The Oakwood Training-School
By F. R. ROGERS.
THE Oakwood Manual Training-school for colored youth opened Sept. 21, 1904. There were twenty-two students present, and these, with the teachers and a few friends, joined in appropriate songs of praise. After reading from the Scriptures, several prayers were offered for the success of the school. All seemed of good courage. As nearly all the students of this school are too poor to pay cash, most of those who entered the regular school work had already worked long enough to have sufficient to their credit to enter. Only about half of those present were able to take up full school work, the others working during the day, and attending night classes. All seem to appreciate very highly what has been done for the school by friends in the North to make the buildings more comfortable and homelike. There are several earnest young people here whose object is to obtain a training that shall enable them to carry the truth to their race, and the Lord is blessing them in their preparation. As teachers, we are thankful to have a part in this work, and as students, to have this opportunity for preparing to do something for the Lord. We earnestly ask to be remembered in your prayers, that this, the only training-school of its kind in the world, may be just what God would have it be. The enrolment now is fifty-four.
F. R. ROGERS.