A RECENT headline in a daily newspaper proclaimed, "Soviets Educate Children to be Good Communists!" The article declares that "almost from infancy, children in the Soviet Union are educated toward a common goal: to grow up as good Communists." From pre-school nursery training through university specialization, the best minds of the Soviet Union concentrate "to produce the kind of citizen that Soviets feel is needed for the Communist world."
A statement in God's counsels to His last-day church promises, "We may bring hundreds and thousands of children to Christ if we will work for them."--Counsels to Parents and Teachers, p. 172. What a challenge to Seventh-day Adventists into whose hands God has committed the privilege of winning these thousands and training them for citizenship in heavenly kingdom.
Let our best energies be directed to this task. We may confidently expect God to do His part if we do ours. But the "thousands" will not be converted unless we "work for them."
It is the joy of every true minister to baptize entire families, and this will happen if the divine blueprint is followed. The blueprint is found in Evangelism, pages 579-584. Read it and you will find that children's meetings are to be held in connection with revival meetings. Reap the extra benefits: "Through the children many parents will be reached." ---Page 584.
During one of my evangelistic efforts I baptized a young husband and wife who later became leaders in their church. After their baptism they told me that they would not have attended all of my meetings except for the insistence of their two children who begged not to miss a single one of the children's meetings.
The dedicated worker whose heart thrills with the joy of winning souls will truly "enter . . . into the joy of thy lord" (Matt. 25:23), for "they joy of seeing souls redeemed, souls eternally saved, is the reward of all that put their feet in the footprints of Him who said, Follow me.' " ---Desire of Ages, p. 523
