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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 7, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 10.

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The Spirit of Courage

By H. R. Salisbury

I HAVE been glad to see in the reports that have appeared from month to month in the Educational Department of the REVIEW from our colleges and schools, that this year has been one of prosperity not alone from the standpoint of numbers, but more especially because of the earnest spirit of consecration to the service of the Master which has been guiding the plans and conduct of the students. I am certain that this welcome revival of the missionary spirit in our schools is due largely to the attitude which the educators took at the recent educational convention at College View as to the position our schools should sustain to the closing work of the message. When we resolved that a thorough knowledge of the great threefold message and its world-wide propagation should be the basis of all our efforts, and the inspiration of all our teaching, there was a desire on the part of all to work unitedly and untiringly to bring it about.
When teachers become fully awake to the needs of the hour, God will fill our colleges and schools with young men and young women whose hearts are turned toward him, and who will, when trained, go out as loyal workers into home and foreign fields. When our young people see that they may receive from our own institutions that special training which, if they do faithfully their part, will, without fail, insure them a position of usefulness, then the schools of the world will lose their attractions, and the youth will turn to us.
How much there is at the present time to inspire the students in our schools who are preparing for service—the many calls for trained workers; the rapid progress of the message which has gained a foothold in nearly every country in the world; the encouraging reports sent back to us by those who have been students with us, who have gone out with this blessed truth to the ends of the earth, and are now being blessed of God in the saving of souls.
This year the Lord is blessing us in the college in London. Our weekly students' meetings have been times of refreshing from the Lord. Every young man and woman is planning for some place of usefulness in this work. The majority have offered themselves for foreign service, to be used in lands where the darkness is great and the laborers are few. H. R. SALISBURY.
London, England.