General Conference Bulletin, vol. 4

CO-OPERATION OF OUR SCHOOLS

For the bringing out of tracts, leaflets, pamphlets, and small periodicals in the various European languages for circulation in America, the General Conference will be able to secure efficient help from our larger schools. GCB April 2, 1901, page 8.6

Suppose we should modify our present plan of trying to have everybody in every part of the United States equally and uniformly interested in every missionary enterprise throughout the world. Suppose we should say to the Healdsburg College, and the Keene (Texas) school, you are brought in contact with the Mexicans and Spanish. We would encourage you to make Spanish a specialty in your school and in your printing office. We will furnish you with paper, and with good translations of Spanish works, which you may print and sell or give away, as seems best. For what you sell, pay us back the cost of the paper; what you give away we will share the sacrifice with you. GCB April 2, 1901, page 8.7

Suppose you say to the managers and students of the Walla Walla College. Make a study of the languages of the American Indians, and bring out a literature for them in your printing office, and we will furnish the paper. GCB April 2, 1901, page 8.8

Suppose you say to the Union College, Make a study of the German, Danish, and Swedish, and make your printing office a missionary printing office to bring out tracts and leaflets in these languages. GCB April 2, 1901, page 8.9

South Lancaster, which is so near the great Canadian field, might make a specialty of the French; Battle Creek of the Dutch, Polish, and Italian. Graysville and Mount Vernon might be encouraged to produce literature for the colored people. GCB April 2, 1901, page 8.10

The above outline is a very rough one, but it embodies the idea of a system which, we believe, would more than double the influence of our schools in developing missionary zeal by directing the attention of each school to two or three fields for their special study. This would naturally lead them to correspond with workers in those fields, and by establishing a direct correspondence, work up an interest that is quite impossible when trying to think of the whole world at once. It seems to me that this plan would give a definite purpose to our school printing offices, that would make them very useful as educational and missionary agencies, and result in the training of students for work in the foreign fields. GCB April 2, 1901, page 8.11