The Rome Mission School by C. T. EVERSON

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 3, 1908

The Rome Mission School

By C. T. EVERSON

We have recently moved our school from Via Cavour to Piazza Venezia, the very heart of Rome. This is on the square where all the car-lines meet. We have a flat on the first floor, extending the length of the building, so that we have been enabled to put up a large sign, fifty or sixty feet long, that can be seen across the square. That is what we would call a sign of the down-town district.

It was no small risk to rent such a place, especially as we had a lease on the old flat that entailed an expense of nearly two hundred dollars if we should fail to rent it; but as this was such a magnificent situation for a school, we took it, trusting the Lord to help us. And the Lord did help us to rent the old place so we did not lose a day of school; for we so arranged the moving that the school went on uninterruptedly.

We have an enrolment close to the one hundred mark all the year, and have even passed that number. We have brought our tuition up so that we take in about one hundred dollars tuition a month from the students, which represents a good sum from a poor country like Italy. In fact, if we go ahead next year with the same increase that we have been blessed with this year, we shall be more than self-supporting. However, we are endeavoring to build solidly; for we want this school to prove a power for good in Rome.

We have a faculty of about ten teachers in the school, and come in contact with a very good class of persons. We have students of the university, high school, and other institutions, as well as employees of the government, doctors, lawyers, and other professional men. Our students respect us, and we believe that this same respect they show for us as teachers can, by wise planning and prayer, become an influence to lead them to respect our religion.”

C. T. EVERSON.