Fall Term of Emmanuel Missionary College
By N. W. Kauble
EMMANUEL MISSIONARY COLLEGE, as the name signifies, is a school for the training of Christian workers. It is the aim of the church to evangelize the world, and the church must look to its training-schools for qualified laborers. As Horace Mann has said, “The schools will be found to be the way that God has chosen for the regeneration of the world.” For some time things at Emmanuel Missionary College were in rather an unsettled condition, owing to the resignation of Professors Sutherland and Magan, and the sickness of Professor Washburn. However, the school is started, and is well under way; and while the attendance is not so large as we would like to see it, yet we are all of good courage, and hope that by the beginning of the winter term we shall have a larger number of young men and women who are ready to take a brief training, preparatory to entering the wide harvest-field. We believe it is better to have a few students, and have them thoroughly consecrated, than to have a larger number who do not feel called to make sacrifices to enter the work. There have been a few changes made in the plan of work in Emmanuel Missionary College. Instead of having the one-study plan, as heretofore, the three-study plan has been adopted; that is, instead of a student's carrying just one intellectual class, he may carry three intellectual classes and one industrial class. No student is excused from taking Bible. It is the object of the school to develop symmetrically the intellectual, the physical, and the spiritual natures of its students. Great stress is laid on industrial work, and in addition to agriculture, horticulture,22carpentry, and gardening, a broom factory has been started. The young people have also organized what is known as a Young People's Society, for the purpose of becoming better acquainted with mission fields, and for the distribution of our literature among those not of our faith.