A Visit at the Huntsville (Ala.) Training-School
By C. M. KENNY
THE writer enjoyed the privilege of making the Oakwood Industrial School, located near Huntsville, Ala., a brief fourth-of-July visit. It was gratifying to find them preparing to celebrate the nation's birthday of liberty by a quiet, pleasant literary program in the beautiful groves of oak on the school grounds, rather than by visiting the city, where they would have witnessed many tokens of bondage instead of liberty. I had not visited Huntsville since 1897. The school was not then in session, and improvements were not begun. Now important and much-needed improvements are in progress. I was glad to see what had been done, and sad to see so many real needs unsupplied. This is the only school of the kind for colored people among Seventh-day Adventists, and I but voice the deep sentiment of heart-felt thanks to God and to the friends that have helped this school, and continue to pray that amid the multiplied calls to take the precious message to all nations and peoples speedily, the colored people of the United States, and especially the Oakwood Industrial School, be still remembered. We are thankful for the consideration given this work in the late General Conference, and it shall stir us to greater faithfulness to act well our part in finishing the message in this generation.