South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy by C. S. Longacre

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 10, 1910

South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy

By C. S. Longacre

We are glad to report that hitherto the Lord has been with us, and has richly blessed us this year. Our attendance has been the largest in the history of the academy. Our total enrolment to date is three hundred eighteen students.

An excellent Christian missionary spirit permeates the school. Recently fifty-one of our devoted students dedicated themselves as missionaries to some definite foreign field. Four large classes have been organized among them, and each week they meet to study the special fields to which they have consecrated their lives. These studies are conducted by special leaders who are chosen from among their number. With such an army of consecrated youth, our mission fields will soon feel the impulses of a new power within their borders, and the Mission Board will have no difficulty to find recruits to man the fields.

Not only are our young people giving their lives to the mission cause, but at our church service last Sabbath they responded most freely with their means, when over fifteen hundred dollars was pledged by the South Lancaster church toward the $300,000 Fund for missions.

Satan tried hard to hinder the school work by sending scarlet fever among us, but the Lord heard our entreaties and granted us great favor with the health officers, and finally delivered us from it.

We are of good courage, and know that with the Lord's blessing we shall be able to overcome the enemies before us, and possess the goodly land.

C. S. Longacre.