NOTES FROM THE ANGLO-CHINESE ACADEMY OF HONOLULU by William E. Howell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 9, 1901

NOTES FROM THE ANGLO-CHINESE ACADEMY OF HONOLULU

By William E. Howell

Just this evening, while talking with one of our boys about fourteen years old, concerning the importance of overcoming a habit he has fallen into of sitting and walking with his shoulders drawn forward and compressing his chest, he raised his small black eyes to mine, and said, earnestly, “I hope God will help me.”

As a rule, the boys are quite faithful in keeping up a correspondence with us when we are separated. Some of these letters are good indexes to the experiences of their writers. Last evening I received a letter from a boy who was in our boarding-school two years and a half, but who went back to China last year to marry, and has not returned. In it he says:—

“I am delighted to know that you are charging our new school, and fondly hope the Lord may restore you to us once more, to help us by your prayers in these glorious times. I would like to have seen you once more. I am sorry for that I did not make up my mind to study the Bible lessons before in the school; but now I must content myself on the Lord side in my life. I know God is truth because He answered my prayer while I was seasick on the boat for China. I thanked God very much. I hope God will bless you as me; and be kind to you.

“My dear Professor Howell, I think I will go to Shanghai next year; but with my best regards to Mrs. Kinner and all our schoolmates. Accept yourselves my kindest love. I will meet you again on the earth or in the heaven.”

Here is his picture.

Another young man, who spent two years in our boarding-school, and who, like the one just mentioned, returned to China, wrote thus:—

“Now I bid you good-by, and your family, hoping earnestly that God will defend you and I, and bestow us with good health always. If I could not come back to see you again, I hope God will prepare the place for you and I, when Jesus’ second coming. He will save us from death; then I can meet you in heaven.”

W. E. HOWELL.