The Correspondence School and the War by C. C. LEWIS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 7, 1915

The Correspondence School and the War

By C. C. LEWIS

THE Fireside Correspondence School adapts itself to all conditions. We have not yet received word that any of the soldiers in the trenches are pursuing studies through this means, but we have just received word from Elder W. C. Ising, who is a prisoner of war on the island of Malta, that he has completed the last ten lessons of the second year in New Testament Greek. Although these lessons have not yet reached us, we are certain that they are of uniform grade with all his other work during the past two years, which has ranged from 65 to 100. We have received several of his letters, and he says that his lessons were passed upon by the censor and were mailed. Brother Ising formerly labored in Assyria and Armenia. Some of his lessons last year were dated at Bagdad. While many of our missionaries in the out-of-the-way places of the earth are faithful and successful in the correspondence school work, why is it that so many of our near-by work ers do not avail themselves of the opportunities afforded by the correspondence school? Is it because “a prophet is not without honor save in his own country”? Why is not New Testament Greek just as good for our ministers in this country as it is in Asia? and why cannot our young ministers in this country pursue this study by correspondence just as successfully as Brother Ising has done under his far more difficult circumstances?

C. C. LEWIS,

Principal Fireside Correspondence School.