TOE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION' 100th Anniversary of the S.D.A. Church Schools-1853-1953 -lie OURNAL of Education

KELD J. REYNOLDS, EDITOR Associates ERWIN E. COSSENTINE GEORGE M. MATHEWS LOWELL R. RASMUSSEN ARABELLA MOORE WILLIAMS

CONTENTS

Cover Photograph: A Typical School Scene of a Century Ago By Brown Brothers Proper Education By Ellen G. White Page 4 The Christian School By Bruce Smith Volunteers of '97 By Maud Wolcott Spalding 8 Teacher Education in the Early Days By Jessie Barber Osborne 11 The Aledo Story By J. 0. Iversen 14 He Helped to Light the Lamp That Has Never Gone Out By May Cole Kuhn 15 Beginnings of Educational Work in Latin Europe By Robert Gerber and J. C. Guenin 18 It Was an Ammunition Factory By John H. Boehm and Gedeon de Oliveira, M.D. 20 Young Man With a Satchel By Walton J. Brown 22 Beginning of Education Work in Australia By J. Mills 23 Rise and Progress of Educational Work in England By A. J. Woodfield 26 A Shrine at Jerslev By L. Mark Hamilton 28 East Nordic Beginnings By C. Gidlund 30 Friedensau—Citadel of Faith By Wilhelm Muller 31 A Providence in India By R. S. Lowry and M. G. Champion 34 Teaching in Ethiopia By V. E. Toppenberg 36 Christian Education Begins in South Africa By Helen M. Hyatt 38 Solusi Mission School By J. V. Wilson 40 The Founding of Malamulo By Joel C. Rogers 41 SchoolNews ______42 ISSUED BI-MONTHLY. OCTOBER THROUGH JUNE, BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, GENERAL CON- FERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, TAKOMA PARK, WASHINGTON 12, D.C. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.50 A YEAR. PRINTED BY THE REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, TAKOMA PARK, WASHINGTON 12, D.C., TO WHOM ALL COMMUNICATIONS CONCERNING CHANGE OF ADDRESS SHOULD BE SENT, GIVING BOTH OLD AND NEW ADDRESSES. ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE AT WASHINGTON, D.C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF MARCH 3, 1879. 2 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION From the Editor

THIS CENTENNIAL number standing of His will and way for the of THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION education of the children and young commemorates the beginning of the first people of the church. There are other known Seventh-day Adventist school, reasons for recounting these pioneer ex- which was opened in 1853 at Buck's periences: that our generation might be Bridge, New York. The first teacher was reminded that we are heirs to a great Miss Martha ByiLigton, daughter of Elder tradition, and that we might rededicate John Byington, who, ten years later, be- ourselves to the basic and first principles came the first president of the General so clearly set forth, and for which so Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. many consecrated men and women have This centennial number deals with striven and sacrificed and in which they basic principles of Christian education have achieved the shining success of as revealed in the early educational writ- those who light the way for others. ings of Ellen G. White and as developed The space is too limited to use all the in the pioneer schools of the denomina- pioneer narratives sent to us. Educa- tion. The first definitive statement of the tional leaders in some of the world di- philosophy, aims, and procedures of visions cooperated generously by send- Christian education as Seventh-day Ad- ing several articles; some were unable ventists understand the term is found in to send any because of difficulties of Testimony No. 22, published in 1872. communication and other problems. We Excerpts from this statement are pre- took the earliest, and used our judgment sented in this issue because it is a logical in selecting the most significant among starting place, and because it is good for the earliest. We ask our friends to read all Adventists—laymen, ministers, and without undue attention to geographical teachers—to review the basic principles sources, seeing in the pioneer experi- of our great system of education. ences here recorded the typical evi- The pioneer experiences are here re- dences of divine guidance and help, of corded, not for reasons of sentiment, human devotion, and of the church's though they might well be, but in order faithful support of the Christian school, that the reader may see how the Lord its greatest institution for the evangeli- has led the church step by step through zation of its children and for the train- trial, hardship, and sometimes through ing of its workers. error, into a progressively better under- KELD J. REYNOLDS.

VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 Proper Education* Ellen G. White

IT IS the nicest work ever as- intelligent will, which should be directed sumed by men and women to deal with to control all their powers. Dumb ani- youthful minds. The greatest care should mals need to be trained, for they have be taken in the education of youth to so not reason and intellect. But the human vary the manner of instruction as to call mind must be taught self-control. It must forth the high and noble powers of the be educated to rule the human being. . . . mind. Parents and school teachers are On the other hand, the young should certainly disqualified to properly educate not be left to think and act independ- children if they have not first learned the ently of the judgment of their parents lesson of self-control, patience, forbear- and teachers. Children should be taught ance, gentleness, and love. What an im- to respect experienced judgment and to portant position for parents, guardians, be guided by their parents and teachers. and teachers! . . . They should be so educated that their There is a time for training children minds will be united with the minds of and a time for educating youth, and it is their parents and teachers, and so in- essential that in school both of these be structed that they can see the propriety combined in a great degree. Children of heeding their counsel. Then when may be trained for the service of sin or they go forth from the guiding hand of for the service of righteousness. The early their parents and teachers, their charac- education of youth shapes their charac- ters will not be like the reed trembling ters both in their secular and in their in the wind. . . . religious life. Solomon says: "Train up a God never designed that one human child in the way he should go: and when mind should be under the complete con- he is old, he will not depart from it." trol of another. And those who make This language is positive. The training efforts to have the individuality of their which Solomon enjoins is to direct, edu- pupils merged in themselves, and to be cate, and develop. In order for parents mind, will, and conscience for them, as- and teachers to do this work, they must sume fearful responsibilities. . . . Those themselves understand "the way" the who make it their object to so educate child should go. This embraces more their pupils that they may see and feel than merely having a knowledge of that the power lies in themselves to make books. It takes in everything that is good, men and women of firm principle, quali- virtuous, righteous, and holy. It compre- fied for any position in life, are the most hends the practice of temperance, godli- useful and permanently successful teach- ness, brotherly kindness, and love to God ers. . . . There is danger of both par- and to one another. In order to attain ents and teachers commanding and dic- this object, the physical, mental, moral, tating too much, while they fail to come and religious education of children must sufficiently into social relation with their have attention. children or scholars. They often hold The education of children, at home or themselves too much reserved, and exer- at school, should not be like the training cise their authority in a cold, unsympa- of dumb animals; for children have an thizing manner which cannot win the hearts of their children and pupils. If * Excerpts from the earliest comprehensive instruction given to Seventh-day Adventists on the subject of education, they would gather the children close to written in 1872, and now found in full in Testimonies for the Church, vol. 3, pp. 131-160. them, and show that they love them, and 4 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION would manifest an interest in all their love of thought and an ambition to efforts and even in their sports, some- acquire knowledge. They do not en- times even being a child among children, courage in themselves habits of reflec- they would make the children very happy tion and investigation. and would gain their love and win their Children are in great need of proper confidence. . . . education in order that they may be of The habits and principles of a teacher use in the world. But any effort that should be considered of even greater im- exalts intellectual culture above moral portance than his literary qualifications. training is misdirected. Instructing, cul- If he is a sincere Christian he will feel the tivating, polishing, and refining youth necessity of having an equal interest in and children should be the main burden the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual with both parents and teachers. Close education of his scholars. In order to reasoners and logical thinkers are few for exert the right influence, he should have the reason that false influences have perfect control over himself, and his own checked the development of the intellect. heart should be richly imbued with love The supposition . . . that continual study for his pupils, which will be seen in his would strengthen the intellect has proved looks, words, and acts. He should have erroneous, for in many cases it has had firmness of character, and then he can the opposite effect. . . . mold the minds of his pupils as well as We are living in an age when almost instruct them in the sciences. . . . everything is superficial. There is but Many children have been ruined for little stability and firmness of character, life by urging the intellect and neglecting because the training and education of to strengthen the physical powers. Many children from their cradle is superficial. have died in childhood because of the Their characters are built upon sliding course pursued by injudicious parents sand. Self-denial and self-control have and schoolteachers in forcing their young not been molded into their characters. intellects, by flattery or fear, when they They have been petted and indulged were too young to see the inside of a until they are spoiled for practical life. schoolroom. Their minds have been The love of pleasure controls minds, and taxed with lessons when they should not children are flattered and indulged to have been called out, but kept back until their ruin. Children should be so trained the physical constitution was strong and educated that they will expect temp- enough to endure mental effort. Small tations and calculate to meet difficulties children should be left as free as lambs and dangers. They should be taught to to run out of doors, to be free and happy, have control over themselves and to and should be allowed the most favorable nobly overcome difficulties; and if they opportunities to lay the foundation for do not willfully rush into danger and sound constitutions. . . . needlessly place themselves in the way Many parents keep their children at of temptation; if they shun evil influ- school nearly the year round. These chil- ences and vicious society, and then are dren go through the routine of study unavoidably compelled to be in danger- mechanically, but do not retain that ous company, they will have strength of which they learn. Many of these constant character to stand for the right and pre- students seem almost destitute of intel- serve principle, and will come forth in lectual life. The monotony of continual the strength of God with their morals study wearies the mind, and they take untainted. If youth who have been prop- but little interest in their lessons; and erly educated make God their trust, their to many the application to books be- moral powers will stand the most power- comes painful. They have not an inward ful test. . . . VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 5 If parents would feel that it is a solemn dwarfed from inaction. The education duty enjoined upon them of God to of most youth is a failure. They over- educate their children for usefulness in study, while they neglect that which this life; if they would adorn the inner pertains to practical business life. Men temple of the souls of their sons and and women become parents without con- daughters for the immortal life, we sidering their responsibilities, and their should see a great change in society for offspring sink lower in the scale of human the better. There would not then be deficiency than they themselves. Thus manifest so great indifference to prac- the race is fast degenerating. The con- tical godliness, and it would not be so stant application to study, as the schools difficult to arouse the moral sensibilities are now conducted, is unfitting youth of children to understand the claims for practical life. The human mind will that God has upon them. But parents have action. If it is not active in the right become more and more careless in the direction, it will be active in the wrong. education of their children in the useful In order to preserve the balance of the branches. Many parents allow their chil- mind, labor and study should he united dren to form wrong habits and to follow in the schools. . . . their own inclination, and fail to impress Had there been agricultural and upon their minds the danger of their manufacturing establishments connected doing this and the necessity of their with our schools, and had competent being controlled by principle. . . . teachers been employed to educate the In many cases parents who are wealthy youth in the different branches of study do not feel the importance of giving their and labor, devoting a portion of each children an education in the practical day to mental improvement and a por- duties of life as well as in the sciences. tion to physical labor, there would now They do not see the necessity, for the be a more elevated class of youth to come good of their children's minds and upon the stage of action to have influence morals, and for their future usefulness, in molding society. Many of the youth of giving them a thorough understand- who would graduate at such institutions ing of useful labor. This is due their would come forth with stability of char- children, that, should misfortune come, acter. They would have perseverance, they could stand forth in noble inde- fortitude, and courage to surmount ob- pendence, knowing how to use their stacles, and such principles that they hands. If they have a capital of strength would not be swayed by a wrong influ- they cannot be poor, even if they have ence, however popular. . . . not a dollar. Many who in youth were There are very many girls who have in affluent circumstances may be robbed married and have families who have but of all their riches and be left with parents little practical knowledge of the duties and brothers and sisters dependent upon devolving upon a wife and mother. They them for sustenance. Then how impor- can read, and play upon an instrument tant that every youth be educated to of music, but they cannot cook. They labor, that they may be prepared for cannot make good bread, which is very any emergency! . . . essential to the health of the family. All the powers of the mind should They cannot cut and make garments, for be called into use and developed in they never learned how. They consid- order for men and women to have well- ered these things unessential, and in balanced minds. The world is full of their married life they are as dependent one-sided men and women who have upon some one to do these things for become such because one set of their them as are their own little children. faculties was cultivated while others were —Please turn to page 57 6 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION The Christian School

