p. 20 | A Good Record by M. E. KERN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 18, 1915

A Good Record

By M. E. KERN

THE Missionary Volunteer secretary of the North New Zealand Conference, in writing about their last most excellent conference session and camp meeting, said some very interesting things about the product of the Avondale school:—

“It is interesting to know that of the twenty-four conference laborers in New Zealand, fifteen are ex-Avondale students and two are ex-students of the Oroua Mission School, formerly known as the Pukekura Training School, of this conference. The principal of the Oroua Mission School, his wife, and several of our café workers were at one time Avondale students. I am thankful for a training in one of our schools. The happiest years of my life were spent in Avondale, and to me it is a sacred spot. Many of my schoolmates are now actively engaged in the Master’s service, as ministers, Bible workers, teachers, missionaries, canvassers, or superintendents of mission fields. The principal of the Australasian Missionary College, and his wife, were my schoolmates. In England, China, Japan, the East Indies, the Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, and other islands of the Pacific, these faithful student workers are giving the glorious light of the third angel’s message to those whose minds have long been darkened by sin. Of the twelve workers in Fiji, nine received their education at Avondale.”

A record like this might be written of each of our training schools. Well does the writer add:—

“What a boon our schools are to our young people! How many they save from the snares of the evil one! The safest place for our young people is in one or another of our institutions.”

“The safest place!” How good those words sound in this time of peril. We rejoice to see so many students in our schools. But there are thousands who ought to be there that are not. Will not parents, church officers, and friends yet do something to get that boy or girl in their home or church into school this year? It may be the turning point of a life. M. E. KERN.