Cumberland Industrial School, McMinnville, Tenn.
By Clifford G. Howell
It is a privilege to speak a word to the friends of Christian education, and especially to the friends of the educational work in this Southland. I desire to express deep thankfulness to our Heavenly Father for the blessings he has given us here, and to the friends who have materially aided in the work. Since the school closed last spring, there have been four baptized here, under circumstances which made us feel especially thankful, knowing that prayers had been answered. Our enrolment at present is twenty, with several more to enter soon. In the Home we have two pupils not of our faith. The plasterer has begun work on our dwelling, which is used as the school Home. We need a sawmill man to run the mill located on the school farm. There is a good supply of timber on the school farm which should be converted into lumber; but we have no Sabbath-keeper to act as sawyer. The thought was expressed in our little meeting the other day that this is a school for the parents as well as for the children. May our lessons be all so well learned that we may finally enter the higher grade above.