Among the Church Schools
By Floyd Bralliar
SINCE my last report I have visited the school at Des Moines, Iowa, where Miss Grace O'Neal is teaching. The regular school work was rather broken into the day I was there, as they were preparing to have a Thanksgiving program in the evening. I was much impressed with the program rendered, and, so far as I could judge from it, and from him, the school work I saw, the Des Moines school is doing very superior work. Miss Ruth Kane is also teaching a small school in Des Moines. Reports of her work are very favorable, though I was unable to visit her school while there. While at the educational council, held at Kansas City, Mo., it was decided to systematically search out those of our young people in the various conferences who should be engaged in the church-school work, and encourage them to prepare for it. It was decided to furnish these with the reading-circle lessons. Four leaflets on educational topics are also to be prepared, and given a general circulation among our people in this union conference. Plans were also laid for making nature study in our church schools more effective, and at the same time assist in that work at Union College. After the council I visited the school in St. Joseph, Mo., where Mrs. Florence Lemmon is teaching. Her school was opened under difficulties, but through faith and consecrated efforts, these have disappeared. At this writing I am at Sioux Rapids, Iowa, where Miss Edna Schee is teaching. She has eighteen pupils enrolled, and they are having much of God's blessing in the school. A united church and a prayerful effort have assisted in making this school a real encouragement to the work there. The school work this year is the most successful I have ever seen it. Truly, God's hand is in this work.—Floyd Bralliar, in the Central Advance.