The Relations of the Washington Training College and South Lancaster Academy
By Frederick Griggs
It seems fitting that a few words be said with reference to the relation of these two schools. They are both situated in the eastern portion of the United States, and both exist for the express purpose of preparing workers for this message.
South Lancaster Academy was established under the direction of the Lord. It had been running over twenty years when the Lord gave direct message that at Washington another training-school should be established. Now God does not speak amiss, and this is our evidence that both of these schools belong in this territory, and have a great and important work to do. It has been by no small effort that the people of the territory now embraced in the Atlantic Union Conference have maintained South Lancaster Academy both financially and educationally, in carrying on its work. This school has probably never been filled to its fullest extent, and it is but natural that those who have for years been endeavoring to maintain it, in its God-given work, should have some fear as to whether the establishment of another training-school, doing more advanced work in this territory, would not have a somewhat harmful effect upon it. On the other hand, there have been those who have had confidence that because God had ordained the work of both of these schools, it was good that they should both be where they are.
Together, these schools have a capacity, in their homes, of about two hundred and fifty students. Now there are at least four times that number of young men and women in the Atlantic Union Conference alone whose age and qualifications are such as to make it a real duty for them to be away from their own homes, and to be in these school homes, attending one or the other of these schools, directly preparing for advanced work in the Master's cause. This is another evidence that both of these schools are needed where they have been placed.
From one point of view the Washington Training College has a field of operation that is world wide. It was established in connection with the work at Washington, under the direct instruction of the Lord. With this school are associated those men and women whose work extends throughout all the earth. It is the avowed purpose of this school to give such a thorough course of instruction as will enable its graduates to do effectively the gospel work in any portion of the world. Because of these facts there will naturally come to it students not only from all portions of the United States, but from distant portions of the world. But, nevertheless, it would seem that for a time at least, and perhaps as long as it shall carry on its work, this school will draw the major part of its students from the territory within the Atlantic Union Conference. This is so not only from its location, but from the further fact that our other training-schools have in mind, and are fitting their students directly for, this world-wide work; and it is well that they are, for no one school can begin to prepare the great number of workers that are needed for this finishing work.
Years ago the spirit of prophecy said that the message would return to the East in power, and the fact that in these latter years it has instructed that the school at Washington shall be established, in addition to the one already in existence, is, indeed, direct evidence that the message is returning to the East in power. Nearly one third of the population of the United States is within the territory of the Atlantic Union Conference, and there is a mighty work to be done here in the closing work of this message. This constitutes another call for both of these schools.
It, then, remains for the rank and file of our people in the East to set in motion all the denominational machinery to place our young men and women who should be in school, in one or the other of these training-schools, and it is not too late for much more to be accomplished in this direction during this school year. Then let us all work to build up the interests of both of these schools, for the rapidity with which this present truth is spreading, particularly in the East, and indeed in all the world, depends very much upon the successful work which they shall do.
Those in charge of the Washington school have recognized something of the feeling of fear which has existed with reference to the effect of their work upon South Lancaster Academy, and as a result have not pushed the interests of their school, in this territory, so enthusiastically as they might otherwise have done; but we trust that any such feeling may be laid aside, and that we shall all do our utmost to build up the interests of this new and important school.
FREDERICK GRIGGS.
Walla Walla College
By M. E. Cady
On account of many of our former students not being able to secure their books so as to make their deliveries before September 12 (caused by the burning of the Pacific Press Plant), it was decided to postpone the opening of the school until Wednesday, September 26.
Accordingly the students and many of the patrons and friends of the school met in the college chapel, Wednesday morning, at nine o’clock. The room was quite well filled. Some stirring remarks were made by the president of the board and some members of the college faculty regarding the purpose and object of the school, and its bright prospects for the coming year. The college department enrolled ninety students, and the normal department enrolled thirty-eight pupils, making a total of one hundred and twenty-eight students the first morning. School has now been in progress just three weeks, and the enrolment in the college department at the present is one hundred and forty-three, and forty-four in the normal department. This makes a total of one hundred and eighty-seven enrolled, and still others are coming almost every day. It seems probable that we shall have two hundred and fifty pupils this year, which will be a gain of fifty over last year’s record. Last year’s record showed a gain of fifty over the previous year.
We have an excellent class of students, many of them being well matured; so in a short time they will be prepared to enter the work. The students are taking hold of the work in good earnest, and with the blessing of God added to their efforts, we expect to see great results.
