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Opening of the Emmanuel Missionary College

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 1, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 44.

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Opening of the Emmanuel Missionary College

By N. W. Kauble

The opening of Emmanuel Missionary College for the year's work, September 12, was most encouraging. The enrolment was exactly double that of last year, and students have been coming since, until at the present time the enrolment is nearly triple that number.
Students are present not only from many of the States of this country, but from Macedonia, from Barbados, from Jamaica, from England, and from Japan. It would be hard to find anywhere a more promising class of young people. The faculty of the college has been strengthened, and two departments have been added,—a normal department and a department for the training of nurses. Since the Board decided to open a small sanitarium here for the training of nurses for the cause, this phase of the work is becoming a substantial part of the training. Quite a number of young people are taking the normal course, and a larger number are taking the ministerial course than we ever had before.
The one encouraging feature of this year's opening is that the students, with scarcely an exception, have a definite aim, that aim being to work in the cause. That this is a well-fixed purpose in their minds is in evidence in their every-day experience. The attendance at all the religious services is much better than the ordinary. The management is greatly encouraged, though at times perplexed to know how to furnish room sufficient for those who come; however, the work has gone so well that in no case has it been found impossible to make the students comfortable when they arrived.
A number of cottages have been remodeled, fitting them to accommodate families who desire to attend school. Quite a number of young men and their wives are in attendance, taking a short course preparatory to entering some branch of the work. Every branch of the Lord's work is represented by a respectable number of students, who are earnestly laboring to fit themselves in the very shortest possible time for the work.
N. W. Kauble.