Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

themselves by attending school and interesting
their minds in study. They are not allowed to teach
children and youth in the sciences unless they are
capable of instructing them. Upon applying for a
situation as teacher, they have to pass an
examination before competent persons. It is an
important work to deal with young minds and
instruct them correctly in the sciences. But of how
much greater importance is the work of the
ministry! Yet many engage in the important
business of interesting men and women to enter the
school of Christ, where they are to learn how they
may form characters for heaven, who need to
become students themselves. Some who enter the
ministry do not feel the burden of the work upon
them. They have received incorrect ideas of the
qualifications of a minister. They have thought that
it required but little close study in the sciences or in
the word of God to make a minister. Some who are
teaching present truth are not acquainted with their
Bibles. They are so deficient in Bible knowledge
that it is difficult for them to quote a text of
Scripture correctly from memory. By blundering
along in the awkward manner they do, they sin
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