Bruce Smith *

IT WAS God's original plan school must be young men and women that the home would be the school and willing to subscribe to the Christian the parents the teachers. But because philosophy of education and way of life. of the unfaithfulness of the parents in One Christian educator said, "Even the meeting their obligation to God and to soundest Christian objectives expressed their children, God provided other agen- in the most thoughtfully planned cur- cies to help the parents in their work of riculum and taught by devout teachers education. Among these agencies were can fall far short of high effectiveness the schools of the prophets. simply because of the hostile or indif- "These schools were intended to serve as a ferent student atmosphere." If a Chris- barrier against the wide-spreading corruption, to provide for the mental and spiritual welfare of tian school is to achieve its highest goal, the youth, and to promote the prosperity of the it must have a controlled enrollment. nation by furnishing it with men qualified to act in the fear of God as leaders and counselors."1 Our schools should not lower their The purposes of Christian schools are standards for the sake of a few careless students.' still the same. If ever they were needed before, they are needed more now. Third, Christ should be the center What is a Christian school? of all teaching and all study, in the First, a Christian school has teachers entire curriculum and program of the who are truly converted and thoroughly Christian school. "All things were made committed to the distinctive principles by him; and without him was not any of Christian education. It is said that thing made that was made." When Co- many church-affiliated colleges and lumbia University began as King's Col- schools of this nation today are manned lege, its aim was stated thus by first by instructors who make little or no president Samuel Johnson: pretense of Christian faith. This explains "The chief thing that is aimed in this college is to teach and engage the children to know God the failure of many Protestant church- in Jesus Christ, and to love and serve Him, in related schools. Therefore, if we as a all sobriety, godliness, and righteousness of life, denomination are to succeed in our with a perfect heart, and a willing mind." ° schools, it is essential that our teachers— Fourth, above all else, we want in our whether science, history, physiology or schools the building of character. This Bible—shall have an abiding faith in may not count toward a scholastic de- God; for a teacher is bound to reveal gree, but it does count toward the degree his faith—or lack of faith—in his atti- of success that an individual and a school tude toward the subject he teaches and attain. its application to life. "The greatest want of the world is the want of men,—men who will not be bought or sold; men "In selecting teachers, we should use every pre- who in their inmost souls are true and honest; caution, knowing that this is as solemn a matter men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; as the selecting of persons for the ministry." 2 men whose conscience is as true to duty as the "It is not enough that the teacher possess natural needle to the pole; men who will stand for the ability and intellectual culture. These are indis- right though the heavens fall." 7 pensable, but without a spiritual fitness for the work he is not prepared to engage in it."' 1 Ellen G. White, Education, p. 46. 2 White, Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, p. Second, the students in a Christian 174. Ibid., p. 229. * Bruce Smith, a junior in the Glendale Union Academy 4 White, Fundamentals of Christian Education, p. 54. (California), prepared and presented this talk as part of a 5 John 1:3. symposium given in several churches in the Glendale area. ° Herbert and Carol Schneider, eds., Samuel Johnson, Bruce is sixteen years of age, has always attended Seventh- President of King's College, His Career and Writings, vol. 4, day Adventist schools, and is preparing to be a Christian p. 223. physician. 7 White, Education, p. 57. VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 7 Volunteers of '97 Maud Wolcott Spalding *

FOR half a century after the the souls of that class of '97 and gave beginning of Seventh-thy Adventist his- us a real vision of the needs of the hour. tory, the church education of the chil- We carried the spirit with us into all dren had been practically nonexistent. our classes, including the cooking and Then, from far Australia came the call nursing classes held in the sanitarium of the Spirit of prophecy: and hospital across the street. We stud- "Get out of the large cities as fast as possible. ied as for our very lives, that we might Establish church schools. Give your children the be used of God to meet the needs of word of God as the foundation of all their educa- tion.... Wherever there are a few Sabbath-keepers, the hour. We were inspired to feel the parents should unite in providing a place for that, to be a church school teacher after a day-school where their children and youth can be instructed. They should employ a Christian the Master's pattern, we must be able teacher, who, as a consecrated missionary, shall to do everything and do it well. We were educate the children in such a way as to lead them to become missionaries. . . . Schools should be fired with the spirit of a great cause now established, if there are no more than six children beginning, to which we might devote to attend. Work as if you were working for your life to save the children from being drowned in our service and our lives. But naturally the polluting, corrupting influences of the world."' we expected to complete our course be- It was the year 1897: twenty-three fore being called out. Now, early in years after the founding of our first col- the new school year, we were startled lege, twenty-eight years after G. H. Bell by a "call to arms." began to teach in Battle Creek, forty- In the spring of 1897 President E. A. four years after Martha Byington Sutherland had received an appeal for opened her pioneer but short-lived a teacher from Albert Alkire, a farmer school in Buck's Bridge, New York, and in northern Michigan. He, his wife, and twenty-four years after Ellen G. White five children had been brought into the put forth her first blueprint for parents faith eight years before through the and teachers, "Proper Education." After ministry of Elder Luther Warren, then this long period of incomprehension and a young man of undiluted faith and fer- slothfulness, came "the sound of a going vent spirit, who taught them that they in the tops of the mulberry trees," 3 and should not send their children to public the army of the Lord began to move. school. In obedience, Mrs. Alkire had We students in Battle Creek College taught them herself these eight years; had been alerted the year before to the but now the eldest, Laura, was fourteen prospect of being called into service on years old, with the others stepping on the lower levels of church education. her heels, and the parents felt that they For in the school year of 1896-97, under must have a qualified Christian teacher. the leadership of Frederick Griggs, and But where were the elementary supported by progressive members of the church school teachers? Their training faculty, the first normal department for was only begun. However, President church school teachers was established, Sutherland sought a young woman will- with a two-year course. The continual ing to go. The summer passed. Several calls from the pen of inspiration fired college teachers were out in the field soliciting students; and one of them, • Mrs. Spalding and her husband, Arthur W. Spalding, though officially retired, are presently conducting at South- J. E. Tenney, brought back in the fall ern Missionary College a course in preparation for preschool teaching, and in connection therewith a preschool, or home three more requests to open church school, for children under school age, which serves as a laboratory for their students. schools, two in Indiana and one in Wis- THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION consin; a fifth came from Pennsylvania. to his home, still ten miles from my The faculty debated whether to try to destination. But in due time I arrived, curb the interest or to call for student- through fifteen-foot drifts, and was wel- teachers who would volunteer to forgo comed by a line-up of the family: the completion of their course to step into dear mother, Laura, Alice, Ralph, Mau- the breach. They decided to make the rice, and little Jennie. They took me to call. It was now November. their hearts, and they entered mine. Eight or ten students responded, were examined, sifted, and assigned. First on the list were the Alkires, at Bear Lake, Michigan; next, Farmersburg and Farns- worth, Indiana; then Erie, Pennsylvania, and Milwaukee,-Wisconsin. In the midst of the muster came the sad news that Albert Alkire, taking a chill in his corn- field, had rapidly succumbed to pneu- monia, and died on November 7. Yet with that word came the resolute dec- laration of his widow, "His greatest de- sire was for the Christian education of his children, and by God's help I'll carry through." Professor Griggs made a trip to that northern outpost, and met Mrs. Alkire and other church members, some of whom were a bit wary of this proposed innovation. The widow's brother, George Appleton, and the church elder, Carl Counzelman, upheld her, and the Maud Wolcott, at 18 Years of Age decision was made to support the call Yet the conditions were so strange to for a teacher. This delay put the Indiana me, born and brought up in Battle churches in the van, and Mattie Pease Creek and little used to country life, and Maud Atherton were sent to open that while I sat in their midst and smiled their schools. Erie and Milwaukee closed at them, tears ran down my cheeks. the list, with my cousin Bertis Wolcott Half the night I spent in tears; but in and Minnie Hart as their teachers. All the morning, hearing Laura happily five schools were established within a singing a familiar hymn as she prepared month. Mine, Bear Lake, was in the breakfast, I suddenly realized that Ad- middle. ventist hearts are attuned to the heavenly Though I was past nineteen, I was choir—and my homesickness fled. So taken for much younger; and Professor when thirteen children appeared for Griggs thought to sidetrack me by tell- school on Monday morning, I was pre- ing of the rigors of the climate and the pared to teach them the theme song of primitive conditions. But my fervent the year: ignorance stood the test, though truly "Do you fear the foe will in the conflict win? Is it dark without you, darker still within? I had little idea of what awaited me. Clear the darkened windows, open wide the door, Snow was piled high when I left the Let a little sunshine int" train and took the stage to Onekama, This was frontier country; not long where Brother Counzelman met me before it had been timberland, and with a horse and cutter, and took me stumps now dotted the landscape- VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 9 though I saw few of them for the snow. "Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach When school closed in May there were thee; and the fowls of the air, and they still pockets of snow in the hollows of shall tell thee." How thrilled we were, the hills. Aside from church and Sab- one cold winter day, to see a great snowy bath school (of which I was promptly owl resting on a fence post beside the made superintendent, to my gulping dis- house—and my thirteen pupils and I may) , there were few diversions—nota- were in school! bly the trip at Christmastime to nearby Healthful living was a prime subject. Lake Michigan. But I was so preoccu- Teaching cooking, I experimented in pied by my work, and I became so making buckwheat light bread instead thoroughly one with my children and of pancakes, and it was delicious. Then their parents, that I little missed my there was nursing in neighborhood small-city life. Besides, we of that gen- homes when sickness came—many times eration were never tempted by then-un- teaching all day and nursing all night. heard-of movies, radio, or television. There we learned the truth of the prom- The winter sports to which I was ac- ise, "My strength is made perfect in customed—skating and snowballing— weakness." were prime favorites with my youngsters; There were occasional disciplinary and they gleefully taught the city girl diversions; and there were problems of to ride horseback, to glide across frozen parents, some of whom thought a teach- lakes on an iceboat, and to enjoy the er's job was very easy—all she had to unique experiences of the nearby maple do was to repeat what she had long ago sugar camp. learned! And there were times when School was held in the front room of untoward events added an exciting spur the farmhouse, which consisted of two —as when the house caught fire in the rooms and a shed below and a partly dead of winter, to be put out by Laura finished second story. My little room on the ladder outside and Alice and me above, partitioned off by boards, re- on piled-up chairs in the attic, pouring ceived the added comforts, in the second or dashing on water that the boys year, of being papered—with Youth's brought. All in all, this first school, by Instructors!—and heated by a small the very intimacy of its associations, wood stove. Except in that little room, taught me the prime essential of teach- for the whole tenure of my service I ing—to love my pupils and their parents. had no privacy, being ever besieged by May these experiences, typical of the eager children. It was there, perhaps, early church school teachers and chil- that I learned to be a mother-teacher. dren, be appreciated and emulated in Equipment was homemade: tables, these days of greater opulence and favor benches, and a blackboard supple- but increased temptations of ambition mented by old-fashioned slates and lim- and professionalism. With further pet: paper supplies. We church school heights to reach, lower depths to plumb, teachers were in the beginning of a radi- wider horizons of duty to explore; with cal reform. Looking back now, you need for ever greater consecration and might pity us because we had so few self-sacrifice, may the teachers of today books; but this led us to a thorough meet the challenge of their opportuni- knowledge of the Bible, music, and prac- ties with the same spirit that animated tical things. The pages of nature, God's the volunteers of '97. first book, were spread around us on 1 Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6, pp. every side. Birds there were always; and 195, 198, 199. = 2 Samuel 5:24. they and the horses and cows and their 3 Charles H. Gabriel, "Let the Sunshine In." 4 Job 12:7. young were my assistants in teaching. 5 2 Corinthians 12:9. 10 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION Teacher Education in the Early Days