Walla Walla College has a strong faculty, a band of workers “whose hearts God had touched.” Every department of the school is under competent instructors, and the faculty is of sufficient size to give each student the needed attention, and to look carefully after the spiritual and industrial features, as well as the academic work.
We are glad to be able to say that the normal department is now a regular feature of the college work. The children of the church are the pupils of this department, and the practise teaching is done under the direction of four experienced teachers, known in normal schools as “critic teachers.” We have new quarters for carrying forward this work, suitable rooms being provided in a building a short distance from the college building. We have the pupils, the facilities, a strong normal faculty, and now we would like to have our local conferences encourage suitable persons to27take the normal training work. We have a class of eight or ten, but we ought to have more than twice that number. The hope of our church-schools lies in a thorough preparation of the teachers for their work.
The music department has been strengthened by securing another competent teacher. We now have three teachers in the department, teaching vocal music and giving lessons on the organ and the piano. Instruction is also given in band and orchestra music. Our aim is to make the work of the music department of such a character as will be an aid in gospel work.
As we face the work of the year, our hearts are encouraged by the many evidences we have that God is working with us and for us. Our aim is to do our utmost to swell the army of workers which is to take this gospel of the kingdom to all the world in this generation, and to this glorious task we dedicate our lives, day by day. M. E. CADY.
The Meadow Glade (Wash.) School
By G. E. JOHNSON
The Meadow Glade Intermediate School opened September 12, with an attendance of twenty, hop picking and prune picking preventing nearly as many others from being present, who will no doubt be here later in the school year.
Prof. J. C. Rogers was here the opening day, and directed our minds to the foreign missionary field, and especially to his own particular field of labor, urging Africa’s needs, and encouraging the young people to consecrate their lives to the service of the Lord. Prof. M. E. Cady has also been with us since the opening of school, and has spoken words of courage to us.
The spirit of the school is good, and there are several who have signified their determination to help carry the work to the foreign fields if it is the will of the Lord that they should do so. We expect to make the missionary movement a prominent feature of our work during the year.
Dedicatory exercises for our new building, which is thirty-two by forty feet, and two-stories high, will be held Sabbath and Sunday, September 29 and 30, at which time we expect to have quite an increase in our attendance.
G. E. JOHNSON.
Opening of Oakwood Manual Training-School
By W. J. Blake
THE Oakwood Manual Training-school opened September 19, in harmony with previous announcement. Though the attendance was small at the beginning, yet a substantial increase in numbers is confidently expected in the immediate future. Some who had been laying plans to be with us were kept away by sickness. Others were prevented by unexpected financial reverses. Several of these will come later.
Seemingly, there is no reason why the institution may not enjoy a prosperous year. We note with interest that many of the young men and women are getting definite aims in life, and are anxious to prepare themselves quickly for various lines of the Lord's work. We shall endeavor to instil into the minds of these the great importance of our present denominational missionary enterprises, as well as the great need of the unentered fields.
There is a great work to be done here in the South among the colored people. The message has gone to only a few comparatively. It seems very difficult to find properly trained persons to fill the many calls for teachers and Bible workers. Realizing this present need of more thoroughly prepared and consecrated colored workers, in the home field as well as in foreign countries, those in charge of the school are determined to arrange for the training of these workers as quickly and in as thorough a manner as possible. The faculty would appreciate any efforts on the part of our brethren and sisters to induce young colored men and women of good character to enter the school. Correspondence is invited.
The school, situated as it is, on a large farm, affords exceptionally good opportunities for industrial training. The management, appreciating this fact, will endeavor to give such attention to this phase of the work as to enable the students to become proficient in agriculture, horticulture, and various common trades.
This is necessarily in harmony with the true missionary idea, for certainly students when leaving school should be prepared to intelligently cultivate the soil, raise various fruits and flowers, as well as to erect neat and substantial buildings. Such training can but increase the usefulness of any missionary, whether in the home or foreign field.
Both teachers and students seem to manifest a desire to see the institution succeed, and are laboring to this end. W. J. BLAKE.
Educational Work in the Southern Union Conference
By J. E. Tenney
The Southern Training-School
This institution located at Graysville, Tenn., is the only school for the training of laborers for the white people of this union conference, embracing nine States and more than fifteen millions of people, counting both white and colored people.
This institution has been compelled, ever since its establishment, to contend with many difficulties unknown to schools located in those sections of the country where there are many who are interested in the school, and who are able and willing to support it.
The young people whom this school is designed to help are widely scattered, and the parents of many of them are scarcely able to afford their children the benefits of a training in this school.
