p. 4 | Good News for the Fields by William Ambrose Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 1, 1908

Good News for the Fields

By William Ambrose Spicer

It is good to hear that more students than ever before are entering our training-schools this year. There is a reason for it. More calls than ever before are coming for laborers. The work must be carried more rapidly. The whole world is to be quickly reached with the message. The providence of God is at work to supply the demand for laborers.

At the close of the Lake Union camp-meetings, I was glad to make a brief visit at the Berrien Springs Emmanuel Missionary College. The school was just opening. About seventy were already in attendance, this being a large number for the opening week in this school. And nearly every student with whom I spoke was aiming at preparation for a definite place in the work. We shall surely hear from these students in the fields when the schooldays are past. I did not wonder that Prof. O. J. Graf and all the faculty were enthusiastic over the fine body of students. A strong, sensible, and practical course of study has been outlined, and I hope yet other scores of the Lake Union young people will be flocking in to get the benefits of this school, which must be the central agency in the uplift and development of the educational and Missionary Volunteer work in this populous union conference.

The new school year in all fields heard from is opening with promise. We send the message to all the mission fields that reinforcements are coming. W. A. S.