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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 17, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 42.

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Training-Schools for Missionaries

TRAINING-SCHOOLS for missionaries, in which they may learn the language of the country in which they intend to work, and may also learn something of plans and methods of work, are multiplying in missionary countries. It is announced that a school for missionary study will be opened in Lucknow, India, next autumn. In Cairo, Egypt, Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer will be in charge of a training-school for missionaries to Moslems. The English government will open a school of Oriental studies in London, modeled after the German Oriental Seminary in Berlin, and after the Colonial Institute in Hamburg. Both of these institutions in Germany have aided missionary work to a large extent by teaching the missionaries the language before they go out to their fields. A language school is also to be opened in Nanking, China. Missionaries representing more than a score of societies and boards had requested the University of Nanking to open such a school. Hereafter missionary recruits for central China, irrespective of nationality or denomination, can spend their first year in China at Nanking in an effort to master as much of the Chinese language in one year as the average student used to master in two years under the method of private instruction.—Christian Observer, Sept. 11, 1912.