Jessie Barber Osborne

I WAS not a Seventh-day Ad- Ellen G. White's Sketches From the Life ventist when I went to Ann Arbor, of Paul. The lesson plans and assign- Michigan, to prepare for high school ments were my own, dug out with much teaching; after which I taught in South- study. Some of those boys and girls were ern Minnesota, where I had the coveted later to become workers, far outdoing title of "High School Assistant." How- their teacher in Biblical lore. I had ever, because of a troublesome allergy— gladly given up more than a third of my hay fever and asthma—I remained only former salary when I made the change, one year. Shortly after I became an Ad- but the balance was all on the profit ventist, I accepted teaching work in side in the pleasure of training boys and Traverse City, Michigan, on Grand girls for Christian service. Traverse Bay, where I was the only On coming to Battle Creek I was dis- Seventh-day Adventist teacher on the city appointed not to meet Prof. W. W. school roster. Prescott, of whom I had heard much While in charge of the eighth grade, and with whom I had corresponded re- two outstanding pupils were promoted garding my change to denominational to my room in the middle of the year. At teaching. I knew that as president of the the close of the first week, one of the new college he had been an inspiration to pupils came to my desk and asked, "Shall the young men then serving as teachers, we need our New Testaments in your among them John Shaw, Walter Irwin, room?" When I looked surprised he ex- C. C. Lewis, Wallace Newton, Warren plained, "You see, in Miss Jones's room Howell, Frank Howe, and Frederick we studied the Sunday school lesson Griggs. Professor Prescott had become each Friday afternoon." Now, I had general secretary of education and was been explicitly admonished that the now in England, and to me he will al- Bible should not be taught in public ways be the dean of Seventh-day Ad- schools, since this would be a violation ventist education. His interest in the of the principles of religious liberty; elementary school at Battle Creek had and knowing that in my schoolroom not waned. On his advice, the Battle were pupils from Jewish homes, I had Creek College board had, for two sum- to say, "No, we shall not use them in mers, sent a group of elementary teachers this room"—even at the risk of appear- to the Cook County (Illinois) Normal, ing less a Christian than Miss Jones! under its famous president, Col. Francis Perhaps that experience helped to Parker. I had the advantage of being convince me that I was not where I be- included in this group in 1895, before longed, and made me more anxious to beginning my work in Battle Creek. teach in our own schools, where I could This summer at the Cook County freely use the Scriptures, which I had Normal was the most rewarding study learned to love. I shall never forget the experience I had ever enjoyed. Colonel joy I had in teaching—or rather study- Parker's hobby was geography, not ing—the book of Acts in the seventh taught from books and maps alone, but grade of my first year in Battle Creek, along streams and nearby hills. He was under the principalship of Frederick surely a devotee of Pestalozzi in en- Griggs. We had no Bible textbooks, and couraging field study. The idea of cor- the "help" I used most was a copy of relation was just becoming popular, and VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 11 this model school, in which we had daily ment became standard textbooks in observation, exploited it fully. Colonel most of our normal departments. I re- Parker's famous statement often ap- member Milton Robison used to declare peared in his chapel talks: "Education that Dr. Bagley was "almost an Advent- is not a preparation for life; education ist" in his ideas of education. is life." But Dr. McMurry was not the only At the opening of my second year at inspirational teacher at Teachers Col- Battle Creek, our department was again lege. M. V. O'Shea gave helpful lectures indebted to Professor Prescott. On a on child study, free from the objection- trip east he had met Dr. Frank Mc- able features of some popular evolution- Murry at the Buffalo Teachers College, minded writers of that day. I recall that where he conducted a model school for Professor Griggs contributed a series of the benefit of the normal students. Pro- articles to the Home Department of fessor Prescott was definitely impressed, the Review, based largely on material from discussing educational aims and presented in this class. Later Dr. O'shea objectives with Dr. McMurry, that these came to Battle Creek to deliver helpful were in harmony with the principles of and practical lectures on child study. true education he had been presenting Another stimulating teacher at Buf- to the teachers and students of Battle falo, Dr. John Lord, had history as his Creek College. And Dr. McMurry was field, a subject which I had been most so much impressed with Professor Pres- inadequately taught as an adolescent, cott's interest in his own views that he and which had challenged me most as offered three scholarships in the Buffalo a teacher. Through following his re- Teachers College to be used by selected search studies in the background of the teachers of the elementary school in American Revolution, I came to enjoy Battle Creek; and it was my good for- teaching American history. Would that tune to be one of the three sent. we might also have covered more of Dr. Frank McMurry, his brother world history; but at least he gave me Charles, of Illinois (later an educational the clue, and I learned how to differen- writer and teacher in George Peabody tiate between primary and secondary College for Teachers, Tennessee) , and material, previously not emphasized. Charles deGarmo had for some time I am told that the psychologists, who, studied at Jena, Germany, the principles like the Athenians of Paul's day, are al- of Herbartian pedagogy; and on return- ways in search of something new, now ing to the United States they became the discount the Herbartian pedagogy; but earliest exponents in this country of the certainly the movement profoundly in- doctrine of interest, with character fluenced American schools and teachers, building as the ultimate aim in educa- leading to the wide abandonment of the tion. They began in Illinois, and later Jesuit thesis that "repetition is the carried the work to the East and the mother of studies." We learned that les- South through training schools and text- sons for appreciation were more often books on method. It was indeed a great caught in the fleeting moment of opti- privilege to sit at a table with Dr. Mc- mum interest and attention, than me- Murry as instructor in aims and means. chanically taught, though skills must be He later became dean of elementary practiced with unfailing exactness. And education at Columbia University, even in the acquiring of skills, we learned where he was an inspiration to Strayer, that proper motivation through interest Kilpatrick, Bagley (of Illinois Univer- in reaching objectives should be the pre- sity) , and others whose books on the ferred technique. This too was in accord teaching process and classroom manage- with instruction in our own Education: 12 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION "For ages education has had to do chiefly with learned it was planned to paint smooth the memory. . . . Students have spent their time in laboriously crowding the mind with knowledge, places on the walls for blackboards. very little of which could be utilized. The mind These would be very hard to keep clean thus burdened . . . is weakened; it becomes in- capable of vigorous, self-reliant effort, and is con- and entirely insufficient in space. Miss tent to depend on the judgment and perceptions of Rees and I offered to pay for slate black- others." boards to cover two sides of each school- I left Battle Creek in the spring of room—and were they a joy! 1899 to accept teaching work in Boulder, Then came the question of school Colorado. This was more in the nature of seats and desks. A committee meeting a pioneer effort than the long-established was held one Sunday morning at the school in Battle Creek, and our school- home of Mrs. Lydia McCamly to con- rooms were to be in the basement of the sider this matter. On the committe was new brick church then in construction. an elderly member of the board, a car- J. W. Rees was president of the Colo- penter, who was sure he could make rado Conference, and his daughter Pearl seats at a lower price than any we could was to be my fellow teacher. buy. But Miss Rees and I had a vision How well I remember the first meet- of our schoolrooms, the walls and floors ing of the Boulder church school board of which now gave promise of beauty, soon after my arrival. In Battle Creek good taste, and efficiency; and we felt we had used Eliza Morton's geographies, that shiny new "patent" desks not only the Bell English books, and Dr. J. H. would help provide the school atmos- Kellogg's physiologies; but I found the phere we wanted but would make disci- board at Boulder expected us to use all pline easier. I boldly said that I would public school textbooks and were un- contribute ten dollars if we could have willing to incur the extra expense of the "patent" desks, Miss Rees followed ordering the texts we preferred or the with her offer of money, and Mrs. Mc- supplementary readers we desired to Camly—bless her heart!—said she have. Fortunately I had brought some would give twenty-five dollars on the cash from my home in Ohio, and I or- same condition. Of course the elderly dered our own textbooks through a carpenter capitulated, no doubt secretly sympathetic local bookseller. (If we had glad he would not have to buy lumber a missionary secretary in those days, and make seats for such exacting school- certainly it was not part of her duties to ma'ams! order the needed books for the church Well, the desks were all that we hoped school. How different from today, when for, both in looks and in influence, and they can be secured from the local Book we determined that they should not be and Bible House—and what a complete scratched or defaced while we were line! But this was fifty-four years ago, there to guard their use. This was before and the wonderful textbooks written by psychologists had concluded that har- Christian teachers for our own schools mony, good taste, and suitable coloring just were not! How much we needed in school furnishings definitely influence them!) mental development and character But to return to plans for the opening building. But we felt this was unques- in our new schoolrooms—for during tionably demonstrated by our successful the first few weeks we held school in year, though this was partly due, of the old church building, where my pu- course, to the fine cooperation of the pils' books were placed in racks tacked school board, whose chairman was F. to the backs of the pews in front of them. M. Wilcox, then chaplain of the Boul- In talking over plans for the school- der Sanitarium. room in the new church basement, we 1 Ellen G. White, Education, p. 230. VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 13 The Aledo Story

