Arthur Spalding looked up startled as Mrs. White spoke to him: "These children," she said, "should be a great army trained to work for the Lord; they could finish God's work on this earth in a short time...You must speak to the children and the parents too. Yes, write for them. I feel God is calling you to this work."
Elder Spalding kept those words in his mind. They became to him "as a burning fire" in his bones. He became an active leader in the youth and junior camp work, and founded what became the Education Department of the General Conference. A Fire in My Bones is Spalding's compelling biography. He also wrote Origin and History of Seventh-day Adventists, and Footprints of the Pioneers.
