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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 12, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 50.

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Emmanuel Missionary College

By J. G. Lamson

We have now entered the third month of our college year, and our hearts are made glad day by day as we see the progress being made in the work we are undertaking. Our total enrolment in all departments now runs above one hundred, and we have an actual every-day attendance of over ninety.
Classes are organized in five years' work in Bible, running from Old Testament history, or Bible 1, as it is denominated here, to Bible 5, which is the training-class for ministers and Bible workers. In mathematics, the work covered includes practical arithmetic, commercial arithmetic, algebra (beginning and advanced), and geometry. No higher mathematics have yet been called for. In science, the work includes two classes in college physiology, chemistry, agriculture, and a practical class in physics. In language, the work ranges from grade grammar to advanced rhetoric and literature. Classes are organized in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, with German as the only modern language being taught. In the music department, about fifteen are enrolled, with a chorus of fifty voices. In the commercial department, fourteen are enrolled for shorthand, and twenty for bookkeeping. January 1 this department will enter upon actual business and office practise, in a large room now being fitted up specially for that work. In the manual training department, there has been excellent success this year. About twenty different students have been enrolled in the carpentry division, and are, a part of the time at least, actually engaged in practical work. A new cottage is being erected for one of the teachers, buildings repaired, a new barn, forty-five by ninety feet, is about completed, a new steam plant installed in the Domestic Arts Building, and several smaller cottages are being fitted up for winter use. Four, and at times more, students are engaged in the printing division, and there is every prospect that the plant will be more than busy during the entire winter. The horticultural division has not been a success this year, so far as the production of fruit is concerned, it being a very bad year, but the vineyards and orchards are in excellent condition; and if the Lord is pleased to grant us a good season next year, there will be a bountiful supply; as it is, however, the school has not been able to sell much fruit, but has canned practically all of it for domestic consumption. The general farm has been a decided success. One of the largest seed houses in the country has accepted a large amount of seed from this institution, and the president was complimented upon the high quality of the article. The wheat was a prize crop. In competition with other stock, the college thoroughbreds proved prize winners; and in the poultry department, no one need look further to find high-grade Barred Rocks.
It became evident early after the opening of the school that more room would be needed for students. The second floor of Advocate Building was vacated by the printing plant, and rooms were fitted up for married couples, of whom there are no less than eleven, in which either the husband or wife or both are attending school. Two sewing classes are formed, one for beginners, and one for more advanced students. It is the main purpose, in all the industrial departments, to have the work of the school performed only by students and teachers. The teachers have indeed shown themselves very willing to engage in the actual business of the school, and there is a commendable interest on the part of the students, and a willingness to lay hold of every assigned task.
There has been no marked revival effort. We rejoice to learn of the wonderful blessings the Lord is vouchsafing our sister schools. We believe those revival periods to be wonderful tokens of a loving Saviour. While there has been no special work of that kind in our college thus far, there has been indeed a steady, quiet growth in grace. The Bible classes are well filled, the religious exercises of the school well attended, and a reverent spirit is very manifest. Several have given their hearts to the Lord at our students' meetings, and we have had one baptism, Sabbath, November 16, at which five students united with the Lord by that rite. One of these is student Yoshio Tanimoto, who is eager indeed to perfect himself in a knowledge of the truth, so as to return to his native Japan and help warn that great nation of the times in which we live.
Emmanuel Missionary College extends hearty greetings to its sister schools, and we extend personal greetings to our fellow laborers.        J. G. LAMSON.