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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 22, 1910

Fireside Correspondence School

By W. E. HOWELL

A New Idea

HERE comes a letter from one of our old students that is worth reading by both old and new. It is brimful of a new idea, generated by just an even year's experience in study by our correspondence method. We give it entire:—

“Concerning the new school year—shall old pupils register anew every year? I would like to be registered once for all, and become a ‘life member,’ I like the study so much. While I have not made rapid progress, I know that what I have gone through is mine, and no man can pluck it out of my mind. I think it would be nice if the old pupils could have a kind of ‘testimony meeting’ at the end of the school year.”

“I thank the Lord for the blessings received through the Correspondence School. I thank him for putting it into the mind of our brethren to start such a thing. It is just what I need, and has been a wonderful help to me. It has been a reward, a rest and refreshing, when the work seemed hard and the cares many; it has been a medicine against the blues, and a pleasant reminder not to become dull and negligent, but to keep the lamp of the mind trimmed and burning. May the Lord abundantly bless all connected with the Fireside Correspondence School!”

“Please send me the new calendar. Thanking you for all kindness and help given during the past year, and hoping for still greater blessings and better results in the year to come, I beg to remain a grateful student and life member of the Correspondence School.”

We had not dared propose so bold a venture as taking up a homestead claim for life; but since the suggestion comes unsolicited, from a full heart, we commend it to our other old students. It is a decidedly home affair, all the way round. You do not have to leave your present home, and go out to live on a lonely prairie for so many months, in order to insure yourself a future home; but in this case the homestead is transferred to you where you are. You simply sign the paper, and you can pay in instalments, almost at your convenience. Why not settle down to this matter of educational advance as an indispensable part of true living, and make it a work for life? The author of the foregoing letter is a hard-working missionary in one of our large cities; but he has the power of decision and execution in matters of self-improvement that some of the rest of us seem to lack. Why not “settle it in your hearts” that you will no longer be harassed with such questions as when to begin, how to carry on the study, how to raise your efficiency, etc., but will enlist in so good a cause for life?

If you will do this before October 3, it will be settled early, and you will come in under the old rates. Address the Fireside Correspondence School, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

W. E. HOWELL, Principal.