most valuable acquisition to the cause of truth. We have hundreds, yes, thousands, of sturdy young men and women in these less favored lands who are anxious for an education. Can not our young people deny themselves unnecessary luxuries in order to help in this way? This is the spirit which should actuate the students in all our schools.