A Call for Teachers by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 1, 1904

A Call for Teachers

By Editor

We have several times called the attention of our people who are connected with the public schools to the importance of our own school work and of their connecting with it. We are impressed to do this again, from the fact that the Department of Education has a number of calls for teachers for which it is unable to suggest suitable names. A number of industrial schools are to be opened this fall, and they call for principals and instructors. In one or two instances a man and his wife who are properly qualified may begin the work, being assisted by others as the school shall grow.

Surely the Lord does not present these favorable openings for educational work, and then have no one to fill them. But often those whom the Lord calls do not feel themselves in readiness to accept the call, and they ask to be excused. The Lord always excuses those who persist in their desire to be excused, but it is often to their eternal loss.

We shall be pleased to correspond with those who may desire to consider these matters further. The Department of Education has already had some correspondence with our teachers not engaged in our own denominational schools, but there are yet many teachers with whose work we are not only unacquainted, but whose names we do not even have. Will not these teachers place themselves in touch with the educational work of the denomination, even though they may feel unable to directly connect with it at present? We shall be pleased to receive communications from such persons at this time, as well as from those who may consider the matter of these calls for teachers for these industrial schools already spoken of. Address communications to Frederick Griggs, South Lancaster, Mass.