The Fall Opening of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute
The tenth annual opening of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute comes on Oct. 15, 1913. The training offered by the institute is intended to be of a character that will prepare in an efficient and speedy manner those who desire to become self-supporting missionaries in the South. A school of this character has been recognized by our General Conference as necessary. They have expressed themselves concerning this institution and those in need of a preparation such as it is giving, in the following language:— “We further recommend, That our stronger conferences search out and encourage suitable persons to undertake this self-supporting work, and the workers thus selected be encouraged to pursue a course of instruction at the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute.” Already over two hundred workers have left the school to engage in self-supporting missionary work. Students attending the institute have not only the advantages of an equipped training-school, but also the training of a sanitarium and the experiences gained from a large farm, managed wholly in the interest of those desiring to solve problems of Southern agriculture. The entire plant is directed by one management, with the object of giving its students such a training that they will be equipped to carry the gospel to this needy field, and when the proper time comes, to fill openings as successful missionaries in foreign countries. Individuals who have a limited education, but desire to be quickly prepared for a useful place in this field, will receive special attention from the faculty. The right kind of students can earn, if they wish, the most of their school expenses. Only those who are of mature age and of developed character are invited to enter the class of 1913. Those who are interested should correspond at once with E. A. Sutherland, Madison, Tenn.21 To those of our people who are accustomed to keeping a diary, we wish to say that the General Conference is preparing a diary for 1914, which, aside from the diary portion, will contain about twenty-four pages of condensed information regarding the beginning and growth of the work of Seventh-day Adventists in its different departments. The booklet is now being prepared, in order that we may have it in good time. Concerning the edition of 1913, the editor of the Signs of the Times said: “It is a valuable little volume, much more so than many of the vest-pocket diaries which are published. For instance, it has a reminder index of two pages, covering every month and every day in the year. It takes up the work of the denomination under evangelical work, work in non-Protestant and heathen lands, Publishing, Sabbath School, Medical, Educational, and Missionary Volunteer Departments, with the progress which each of these departments has made from its beginning to the present time. It has a table of weights and measures, interest, antidotes for poison, help in case of accidents, and eighteen pages for cash-account. Pages for notes, bills receivable and payable, summaries of sales for various months, order record, pages for memorandum, addresses, various data, blank for every day in the year, and calendars for 1912, 1913, and 1914. It is an excellent little pocket companion, and it would seem as if every worker ought to have it.” The 1914 edition will contain all these good things, giving the calendars for 1913, 1914, and 1915. The price will be twenty-five cents. Order through your tract society.