p. 19 | Prepare for Next Year's School by F. G.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 24, 1910

Prepare for Next Year's School

By F. G.

THE time is already here when definite plans should be laid by our young people who are not in school this year to attend one next year. Young men and women can not realize too strongly the value of a good education. It increases the enjoyment of this life by enabling them to serve their fellow men much more acceptably, and to appreciate the good gifts of the Lord; but it takes time and money to acquire an education.

We have thousands of young men and women who are not connected with our schools, who should attend our intermediate and advanced schools this coming year. Plans to this end often need to be laid far in advance, for in many instances it requires not only the earnest efforts of the young man or woman, but of the family, and even of the church, to make schooling possible.

Our canvassing work is proving a means of great advantage to young men and women in the gaining of funds with which to obtain their schooling. The canvassing work is a great education in itself; in fact, there is no plan that can be suggested for securing funds for school work that is not an education to the young man or the young woman who puts forth the proper effort. One young man, who now occupies an important place in one of our schools as teacher, put himself through a long course of study by raising each summer a crop of grain on some land, of which he secured the use. But whatever effort is necessary to make possible this next year's schooling, it is certainly none too early to begin to talk about it, and lay plans for it. F. G.