J. 0. Iversen *

DOTTED across the country are sults of Christian education as evi- many little towns and communities we denced by Seventh-day Adventist minis- have never heard of unless we happen to ters, doctors, and nurses; church school, claim one as our home—towns like Mil- academy, and college teachers; denomi- ledgeville, Greenup, Newton, and Pinck- national workers in numerous lines, and neyville. Of course you haven't heard of many lay preachers, who first dedicated these towns, and perhaps you have never their lives to God under the inspiration before heard of Aledo; but the name is of a Christian teacher in the Aledo newsworthy in the history of Adventist school. And those workers, in turn, grate- education, for here, in a beautiful farm- fully acknowledge that this school is ing area in the eastern valley of the Mis- where they decided for God's cause. sissippi, the first church school in Illi- The same old schoolhouse still stands, nois was started, fifty-four years ago. remodeled and repaired, and with im- Thus, to many fathers and mothers, and proved equipment; and the Christian to many of our church leaders around ideals instilled in the minds of the boys the world, Aledo is important because and girls are the same as they have al- of the church school. ways been. The church membership is Outside the modest one-room frame not large, but the school is an integral school building in a grove three miles part of the budget and plans, sacrifice and west of town, Miss Elizabeth Longacre prayers. It is held in honor by its own stood one September morning in 1899 patrons and pupils, and equally re- ringing the hand bell that invited the spected by the community as the Sev- boys and girls to come to school. Only enth-day Adventist "parochial" school. one year was the school closed, and now, We too are proud of the Aledo school, more than a half century later, a teacher evidence of what Christian education has still rings the old hand bell each morn- done and will continue to do as its illus- ing, and a group of boys and girls take trious alumni reward the sacrifices made their places for another school day. A on its behalf. number of capable, God-fearing teachers have presided over the little country school since Miss Longacre's time, and many boys and girls have here begun their formal prepa- ration for the places they have later filled in God's work. Old- timers proudly point to the positive re-

J. 0. Iversen is educational superintendent of the Illinois Conference. Aledo School Group, 1899. Elizabeth Longacre, Teacher, Standing Behind Smallest Girl 14 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION He Helped to Light The Lamp That Has Never Gone Oti May Cole Kuhn

NEWSPAPERS all over the United States carried an item on August 10 and 11, 1952, announcing the passing of Prof. Frederick Griggs, "the dean of educators in the Seventh-day Adventist Church." The New York Times gave a résumé of his lifework, and the Los Angeles Examiner reported the various activities and purposes to which he had devoted his endeavors. He had given fifty-nine years to educating and counsel- ing the young people of the church, and was regarded with deep esteem by thou- sands of friends and former students whose lives he had influenced. He loved humanity; he forgot the frailties of his students and remembered their pleasing, upright, strong characteristics. This was the secret of his success in molding them into vessels fit for service. There were no church schools in his Frederick Griggs, About 1890 youth, so he attended the public gram- Griggs wrote, "Professor Prescott told mar school and the high school in St. me that his observation of me as a stu- Charles, Michigan. Having passed the dent led him to think that I might make county teachers' examinations when he a leader in the teaching force of the pre- was a senior in high school, he began his paratory school. This force was not a teaching career in Swan Creek, Michi- very large one—three besides myself. gan. The next year he attended Battle They were Hattie Eggleston Bizer, Flor- Creek College, then returned to Swan ence Westphal, and Ella King, who later Creek for another year of teaching. became Mrs. Sanders." As the year pro- Except for a few early attempts in gressed, happy adjustments were made, Vermont, New Hampshire, and New and his association with this group de- York, little had been done to provide veloped into strong, lifelong friendships. elementary education for the children of Meanwhile, the young principal con- Adventists. The only permanent grade tinued his education, studying Latin, school was at Battle Creek, Michigan, science, and other subjects after school where a nine-grade preparatory depart- hours with the various teachers of the ment was attached to the college. There college. He completed a well-rounded were no trained church school teachers. college course, but did not take a degree In 1890 W. W. Prescott, president of until later, as degrees were out of favor Battle Creek College, invited Frederick in some quarters in those days. He also Griggs—then twenty-three years old—to attended the Cook County Normal become principal of the preparatory de- School, at Chicago, Illinois, where he partment. Of this invitation Professor studied under Col. Francis W. Parker, VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 15 who, with Frank McMurry and M. V. Creek College. Some twenty students O'Shea, was a leader of educational matriculated in this course. Our practice thought in that era. school, as we then called it, covered the In March of Professor Griggs' first first six grades in the preparatory de- year as principal of the preparatory partment. Thus we were able to estab- school smallpox broke out in the town, lish at least the beginning of a good and schoolwork was suspended for two normal department." or three weeks. During this time the After the normal department had principal and his staff were sent out to been running along successfully for visit other schools, including the State some time, a change came in adminis- normal schools at Ypsilanti and Saginaw, tration. G. W. Caviness, that noble man Michigan. Perhaps it was at this time of God, a natural-born educator, who that the idea of a denominational teacher had been president of the college for training school took root in the minds some years, was transferred to Mexico. of these four earnest educators. He had left upon the college, the church, Ellen G. White wrote in 1894 that and the community an impress of dig- wherever there were a sufficient number nity and Christian kindliness. E. A. of children in a church, a church school Sutherland, already experienced as a should be opened. To care for these college president, was invited to head schools, teachers must be prepared to Battle Creek College. He felt that the work intelligently. practice school should be separated from By 1895-96 the preparatory depart- the college, in order that conditions ment at the college had grown to such which would exist in a bona fide church proportions that eight teachers were em- school might be approximated; so the ployed, and some effort was made to give chapel of the Review and Herald build- subjects in education to a few prospec- ing was rented or borrowed, and the tive teachers. But Professor Griggs and practice school was installed, with grades his faculty were not satisfied, and as they separated from one another by curtains! discussed the situation they were con- These six grades were taught by students victed that a normal school should be of the normal department, under the established for the training of compe- direction of accredited teachers; and in tent elementary teachers. spite of the cumbersome arrangement, "After considering it among our- ill-adapted as it was to ideal work, the de- selves," wrote Professor Griggs in his partment turned out some fine teachers. notes on the beginning of the normal Enrollment in the preparatory de- course, "we brought the idea to the col- partment increased until fifteen regular lege board, and it was agreed that three teachers were employed to teach the stu- or four of us should take special training dents and to supervise the work of the in some university to prepare us to teach practice teachers. Among these super- pedagogical subjects so that we could visors and teachers were Mrs. Angela open a normal department. Conse- Washburn Hobbs (later Angela Hobbs quently, in 1896 four of us were sent Webber) , Mrs. Jessie Barber Osborne, to the University of Buffalo. The four and Mrs. Ella King Sanders. original teachers were chosen to study Ruth Haskell Hayton, a member of at this school—Ella King, Florence West- the first normal class at the college, still phal, Hattie Bizer, and I. I doubt if we treasures a notebook which she kept at could have secured better instruction that time. On the first leaf appears the in preparing for our work in any other signature, "Ruth Haskell, Battle Creek place. In the fall of 1897 we opened a Normal Dep't., 1896; Professor Griggs, regular normal department in Battle principal." Turning the leaves, one finds 16 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION these words: "Critic teacher's report of to month, as deemed desirable by the model lesson given in reading to a sec- school board. ond grade in the church school in the Later, Ruth Haskell taught the fourth Review and Herald Office chapel, Fri- grade in place of Mrs. Flora H. Williams, day, October 22, 1897. R. and H. aux- a gifted teacher, who had to leave her iliary to college for classes. Signed, Mrs. work for some time. After Miss Haskell Ella Sanders, Model Teacher, Mrs. Jessie had taught for a month she went to Barber Osborne, Critic Teacher." Professor Griggs with her written resig- Another entry covered a lesson in nation. He read it, looked up and smiled, arithmetic given to the same group of seeming .to take it as a joke. "But it was second-grade children before the normal no joke to me," she declares. class of Battle Creek College. The sig- "What is this, Ruth?" he asked. nature reads: "Miss Ruth Haskell, Pu- "Why, it's my resignation." pil Practice Teacher; Bertice Wolcott, "Why so?" he questioned again. Critic." "Well, Professor Griggs," answered "These entries," writes Mrs. Hayton, Miss Haskell, "I am getting notes of dis- "open up for me thegateway of memory. satisfaction from the parents; and some- In retrospect I trace my thoughts to the times as I go home at night, I find myself time of my happy girlhood in Battle drawn on the sidewalk in a far-from- Creek College. The educational work complimentary picture, with 'Miss Has- of the denomination at its beginning kell' written beneath. I know I am fail- did not include church schools. Colleges ing, and before I utterly fail and the and academies had carried on for twenty board asks me to resign, I want to do so years before an organized plan was in- myself. I have pride, even if I am a fail- augurated for giving a primary and ele- ure." mentary education to children in a "Well, Ruth," Professor Griggs re- Christian, workday, graded school. In plied, "I'm not going to let you fail. 1894 Mrs. White had called attention Tomorrow I shall visit your room and to this need, and also to that of train- see what goes wrong and what we can ing teachers to meet this need. When do to help you." Professor Sutherland became president "The memory of that visit and the of Battle Creek College, he set on foot courage his confidence gave me," Mrs. a movement for calling in all available Hayton concludes, "has lived with me Seventh-day Adventist public school through the years. I had no fear over teachers for special training for home the proposed visit, for no matter how and church school work." personal his criticism might be, I knew Professor Griggs continued in the it was from a true friend who sincerely normal department as its principal. The wished me to succeed." And succeed she training for teaching in this new line did, but that is another story. was to be of a most practical nature. "If we work upon marble, it will The requirements were (1) a thorough perish. If we work upon brass, time will knowledge of all doctrinal subjects, with efface it. If we rear temples, they will ability to teach them in the home, Sab- crumble to dust. But if we work upon bath or Sunday school, and church; (2) men's immortal minds, if we imbue ability to teach plain sewing and cook- them with principles, with the just fear ing, including the baking of bread; (3) of God and love of their fellow men, ability to make a blackboard, a hekto- we engrave on those tablets something graph, and papier-mache for geography which no time can efface, and which will maps; and (4) a willingness to "board brighten and brighten to all eternity."— around" from week to week or month DANIEL WEBSTER. VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 17 Beginnings of Educational Work in Latin Europe

