p. 5 | A Most Important Meeting by Arthur G. Daniells

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 31, 1906

A Most Important Meeting

By Arthur G. Daniells

ANNOUNCEMENTS are out for an educational convention of Seventh-day Adventist teachers, to be held in College View, Neb., June 29 to July 10. It has been three years since the last convention of our Educational Department was held. That was a most helpful and encouraging meeting, and it was the opinion of many at that gathering that such conventions should be held frequently until our educational work should be developed into a strong, harmonious, efficient

system based upon true principles of Christian education.

Our educational work must ever hold a place of first rank in the various departments of our cause; and it is growing more important, or rather it is demanding more attention each year. When we had but one school and only one hundred students, this phase of our work could be easily cared for; but now that we have six hundred schools, seven hundred and fifty teachers, and fourteen thousand students, the situation is vastly different, and calls for altogether different action on our part.

It is to meet the growing interests of this important work that the Educational Department of the General Conference has been organized. And it is for the benefit of this branch of our work that arrangements have been made by the department committee to hold an educational convention this summer.

It is essential that our teachers—those who are giving their lives to the education and training of our children, youth, and young people—should get together for earnest, extended counsel regarding their work. This is recognized by the educators the world over. It is recognized by all other departments of the world's work. It is keenly felt by our teachers, and it should be fully appreciated by our conference officers and school boards. No other phase of our work is so many-sided, so far-reaching, and so full of perplexities as the educational work. We should give our teachers the privilege of meeting to exchange views, to agree on methods, and to unify and systematize plans.

In view of the tremendous interests that center in this work, I appeal to teachers, school boards, conference committees, and to our brethren of means to do all in their power to aid teachers to attend the coming convention. Everything is ready now for a most profitable meeting. Every one interested in the education of our youth is serious over this question. If I have taken correct observations during the last two or three years, now is the golden opportunity for this denomination to greatly improve and advance the Educational Department of our cause. A. G. DANIELLS.