Students Returning to School by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Aug 29, 1912

Students Returning to School

By Editor

At the close of the last school year scores of our young men and women entered the canvassing field to earn means to continue their school work. They have rendered excellent service. By far the large majority, and we hope all, have been successful in earning the necessary scholarships to enable them to continue their education. God has recognized their desire to fit themselves for lives of greater usefulness, and has given success to their labors. But over and above the earning of their scholarships, a great amount of good has been accomplished by the wide distribution of truth-filled books and magazines. These faithful ones can not appreciate the influence of their service. Only in the day

of final accounting will they see the fruitage that their efforts have brought forth. We hope that now as they return to their schools, God will bless them there even as he has blessed their labor in the field, and that they will realize that even while pursuing their studies they may continue to work for God. Among their fellow students they will find those who are depressed and discouraged; some who are careless and indifferent. To these they may speak kindly words of cheer and courage. They should seek to sustain by their influence the institution with which they are connected. They should labor to uphold the hands of their instructors. Sometimes in the grind and wear of school life, when one is shut up within four walls day after day with little change or recreation, there comes greater test of the heart's integrity than when out in active labor for souls. There are some who can sell books, who can even preach the word, but who fail in Christian living. The world has many fair-weather Christians. It needs those who will be strong in the darkness, who will be loyal to the right when things go slow and the load is hard to lift.