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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 29, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 35.

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Earning an Education

THE men whom the world delights to honor are the men who have struggled hard against adversity, and have won their way to the top because they were not afraid to grapple with any difficult problem that stood between them and what they desired to accomplish. There are thousands of young persons among us at the present time who very much desire an education to fit themselves for usefulness in the cause of God; but their parents are unable to furnish the means to pay their way through school. But that need not stand in the way. It is not standing in the way of some hundreds of young persons who, during the last ten years, have been securing an education without being parentally financed. They are financing their own undertaking, and are making a grand success of it. The best part of it is that while they are financing their undertaking, they are doing a most excellent work in advancing the very cause they are preparing themselves to enter. Nor is that all; they are making of themselves stronger young men and women than they otherwise would have been, and are bringing into our schools a spirit of real missionary zeal that is having its steadying, sobering, and strengthening influence among the other students. Let no young man or young woman who desires an education think it impossible to earn a scholarship in one of our educational institutions. Scores are doing it, and other scores are going to do it. It is in direct line with the new spirit that has taken hold of the progress of this cause. Young men and women, God wants you in his work. If parents do not have the means to give you the necessary preparation for the work, God has a work in which you can engage that will speed on his cause and give you the means for an education at the same time. Write to the principals of any of our schools or to our publishing houses about the scholarship plan; and what others are doing you can do.