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

learn a foreign language, and with all his efforts it
will be next to impossible for him to speak it so
readily and correctly as to render him an efficient
laborer.
Young Men Wanted for Hard Places
We cannot afford to deprive our home missions
of the influence of middle-aged and aged ministers,
to send them into distant fields to engage in a work
for which they are not qualified, and to which no
amount of training will enable them to adapt
themselves. The men thus sent out leave vacancies
which inexperienced laborers cannot supply.
But the church may inquire whether young men
can be entrusted with the grave responsibilities
involved in the establishing and superintending of a
foreign mission. I answer, God designed that they
should be so trained in our colleges and by
association in labor with men of experience that
they would be prepared for departments of
usefulness in this cause. We must manifest
confidence in our young men. They should be
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