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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 19, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 38.

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Scholarships for 1908

By E. R. Palmer

In the “Notes of Progress” published in the Review in connection with the Canvassers’ Summary for July, we made a call for one thousand young people to begin this fall and winter to earn scholarships for next school year. This call was neither a flight of fancy nor a burst of unreasonable enthusiasm. It was based upon a candid conviction that one thousand young men and women who love God’s last message to the world, and who from their hearts desire to labor for its progress, should rise above the circumstances by which they have been controlled in the past, and in the future be masters of circumstances.
By referring to the Seed Sower, published by the California Tract Society, I find that twenty-one persons in that State are working during the summer vacation for scholarships, and that eighteen out of the twenty-one had already achieved their undertaking at the close of the week ending Aug. 23, 1907. Five of these have earned two scholarships each, and six more have earned over a scholarship and a half. I am personally acquainted with several of these young people, and I wish to call attention very particularly to the fact that among the most successful of them are four or five boys from sixteen to twenty years of age who have never attended one of our denominational schools. In the Young People’s Society of Mountain View, they began to work for the Lord, and finally determined that they would make an effort to secure an education, and give their lives to the Lord’s service; therefore, they joined the students at the Healdsburg school in their convention, and went into the field to earn their scholarships.
The proposition we wish to place before our young people is this:—
Have you decided to work for God? If so, should you not secure a good education in one of our training-schools? If you have not decided this question, why not decide it now? There will never be a better opportunity. The present time of prosperity and peace is God’s great opportunity for giving the third angel’s message to the world. This privilege may never come again; for time is hastening on, and the end of all things is at hand. God’s Spirit is being poured out upon his people, and the work is moving on with great rapidity. If you have decided that you will go to school as soon as there is an opportunity, why not make an opportunity now? Why wait until next summer to begin earning a scholarship, and thus run the risk of failure because of the shortness of the vacation period? Why not begin now? Many young men can earn a scholarship before Christmas, and easily earn two before the beginning of another school year.
In order that you may see what the probabilities are to those who make the effort, we give below the success of our boys and girls in the Northern California Conference up to August 23. As these students have two or three more weeks to work, they will raise these figures considerably. This work has been done in twelve weeks, and some have worked a shorter time:—
  1. Reese, Mr. W. S. .......... $665.40
  2. Dayton, Mr. W. P. ........ 664.75
  3. Donaldson, Mr. A. N. ...... 665.05
  4. Wright, Mr. S. A. .......... 631.15
  5. Fry, Miss Frances A. ....... 558.00
  6. Dickson, Mr. L. K. ......... 529.00
  7. Baldwin, Miss Lois ......... 515.65
  8. Leon, Mr. M. H. ............ 467.85
  9. Jeffers, Miss Selah ........ 453.00
  10. Hart, Miss Bessie ......... 439.75
  11. Findley, Mr. W. B. ........ 427.90
  12. Martin, Miss Mae V. ....... 393.65
  13. Dickson, Mr. A. R. ........ 370.50
  14. Hart, Miss Lylon .......... 363.80
  15. Wiles, Miss Beulah ........ 312.25
  16. Haven, Miss Gertrude ...... 306.00
  17. Landis, Miss Esta E. ...... 270.25
  18. Metcalf, Miss Kathryne .... 298.50
  19. Hazelton, Mr. A. R. ....... 259.75
  20. Hufford, Miss J. B. ....... 233.75
  21. Rice, Miss Blanche A. ..... 118.80
With such splendid results as these as an incentive, why should not one thousand young men and women in the United States rise above their submission to circumstances, and in the name of the Lord and with his help go forward into his service?
To all who have a sincere love for the third angel’s message and a spirit and heart to do valiant service for God and his cause, we extend this invitation to enlist without delay with those who are earning their scholarships and at the same time spreading the third angel’s message. E. R. PALMER.