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students have had a superabundance of this way of passing their time.
They are not prepared to go forth from the school with an all-round
education.
The proper cooking of food is a most essential requirement. Some-
thing must be prepared to take the place of meat, and so well prepared
that meat will not be desired. Culture on all points of life will make the
youth useful after they shall leave the school to go to foreign countries.
They will not then have to depend upon the people to whom they go
to cook and sew for them, or to build their habitations; and they will
have much more influence if they show that they know how to do
work by the best methods and to produce the best results. This will
be appreciated where means are difficult to obtain. Missionaries can
thus teach others how to labor. A much smaller fund will be required
to sustain such missionaries, and wherever they may go, all that they
have gained in this line will give them standing.
It is also essential to understand the philosophy of medical mis-
sionary work. Wherever the students may go, they need education in
the science of how to treat the sick. This will give them a welcome
in any place, because there is suffering of every kind in every part of
the world. Education, true education, means much.—
Unpublished
Testimonies, December 20, 1896
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