A School in a Great City by William Ambrose Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · May 4, 1905

A School in a Great City

By William Ambrose Spicer

IN due time, no doubt, our friends in Britain will find a country site for a school. But certainly they have done well in beginning their training work in the first place available, in rented quarters in the great city of London. They are just drawing near the close of their best and most largely attended school year, having paid their way, and gathered considerable material and outfit, and all the while holding intact their fund raised by the sale of the book “Christ’s Object Lessons,” for use when the permanent location is secured.

Brother Geo. R. Drew, our pioneer ship missionary, of the old Liverpool ship mission days, has presented the school with the best of his private library, nearly two hundred volumes of valuable historical books. With other gifts in cash and kind, the school has a library well under way.

Reporting last January, Brother Salisbury wrote:—

“The students are, as previously, depending largely upon canvassing as a means of support. In spite of the hard times through which we have been passing the past year in all Great Britain, they have had good success. Sunday is their best day for selling papers, and some of the students make enough on that day to pay more than half their expenses for the remainder of the week.”

Writing recently again, he says:—

“Of the eighty-nine students we had this year, fifty-five have paid their way while attending the school, a few working in the printing-office and the college home, but the great number wholly by canvassing for our books and papers.”

What a splendid opportunity such a school program has afforded of financially helpful work while studying, and of missionary effort in behalf of the dwellers in the most populous city the world has ever seen.

W. A. SPICER.