Robert Gerber and J. C. Guenin •

THE score of workers already in sentenced to pay fines, which doubled the field ought to have their ranks re- with each additional absence; and the cruited to more than tenfold their pres- fathers chose to go to prison rather than ent number, and then all these laborers pay the fines. The Central European need to be trained and disciplined that Conference committee (there was only they may labor in the most effective one conference at that time) studied the manner, and that they may know how problem, and at the Marin camp meet- to meet with courage and fortitude the ing, held in the canton of Neuchatel in peculiar difficulties and perplexities of 1895, it was decided to start a school. A this European field. How is the message property was purchased at Perles, near to go to these 'nations, kindreds, tongues, Bienne, Switzerland, and the school and peoples,' unless men and women are opened on January 10, 1896. Its pupils thus educated?" So wrote B. L. Whitney, came from several churches of French president of the Central European Mis- and German Switzerland. The peak en- sion, in 1886. Thus it is evident that rollment was fifty to fifty-five. Elder Whitney had a burden for the C. Chevigny, of Geneva, was the prin- educational' work in Central and South- cipal; Mrs. J. Erzberger mothered the ern Europe. He thought and prayed school family; Mrs. C. Chevigny taught much about establishing schools for train- the lower grades; and Miss Elise Conod, ing workers in the various languages. the advanced. The school was conducted This article will deal largely with edu- for nearly five years, then was closed in cational work in the French language, December, 1900. Among its pupils may which, in addition to France and French be cited a number who are still engaged Switzerland, served students from Italy, in God's work: Dr. J. and Tell Nuss- Spain, Portugal, and other countries. baum, Henri and Jacques Erzberger, Short Bible courses to train workers Andre Roth, Mrs. W. K. Ising, Mrs. were organized from time to time in E. C. Wood, Miss Mical Roth, and J. C. different places. No doubt some were Guenin. The school undoubtedly ren- held of which we have no definite infor- dered great service, especially to many mation. We know that a Bible course parents, during its short existence. was given in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Swit- For a number of years attention was zerland, in 1891-92. These courses were centered on this boarding school at continued at least three or four more Perles, and from 1896 to 1901 no Bible years, for a time in Peseux and again courses for the training of workers seem in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in charge of J. to have been given in Latin Europe. Curdy and E. J. Waggoner, respectively. In 1894 and 1895 several Adventist B. G. Wilkinson came to Europe in 1901, and the same year was elected families who had children of elementary school age encountered serious difficulty president of the Central European Con- because the children were not sent to ference, which enabled him to do a great deal in the cause of education. The school on the Sabbath. The parents were Perles boarding school having closed its Robert Gerber is presently treasurer of the Southern doors, a training school was again an European Division, and J. C. Guenin is president of the Leman Conference, French-speaking Switzerland. urgent necessity; but a few years were 18 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION yet to pass before anything of a perma- were 275 francs, or $55. An appeal was nent nature was established. However, made for books to start a library. something was undertaken immediately. It is certain that as a result of the A house was rented in Geneva, Switzer- Geneva and Paris Bible schools at least land, and a short training course for seven young men entered the work. Most missionary work was given, February 3 of them have given many years of service, to April 15, 1901, with B. G. Wilkinson several are now respected retired work- in charge, teaching Bible, history, and ers, and one or two may still be in active methods of public work; and Miss E. service. Noualy teaching physiology and the By this time it was felt that a per- French language. Pastors L. P. Tieche manent educational institution should and Tell Nussbaum also took some part be established without delay. In 1904 in teaching. The total fee charged the stu- the property of La Ligniere at Gland, dents for the ten weeks was one hundred Switzerland, on Lake Geneva, was pur- francs (at that time twenty dollars). No chased, and a training school and a nurs- one under seventeen years of age could ing school were opened that same year. be accepted without action of the board, J. Vuilleumier served as principal until and no one above that age was to come 1911, and P. Steiner from 1912 to 1917, without a sincere desire to enter the with an interruption of one year (1914- work. About twelve students attended. 15) at the outbreak of the first world In 1902 the work in Europe was re- war. After another interruption (1917- organized, and B. G. Wilkinson was 19), courses were given in Nimes, France, elected the first president of the Latin in 1919-20, under the leadership of J. C. Union Conference. In the fall of that year Guenin. The following year about fifty he organized a twenty-four-week Bible students attended school again at Gland, school in rented quarters in Paris, Octo- with A. Vaucher in charge. In 1921 our ber 27, 1902, to April 13, 1903. Courses division training school, the Seminaire in English, Italian, Latin, Greek, He- Adventiste du Saleve, was established at brew, mathematics, zoology, elocution, Collonges, France. This school has con- Bible studies, and canvassing were of- tinued to the present time and is now fered, in addition to those that had one of the bright lights of Christian been given in Geneva. The total fees education in Europe.

Adventist School Building, Gland, Switzerland, 1904-1917 VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 19 It Was an Ammunition Factory

John H. Boehm and Gedeon de Oliveira, M.D. *

THE first Seventh-day Adventist to advance God will find His men, and school in Brazil was established because also provide the money necessary for of a public school teacher's fondness the project. So let us not hesitate, but for liquor and his ingenuity in getting go forward in faith! The work is the money to buy it! In 1884 a copy of our Lord's!" German paper Hausfreund came into With this encouragement, the men set the hands of this teacher in the town of about finding a suitable location for a Itajai, Santa Catarina. He discovered that training school, looking in the neighbor- he could get many copies of this paper hood of the rapidly growing and progres- for nothing, in regular supply, and that sive city of Sao Paulo. they could be exchanged for liquor. A tract of some thousand acres of hilly While the Itajai teacher was enjoy- land was purchased about fifteen miles ing this relationship with our publishing from the city and six miles from the house in Germany, the magazine was suburb of Santo Amaro. The highway circulating rather widely in his section was little more than a mule track, pass- of Brazil. In the nearby village of Gaspar able in the dry season for oxcarts. There Alto some copies of Hausfreund fell into was no transportation, no mail service, the hands of Guilherme Belz, who be- no electricity, and no water supply sys- came interested in the truth through tem. But there was vision, and there were reading them. He sent for more litera- stout hearts. ture, and soon he and several of his On May 6, 1915, a tent camp was set neighbors accepted the message and were up to shelter the workers until more sub- baptized by F. H. Westphal. The first stantial buildings could be erected. A church was organized in 1894 at Gaspar small stream was dammed and a hydrau- Alto, and there also the first church lic ram installed to bring the water to the school was established in the same year, hilltops where the buildings were to be with John Lipke as principal and teach- constructed. A bed of suitable clay was ing staff. located, and brickmaking got under This and other church schools were way. The first firing went into small operated for some time, but between building units, which were later to be 1909 and 1914 there was no missionary barns, storehouses, and chicken houses; school in the country. The work suffered but for the time being the workers moved under this lack, and the brethren were into them. The second firing was of one greatly concerned yet saw not how to hundred thousand bricks, and with these move forward. Then, at a workers' meet- the first school buildings began to take ing in 1914, Mrs. F. W. Spies, wife of shape. In August, 1915, the cornerstone the field director, made an earnest appeal was laid for the first building, which is to the leaders. She said: now the dormitory for men students. "Brethren, we must go forward in With an experienced carpenter and one faith. I believe the time has come to go master mason to direct the work, the stu- forward and establish our school system, dents made the bricks and built the as in other fields. When the time comes school. After twenty-nine years of use, the administration building stands with- * John H. Boehm was one of the founders of Brazil College and is presently a worker in the Rio-Espirito Santo Mission. out a structural weakness. Dr. Oliveira is a physician, teacher of biology, and instructor in the normal department at Brazil College. Not only was the scholastic program 20 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION Teachers and Students of the First School Year, 1916, at Seminario Adventista do Brasil developed, and worker training, but morning army officers with a company of from the first the industries were given soldiers came on the campus and made attention. Registered cattle were im- a thorough search through everything. ported from Wisconsin to begin a fine Of course, they found nothing amiss. The herd. A modern dairy barn and two silos school leaders explained to the officers were erected. These silos were the first the objectives of the school and invited of the kind in Brazil, and so novel that them to attend the chapel service. The annually the state fair authorities re- school choir sang for them the forty-sixth quested the college to send down samples psalm and other hymns. Then the corn- of the ensilage as a demonstration of the pany of soldiers outside sang the beauti- new way to feed cattle. A vineyard was ful national anthem. On this note of har- planted and the beginnings made of an mony the troops took their leave, and industry which today supplies the finest the school was never again under sus- bottled grape juice to all sections of picion. • Brazil. Every good food store carries the Perhaps there was an element of truth "Super Born" brand, with the name of in the charge that the college was manu- Colegio Adventista Brasileiro on every facturing ammunition—but for the cause label. of God! Since 1922 the college in Brazil In 1917, during the first world war, has graduated more than four hundred enemies spread the story that the Ad- students, of which number more than ventists were not actually conducting a three hundred are active in the work school but were making ammunition to of the church in Brazil and in other parts be used by revolutionists. Early one of the world. VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 21 Young Man With a Satchel

Walton J. Brown *

IT WAS September 26, 1898, few weeks seven hundred dollars had the last day of the workers' meeting at been donated, one hundred acres of grain Crespo, in the province of Entre Rios, had been pledged, and forty acres of land Argentina. Into the meeting walked Luis had been promised. Ernst, a satchel in one hand and his Bible It was thought that a school should be in the other, and announced that he had started immediately, without waiting for come from Uruguay to attend the mis- construction. Nelson Z. Town, treasurer sion school. He had sold his business, was of the South American Division, and a dedicating his life to the Lord, and man greatly interested in Christian edu- wanted to study for the ministry. cation, was transferred from Buenos There was no training school. The Aires to Las Tunas, about twenty-five young man had doubtless confused the riffles from Santa Fe. Here he and his developing elementary church schools wife moved into a commodious house, and the reports of discussion about a and immediately advertised the opening training school, and mixed them with of the new school on January 8, 1899. some wishful thinking. Actually, church The beginnings were small. Six young schools had existed since 1893, when the men enrolled for the first term, bringing first one was taught in Buenos Aires by their beds, mattresses, and bedding. This Mrs. R. B. Craig, wife of the first colpor- first term lasted two months, during teur leader in Austral South America. which time the students were instructed The following year Mrs. Frank H. West- in the common branches and the Bible, phal taught in Crespo, about six miles and were prepared for colporteur work. from the place where the Rio Plata Col- The second term lasted a little longer, lege was later to be established. In 1897 with a somewhat, larger enrollment; but Lionel Brooking opened a school at Las funds were not coming in, and the breth- Garzas, in the Chaco of Santa Fe Prov- ren were in disagreement about the ince; and Mrs. John McCarthy taught a location of the school. school at Malbertina, in the Province of At this point F. H. Wesphal returned Cordoba. Yet none of these schools satis- from the United States, where he had fied the need of the field for a training been attending general meetings. The school, and workers and laity were de- brethren were called together, decision manding such a school. But the 1898 was made to begin construction at the workers' meeting had come to the last present site, and Elder Westphal was day of the session with no discussion of authorized to buy the bricks. This left school needs, when Luis Ernst walked in. twenty-five dollars in the treasury, but His coming served to stir leaders and the Crespo brethren hauled and built lay members into activity. The mission without wages, and money began to committee gave immediate consideration come in. Before construction was begun to the problem, a plan was formulated on October 17, 1899, Elder Westphal, and accepted by the delegates, and a Nelson Town, George Lust, who had campaign was launched for the establish- donated the land, and several others as- ment of the training school. Within a sembled at the building plot, and kneel- * Walton J. Brown was a worker in South America from ing on the grass, asked God to bless. 1936-1952, and was president of River Plate College the last four years of that time. —Please turn to page 46 22 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION Beginning of Education Work in Australia* J. Mills t