In the face of these disadvantages, of which the one just mentioned is not the greatest, it has been our privilege during the past six years to see this school steadily advance. Each year the courses of study have been improved, needed facilities added, and a higher grade of students has been enrolled.
On Wednesday, the nineteenth of September, the school opened with a larger attendance than ever before at the beginning of a year. These young people are of an excellent class, and the prospects are bright for a very successful year.
Our Intermediate Schools
The intermediate school of the Tennessee River Conference is located at Hazel, Ky. This school is in charge of Brother Thos. Rowe, who, with his wife, has recently returned from Florida to take up this responsible work.
A new school building and dormitory have been erected, and the school has just opened with bright prospects. A good attendance of students from different parts of the conference is reported.
The School at Alpharetta, Ga.
This intermediate school is in charge of Brother Clarence Boyd. The great drawback to this school is that there is very little land in connection with it, and hence but little manual work to offer the pupils. The school, however, is in an excellent condition, and we confidently expect it to be a constantly increasing blessing to the young people of the Georgia Conference.
Hildebran, N. C.
The intermediate school at this place is owned and conducted by Brother J. W. Beach. The fact that it is not owned by the conference in no way interferes with the benefits that the conference will continue to derive from it. The school is located in a beautiful and healthful part of the State, and its circle of influence and usefulness is widening.
Quitman, Miss.
Through the untiring efforts of Elder H. W. Pierce and his wife, assisted by others, a very encouraging start has been made toward the establishing of an intermediate school at this place.
A neat school building had been erected and used for a year or more when a severe wind-storm, the latter part of February of this year, completely wrecked not only the school building, but the school home. This was a great loss, which only those who experienced the labor and sacrifice in this pioneer work can appreciate. Not discouraged, however, the school is still continued in a barn, which escaped the fury of the storm, and which has been, in a measure, made suitable for class work.
We believe that the patience and self-denial of those engaged in this work will be rewarded, and Mississippi's intermediate school will yet accomplish great good.
In the Cumberland Conference
The large number of young people who live at Graysville make it necessary to carry on both intermediate and primary grades of work in connection with the training-school. The first five grades form the normal department of the school, and the sixth, seventh, and eighth years of work form the intermediate department, and are kept as separate as possible from the higher grades of the school.
It will thus be seen that five out of the nine conferences in the Southern Union have intermediate schools in a greater or less degree of completion and proficiency.
Church and Mission Schools
These primary schools are constantly increasing in number and excellence. More than fifty different schools of this class were conducted during a portion of the past year, and the prospects for the school year upon which we are just entering are very encouraging.
A considerable increase in salary is being offered our teachers over that of previous years. This indicates a higher appreciation of our schools, and insures a better grade of work.
Throughout this union conference our schools lack that uniformity which is essential to the highest degree of success. A special effort will be made during the coming year to systematize our work more perfectly, and thus economize time and effort.
J. E. TENNEY.
Beechwood Academy
By B. F. Machlan
THE interest manifested by the people of Indiana in the subject of Christian education has been greater this year than usual. The fact that “true education is a missionary training” seems to be getting hold of the minds of our people. That they are to stand by the side of Christ in unselfish ministry is being realized by many of our young people.
During the vacation, this summer, more than twenty of our students engaged in the canvassing work, and a number of them have been successful in earning a scholarship. This has been such an encouragement to those who did not try that next year we hope to double the number of canvassers in the field.
On the twenty-fifth of September about fifty young people gathered in the chapel at Beechwood Academy to begin another year's work. The morning28was spent in devotional exercises, matriculation, examination, and classification. A spirit of service seems to have taken hold of our boys and girls, and this year we have the most earnest company of young people that has ever gathered at Beechwood.
Since the opening day, students have been coming, until, at present, we look forward to the seventy mark.
Some of the students who were graduated from our academy last year are now attending the Emmanuel Missionary College at Berrien Springs, Mich., one is at Mt. Vernon College, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and several are in the church-school work of the State.
God has indeed blessed us during the past four years, and we are expecting great things of him this year.
As parents and teachers we are under sacred covenant with God to train the children for service in his cause, that the great message of salvation may be carried to all the world in this generation. And it is the purpose of the faculty at Beechwood to seek the Lord earnestly that they may not fail in doing what God demands.
B. F. MACHLAN.
Manual Training as an Essential Factor in Education
By J. H. Haughey
This is a Seventh-day Adventist General Conference missionary educational convention. And in just so far as it is such, it stands for the cause of God in the entire world; it touches the message of the third angel at all points; it forms a symmetrical whole, neither belittling that which is truly great nor unduly exalting that which is really small; and in its results it produces a well-balanced, all-round curriculum of studies and system of education.
