SOUTH LANCASTER ACADEMY.
By Frederick Griggs
SOUTH LANCASTER ACADEMY began its twentieth year's work, September 18, under encouraging circumstances. The attendance was larger than it was last year; indeed, two weeks after the school opened, it was larger than in midwinter last year. Not only is the attendance good, but the class of students is an excellent one. They are more advanced in years than those of last year and the year before, and the great majority are here for the purpose of preparing for the work of the Lord. Several are of advanced years, and their experience in the truth and work is such as to make a short course of training in the school of great benefit to them. The fact that we have this older and earnest class of students who are preparing for the work is a matter of great encouragement to the managers of the school, and to all our people in the Eastern Union Conference. This school is not established to give simply an ordinary education, but rather for the direct preparation of workers to carry the Third Angel's Message to the world. Our industrial work is progressing. We have put in a little canning plant at small expense, and are expecting to be able another year to do some canning. We have received about four hundred dollars on the industrial fund in response to our call. This is not nearly enough to pay for the purchase of the stock of broom corn, which amounts to about a thousand dollars, but through the kindness of some of our brethren and sisters who have assisted us to do so, we are enabled to make this purchase. There is, as can be seen, six or seven hundred dollars yet to be raised fully to meet the expense in purchasing the stock of corn. Accordingly donations for this work will be just as thankfully received as they have been in the past. We wish to thank our brethren and sisters for the hearty response to our call. The amounts received on the industrial fund have not been large, but they have been quite numerous. One sister sent us a sewing machine to assist in opening up the industrial work for the young ladies. In one way or another a goodly proportion of our students are now working their way to quite an extent. We are glad that this is so; for we believe manual labor to be an exceedingly important part of a student's education. We trust that our brethren and sisters in the Eastern Union Conference will ever bear the school in mind in their prayers, and will also endeavor to send to the school such as ought to attend. Our churches should never overlook this important work. A little help given at the right time by a church to some worthy young person might be the means of eventually putting a worker into the field who might lead many souls to Christ.