EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS

Training-School Pub. Ass'n, Ltd. · Battle Creek, Michigan · May 1900

FromTraining School Advocate, Vol. 2, No. 5.

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.

Last year I was engaged in public school work in Kansas, but during the entire year I felt a strong drawing toward the church school work, and as a result, September, 1899, found me in charge of the south side church school in Chicago.

The school is held in the basement of the church. The regular attendance has at no time exceeded eighteen, although several transients have made the enrollment somewhat larger at times. There are many more children who might attend, but their parents do not see the importance of the church school.

In my estimation this church school work is to be more of a test than was at first supposed. It is easy enough for the parents to come out of Babylon, but it seems to require much greater faith for them to take their children out.

Up to the present time our church members have not had to take a decided stand upon the Testimonies, but now the subject of church schools forces them to define their position. Last year one good brother removed his children from the church school because they were taught to abstain from flesh meats. Does he believe the Testimonies?

“God is either teaching his church, reproving their wrongs, and strengthening their faith, or he is not. This work is of God, or it is not. God does nothing in partnership with Satan. My work . . . bears the stamp of God, or the stamp of the enemy. There is no half-way work in the matter. The Testimonies are of the Spirit of God, or of the devil.” “If you lose confidence in the Testimonies, you will drift away from Bible truth.”

ESTELLA G. NORMAN.