p. 11 | OUR EDUCATIONAL WORK

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 17, 1898

OUR EDUCATIONAL WORK.

From the Christian Educator we cull the following items:—

“At the district conference held at Graysville, Tenn., in November, the educational work in the South received special consideration. It was unanimously voted to place Graysville Academy on a substantial industrial basis, and that the name of the institution be changed to ‘Southern Industrial School.’”

“The Oakwood Industrial School, located at Huntsville, Ala., has one of the most beautiful farms in all the South. The old plantation building, now about seventy years old, is still in a fine state of preservation. What is needed now in order to make the work a success is a commodious school building. This is our leading school for the education and training of colored youth, and its mission is an important one. The laws and customs of the different States in the South require that the white and colored children be kept in separate schools. It makes no difference whether the school be public or private. Thus an ordinary school district must have two schoolhouses and two teachers, in order to do what is accomplished in the North by one building and one teacher.”

“The enrolment in Battle Creek College thus far during the year is 650 students; present attendance, about six hundred. The industrial department has recently been increased by the addition of a shoe shop. Three hundred dollars worth of machinery will also soon be put in for the manufacture of rugs. Opportunity is thus given to students to learn these trades, and help pay their school expenses. This college has sent out this year fifteen missionary teachers, some into foreign lands, and some to take charge of church schools in different States. Others are soon to go into the South to enter the same line of work. Among the latest to other lands are Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Gosmer, to teach on the island of Bonacca, and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ruble and Miss Ellen Burrill, to South Africa. Later: A cablegram announces the sad death of Mrs. Gosmer and a number of other missionaries, from yellow fever.”