p. 24 | The Work of Our Foreign Mission Seminary

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 15, 1907

The Work of Our Foreign Mission Seminary

By Arthur G. Daniells

The Washington Foreign Mission Seminary has a very definite purpose in view. That purpose is to give our young people who feel called to mission lands a special, practical preparation for the particular work before them. The aims of the school may be summarized as follows:—

To give special instruction in Bible doctrines as revealed in the third angel's message.

To give the instruction, both theoretical and practical, in the medical and nursing lines that will be required to qualify our missionaries to do the elementary medical work they will find awaiting them on reaching their fields.

To give special instruction in all features of evangelistic and pastoral work.

To give the history of the rise and progress of our cause, and make clear the principles of organization and methods of conference, church, and institutional administration.

To give the missionaries a fair start in the particular languages spoken in the fields to which they may receive appointment.

To study the history, character, conditions, and needs of the lands and peoples to whom those in the school are to be sent.

To test more thoroughly than we have heretofore, the fitness of volunteers for the fields to which it is desired they should go. This test will relate to the spiritual life, the educational qualifications, the physical conditions, and the industrious and resourceful elements of the volunteers.

To establish an acquaintance between the members of the Mission Board and the missionaries that will be of inestimable service in the co-operative work that is to follow.

These important details, though not all that could be given, are sufficient to show how necessary such a school is for our great world-wide missionary enterprises, and of what great value it will be to the Board, the missionaries who go abroad, and the people in the fields to which they go. A. G. DANIELLS.