Guatemala English School by W. E. Hancock

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 7, 1910

Guatemala English School

By W. E. Hancock

The prospects for the year are good. We have a much better building for school purposes than we had last year, and have received additional teaching help by the arrival of Sister Alice Fieldberg from the Foreign Mission Seminary at Washington. Our attendance during the first month reached sixty. This is quite a surprise to us, first, because of our trouble last year, and, secondly, because we have raised the price of tuition, and have placed it on the basis of the United States currency.

The fact that we do not conduct school on the Sabbath is itself arousing interest in the Sabbath question. Recently an official of the educational board of the city wrote me a letter inquiring whether it would be possible for us to arrange to give classes on Saturday, stating that as a patron of the school he was interested in seeing us receive as large a patronage as possible, and that he heard we lost students by not having school on that day. I am replying to him by giving our reasons fully why it will be impossible for us to have classes on that day.

We need more equipment in order that we may take the advanced students successfully through the advanced studies; we would also need one more good teacher. If these facilities were added between now and the next year, we would receive no less than one hundred students. It would be greatly to the advantage of the school, as well as to the cause, if we could own our school property. Rent in Guatemala is very high. We need, more than anything else, the Holy Spirit, to use the great opportunity presented to us in winning precious souls to the truth for this time.

W. E. HANCOCK.