At our recent World’s General Conference, in Washington, representatives of some of our schools in other lands spoke of the missionary interest among their students. We summarize several reports:—
Avondale School, Australia
C. W. Irwin: Five years ago we had but two or three from our school in the island mission fields. To-day nearly thirty of our students are out among the sixty millions in our mission territory.
Watford School, England
H. C. Lacey: Our students are interested in missions. Twenty-three of the present enrolment have expressed their determination to give themselves to the foreign fields if called of God.
Friedensau, Germany
O. Luepke: The success of our school has been largely the result of the missionary work in the field. Out of six hundred fifty students, we have sent out three hundred fifty as missionaries [in European and foreign fields].
Canton Girls’ School
Ida Thompson: The Bethel Girls’ School is a boarding-school with day pupils. We enrol upwards of sixty girls and women, with twenty-five boarders. Here we plan to develop teachers and Bible women. This school was opened five years ago. This year we are using one young lady from the school as a teacher. One woman who learned to read her Bible, and found her Saviour in the school, offered her services free as a Bible woman this year. She is a capable, unusually active woman, and has already done much good. A woman of sixty, learning how Anna, the prophetess, received Jesus in the temple, exclaimed: “O Miss! I want to be Anna in Bethel Girls’ School.” She had found her place.
