p. 725 | WHO ARE WANTED

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, November 18, 1884

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 46

WHO ARE WANTED.

THE world does not advertise all its wants. Few of the thousands of young people who, at this commencement season of the institutions of learning, complete their studies, have received public notification that they are specially needed anywhere. Most of them might apparently remain for a post-graduate course without being seriously disturbed by the clamor for their services in any particular field. Yet their help is wanted, though many of them are discouragingly certain that it is not. There are positions waiting for them, the futile efforts of teachers' agencies to find such places to the contrary notwithstanding. To avoid a rush of applicants, the world does not advertise its wants, but those wants exist, and are, indeed, very pressing and very real. Among other things, it wants young men who are men enough to search out their places; it wants young women of sufficient self-reliance to bear the disappointment of not securing the first position for which they apply: most of all, it wants character, and it very wisely declines to accept a college or school diploma as conclusive evidence of that. Their equipment is incomplete who have no more than youth and education to recommend them. Only the resolute and Christian young worker can have all the essentials of success. He will not be of those who, for the next generation, will be sitting around in the world's intelligence offices, waiting, and grumbling, and with nothing to do.—S. S. Times.