The Next Year’s School

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 4, 1908

The Next Year’s School

As this school year for our institutions in the northern portion of the world is closing, our thoughts naturally turn, not only to the year just passing, but also to another year’s work. It is now time to lay plans broad and deep for successful schools. We have every reason to believe that, on the whole, prosperity has attended our work during the year now closing. In the southern hemisphere, our schools are now in the midst of their year’s work. Reports from them indicate a substantial growth. We are indeed profoundly grateful for this.

Our church-schools are no longer experiments. The question, however, of financing them is yet a perplexing one, and it may always be. The boards of these schools may well begin at once to plan for teachers, equipment, and financial support for the next year. During this vacation, it will be greatly to the advantage of the schools to have a fund constantly accumulating with which to conduct the work of next year. There is a feeling of confidence which lasts throughout the whole year when the work of the school is entered upon only after reasonable plans have been perfected. The instances are not rare of the failure of our schools because of a lack of definite planning. Money can be secured, teachers employed, and all arrangements made weeks before the school is to open, with much better effect than where these matters are delayed, and have to be attended to with undue haste. The education of our children is surely a sacred responsibility, and we need to exercise much thought and care and perseverance in it.