Appeal for Argentina Training School

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 16, 1913

Appeal for Argentina Training School

An earnest appeal intended for our Sabbath-schools prior to the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering, is just received from Prof. H. U. Stevens, in charge of our training-school in Argentina, South America; but it comes too late to make use of more than a paragraph or two. He says: “The dormitory in use is an old, unfinished building after the Spanish style, with the rooms opening independently into a patio, or closed court. The students are packed into this house, four in a room; and the absence of any means of heating the building makes it trying on the health, as well as on the patience, when the thermometer hangs around the freezing-point or the air possesses a chilling dampness which pierces to one's very bones. A new dormitory is needed to relieve the congestion in the school building as well as in the home. If this building can be constructed and the school building completed, the institution will be able to look its broader problems squarely in the face, and a new era of progress and usefulness to the work at large will be inaugurated. Whether this can be done or not will be answered by our Sabbath-schools in the United States on December 28. A vigorous campaign will be conducted throughout the South American field in the interest of our training-school on the same Sabbath that the Sabbath-schools in the United States are giving to the work. Thus while we are tugging away at the load with all our might, may we not hope that your more powerful efforts may suffice to lift the burden, and together we shall raise the shout of victory?”