Williamsdale (N. S.) Academy by E. E. Gardner

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

Williamsdale (N. S.) Academy

By E. E. Gardner

Our present school year opened according to announcement September 4, with but fifteen students ready to take up the work. Professor Griggs was with us the first four days. His counsel was a help in our work, and the fact that the General Conference representative of schools made us a visit is an encouragement to our patrons, and especially to the older students of the school. Our enrolment is now twenty-eight, with a few applications for the immediate future.

Of the nine students who entered the book work at the close of last year, eight did work of value. Three labored in connection with tent-meetings, devoting only a part of their time to the book work. Four spent most of the vacation in faithful canvassing. Two of these young men sold books enough to earn for them more than two scholarships each. Two young ladies succeeded in earning one scholarship each by selling the number of books required. This first experience of these young people has proved most encouraging, and we expect a larger number to enter this work another year.

Our hay crop on the farm was light this year, but turnips and potatoes were excellent. We are now building a barn twenty-eight by thirty-six feet, on which several of the young men find agreeable and profitable exercise. Most of our students work twenty-one hours each week, for which they receive a credit for one half their school expenses, the full rate being fourteen dollars for a month of four weeks.

We are hoping to see a larger number of the youth of this conference improving every opportunity to obtain an education that they may be of service in the work of the Lord. E. E. GARDNER.