"The youth in this country are expecting a school, Haskell's appeal, were in charge, assisted and we do not want them to wait longer."' by Pastors G. B. Starr and W. L. H. Baker EVERY great religious reform and their wives. Twenty-four students movement in the history of this world were soon enrolled, half of whom had has had associated with it an educational been colporteurs or were preparing for program. This was true in the days of that work, and six others had been en- ancient Israel, in the days of Christ, and gaged in other kinds of work. The school in the time of the Protestant Reforma- year continued sixteen weeks. tion; and it is no less true in this time These premises served as the head- when the greatest reform movement of quarters of our educational work until all ages is in progress. 1894. Though the work of these years The Advent pioneers in Australia early was considered a success, yet the expense of conducting the school in rented build- in their experience realized the need of a training school. S. N. Haskell, report- ings and the many disadvantages city life presented, led to further study and a ing to the 1891 General Conference session in the United States, urged that search for a more favorable location. At competent teachers be sent to this field. the first Australian camp meeting held The new believers were inspired to warn at Brighton, Melbourne, in December, the southern continent, but what could 1893, consideration was given to a per- such a small handful do? The colporteurs manent location for our training school. realized their need of a better education, Counsel was sought from Mrs. Ellen G. and some of our young men had already White, who was then in Australia. She gone to the United States to seek a train- presented the light that had been given ing. But few could bear such expense. her from time to time concerning the training of Christian workers, and the The question of establishing our own places that should be selected for this training school for this field was openly work. The importance of combining discussed by the hundred representative physical labor with study was stressed. Sabbathkeepers in attendance at a meet- This instruction called for the pur- ing of the Australasian Conference, held chase of a considerable amount of land, at Melbourne in December, 1891. The and the location committee spent several beginning of a workers' training school months traveling through Victoria and was authorized, and two committees were New South Wales searching for a suitable appointed—one to outline plans and place, but without avail. Finally their policies, the other to study the question attention was directed to a large tract of of a suitable location. land for sale at Cooranbong, New South In June, 1892, two large houses were Wales, and five members of the commit- rented in George's Terrace, St. Kilda tee visited this land in May, 1894. The Road, Melbourne; and on August 24 the tract, known as the Campbell Estate, con- Australasian Bible School was opened. sisted of 1,450 acres of heavily timbered Pastor and Mrs. L. J. Rousseau, recently land, partially bounded by two salt water come to this field in response to Pastor creeks. But strong objection was raised * Adapted from an early issue of the Australasian Record. to this site, first because it was thought Pastor Mills was an instructor in history and languages at Australasian Missionary College, 1924-1927. that thirty or forty acres of land closer VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 23 , u i .1 0 111U1 p. !".

to Sydney or Melbourne would be a regarding its location, object, and management. Now He is telling us that if we will walk in the wiser proposition, and second because light He has given, Avondale will become the train- of the apparent poverty of the soil. But ing ground for many missionary fields. The hand of God is in all these things.' " the Lord had a hand in calling attention to this land, and overruled all opposi- A part of this light was the instruction tion. He gave His chosen messenger a to locate the school in the country. dream before she visited the land, which Shortly after the Brighton camp meeting she later wrote out as follows: in December, 1893, Mrs. White prepared for publication an article presenting "'Before I visited Cooranbong, the Lord gave me a dream. In my dream I was taken to the land that some of the instruction the Lord had was for sale in Cooranbong. Several of our brethren had been solicited to visit the land. I dreamed that given her relating to our schoolwork, in- I was walking about the estate. I came to a neat-cut cluding the following statements: furrow that had been ploughed one quarter of a yard "Never can the proper education be given to the deep, and two yards in length. Two of the brethren youth in this country or any other country, unless who had worked the rich soil of Iowa, were stand- they are separated a wide distance from the cities. ing before the furrow and saying, "This is not . . . It is not the correct plan to locate school build- good land; the soil is not favorable." But One ings where the students will have constantly before who has often spoken in counsel was present also, their eyes the erroneous practices that have molded and He said, "False witness has been borne of their education during their lifetime, be it longer this land." He then described the properties of or shorter.... We shall find it necessary to establish the different layers of the earth. He explained the our schools out of, and away from, the cities, and science of the soil, and said that this land was yet not so far away that they cannot be in touch adapted to the growth of fruit and vegetables, and with them, to do them good, to let light shine amid that if well worked it would produce its treasures the moral darkness. Students need to be placed for the benefit of man. under the most favorable circumstances to counter- "'This dream I related to Brother and Sister act very much of the education they have received." Starr and my family. Afterwards, as I was walking "Schools should be established where there is as on the ground where the trees had been removed, much as possible to be found in nature to delight lo, there was the furrow just as I had described it, the senses and give variety to the scenery. . . . and the men also who criticized the appearance of We should choose a location for our school apart the land. The words were spoken just as I had from the cities, where the eye will not rest con- dreamed.' " 2 tinually upon the dwellings of men, but upon the Upon returning to the cottage rented works of God; where there shall be places of interest for them to visit, other than what the city affords. for the time they should spend investi- Let our students be placed where nature can speak gating the land, they held a council, and to the senses, and in her voice they may hear the voice of God. Let them be where they can look it was decided to purchase the land. upon His wondrous works, and through nature While the brethren were engaged in behold her Creator." prayer, a miracle of healing was per- Further principles are presented in formed which Mrs. White felt to be the the same article, with emphasis on agri- seal of God upon the decisions made. She culture and other lines of work to be was fully convinced that the brethren developed at the school: had been guided in the selection of this "There should be land for cultivation. . . . And an effort should be made to secure grounds away property, and on several occasions de- from the cities, where fruits and vegetables can clared her assurance that this was the be raised. Agriculture will open resources for self- support, and various other trades also could be right place and just where the Lord learned. This real, earnest work calls for strength wanted the school to be located. of intellect as well as of muscle. Method and tact are required even to raise fruits and vegetables Pastor A. G. Daniells, then president successfully. And habits of industry will be found an important aid to the youth in resisting temp- of the Australasian Union Conference, tation. . . . reported as follows to the 1899 General "The school to be established in Australia should bring the question of industry to the front, and Conference session: reveal the fact that physical labor has its place "'Ever since she [Mrs. White] came, God has in God's plan for every man, and that His blessing been instructing her regarding the work here.. . . will attend it. The schools established by those He has given His servant a great burden regarding who teach and practice the truth for this time, the educational work. The struggle it has taken to should be so conducted as to bring fresh and new carry out what God has plainly revealed should incentives into all kinds of practical labor." 5 be done, has been terrible. Satan has contested every inch of the ground; but God has given us many The Lord intended that not alone victories. He has planted the Avondale School, and should the education of the head be em- we have the plainest evidences that He will be glorified by it. He has given minute instructions phasized in our school, but that the stu- 24 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION dents should receive a practical educa- tion in many lines. Much instruction is found relating to the education of stu- dents in agriculture, including: "Study in agricultural lines should be the A, B, and C of the education given in our schools. This is the very first work that should be entered upon." ° Such an education could not be given Not-so-Early View of Australasian Missionary College Campus in any small location in or near our larger cities. Avondale, the In 1895, after the purchase of the land, name given to this estate by our early the former owners became concerned workers because of the numerous streams when they saw the land being cleared, of water around and through it, furnishes surveyed, and staked out in lots for sale, in many respects a very favorable spot for and endeavored by going to law to extort the carrying forward of what the Lord an extra amount of interest from the has outlined, and we can say with the conference. But the decision of the court servant of the Lord, "We are just where was entirely in our favor, and all expenses God wants us to be." had to be borne by the other party. In The initial cost of the land was £900 this effort to hinder the work the enemy (then $4,500). The brethren were ena- was unsuccessful. bled to make the purchase of the land Through the cruel spirit of criticism through the liberal gift of £1,000 ($5,000) and censure that was being indulged in, from friends in Africa who had visited both near and far, great discouragement the site in January and February, 1895, was brought to those who had under- and expressed strong sympathy with the taken this work. Unfavorable and un- objects and aims of the work. When this truthful reports as to the location and money was received, Mrs. White wrote: the management of the enterprise were "'I felt my heart bound with gratitude, when being circulated among friends of the I knew that in the providence of God the land institution who had already assisted and was in our possession; and I longed to shout the high praises of God for so favorable a situation.' " 7 were still willing to do so. These reports Meanwhile, our people were moving dampened their interest, and thus hard- to Avondale to clear the land and begin ship and perplexity were imposed. building the school. "They helped every About this time Mrs. White was given one his neighbour; and every one said to another dream: his brother, Be of good courage." 8 But "'On the night of July 9, 1896, I had a beautiful dream. My husband, James White, was by my side. the enemy could not allow such a work We were upon our little farm in the woods in to be undertaken without seeking in Cooranbong, consulting in regard to the prospect of the future returns of the labor put forth. several ways to obstruct its progress. At "'My husband said to me, "What are you doing that time the colonies of Australia were in reference to a school building?" " '"We can do nothing," I said, "unless we have passing through a serious financial crisis. means, and I know not where means are coming Banks in the leading cities had failed, from. We have no school building. Everything seems to be at a standstill. But I am not going to en- business was at a standstill, money was courage unbelief. I will work in faith. I have been tight. Our work suffered in consequence. —Please turn to page 48 VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 25 Rise and Progress of Educational Work in England

