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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 21, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 3.

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Is It Worth While?

By M. E. K.

About fifteen hundred young people have enrolled for the reading course, and some are doing the work who have not enrolled. Is it worth while? Let the young people answer:—
“The course has been of inestimable value to me. From it I have learned to depend upon God for guidance and help, even in the little things of life. I have learned to pray more when difficulties and trials are hardest.”
“It almost makes me desire to become a foreign missionary.”
“Even though I am busy with my school work and daily duties, I do not feel that I can afford to miss the reading course. Although I did not finish the other course, I was greatly benefited by the part that I finished.”
“The lessons of the reading course have been a great help to me as a canvasser; also I have been doing some Bible and paper work from house to house, and by taking the reading course it has helped me to keep many points of doctrine in my mind, also many scriptures.”
“The reading course has helped me to gain a clearer view of the whole question of the great controversy between good and evil. One of the benefits which I have received is a knowledge of some of the skilful ways of Satan in leading people astray, and the means through which we can successfully withstand him.”
“The reading course has been a great help to me in seeing clearer the great controversy between good and evil. It has also been a help to me in remembering the scriptures and keeping many points of truth in my mind.”
“Indeed I am taking the course this year. I liked the other course so much I could not afford to miss this one.”
“The course has given me a broader, better view of the message.”
“A brother in one of our churches said that after the young people had started the course, there seemed to be a marked interest in the work among them. Several took part in prayer at the meetings who had not been in the habit of so doing.”
Some of the societies in one conference have decided to work up the reading course by giving about fifteen minutes of the Sabbath meeting for review of the past week’s reading.
M. E. K.