There are among us many young men and women
who, if inducements were held out, would naturally be inclined
to take several years' course of study to fit themselves for
service. But will it pay? Time is short. Workers for Christ are
needed everywhere. There should be a hundred earnest, faithful
laborers in home and foreign mission fields where now there is
but one. The highways and byways are yet unworked. Urgent inducements
should be held out to those who ought now to be engaged in work
for the Master.
The signs which show that Christ's coming
is near are fast fulfilling. The Lord calls upon our youth to
labor as canvassers and evangelists, to do house-to-house work
in places that have not yet heard the truth. He speaks to our
young men, saying: "Ye are not your own; for ye are bought
with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's." Those who will go forth to the
work under God's direction will be wonderfully blessed. Those
who in this life do their best will obtain a fitness for the
future, immortal life.
The Lord calls upon those connected with
our sanitariums, publishing houses, and schools to teach the
youth to do evangelistic work. Our time and energy must not be
so largely employed in establishing sanitariums, food stores,
and restaurants that other lines of work will be neglected. Young
men and young women who should be engaged in the ministry, in
Bible work, and in the canvassing work should
not be bound down to mechanical employment.
The youth should be encouraged to attend our training schools for Christian workers, which should become more and more like the schools of the prophets. These institutions have been established by the Lord, and if they are conducted in harmony with His purpose, the youth sent to them will quickly be prepared to engage in various lines of missionary work. Some will be trained to enter the field as missionary nurses, some as canvassers, and some as gospel ministers.