A. J. Woodfield*

THE first Seventh-day Adventist to set foot in England was William Ings, one of her own children who had been reared in America. He reached South- ampton on May 23, 1878. The growth of the church began soon after, largely under the ministry of pioneers from America. The first recorded attempt to train workers was in the winter of 1899- 1900, when W. W. Prescott and E. J. Waggoner conducted a training school, which greatly helped those attending. When W. W. Prescott was recalled to America in 1901, the British field came under the direction of 0. A. Olsen, and that same autumn H. R. Salisbury be- gan the work of the English Training College, in Duncombe Hall, North Lon- don. Right from the start the students were inducted into the peculiarly Ad- ventist training of colporteur work, and we read: "The students of Duncombe Hall College are determined to stir the millions of London, and eighteen of them have ordered 23,000 copies of 'Sun- Professor and Mrs. H. R. Salisbury, Early 1900's day: Notes on the National Cam- paign.' "1 What inspired audacity! which our present imposing sanitarium The college was transferred in 1903 has grown. In 1910 the college moved to Holloway Hall, North London, and into a new building, now the home of then in 1905 to two large villas in Manor Stanboroughs Secondary School. . Gardens, Holloway, which were fitted In common with our brethren the for school home and classrooms. H. world over, British believers have been Camden Lacey came from America to heartened by a consciousness of God's take charge of Bible instruction, and in leading in the development of the 1907 became principal when Professor church. Of the move to Stanborough Salisbury returned to America. That Park, E. E. Andross wrote, "The Lord year marked an important event in the has gone before us in every step that we history of British Adventism—Stanbor- have taken in this move thus far, and ough Park was acquired and the college we are sure He will not fail us now." ' was housed in old Stanborough House, "All were deeply grateful for the beauti- which later formed the nucleus from ful spot that God has provided on which to carry on our work; but those * A. J. Woodfield is headmaster of Stanboroughs Secondary School, England. who were in attendance at our college 26 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION in former years were best prepared to schools have had a transient existence appreciate it. The saddest feature con- in West London and Southend, and fronting us is the fact that we have been today we have schools at Wimbledon, compelled to say to a large number of Plymouth, Walthamstow, Leeds, and our dear young people who have ap- Stanborough Park. plied for admission to the college this The large school at Stanborough Park year: 'We cannot receive you now.' " was begun in 1919 under Misses A. V. In 1913 Professor Lacey returned to Middleton and L. Lewis, the latter now America, to be succeeded by W. T. Bart- Mrs. S. Bevan. In 1940 E. E. White be- lett, whose name lives in cherished gan our secondary school. At that time memory and also in Bartlett Hall of there were about seventy pupils. Now our present college at Bracknell. The the school receives 290, from infants of list of principals through the years con- five years to youths of seventeen, and tains illustrious names known in Ad- is highly respected by all. ventist circles the world around, and By 1930 it was obvious that Stanbor- some even in the educational and scien- ough Park could no longer accommo- tific world: Lynn H. Wood, George Mc- date the college. Classrooms, dormito- Cready Price, G. W. Baird, and W. G. ries, and library were meager and C. Murdoch among them. "By 1925 the cramped. Watford was growing rapidly, faculty of the institution . . . numbered rates were increasing, and finally the twenty teachers, giving instruction in British Government cut a new road twenty-eight subjects, including normal through the estate, thus ruining its agri- work, ministerial training, domestic sci- cultural value. It was decided to move ence, carpentry, market gardening, and to Newbold Revel mansion near Rugby, farming, each of which is so compre- which gave the college its motto. High hensive as to include more than is some- up on the front of the building is a times understood by the simple term Latin inscription, Virtute et Labore. `subject.' " Could any motto be more appropriate And now we must make an important for an Adventist college? Despite the digression. From the beginning the pi- vicissitudes of the college through the oneer brethren saw the need of provid- dark and tiresome years of the war, ing education for Adventist children. when students were crowded into im- Had their faith and example been zeal- possible conditions at Packwood Haugh ously and faithfully followed, how much near Birmingham, and in the hopeful greater might have been the strength days of removal and re-establishment at of the church in Britain today! Ketter- Bracknell, no better motto has been de- ing was the home of the first church vised—or perhaps could be—to symbol- school in Britain, opened in January, ize the spirit of the British students.. 1904, taught for the first three months "By Courage and by Work" they have by Mrs. Castle, an American whose hus- won through until the Northern Euro- band worked in the North England pean Division educational council voted, Conference office at Leicester. She was in 1952, to raise Newbold Missionary succeeded by Miss Raywell, of Hull, College to the status of a full senior col- and then by Miss Daisy Bacon, now lege. May God still bless it and all our Mrs. Baasch. The school was held in schools, large and small, everywhere. the church in York Road, but had to The Worker, Feb. 27, 1907. Published by International, close down because thirteen of the chil- Tract Society, London. 2 Ibid., June 19, 1907. dren moved away with their parents, 3 Ibid., Oct. 16, 1907. 4 M. E. Olsen, Origin and Progress of Seventh-day Advent- and the church could not keep up the ists. n. 374. 5 Information gleaned from a letter from Mrs. R. Bird, teacher's salary of 15/- per week.' Other dated Nov. 18, 1952. VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 27 A Shrine at Jerslev L. Mark Hamilton *

IT WAS a bit out of the ordi- Begun in another building, the Jerslev nary when, at the end of a strenuous church school has completed this June, two weeks of visiting schools and col- 1953, sixty years of service to the cause leges, I set aside two days for a pilgrim- of Adventist Christian education. Some age to a little-known but nonetheless think it may be two or three years longer, historic edifice in northern Denmark, in but documents do not confirm it. This is company with Pastor Thv. Kristensen, a record of which any church—any local president of the West Denmark Confer- or union conference, for that matter— ence. We turned off the main road where may well be proud. Other schools were the sign pointed to the village of Jerslev. established earlier in several places, but It is a small place, presenting that im- they survived for only a few months, or a maculate and tasteful orderliness so few years at best. None, so far as we characteristic of urban Denmark. We know, have functioned continuously for drove slowly through the business sec- so long. In this sense we believe this is tion to the edge of town, where houses the oldest church school in all Europe. and lots merge into the green pastures I looked through records covering and ripening fields of the surrounding nearly half a century. The enrollment farm country. Pastor Kristensen drew up figures fluctuated from year to year, beside a small cream-colored brick build- never dropping below ten or twelve and ing with red-tiled roof, and announced often rising to nearly thirty. Year after that this was our objective. It was the year the same names appeared in succes- Jerslev church school, with a story that sive classes until they had completed all sets it apart as a monument to Christian the schooling offered. It was interesting education in Northern Europe. to note the continuity of tainily names over several decades. Indeed, direct de- scendants of some of the first pupils of sixty years ago are today being molded by the same Christian influences that helped to fashion their lives. If we assume an average annual enroll- ment of twenty pupils, the record of those sixty years means a total of twelve hun- dred student-years open to the influence Church School at Jerslev, Denmark, Built in 1900, of Christian teachers and the Word of Served 53 Years God. Calculated differently, it means I felt as if I should leave my shoes at that the characters of two hundred indi- the threshold, for to me this was holy vidual youth were molded in a Seventh- ground. I stepped inside this shrine of day Adventist environment through six Christian education and looked about most important and formative years. the classroom, where for more than half As I talked that evening with pioneers a century Seventh-day Adventist teach- of those early days, I asked them about ers have ministered education to the the sacrifices and struggles which must youth of the Jerslev church. have been necessary to establish the school and keep it going. I asked because * Dr. Hamilton is educational secretary of the Northern European Division Conference. I knew that effective Christian education 28 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION is purchased only at great cost—it never and some have achieved distinction in comes free! They admitted that there had the medical profession. Some serve as been sacrifices and struggles; but when I Bible instructors, some are ministers of pressed for details, their memories some- the gospel, some are serving in mission how failed to recall them. In the per- fields, and at least one is a conference spective of sixty years' devotion to Chris- president. What more could one ask in tian education, those trials of faith and justification of sacrificial devotion to such finance appeared singularly dim and a cause for so long a time? unimportant. This story of the oldest center of Had they ever been so troubled and Christian education has been told with- perplexed as to consider closing the out benefit of scholarly research—not be- school? I wanted to know. I needn't cause there is no documentary evidence, have asked that question, for their un- but because the record of its effective- flagging support through the years had ness is best written in the lives of Chris- already answered it far more eloquently tian men and women who still live and than words. They had never once labor for God among their fellow men. considered closing the school to solve It is a continuing story transcending the problems! meager bits of information written down "Did Christian education pay, at such in official records and rosters. Its foot- cost?" I asked. And as one voice they notes are the men and women, young answered emphatically, "Yes." I need not and old, whose lives have been molded have asked that one either, for at such and shaped by their years at Jerslev a price one does not long support some- church school and whose service per- thing that does not pay. And I had ample petuates the ideals inculcated there. evidence of their complete confidence in I have met many of these men and the value of Christian education, for women personally, and have shaken their more than half of the congregation that hands. I have talked with them in Ice- night (not including fifteen members of land; I have met them in England; I the "younger generation" who were cur- have been a guest in their homes in Den- rently enrolled as pupils) had received mark; I have seen with my own eyes their elementary training in that school. the outworking of the principles of Among them was a grandmother who Christian education in their lives and had been a pupil and later a teacher in service. I have examined official records the school, her son, and his daughter and statistics. But what I have not seen • —three generations in one family who and cannot hope to know fully is the were themselves products of that pro- complete measure of the influence of gram. Yes, the Jerslev church knows that their lives as it extends in ever-widening Christian education pays. circles until it touches the golden shores During the months since that pilgrim- of eternity. One may consult documents, age I have come to know many factors but only the kingdom of God will fully contributing to the certainty of their reveal the lives that have been blessed conviction that investment in Christian because of the Jerslev church school. education pays good dividends. For many Of all the shrines and temples built by who received their initial schooling there the wealth and genius of men, none can now occupy positions of trust and respon- equal, in the perspective of eternity, the sibility in the organized work, and many magnitude and importance of that sim- more head Seventh-day Adventist Chris- ple little brick schoolhouse in the village tian homes as consecrated lay workers. of Jerslev, Denmark. It is a monument Some are teachers in our schools, some to Christian education of surpassing are nurses in our sanitariums and clinics, grandeur and glory! VOL. 15, NO. 5. JUNE, 1953 29 East Nordic Beginnings

C. Gidlund *

THE work of Seventh-day Ad- More formal schooling for the Danes, ventists was begun in Sweden by the Swedes, and Norwegians was later pro- pioneer preacher J. G. Matteson and vided at Fredrikshavn, in northern Den- Olof Johnsson, who had accepted the mark. In 1898 an old estate was acquired truth in Norway. Even when the Advent- in central Sweden, and the Nyhyttan Mis- ist church membership numbered only sion School was started to serve the young a few hundred, plans were laid for a people of Sweden and Finland. There school where young people could be was a winter term of six months and a grounded in the truth and prepared for short summer course. For seven years this evangelistic and mission work. Pastor school was an evangelistic center for the Matteson and J. M. Erickson began such conversion of young people and a train- a school in Stockholm in 1890, with a six- ing center for workers. Then in 1906 week course and one single subject, "The Nyhyttan became an inter-Nordic mis- Message and How to Give It to Others"; sion school, to which came students from then the students were sent out to sell or Denmark, Norway, and Finland, as well give away truth-filled literature and to as from Sweden. The small facilities of preach—all of them self-supporting. the school were soon overtaxed, and since 1908 each of the various Nordic countries * Pastor Gidlund is president of the East Nordic Union Conference. has developed its own school.

