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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 8, 1906

PROF. H. G. LUCAS, president of Fernando College, Fernando, Cal., reports a spirit of prosperity and advance in the work of that school this year. A good spiritual condition is prevailing, which in itself promises a successful school year's work.

Prof. C. H. Hayton, principal of Claremont Union College, Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa, reports the outlook for this coming year to be most encouraging. His letter was written the last of December. He said that the fifteenth year of their school would begin January 24. They have had some difficulty in securing competent teachers, but they are gratified to be able to begin school with a sufficient number of good teachers. This school has passed through some trying experiences in the past, but the managers are now rejoicing in the encouraging omens for the future.

Brother B. E. Huffman, the secretary of the Central Union Conference, has prepared a series of comprehensive questions with reference to text-books now in use in that territory. The teachers are asked to give full and proper answers to these questions. These answers should be of very material help to the committee on text-books, and every teacher to whom these are sent should do everything possible to make their answers helpful. This same good work should be carried on in other union conferences.

We are in receipt of the tenth annual announcement of the Avondale School for Christian Workers, at Cooranbong, Australia. This is a very neat catalogue, and gives a good idea of the school. The school year began Jan. 9, 1906, and is catalogued to run thirty-nine weeks with no stated recesses. It shows a faculty of thirteen members, of whom Prof. C. W. Irwin is principal. Nearly all the regular faculty, together with five others, are in charge of industrial departments. There are fourteen industrial departments,— printing, health food, agriculture, horticulture, carpentry, domestic economy, cooking, sloyd, drawing, sewing, apiary, blacksmithing, tinsmithing, and plumbing. The object of the school is stated as follows: “In the year 1894, an estate was purchased near Cooranbong, New South Wales, to be a home for a Christian school, and was subsequently called the Avondale Estate, and the school was denominated the Avondale School for Christian Workers. Its name indicates the purpose for which it is founded. It is a denominational institution, founded and controlled by the Seventh-day Adventists, and is designed especially to prepare young people for usefulness in the cause of God. The managers aim to make moral and religious influences prominent; and thoroughness of instruction, solidity of character, and usefulness in life will be the principal objects of attainment. They design to have a school where the fear of God will prevail, where his holy Word will be reverenced, and where his worship and service will be respected. A true Christian character is held before the students as the highest aim in life. Those who are in harmony with these objects are heartily inviting to attend.” The announcement is profusely illustrated, thus enabling the reader to get quite a fair idea of the buildings and grounds of the school. It closes with over three pages of extracts from the writings of Mrs. E. G. White on the principles of true education.