The Teacher's Vacation by F. G.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 19, 1909

The Teacher's Vacation

By F. G.

WHAT is the vacation bringing to you, fellow teacher? Is it giving you a fund of strength and courage that will be an inspiration in the year to come? Is it increasing your store of facts that will make you ready in imparting knowledge? Is it qualifying you with a richer experience in the things of God that will enable you more perfectly to lead your pupils in his ways? These are important questions that have a very direct bearing upon the future year's work.

The long summer vacation is not a time for doing nothing; it is a time for gathering strength for a mightier effort than has ever been put forth in the past. It is a time of examination, of seeking to discover the weak points in the work of the year past. It is a time of heart searching, for only he can teach, in the true sense of the word, who has been taught by the Great Teacher. It is a time for the study of nature as the work of God. Such a use of this vacation will mean much in the year to come.

The teacher's responsibilities are great, but his source of power is correspondingly large. He needs to measure, in these days of quiet, these responsibilities and this power. In this way, he is to gather strength and courage for the work of the future. As during the winter season, nature stores up strength for the growth of the next year, so during the long vacation period is the teacher to gain a hardness of nerve fiber and sinew, mental and spiritual, as well as physical, which will make him vigorous throughout the year. Is the vacation bringing this to you, fellow teacher?

F. G.