The School Work in Brazil
An interesting letter was recently received from Brother John Lipke, in which he gives a list of the teachers in Brazil. There are twelve schools and sixteen teachers in this country. Of these there are three advanced or mission schools and nine church schools. He says of their work: “The educational work has been going slowly. Our schools are German schools, but the Portuguese language is also taught. The lack of proper school-books makes it hard to carry out the principles revealed to us in regard to our schools; but nevertheless we have pushed on, and the Lord has blessed our efforts. I would be glad if we could obtain good school-books in our language which are in harmony with the Testimonies. “It made my heart glad to learn of the good meetings which you had in College View. O, how I wish I could have been there! I am anxiously waiting for the published report of that convention. I can not express in words what a great burden I have for the education of our youth for the Lord’s work. I am hungering and thirsting for more light on education, and I am eagerly watching the moving of our brethren at headquarters in the educational work. I am determined to carry out the Lord’s instructions here as far as possible. “Now to the point. This mission industrial school, of which I am the principal, has existed for about four years, and is the oldest school of the kind in Brazil. Most of our other church schools are taught by teachers who have gone forth from this school.”