Time Out

One thing was clear: Eberhard’s missionary zeal, his ministry to the souls 
of his schoolmates and others his own age, his talent for speaking, and
his 
involvement with the Salvation Army and the bible group – all these came
at 
the cost of his schoolwork. Clara Arnold writes that her brother was 
indifferent about school, even that he had a “passive resistance” to it.
By 
a simple calculation from established dates, it is evident that Eberhard 
had been lagging behind in his studies during the years following his 
sixteenth birthday. His parents ultimately convinced him to concentrate on

his high school final examination, but he always maintained the worth of 
his missionary activities: “I can never regret having worked for Jesus in 
caring for souls, and I must state clearly that it was his call and his 
spirit that urged me to do it.” Since Breslau contained too many 
distractions from his studies, Eberhard’s parents sent him to a boarding 
school in the Silesian town of Jauer. There he passed his final
examination 
at the royal high school during the first weeks of 1905. He was twenty-one

years old.