Week of Prayer at Mount Vernon Academy by E. G. SALISBURY

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1915

Week of Prayer at Mount Vernon Academy

By E. G. SALISBURY

THE week of prayer in this school was a means of great spiritual uplift to us. Our student body might be considered unusual in this respect, that nearly all the students were converted before coming to school. One year ago there were thirty-five baptisms following the week of prayer, and many of the students who were baptized then are with us this year, so we found there were perhaps not more than six or eight students in the school who had not already been baptized. The spiritual tone of the school needed to be uplifted, and we were looking forward with hope to this week.

We were especially favored by having Elder Evans with us for the first four days of the week of prayer. His work among the students was of incalculable value. The last two days of the week Professor Wilkinson was with us. We are not prepared to state at the present time just how many baptisms may be gleaned from this week's work, but the closing day we took five young persons through the gateway of baptism into the church, and we hope that all others who are not members of the church may follow.

On Friday morning at our revival service, every student gave his heart to the Lord, either for the first time or as an evidence of reconsecration.

The Harvest Ingathering

The day before Thanksgiving was given by the school to the work of the Harvest Ingathering, in which the students and teachers went out into Mount Vernon and secured donations to the

amount of thirty-eight dollars. In the afternoon of the same day the students distributed fifty baskets for Thanksgiving dinners, among the poor families in the city. The day was made a day of giving as well as receiving. In all their work our students had especially in mind the finding of those with whom the Bible workers' and ministerial bands might labor during the year. We believe that the day was very profitably spent. The annual offering amounted to $55.92.

E. G. SALISBURY, Principal.