p. 19 | A Good Investment by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 2, 1914

A Good Investment

By Editor

IN one of the readings for Educational Sabbath, we asked this question, "Can you think of a better-paying investment than that in our boys and girls—in their salvation and in their training for the service of Christ?" One brother in the West, whose heart was moved by these readings, has answered this question for himself by sending us pledges as follows:—

For production of textbooks....$25

For a normal scholarship...... 50

The textbooks are understood to be for our church schools, as their interests were the theme of the readings. The scholarship covers the tuition for one year of one person who is preparing to teach in church school, or who is taking one year off from teaching to make better preparation.

The viewpoint of our brother in making this pledge is very interesting and suggestive. He says:—

"I helped read the articles on Christian education last Sabbath—a work that I love, a work that surely counts for eternity. The Lord has kept me from tea, coffee, tobacco, and alcohol all my life. Other men spend from twenty-five dollars to fifty dollars a year and their health for these things. Now don't you think that he who invests in something like Christian education, something that will count eternally, instead of in these body-and-soul-destroying articles, is a wiser, a shrewder financier than the other? I do, and I want to pledge twenty-five dollars on the production of textbooks, and fifty dollars to endow a normal scholarship. I will pay as soon as needed. I have been thirty-three years in the way, and am investing in a better land." W. E. H.