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missionary nurses, some as Canvassers,
some as evangelists, some as teachers, and
some as gospel ministers. —“ Funda-
mentals of Christian Education,” p. 459.
“ We have been warned again and again
that the character of the education that
has been current in the world cannot
stand the test of the Word of God. The
subject of education is one that should
interest every Seventh-day Adventist.
The Lord says to us, Seventh-day Ad-
ventists are not to place themselves under
the counsel and instruction of teachers
who know not the truth for this time.”—
“ Counsels to Teachers,” p. 401,
“Many who are seeking efficiency for
the exalted work of God by perfecting
their education in the schools of men, will
find that they have failed of learning the
more important lessons which the Lord
would teach them.”—1d., p. 346.
“God has designed that sur schools
shall be an instrumentality for developing
workers for Him,—workers of whom He
will not be ashamed. He cails upon our
young people to enter our schools, and quickly
fit themselves for service,”—Id., p. 545.
These statements reveal clearly that
the Lord plans that our schools should
train our youth for our work.
The reader may question the advisability
of some attending outside schools in addi-
tion to our own institutions. In Vol. 5,
pages 533, 584, we read, “ We would that
there were strong young men, rooted and
grounded in the faith, who bad such a
living connection with God that they
could, if so counselled by our leading
brethren, enter the higher colleges in our
land, where they would have a wider field
for study and observation.”
The safeguards set about such a course
of action should be observed, and also the
particular way in which the thought itself
is expressed, It is expressed as a wishin
such a way that apparently its fulfilment
is almost impossible. Further counsel,
given in “Fundamentals of Christian
Education,” pages 347, 348, emphasises the
danger of such a course being pursued
except under the most guarded circums-
stances.
“A course of study at Ann Arbor [a
University] may be thought essential for
some; but evi] influences are there ever
at work upon susceptible minds, so that
the farther they advance in their studies,
the less they deem it necessary to seek a
knowledge of the will and ways of God.
None should be allowed to pursue a course
of study that may in any way weaken
their faith in the truth and in the Lord's
power, or diminish their respect for a life
of holiness. 1 would warn the students
not to advance one siep in these lines,—
not even upon the advice of their instruc-
tors or men in positions of authority,—
unless they have first sought God indi-
vidually, with their hearts thrown open to
the influence of the Holy Spirit, and ob-
tained His counsel concerning the con-
templated course of study. Let every
selfish desire to distinguish yourselves be
set aside; take every suggestion from
humanity, to God, trusting in the guidance
of the Holy Spirit.”
“What need is there for students to
bind off their education by attending Ann
Arbor to receive the finishing touch? It
has proved to be the finishing touch to
very many as far as spirituality and be-
lief in the truth are concerned. It is an
unnecessary discipline, opening the mind
to the sowing of tares among the wheat;
and it is not pleasing to our Great
Teacher thus to glorify teachers who
have not ears to hear or minds to com-
prehend a plain ‘Thus saith the Lord.
In thus honouring those who are educat-
ing directly away from the truth, we do
not meet the approval of God."—* Funda-
mentals of Christian Education,” p. 451.
There is an atmosphere about our
schools which are based upon God's
eternal truth, and a mould is there placed
upon the students, neither of which is ob-
tainable elsewhere. The nearer we ap-
proach the end of time, the greater will be
the need of sending our youth to our own
schools, and the greater will be the
danger of directing their minds to worldly
institutions,
An Ominous Event
What is apparently the beginning of
the fulfilment of the remarkable prochecy
in “ Great Controversy,” page 588, and Vol.
5, pages 451, 525, relating to the union of
Protestantism, Spiritualism, and the
Papacy, is reported in the Literary Digest
of April 15. Under the caption, “Clash-
ing Creeds Unite to Make 1933 a ‘Holy
Year,” we read of Protestants, Jews, and
Roman Catholics uniting to follow the
lead of Pope Pius XI.
