The School Work in Europe by L. R. Conradt

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 16, 1909

The School Work in Europe

By L. R. Conradt

The union school building at Skodsborg is nearing completion. It is to be dedicated next month. Of the twenty thousand dollars which it is to cost, about half is now raised. We dedicated the new school building at Friedensau July 29, during our recent camp-meeting. This building also will cost about twenty thousand dollars; about one fourth had been raised before the meeting, and another fourth during the meeting; so this new building is half paid for. We have it none too soon, for more students desire admission than ever before.

The British Union Conference is expecting to begin its new building soon. The Latin Union Conference will make arrangements to turn their lower building into a school building when the addition to the sanitarium will have been completed next year. Then we expect to find a site for the Russian school, and something must also be done for the Levant.

We are obtaining fine results from our African schools. Brother Kotz, the chief teacher in German East Africa, is with us on his furlough. His small grammar of the Chasu language found so much favor with his former professor in the Oriental Seminary that the professor mentioned the matter to a high government official. This official had visited our school at Kihurio, and was impressed not only with what he saw of the pupils there, but also with the fine trees and gardens around the mission. This favorable impression led him to be more inclined toward the publication of this small grammar, and it was printed at government expense, at an outlay of several hundred dollars. Thus you see we are getting right into real mission work.

The British Bible Society is also favorably inclined toward helping us to publish the four Gospels in that language. We are trying to secure all the help we possibly can for our work, and I am glad that all our people have a heart for these missions.

What we need is not simply to talk so much about God's Holy Spirit, but to be so thoroughly imbued with it that there will be a real willingness and disposition on the part of young and old to do some solid, hard, consecrated service. I fear there is where there is a lack in our schools, and one reason why they do not turn out more young people into the field.

L. R. CONRADT.