Your ShelfYour Projects

The Educational Outlook in the Lake Union Conference

14%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 31, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 43.

Read the full edition

The Educational Outlook in the Lake Union Conference

By C. A. Russell

The varied educational interests in the Lake Union Conference are showing encouraging growth. Never were our people more awake to the demands of the hour in the training of our children and youth; and never were there more urgent demands that they should be awake. The trend of modern education, and the growing sentiment in favor of military training in the public schools, to say nothing of the ever-increasing demand for trained workers, are causing our people to heed the call which has been coming for so many years to place their children under the instruction and influence of Christian teachers in our schools.
Last year the number of church schools increased to 136. This year we could easily have 150 were it possible to secure competent teachers to answer the calls.
Nearly all of our seven academies were well patronized, one of these, Adelphian Academy, enrolling 120 students above primary grades.
Emmanuel Missionary College, our missionary training school, has enjoyed a liberal patronage. The pressing demand for normal-trained teachers is causing this department of the college to come in for a large share of attention. It is hoped that it will be filled to its capacity this year.
In our various schools there were enrolled last year 2,500 students. This represents about three fifths of our young people of school age. While this is encouraging, our hearts go out to the nearly 2,000 who are still in the schools of the world. What can be done to extend our school work so as to reach this army of recruits training for the world's work, and enlist them in the army of the Lord? This is our problem. "All the Children of All the Churches" is our goal, and we must never cease to pray and plan and work until the benefits of a Christian education are brought within the reach of all. C. A. RUSSELL,
Ed. Sec. Lake Union Conf.