But the church may inquire whether young men can be trusted with the grave responsibilities involved in establishing and superintending a foreign mission. I answer: God designed that they should be so trained in our colleges and by association in labor with men of experience that they would be prepared for departments of usefulness in this cause. We must manifest confidence in our young men. They should be pioneers in every enterprise involving toil and sacrifice, while the overtaxed servants of Christ should be cherished as counselors, to encourage and bless those who strike the heaviest blows for God. Providence thrust these experienced fathers into trying, responsible positions at an early age, when neither physical nor intellectual powers were fully developed. The magnitude of the trust committed to them aroused their energies, and their active labor in the work aided both mental and physical development. {5T 392.4}

Menigheden vil måske spørge, om man kan betro unge mænd det store ansvar, som er forbundet med oprettelsen og ledelsen af missionsforetagender i fremmede lande. Jeg svarer: Det (393) var Guds hensigt, at de på vore højere skoler og ved at være sammen med erfarne mænd i arbejdet skulle få en sådan oplæring, at de ville blive kvalificerede til at gøre nytte i hans sag. Herren satte disse erfarne fædre ind i prøvende, ansvarsfulde stillinger i en ung alder mens hverken de fysiske eller de åndelige kræfter var fuldt udviklede. Vigtigheden af den opgave som blev betroet dem, skærpede deres kræfter og deres evner og den aktive del, de tog i arbejdet, bidrog så vel til den fysiske som til den åndelige udvikling.