Roundhouse Young Men

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 23, 1903

Roundhouse Young Men

There are a great many young men in this country who are like engines, just completed, standing in the roundhouse, all ready to go on the track, but waiting to be started. They have finished their education, as far as the schools are concerned; they have their college diplomas; they are polished and ready for the run, but somehow they never get out on the main line. They ought to be busy pulling trains,—some of them, freight trains; some of them, local passenger trains; and still others, lightning expresses,—but they do not move.

An engine may be a wonderful piece of work to look at, but if it does not fly along the track, and take people or goods to their destination, what is it good for? Of what use are education and college diplomas to these “roundhouse” young men? Of what possible service can they be to the world if they never get started on the track?—Success.