ONE MORE WORD by R. V. Foster

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 1, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 1

ONE MORE WORD.

By R. V. Foster

WHILE I say over and over again, as I am conscientiously bound to say, that a properly and thoroughly educated young minister can, other things being equal, do vastly more good than the young minister who is not thus educated, it is by no means to be understood that I speak to the disparagement of those grand and faithful old heroes of the cross whose early opportunities were limited. They have done much more in their day than many of this younger and more highly favored generation will ever do in theirs; but the young and the old are never to be compared with each other, not by me at least. It is the young with the young, and the old with the old. It does not make any difference with me whether the old man has been thoroughly “educated” or not; provided, only, he has been faithful in his efforts to save souls and build up Christ’s church, I shall reverence him. His success is to be marked by his joyous and generous faithfulness, whether over a few things or many. But as for our young men, they may be compared one with another, and it may be truly said, and it ought to be repeatedly said, that he who is best educated in the schools and out of them, by the Spirit and providence of God, will far excel in usefulness him who is not thus educated. Why, then, may not all our older men urge our young men forward, and thus by enabling others to do more work and better work, add stars to their own crowns of rejoicing? —Prof. R. V. Foster.