p. 28 | The Friedensau (Germany) Mission School

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 4, 1909

The Friedensau (Germany) Mission School

By Melita Trieger

At present there are one hundred thirty-six pupils here, an equal number of young men and young women. The following nationalities are represented: German, Dutch, Russian, Estonian, Finnish, German-Russian, Rumanian, Austrian, Hungarian, Servian, Slovakian, Polish, Norwegian, Italian, and Swiss; there are also representatives from Brazil and Argentina. So you see we have a cosmopolitan student body. Among these, sixty-nine Bible workers and sixty-seven nurses will finish

their courses of study in two years.

Brother G. W. Schubert, who is now president of our union field, takes a great interest in our school, and has inspected all the classes; in his report he expressed satisfaction with what he has seen and heard. He says that it is no easy task for the teachers to instruct the pupils of so many different nationalities.

At the last conference it was resolved to build another schoolhouse, as the present one is too small for so many. The building is rising rapidly. It will soon be roofed, and if the Lord pleases, it will be habitable by next June. It will contain four class-rooms and three other rooms, two of which will be arranged so they can be converted into one, to serve as a reading-room. We shall also arrange a museum and library. We are looking forward to the completion of this building, for the four class-rooms to which we are now confined are no longer sufficient for the number of pupils and subjects to be taught. Since the beginning of the new term the Greek language is forming one of the subjects, and will henceforth be a permanent one.

In our teachers' meetings, which are held once a week, at first we studied general questions of education, but for the last six months we have dwelt upon each of our branches of education from the methodical point of view. Thanks to the Lord, practical results have come from our studies. Our interest is now directed to the book “Education,” and at our last meeting we decided to refer to it in all the branches we may consider, so that its spirit may pervade all our instruction; we shall thus in truth be co-operating with our American brethren in the advancement of our Lord’s great message.

MELITA TRIEGER.