STUDENTS AND TEACHERS, ATTENTION.
By S. Brownsberger
The coming College year, which opens Aug. 20, promises to be more prosperous and successful than any of its predecessors. A Commercial Department will be opened at the beginning of the College year, under the supervision of competent instructors, to receive all worthy persons who desire a thorough drill in Penmanship, Book-keeping in its different forms, in keeping T. and M., Church and Conference Records, together with special instruction in the various kinds of Practical Business; such as Banking and Manufacturing; also in Business Law for Business Men, Parliamentary Usages, etc. Much of this instruction is just what scores of young men and women in the ranks of S. D. Adventists need to fit them for a life of usefulness in the cause of God. Some who have the time and means, and are free to attend this school, will still hesitate and wait, perchance, for responsibilities to be laid upon them, before feeling sure that they shall ever need any such knowledge. There is now a great demand for this kind of education in all our churches, and no one feels this deplorable lack more keenly than those who have visited these churches to organize T. and M. societies and Sabbath-schools, and to see that all the church records are properly kept. God uses those to the best advantage in his cause, who labor and sacrifice most for its interests, and make ready to bear the responsibilities that must be borne by some one. Parents will do well to see that their children have this opportunity to prepare themselves for usefulness in the church, as well as simply to work farms, and trade, to get gain for physical comforts. One hundred dollars spent in one year's schooling may yield ten-fold more fruit in the37kingdom of God, than it would, were it invested in merchandise, or farms, or even otherwise in some branch of the cause. One thing is certain, we must educate our children for usefulness. This is, no doubt, the will of God. Who knows how he will use them? That should give us no anxiety. If we only consecrate them to God, and do the best we can for them, God will bless us in so doing, and use them to his glory. S. BROWNSBERGER.