A New School by F. G.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 6, 1908

A New School

By F. G.

In a letter under date of June 15, Elder E. L. Cardey, writing from Guatemala City, says: “An American lady has been conducting an English school here for about five years. Her patrons are the best families in the city. It is the only English school in this country. For various good reasons she wishes to sell out to a mission society. The school now enrols sixty-five, paying a tuition of about one hundred seventy-five dollars (gold) a month. She has no mission board back of her, so it has been impossible for her to get proper help.”

“I have examined the school and conditions quite thoroughly, and we have decided that it is an opening from the Lord for our work in this place. The price she asks for it is two hundred dollars (gold). We have therefore decided to buy; but we must teach a few months with the present management to get acquainted with the running of things. So if the present plans carry, we shall take charge the first of November. By taking over this school as it is, we shall be able to make room for twenty-five or thirty of our young people without much extra expense; thus we will have our training-school started.”

We are encouraged as we see these schools opening in a great missionary field. They mean more workers, and a rapid advance of the message. F. G.