Healdsburg College by Alonzo T. Jones

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 39.

Healdsburg College.

By Alonzo T. Jones

BEING at Healdsburg, on business, October 6 and 7, I took occasion to visit the College and the Students' Home. At the college I found more than ninety pupils, ranging from childhood to middle age, earnestly engaged in their studies, guided by a corps of seven teachers, besides the principal, Professor Brownsberger. I visited every room and listened to the recitations, all of which were very interesting; but that which impressed me most was the deep interest taken by the teachers. It seemed to be their greatest care that every one in the class should thoroughly understand the lesson. If there was anything that any one did not see clearly, he would state it frankly, then the teacher would take it up and go over it again, and even again and again, enlarging, and illustrating until every part of the lesson was made perfectly plain to every one. And all done with the most cheerful kindness; no sign of impatience, nor censure. It is inconceivable that any one should go to school there without learning well and thoroughly everything that he studies.

At night I had the pleasure of enjoying the hospitality of the Students' Home. I do not say "boarding-house" for that would be a misnomer applied here. It was indeed a pleasure. Everything so tidy and in such perfect order; everything done with such cheerful alacrity; all tends to give that peaceful, pleasant, home influence which is really soothing and restful, and by which one feels that the blessing of God, and his angels abide there. Nearly fifty of the students dwell at the "home," and every one seemed to be entirely satisfied with the place and the surroundings. Indeed I cannot see how it could be otherwise. Every dwelling-room is nicely carpeted and nicely furnished, the table abundantly supplied with the very best of food, and that well cooked. In truth nothing short of a first-class hotel could equal the accommodations, and nothing short of a first-class home in every sense of the word could equal the influences of the Students' Home.

And I would say to Seventh-day Adventist parents on all the Pacific Coast, who have children to send to school, Don't fail to send them to Healdsburg College, and have them dwell at the Students' Home. Some will probably say, "The expense is so much more than at the public school at home." Admitting that the expense is somewhat more, it is absolutely true that the benefits are infinitely greater. So send them along. And to Seventh-day Adventists on the coast, who have not children to send, as well as all those who have, let not your hands be slack in furnishing means to the institution, that it may never lack in its splendid efficiency. He who will be a friend of the Healdsburg College is the friend of the Third Angel's Message. ALONZO T. JONES.