“The Holy Year is more than a season
of prayer and penance for those of the
Roman Catholic fold. Beneath the sweep-
ing arches of Radio City Music Hail in
New York, 7,000 persons—Catholics,
Protestants, and Jews—united the follow-
ing Sunday morning in a ceremony of re-
dedication to old spiritual ideals,
“The meeting, known as ‘The Holy
Year Inaugural Holy Hour,” had for its
keynotes the words of the Pope, ‘We
shall cease not to raise our voice for
trath, justice, and humanity,” and of Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s Biblical quotation in his
inaugural address, ‘ Where there is no
vision the people perish.” For the time
being, these thousands of different faiths
were of one fold, They heard Cardinal
Hayes and former Governor Alfred E,
Smith, spokesmen for the Catholics; Dr.
S. Parkes Cadman, representative of the
Protestant churches, and Dr, Alexander
Lyons, rabbi of Brooklyn, emphasise the
essential co-incidence of principles in the
call of Pope Pius XI for a Holy Year, and
in the inaugural address of President
Roosevelt invoking a return to spiritual
values.”
It is difficult to imagine Luther agree-
ing with the words of the Protestant
representative who said that “filled with
age-long wisdom in the affairs of God, the
Pope may well be heeded in his'plea that
all, no matter of what faith, join in this
commemoration.”
“ When legislators shall abjure the prin-
ciples of Protestantism, so as to give
countenance and the right hand of fellow-
ship to Romanism, then God will inter-
pose in a special manner in behalf of His
own honour and the salvation of His
people.
“The principles necessary for our
youth to cultivate, must be kept before
them in their daily education, that when the
decree shall go forth requiring all to wor
ship the beast and his image, they may
make the right decisions, and have
strength to declare, without wavering,
their confidence. in the commandments of
God and the faith of Jesus, even at the
very time when the law of God is made
void by the religious world.”—7Vol. 5, p.
525,
The only places in which this instruc-
tion can be fully obeyed is in our own
schools. Let us therefore encourage and
assist our young people to go where the
Lord would have them be in this day of
peril.
“Now, when the great work of judging
the living is about to begin, shall we allow
unsanctified ambition to take possession
of the heart, and lead us to neglect the
education required to meet the needs in
this day of peril 2 "—Vol. 6, p. 130.
A. E. SPECK,
Principal A. M. College.
Sabbath School Notes
From South Australia
(OCTOBER I1 was a public holiday in
South Australia, and we arranged for a
combined Sabbath school picnic. The
weather was very cloudy, bat the rain kept
off and a large number attended. About
150 sat down to lunch, and between fifty
and 100 more came out for the afternoon.
Several remarked it was the best picnic
they ever had here. Certainly every one
seemed to enjoy it, and we felt glad it had
been arranged.
Eight more Sabbath schools started on
the Investment Plan last quarter. The
City church bad set an aim of £5 for the
Thirteenth Sabbath, and nearly doubled it.
Accompanying Bordertown’s Sabbath
School report were slips of paper from
the members who raised money for Invest-
ment. This is what some of them said:
“Selling vegetables to mother out of my
mission garden. Helping grandfather.”
“Gathering bottles after dances, washing
and selling them, 2s. 5d.” ‘Helping
grandfather with his garden. Selling
vegetables from my garden.” ‘Sale of
one load of wood, 6s.” “Haircutting sav-
ings, 3s.” “Mending clocks, locks, and
hoots, Selling papers, 10s.”
Some little isolated children gave money
that had heen given them. One of the
Mannum members knitted and sold a child’s
frock. Another reared a calf and sold it
for missions.
The two new schools organised last
quarter are enthusiastic. They sent in
splendid reports, considering there are just
two or three families in each school. The
letters which came with the reports were an
inspiration, The members are hoping to
juterest others. (One school has 100 per
cent daily study, and the other over oO
per cent.
At the beginning of this quarter I was