At South Lancaster Academy
By W. A. S.
THE South Lancaster Academy sent out its first graduating class in 1888. Every year since, it has been bidding Godspeed to a little band of young men and women going forth to service. This year's class was the largest in the history of the academy—an even score of youth, I believe, and almost if not quite without exception, these young people plan to engage directly in the cause of this advent message. New England and the East may well take honest pride in this institution. No one could mingle in the life of the school, as I did in the closing days, without recognizing the warm, healthy spiritual atmosphere, and the strong missionary spirit. The presence of the Holy Spirit, setting the seal to the year's efforts, was manifest in social meetings, in chapel conferences, and in all the gatherings. On the last Sabbath a company of students was baptized by Professor Griggs. The populous States of New England and the North Atlantic afford needy fields that can quickly take up the output of the school, but both the school and the field it serves desire to join in supplying workers for the lands abroad.