The New Missionary College
By W. A. S.
BETWEEN eighty and one hundred students, I estimated, gathered in the new buildings of Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, on the opening morning, October 15. Three of the buildings are up, plain, useful structures of wood, built by the students themselves. Faculty and students alike shared the joy of being identified with the beginning of this enterprise. Those who have wrought their own experiences and loving thoughts into buildings and farm feel that they have earned a special right to be happy and energetic students. With the work still to be done in completing the plant, I hope the pioneer days in the school may be lengthened out sufficiently to give many others the privilege of helping to build a school from the ground up. Later years will supply more complete facilities; but these pioneer experiences are bound to be the most fruitful. The vast mission fields are waiting for men and women who know how to do things without all modern conveniences made ready to their hands. May this school, now well started on its own premises, continue to be an inspiration in the educational movement, and a blessing to the mission fields. Our schools are prepared to keep a growing army of missionaries marching toward the front. The loving enterprise of the brethren and sisters in the churches must help to provide the sinews of war for this campaign. Even now, for lack of funds, the Mission Board is delaying workers ready to go.