As a committee appointed by your General Conference at its last session,29we wish during this hour to touch with the tips of our fingers, as it is possible only to do, one of the great threefold fundamentals of true higher education. These are indeed folded together by a divine hand, not to be rent asunder by vain philosophy, human science, or false deceit. Our topic is the first of this trio,—industrial, Biblical, missionary; or, physical, intellectual, spiritual.
Manual training even among Seventh-day Adventists in their institutions of learning, is as yet a child of small stature and of slow growth. As such it needs this convention as a tender father and a nursing mother; and in its struggles for existence it demands our energy and enthusiasm, as well as our deepest sympathy and most constant care.
Two great commissions have been given to the world, the first of which was not, “Go, teach,” but, “Go, toil.” “In toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.” Gen. 3:17, R. V. This commission is to all men in all time, for the new dispensation as well as for the old. “If a man will not work, neither shall he eat,” is the inspired declaration of the great apostle to the Gentiles. Those giants of the antediluvian world, whose lives were prolonged to nearly a thousand years, were tillers of the soil. The children of Abraham were an agricultural people. In Israel it was a crime not to teach every child some trade. It was a common saying, “He that teacheth not his son some honest work to do, is as if he taught him robbery.”
Nearly all the truly great or influential men of earth have come from the lowly walks of life; from the plow, from the shepherd’s crook, from the carpenter’s bench, from the fisherman’s net, from the tent-maker’s tent, the blacksmith’s anvil, or the cobbler’s last. And this is true, not only of the noble men, but of the noble women of earth. Whether we have seen, heard, or read of them, it matters not. They may have been servant girls, cup-bearers of cold water to thirsty souls; with bended form, but loving heart, they may have sat plying the needle, or stood over the tub cleansing the soiled clothes, or over the heated stove preparing healthful food for hungry mouths, yet, like Esther, they will some day be recognized as the queens of earth; for as has been said, “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” I might refer you to the fathers and mothers of prophets, priests, and judges, of great generals and kings in Israel and in the world; to the early lives of great missionaries and reformers, to renowned orators and statesmen, to presidents of the United States and other states, to the presidents of the General Conference and other conferences, and almost without exception you would find that their strong and vigorous bodies and minds, their iron wills and sturdy characters, were the products of simple but rugged lives of toil.
The whole world sees the necessity of combining physical labor with their school work. Indeed, many of their schools are in some respects far ahead of ours. It is not only interesting, but astounding to note the rapid progress made within the past few years, especially along agricultural lines. The movement to put agriculture into the public schools is felt with great force in Germany, France, Russia, Italy, and with Switzerland. Echoes of it are heard from South America and Australia; and it seems that no part of the civilized world, where there are public school privileges, has escaped the impulse. It is said that in the United States there has been legislation introducing agriculture into the schools of North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, Tennessee, Washington, California, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Indiana, and in many schools also in Michigan, Georgia, Mississippi, and Missouri. And time would fail us to more than mention the fact that agriculture, floriculture, horticulture, vegetable gardening, or all of these combined, are receiving much attention in high schools and in State normal and agricultural schools all over this country. “A text-book on agriculture has just been issued especially adapted to the primary schools of Bolivia.” “Agricultural education in Rumania includes seven elementary agricultural schools, six secondary agricultural schools, two model farms, and a central agricultural school.” “Agricultural education in Porto Rico includes nineteen agricultural schools.” “An agricultural school is in operation in Poona, India, with seventy-seven students.” “An agricultural institute has recently been established in the Transvaal.” “Agriculture in the West Indies is taught to boys about fourteen years of age.” “There are thirty-one schools in the Rhine province, in which agriculture is taught, and in which there have been enrolled, up to the present time, 11,457 pupils.” “A school of agriculture, with farm attached, has been organized at Mason Carree, Algeria.” “A school with a fifty-two-acre farm has been established in Turkey.” “Wisconsin now requires agriculture to be taught in every rural province school in the State, and no diploma can be issued to any pupil graduating from a rural school unless he has had instruction in agriculture.”
