Avondale School’s Financial Progress
In the “Ninth Annual Announcement,” just received from the Avondale School for Christian Workers, located in Cooranbong, New South Wales, we find the following paragraph: “Since the beginning of the campaign for the sale of ‘Christ’s Object Lessons,’ £3,026 15s. 11d. (about fifteen thousand dollars) has been received, and applied on the indebtedness. For several years past, the school has come out with a credit balance, which is represented by the enlargement of the industrial departments, and the increase of facilities for conducting the regular class work. A good financial gain has been made during the year just closed.” The Avondale School is to be congratulated on its financial record, as well as upon the fact that during the last school year it has had “the largest attendance in the history of the institution.” It is interesting to learn how the students are spending their vacation. Here are the facts: “Out of one hundred and twenty of the more mature students, forty-five are working in the different departments of the school during the vacation, with the view of gaining a credit for further schooling. Thirty-five have gone to their homes, most of whom expect to return. Seventeen are engaged in the canvassing work. Three will teach church-schools. Three have gone as island missionaries. Five have entered the nurses’ course at the Sydney Sanitarium. Two young men have entered conference work, and will assist in tent-meetings. One has taken up accountant and stenographic work. The few remaining have entered various unclassified departments of our work.” This report indicates that the institution is true to its name,—a training-school for Christian workers. The usual general information is contained in this announcement, and its typographical appearance is a credit to the “Avondale School Press,” whose imprint it bears.