Ms 15, 1914

“Let This Work Go Forward”

NP

May, 1914

Previously unpublished.

A statement by Ellen White upon receipt of the following extract:25LtMs, Ms 15, 1914, par. 1

Extract from a letter written by Dr. J. Taylor Stratton, Chairman of the Davidson County Board of Education, Madison, Tennessee, under date of May 11, 1914. The letter is addressed to Dr. P. E. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education.25LtMs, Ms 15, 1914, par. 2

“Private schools also are being pushed to an efficiency hitherto unknown, and perhaps the most noted of these are the schools organized and conducted by those affiliating with the Seventh-day Adventist church. Their central training school is located nine miles from Nashville, and near my home, and the practical side of their school work has been a constant demonstration of desirable things to this community.25LtMs, Ms 15, 1914, par. 3

“From this center, well-equipped young men and women have gone out to our hill country and ridge sections and have established schools that have proven most wonderful agencies for the moral, intellectual, and physical uplift of these people. They make their homes with these people and teach them the better things of life by example as well as by precept.25LtMs, Ms 15, 1914, par. 4

“While these schools are not equipped like the modern high school, yet I find that they are emphasizing and successfully teaching domestic science, manual training, and agriculture through which their influence reaches into the homes and very noticeably advances the standard of the community life.”25LtMs, Ms 15, 1914, par. 5

Yours very truly,25LtMs, Ms 15, 1914, par. 6

(signed) J. Taylor Stratton

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Ellen White’s statement:25LtMs, Ms 15, 1914, par. 7

“Be sure and preserve this to be used to accomplish the work that needs to be done to educate and to train students. There is to be encouragement to carry forward the grand work that is to be done. I am deeply interested. Let this work go forward. Let nothing be done to bind about this work. It is the Lord’s work, and let us all act our individual part. We can all engage in this work. My soul is deeply interested.”25LtMs, Ms 15, 1914, par. 8