J. H. Haughey.
(To be continued)
Opening of Fernando Academy
By H. G. Lucas
The summer's work of the teachers in visiting prospective students indicated that our attendance this year would be large. Considerable interest in the educational work was shown at the camp-meeting held in Los Angeles in August. We made a careful record of those intending to come, and from our list it was evident that we should need to secure rooms in outside cottages in order to accommodate all who intended to come. The first student came four or five days before it was time for her to come, and by the night of the eighteenth of September, the evening before school was to begin, every room had been taken. We have rented nine rooms outside, and have been able to add four rooms to our present quarters.
The Home family consists of about eighty persons, as compared with fifty for last year. The daily attendance in the school has increased from ninety-three, the first day, to one hundred and thirty. This is about fifty more than we had last year at this time. We feel that the Lord is working upon the hearts of the young people of this conference to prepare themselves for his work, and I am sure that we are near the time when the Lord's Spirit will be poured out upon his people, and they will go forth to give the message with great power.
I am convinced, also, that the different lines of missionary work that we undertook last year have had their effect upon the young men and women who were hesitating whether they should come to school or not. The canvassing work was given its proper place in our curriculum, and the young people sold several thousand dollars' worth of books during the summer months. The first Sabbath after school began the Young People's Society asked those who had been out in the canvassing field to give some of their experiences. They had a good meeting together, and at the close fourteen persons signified their intention to go out next year. I am sure that there will be a large class to go into training when the time comes.
All our classes are large, and more than forty have joined the class in Bible doctrines. A new class for ministers and Bible workers has just been started. In this class our Bible teacher gives his pupils topics to develop as they would in regular field work, and then he criticizes their efforts, and helps them in every way possible to become efficient workers.
Our church-school system has been partially responsible for the large increase in our attendance.
The young people here have raised the money to send a student-missionary to Peru, and only a few days ago they pledged more than one hundred dollars toward the support of the school that the young people of this conference are starting in the city of Rome.
The Lord has already blessed us in our spiritual meetings, and given us souls as the price of our labors. We realize that our success in intellectual lines can be accomplished only as we place before those under our care the choice between eternal life and eternal death, and then implore them to choose life.
H. G. Lucas.
The Southern Training-School
By J. E. Tenney
More than a month of the school year has passed. In common with several others, the Southern Training-School has a very encouraging attendance. Eighty students above the primary department were enrolled the first day of the term, and the number has now reached about one hundred. More than fifty of these have completed the preparatory work, and are now in the academic department. This condition is very gratifying to those who have a burden for the work in the union conference for which this school stands.
With the exception of North Carolina, every State in the Southern Union Conference has one or more representatives among the students, and a few are from other States. Some in the school are the product of our intermediate schools. This is as it should be. We desire the time to speedily come when each local conference will maintain its own school for intermediate work, and send its young people to the training-school for their advanced education.
We are exceedingly thankful that the Lord has provided strong teachers for the different departments of the school. The institution has been blessed with excellent teachers in the past, but in harmony with the increased importance of efficient and speedy work as we draw near the close of time, men and women of consecration and teaching ability have the school in charge.
Much-needed room is to be provided in the near future by the erection of an addition to the present building. This addition, as it is planned, will double the seating capacity of the chapel, and provide four additional class rooms and a gymnasium. A more satisfactory method of heating the school building and dormitory is soon to be employed. These improvements have long been needed; and now that there is a prospect of their being made, we take fresh courage.
We invite the friends of the cause of truth everywhere to unite their prayers with ours that this school upon which is placed the burden of a great work, may be constantly blessed of God.
J. E. Tenney.
The Need of a Higher Standard
By J. E. Tenney
The more important the work, the greater the need of efficiency in doing that work. Christ did not send illiterate, uncultured men to carry the gospel to the world, but kept them with him under his personal instruction until “they had become like him in mind and in character.”
First impressions have an important influence upon the mind, and when those representing an unpopular truth go before the world with a speech and manner that clearly indicate a lack of culture, it leaves an impression which the presentation of truth can hardly overcome.
Even the fact that God’s people have a great work to do and a short time in which to do it, should not lead any to conclude that we have not the time to gain a preparation for doing more efficient service.
The idea has seemed to prevail that we are in such great need of teachers that as soon as one has a fair knowledge of the fundamental branches, and indorses the principles of Christian education, he should be put to work. We believe this to be a great mistake. Our teachers, as well as our ministers and our physicians, should have a thorough, all-round education, and stand at the head of those in their profession.
How many times we have heard people say, “I have no education; I can’t do anything unless it is to canvass.” When we understand that those who canvass should be as wisely chosen as our ministers, and that the work of our canvassers is second to none in its importance and far-reaching influence, then we shall conclude that this class of laborers needs a well-rounded education as well as those of other professions.
