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True education is missionary training. Every son and daughter of God is called to be a missionary; we are called to the service of God and our fellow men; and to fit us for this service should be the object of our education.

Education should prepare individuals for the service of God and humanity as missionaries. The paragraph defines the ultimate object of education in spiritual and missionary terms.

This object should ever be kept in view by Christian parents and teachers. We know not in what line our children may serve. They may spend their lives within the circle of the home; they may engage in life's common vocations, or go as teachers of the gospel to heathen lands; but all are alike called to be missionaries for God, ministers of mercy to the world.

Children and youth are all called to be ministers of mercy and missionaries regardless of their specific vocation. It extends the missionary calling to all possible domestic or foreign life paths without making a scientific claim.

The children and youth, with their fresh talent, energy, and courage, their quick susceptibilities, are loved of God, and He desires to bring them into harmony with divine agencies. They are to obtain an education that will help them to stand by the side of Christ in unselfish service.

The energy and talents of youth should be brought into harmony with divine agencies for unselfish service. It addresses the spiritual alignment and potential of youth.

Of all His children to the close of time, no less than of the first disciples, Christ said, “As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world” ( John 17:18 ), to be representatives of God, to reveal His Spirit, to manifest His character, to do His work.

Believers are sent into the world by Christ to represent God and continue His work. It consists of scriptural quotation and direct theological teaching.