Fireside Correspondence School by W. E. Howell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 23, 1909

Fireside Correspondence School

By W. E. Howell

THIS is not the announcement of a new correspondence school. It is merely the naming of the youngest member of the educational family, whose birth has already been announced.

Heretofore “The Correspondence School” has had no distinctive name. The number of such schools in the country is growing so large that it seems very fitting, if indeed not requisite, that this one bear a name that will identify it among the multitude, and which, like the Bible custom, may be suggestive of its mission.

It is characteristic of this school to bring educational privileges into the home. We have accordingly chosen “Fireside” for its specific name as being a close synonym for home. The term “Home” itself is used by another correspondence school. It was around the fireside that Abraham Lincoln laid the foundation for his great and useful career. It was there that Whittier improved his boyhood hours in feeding upon the purest and best in his father’s scant library of thirty books, including the Bible, and thus caught the inspiration that ripened into the purest and best of literature in the defense of righteousness and freedom in a nation’s crisis. It was at his own fireside that Luther forged the weapons of his spiritual warfare in one of the greatest crises the church ever passed through.

It is to inspire and help both young and old at home, that our school has been established. May every Seventh-day Adventist fireside be blessed and cheered by the admission of this new member.

There Is Yet Time

It is not yet too late to enrol in the Fireside Correspondence School before its first and last opening, October 4. Every State in the Union is now represented among the applicants several times over. From outside the United States applications have come in from Canada, Mexico, the Canal Zone, the West Indies, England, Ireland, Norway, Italy, and Sierra Leone, West Africa. While the school will be open all the year round for the admission of students at any time, why not enrol among its charter members? A multitude are seizing opportunity by the forelock; why not you? There is yet time. W. E. HOWELL.