Korean Industrial School by Frederick Griggs

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 1, 1916

Korean Industrial School

By Frederick Griggs

The following cheering note from Elder C. L. Butterfield, of Korea, will be of interest:—

“The closing exercises of the Soonan school were held the twenty-second of this month, when sixteen students were graduated. The school has been reported as doing twelfth-grade work; however, I do not feel that it is above tenth-grade. The tendency here is to run the grade up as high as possible in name, but I feel that we should grade according to the work accomplished. Nine young men and seven young women finished the course given. Three or four of the men will enter the canvassing work, one or two will act as secretaries, and the others will enter the ministry, going out on trial for a year or more. We are certainly glad to know that Prof. H. M. Lee will soon be here again to take up his work. School work, here as elsewhere, is a great factor in the gospel work.”

This report reads just like the reports of our schools in America. The students are preparing for definite work. We have come to measure the efficiency of our schools, in good part at least, by the number of students they send out into gospel work. Elder Butterfield's statement that our school work is an important feature of our forward movement is true for all lands, and will be until the message is finished. So let prayer and earnest effort be made for its prosperity.

FREDERICK GRIGGS.