Let us not be satisfied with meager attainments, but be prepared both by training and by consecration for the great work committed to us.
This preparation does not necessitate the completion of a long course of study requiring years of precious time. The blessing of God upon consecrated effort will accomplish much in a short time. The finishing of God’s work in the earth can be best accomplished by those in whom are combined trained ability and a spirit of entire consecration.
J. E. TENNEY.
Methods in Primary Schools
By A TEACHER
Geography
Few studies present such possibilities to the church-school teacher as does geography. The Bible is the inspired guide-book, the written history of the Father's dealing with his children, now erring, now repentant; the life story of his Son, a declaration of his warnings, and counsels, and promises, the medium through which we see a new earth, “wherein dwelleth righteousness.” Geography, seen in the light of inspired revelation, is a guide-book of this present home of ours, the science that shows in souls the effect of heeding or rejecting God; the history of our world, written in stones and plants, and human lives.
The little child begins by studying the things that he sees about him, the simple geography of the school yard and farm, the simple forms of land and water. And at the same time he may learn how all the great world is a home that God made for his children, and into which he put our first parents.
As the child grows older, he will be interested in following through the story of the peopling of the earth, in seeing how people were affected by climate, and all the fauna and flora that depend on it. From that he will be interested in slope and position in the mountains, realizing that climate depends largely on that. Show him how from the time of Lot and Abraham until now, people have been influenced by their environment.
Try in your work, as far as you can, to interest the child in the people, their characteristics and customs, not simply for curiosity's sake, but to awaken sympathy, possibly pity, and love, a desire to have them see and accept our Saviour and message.
Children have an idea, perhaps most of their elders have, that those people are very queer, very inferior to us, with hearts and heads that are not at all like ours. Read the children the story of those black heroes who brought Livingstone back from the heart of Africa, of the faithful, loving hearts in China, and India, and Japan. Get the letters of our foreign workers for them in as large number as possible, and let them see that all those poor, dark hearts need is the converting, transforming power of God; and we need that as much as they. They are no queerer to us than we are to them, and God loves them just as he does us.
As far as possible, weave location in by tracing mission stations and routes. Keep the children interested in the latest reports from the mission fields. Study a continent or a country with its evangelization in view, and hang the facts on that.
The teacher who tries to do this finds difficulty in the text-book question. There is none that covers this ground, yet. Still the work can be done by using a good text, preferably Morton's, and filling in from the reports in the Review and Missionary Magazine, old numbers of which may be found in many homes. The work would have to be outlined carefully from the beginning, and the outline faithfully carried out.
The children would do well to keep full notes on these fields. If they write slowly, the teacher would probably save time by copying them herself on a hektograph, and letting the children paste the sheets in their books.
Much interesting literature can be found to help in this work, by looking up the lives of pioneer missionaries, and in the reading-matter published by the Student Volunteers. A TEACHER.
Rational Method of Teaching Reading
Brother Otto Graf, Educational Secretary of the Northern Union Conference, has prepared “An Outline of the Rational Method of Teaching Reading and Spelling,” in which various specific directions are given to the teacher for the first six weeks’ work. The members of the text-book committee at College View have encouraged him to have it printed; accordingly he is having a small edition printed. It is to be a tract of about twenty-four pages, and will retail for five cents a copy, or one dollar for twenty-five, three dollars and a half for one hundred. It will no doubt be a great help to many of our teachers in making the teaching of reading a success. Those desiring copies of this tract should address the Department of Education of the Northern Union Conference, Box 989, Minneapolis, Minn.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Notice!
The St. Helena Sanitarium offers to our consecrated, able-bodied young men and women the privileges of its training-school in the preparation of medical missionaries for the proclamation of the third angel's message.
The advantages of the sanitarium compare favorably with any on the Pacific Coast. Among them are the following: Our climatic conditions and surroundings the entire year, thus affording an excellent opportunity for the practical demonstration of the theories of medical missionary work set forth by the faculty, which is ably headed by Dr. H. F. Rand.
We should like to correspond with at least fifty consecrated young men and women to begin with the October class. The applicant should have a settled purpose in life to serve God. He should be of sound health, and not less than nineteen years old. He should have finished at least eight grades of studies in the common schools, and have the recommendation of the elders of the church, ministers of the conference, or other recognized brethren of good standing.
To all who have not a settled purpose as to the work they intend to follow in connection with the cause of God, we extend a cordial invitation to the above call. Be free to ask for our calendar and other information you may desire.
