Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

should have the help of such as have had
experience and understand the manner of working.
Missionary operations are constantly embarrassed
for want of workers of the right class of mind--
workers who have devotion and piety that will
correctly represent our faith.
There are many who ought to become
missionaries, but who never enter the field because
those who are united with them in church capacity
or in our colleges do not feel the burden to labor
with them, to open before them the claims of God
upon all their powers, and do not pray with and for
them. The eventful period which decides the course
of life passes, their convictions are stifled, other
influences and inducements attract them, and
temptations to seek positions that will, they think,
bring them financial gain, take them into the
worldly current. These young men might have been
saved to the cause.
Our schools are to be training schools. If men
and women come forth from them fitted in any
sense for the missionary field, they must be led to
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