Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

Adventist Review) of April 24, 1975.
Brief excerpts from the 1902 appeal for a
church school and that portion of the board
minutes of January 14, 1904, which relate directly
to the appropriate school age for the children of
Adventist parents, are presented in chapters 23 and
24.
Chapter 25 Brings together a few
miscellaneous choice statements under the title of
“General Guiding Principles.”
In 1887 Ellen White suggested in Testimonies
for the Church 5:583, 584, that “strong young
men, rooted and grounded in the faith” could “if
so counseled by our leading brethren, enter the
higher colleges in our land, where they would have
a wider field for study and observation,” and who
like the Waldenses “might do a good work, even
while gaining their education.” These sentiments
were repeated several times during the next
decade, emphasizing the opportunities this would
give for effective witness in non-Seventh-day
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