The Oakwood School by G. H. Baber

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 21, 1906

The Oakwood School

By G. H. Baber

SINCE my last report in the REVIEW, three more of our students have given themselves to God, and sealed the gift by baptism. This leaves but three of our number who do not profess faith in Christ as the Saviour. There is a good spirit prevailing in the school. For this we are very grateful to him who alone can give peace.

Our work on the farm, in the garden, and in the orchard has been delayed by the very unusually severe drought this spring. This leaves our ground unworkable, because of its hardness. If the drought continues much longer our water-supply must necessarily fail us, as it did two years ago, when it became necessary to drive the stock several miles to water them.

We have hoped that we might receive sufficient help from our kind friends of the North, East, and West, who have aided us in the past, to secure an adequate supply of water by sinking a better well, and in a more hygienic place than the one from which all our drinking and stock water comes. For yet another very important reason we need a better supply of water. In harmony with many resolutions of our board of trustees, and

in harmony with instructions from the spirit of prophecy, and in harmony with the absolute requirements of the institution, we have gone forward, and are now putting in bath-rooms in the basement of the boys' dormitory. The drainage has been put in, the floor cemented, and is now ready to put in the bathing equipment. But there is nothing here with which to bathe, but dust. We have bathed in that too long already. Now, brethren, this is not our institution, if it were, we would not ask you to aid in its requirements. It is your institution, given to the colored work by the General Conference more than ten years ago, and it has gone all this time without a place for baths. Shall it continue so, and too, after having gone to no small expense in getting ready for the water? It is the intention to have treatment rooms in this basement, thus relieving us of the expense of building a sanitarium at present. We believe there are friends to this institution that will come to its relief just now, that we may have water and keep clean. W. H. Williams (Box 414, Huntsville, Ala.) is our treasurer.

G. H. BABER, Principal.