Another School Year by F. G.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 3, 1908

Another School Year

By F. G.

ANOTHER leaf has been turned, the page before us is clean, the record is unmade. The new school year offers great possibilities for good to the Christian teacher; a year makes great advancement in the life of every growing boy and girl. These years pass all too rapidly; and before we are aware of it, our little children are men and women, with the burdens of life resting upon them. Every day the Christian teacher has an opportunity to lay in the lives of the children and young people foundation-stones of great strength upon which the superstructure of life may safely rest. It is almost impossible for us, in the busy, carking cares of the school life, to realize the great possibilities in our work. We can not too highly appreciate the value of taking time to study and consider our mission. If we expect to do a great work, we must first feel that our work is great. We must appreciate its vast importance, we must recognize that every word and action has a vast influence upon the lives of those whom we teach. Our children and young people come to us with their souls wide open to receive; and whether we will or not, the mistakes which we make, impress them just as much as do well-chosen words and guarded actions.

Upon this page open before us we must record victories each day; we must march nearer the goal. The fiercest struggle which has ever fallen to the lot of humanity is before us. We are to prepare men and women, yes, boys and girls, to bear their part in this struggle, to stand in defense of truth, and to carry its banner aggressively into the darkest corners of the earth. Our schools are one of the mightiest factors in the finishing of the work in this generation. Let each teacher write well upon the page of this school year.

F. G.