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Opening of the South Lancaster Academy

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Nov 7, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 45.

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Opening of the South Lancaster Academy

By SARA J. HALL

“We have been praying all summer that the Lord would greatly bless our school by filling it with young people, anxious to fit themselves for his service, and he has poured out a blessing that we are not able to receive,” were the fitting words of Prof. B. F. Machlan, the principal, on the morning of the opening of our academy this school year; for our large chapel was filled almost to overflowing, and our students’ Home had proved entirely too small to accommodate the number that had come to us so early in the year. We were obliged to hire another building at once, before being able to give comfortable places for lodging. Very busy days have they been for both teachers and students. We have now a daily attendance of two hundred twenty-five earnest young people of various nationalities,— from far-away China, India, Germany, Holland, Austria, Armenia, Jamaica, the provinces of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec, as well as from all New England, Pennsylvania, New York, and the Southern and Central States.
The outlook for our academy the coming year is most encouraging. An earnest Christian spirit prevails. This morning, after a few remarks from Elder Spicer on the foreign missionary work, in response to the question, “How many have for some time been laying plans to go to foreign fields, and are only waiting for a better preparation?” ninety-one young persons rose, signifying their desire; while nearly two hundred of the two hundred and fifty-five students present rose to the question, “How many are preparing for some line of gospel work?”
We are of good courage, and it is delightful to meet our large, well-filled classes each morning, feeling that we have the most beautiful work entrusted to mortals,— that of preparing laborers for the great fields, already white for the harvest. SARA J. HALL.