Fireside Correspondence School Progress

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 3, 1914

Fireside Correspondence School Progress

IN a recent note to the editor of the REVIEW, Prof. C. C. Lewis, president of the Fireside Correspondence School, gives these interesting figures regarding the work of the school: “During the five years of the school's existence it has enrolled 856 students; 165 from Jan. 1 to Oct. 15, 1914. Certificates have been issued for subjects completed: in 1910, 3; in 1911, 24; in 1912, 34; in 1913, 46; in 1914 (10 months), 48. Cash receipts from the beginning have been $10,822.83; expenses, $13,064.06. The difference, $2,241.13, is locked up in lessons (30 subjects) awaiting students. Receipts to October 15 of this year were $1,877.59; expenses, $1,852.48; balance, $25.11. Thus, you see, we are running on a very slender margin. Besides our own country, we have students in England, Scotland, South Africa, Egypt, China, Korea, Hawaii, the Friendly Islands, Argentina, and Brazil. We have one student in prison; he has been converted, and is studying that he may advance this cause when his term is over. His letters show him to be very intelligent and consecrated.”