MISSIONARIES’ REST

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 10, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 37.

MISSIONARIES’ REST.

A RETREAT, or place of rest, for tired or sick missionaries, of both home and foreign countries, is now in process of building by the International Medical Missionary Society of New York. This society recently received a gift of forty acres of land from Hon. Alvan Barrus, of Massachusetts, on which are being erected the cottages and more spacious buildings which will go to make up the “Place of Rest” for those weary and worn with unceasing labor in the Master’s vineyard.

This missionaries’ retreat is situated in the town of Goshen, Mass., in a most picturesque and healthful locality, 1,500 feet above sea level.

The whole purpose of the institution is not summed up in the idea of rest for worn missionaries. It is to be a place of instruction and training for young missionaries on their way to foreign fields. A regular mission training-school will be maintained for the latter class; and it is the design that they draw much instruction, advice, and encouragement from those who have had long experience in the foreign fields.

The first building completed will be Scudder Hall, named for Dr. John Scudder, the first American medical missionary to sail for a foreign land. The charge for board and room at this institution will be merely nominal. Any information concerning the institution, facilities, courses of instruction, etc., will be cheerfully furnished by the secretary, Dr. G. D. Dowkontt, Lithia P. O., Goshen, Mass.