Testimony Treasures, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

among us more than an average of men of ability. If their capabilities were
brought into use, we should have twenty ministers where we now have one.
Young men who design to enter the ministry should not spend a number
of years solely in obtaining an education. Teachers should be able to
comprehend the situation and to adapt their instruction to the wants of this
class, and special advantages should be given them for a brief yet
comprehensive study of the branches most needed to fit them for their work.
But this plan has not been followed. Too little attention has been given to the
education of young men for the ministry. We have not many years to work,
and teachers should be imbued with the Spirit of God and work in harmony
with His revealed will, instead of carrying out their own plans. We are losing
much every year because we do not heed the counsel of the Lord on these
points.
In our schools missionary nurses should receive lessons from wellqualified
physicians, and as a part of their education should learn how to
battle with disease and to show the value of nature's remedies. This work is
greatly needed. Cities and towns are steeped in sin and moral corruption, yet
there are Lots in every Sodom. The poison of sin is at work at the heart of
society, and God calls for reformers to stand in defense of the law which He
has established to govern the physical system. They should at the same time
maintain an elevated standard in the training of the mind and the culture of
the heart, that the Great Physician may co-operate with the human helping
hand in doing a work of mercy and necessity in the relief of suffering.
It is also the Lord's design that our schools shall give young people a
training which will prepare them to teach in any department of the Sabbath
school or to discharge the duties in any of its offices. We should see a
different state of affairs if a number of consecrated young persons would
devote themselves to the Sabbath school work, taking pains to educate
themselves and then to instruct others as to the best methods to be employed
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