Teachers and Students of the Swedish Pioneer School at Nyhyttan, About 1900 30 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION Friedensau-Citadel of Faith

Wilhelm Muller *

THE importance of Christian education was appreciated by the leaders of our work in Central Europe from the very beginning. As early as 1889, soon after the denomination began work in Germany, a Bible school for the train- ing of workers was begun in Hamburg under the direction of H. F. Schuberth. At first there were but eight students, twelve the next year, and the third year there were thirty-two. It was typical that from the beginning the little Hamburg Bible school should have a cosmopolitan air, with students enrolled from Hun- gary, Russia, Switzerland, and the Scan- dinavian countries, as well as from Ger- many, all driven by the same urge to prepare themselves for the Lord's work. Even now some of the older workers in Europe owe their education to this early school. And as the director of those days moved into positions of larger respon- sibility, as president of a union and later of the division, his interest in Christian Otto Liipke, President of Friedensau Seminary Front Its education remained strong. Founding in 1899 to His Death in 1914 The Hamburg Bible school was only temporary. The rapid expansion and de- near Magdeburg, and a gift of 5,500 velopment of the Seventh-day Adventist marks from some church members Church in Europe demanded something opened the springs of generosity so that more, and it was decided to establish a needed funds could be secured. At a permanent school in Germany, adequate meeting of the German Conference of for the education and training of the Seventh-day Adventists in Magdeburg, many young people needed for minis- July 14-23, 1899, an action was taken terial and administrative service in the which clearly states the plans of the various branches of the work of the founders: church. A site was found at Friedensau, "WHEREAS, the task lies before us to preach the gospel to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, we recommend the foundation of a * President of the Central European Division. During the Hitler era the German Government demanded of Pastor mission school. . . ." Muller, also president of the board of trustees of Friedensau, that he hand over the property without reimbursement or This action is significant in that it payment of any kind. This requisition was backed up with threats by the Gestapo. In the face of this danger the breth- shows the mission-mindedness of the ren stood firm. The Lord helped them, and the property remained in denominational hands. workers in that early day, when the evan- Assisting the writer in preparing material for this article were Otto Gmehling, president of the West German Union gelization of the homelands was just Conference and one-time teacher at Neandertal; and G. Seng, president of the South German Union Conference. beginning. The seminary was to be a VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 31 "mission school," where the hearts and rooms were in an old building with holes minds of the students were to be turned in the roof, so that rain and snow came to the great German and Netherlands in. Meals were served in a room that was colonies in Africa, Asia, and Australasia. also used as a workroom and drying room Following the design of Christian educa- for the school washing when the weather tion as Adventists understand it, train- was bad. It was a Spartan life, with prac- ing at the seminary, though on a good tically no comforts. All worked hard. scholastic level, was to be practical and Even for the teachers lessons were often suited to those who in mission fields must a journey into the unknown, since they know how to do many things well. To were called upon to teach subjects for the study of books was added agriculture which they had little or no preparation. and practical arts, and the girls were After finishing their lessons in the fore- taught homemaking to prepare them to noon, the students worked till night. be wives of ministers and missionaries. Far • from discouraging either students The Friedensau Missionary Seminary or teachers, these conditions served to was centrally located and could be develop a hardy corps of workers and reached easily from all parts of Germany missionaries who have left their mark on and the surrounding countries. It was a the great Second Advent Movement.

The Earliest Available View of Friedensau Seminary Campus beautiful rural estate, where students As time went on, new buildings were and teachers could study and work, with added and industries were developed, so the nearest town a distance of two hours' that students had opportunity to earn walk. Here, without adequate school their way at woodworking, blacksmith- buildings or even living quarters, school ing, tailoring, or shoemaking, on the opened on November 20, 1899, with farm or in the forest. More teachers were seven students. added and a strong staff of educators was The first director, Otto Liipke, has left developed, keeping a close connection a record of those pioneer days. The one between the field and the school. Ad- classroom also served as administrative ministrators and church members loved office and medical laboratory. Student the school and supported it with their 32 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION means and with their children. The 1952, in order to meet the division's need name of Friedensau became known to for a stronger school with an expanded Adventists around the world. curriculum, it was decided to merge Through wars and other difficulties Neandertal with Marienhohe and to Friedensau's light has continued to glow. gather all the students into one school. During the Hitler regime, with the The Marienhohe Mission Seminary Lord's help the brethren held on to the has been and is an important center for school despite the threats of the Gestapo. educating Adventist youth. It was opened After World War II the seminary was in 1925, under direction of Otto Schu- renovated and restored to its original berth, with 14 teachers and 150 students. use, and extensive new construction was It was able to survive to 1939, when, like undertaken. Still it is training Adventist Neandertal, it was closed until 1948. workers. Teachers and students are of Since its reopening in October of that good courage. Hundreds who have at- year the school has made steady progress. tended Friedensau, and are now in the Under direction of Hans R. Werner, ministry or in mission fields, can look both school and plant have developed. back more than fifty years to the begin- A fine new administration building has nings of a school that still gives service been constructed. The courses now of- to God and the church. fered include theology, commerce, home This is primarily a story of our educa- economics, and prenursing. In addition tional beginnings in Central Europe, but to these worker-training courses, a strong it would not be fitting to omit mention state-type secondary school has been of the two younger schools of our divi- developed. The school authorities have sion: Neandertal Missionary Seminary, had commendable success in getting state situated near the large cities of the recognition for their secondary school Rhine-Ruhr Valley; and the Marienhohe curriculum, since August, 1949, of the Missionary Seminary, at Darmstadt, in type known as realgymnasiale aufbau- Hesse, near Frankfurt; the first serving schule, through which the seminary is the West German Union, the second again, as before the war, preparing stu- serving the South German Union. dents for the abitur examination and In 1921, after World 'War I, the West admission to universities. German Union used most of the money saved for reconstruction to establish a THE DAY OF MIRACLES IS NOT PAST! Antil- seminary. The churches, poor by reason lian Junior College (Santa Clara, Cuba) of the war and a depreciated currency, was directly in the path of the hurricane gave generously to the purchase and last October 24, but a few miles before development of the fine Neandertal reaching the school the 115-miles-per-hour school. During the next fourteen years, storm split, devastating the area to the east until the Nazis closed it, Neandertal and to the west, causing over forty million dollars' damage, but leaving the college played an important role in training untouched in the center. "It shall not come ministers and colporteurs. Most of the nigh thee." present corps of workers in West Ger- many came through this school. COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA TRAINING COLLEGE During the Hitler era and postwar (Medellin, Colombia) is the best and most reconstruction, although the church re- advanced school in Colombia, according to the official report of three educational tained ownership of the property, it lost inspectors sent to find occasion to order the control of the institution. This was re- school closed. Instead they recommended stored in 1948, and again Neandertal that it be studied as a model school for the became a training center for Adventist entire country! Thus does God cause the workers for another four years. Then, in wrath of men to praise Him. VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 33 A Providence in India R. S. Lowry and M. G. Champion *

SPICER MISSIONARY COL- When the Adventists of India wish to LEGE serves as the senior training school cite a modern example of God's provi- in the Southern Asia Division. Within dential leading, they call attention to the its walls today study the nationals of circumstances surrounding the 1942 re- eighteen different language areas in location of Spicer Missionary College. India, Burma, Ceylon, and Pakistan. To After a number of properties had been it the division looks for its supply of examined, the attention of the brethren evangelists, teachers, and office workers. centered on one that seemed to stand out Situated not far from Poona, with a large as the most nearly meeting their needs. flowing river as a boundary, with the It was considered a godsend to find fifty finest indigenous youth guided by a acres held by one owner in a country qualified and consecrated staff, the col- where small holdings are the rule. But lege continues to develop to meet the there were obstacles to overcome in ob- needs of the work in Southern Asia. In taining that land! This was the summer 1944 it was made a senior college. home of the Maharaja of Gondal. If this Not always has the college been so well was the property they should have, surely housed and so ideally located as today, God would have to lead the way in secur- for the pioneers began building years ago ing it. when the eye of faith but dimly caught Many government officials showed in- the significance of the work begun. terest in the plans for a college, but im- In 1915 the need for a workers' train- mediately expressed doubts concerning ing school for South India was met by the the chance of our getting the property. opening of a school at Coimbatore to care It was pointed out also that even if the for the graduates from the preparatory brethren were able to buy the land, it school started by J. S. James at Nazareth. was unlikely they could build upon it The South India Training School, as it owing to its proximity to the governor's was later called, enrolled only fourteen home. Regulations forbade any but one- students the first week, with G. G. Lowry story structures. It was further pointed as principal. This humble start soon ex- out that another mission had proposed panded to an enrollment of seventy. opening an institution somewhat farther As the school developed and the enroll- from government house, and permission ment grew, representing more sections of to build had been refused. the field, a more central location was As a next move the locating committee desirable. In 1917, therefore, the school was led to call on the district collector, was moved to Bangalore and housed in who proved to be a real Cyrus chosen rented quarters. In 1923 it was moved to of God for a special work. He listened Kirshnarajapuram. Again in 1942 it was with interest to the plans, and promised relocated, this time about eight miles to meet the committee in front of the from the division headquarters at Kirkee, property, with his staff, and give them all Poona. The next year it was named the help he could. One fall morning they Spicer Missionary College, that teachers met him on the roadside. From the and students might ever have a mission- records he brought they learned that not ary vision of service to God and man as only was the property held by one indi- did the beloved leader, W. A. Spicer. vidual, but that owing to circumstances

* R. S. Lowry is educational secretary for the Southern governing the ruling prin'tes in matters Asia Division and M. G. Champion is principal of the mis- sion training school at Roorkee, India. of holding land in what was then British 34 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION India, the Maharaja of Gondal would The officers had been impressed by the have to dispose of the land. This was a industrial department of the college, and real encouragement. When asked about the brethren pointed out that the indus- building regulations the collector said, trial program would be stopped, since it "This is within the proscribed limit, but could not operate without the student I think I can help you." He was as good body. In sympathy the officers decided to as his word, and they soon learned that take over only the large buildings and no objection would be raised to con- the principal's bungalow. But again they structing buildings on this site. were asked, "What shall be done with the In less than a year construction of students? We need a place for them to the administration building was begun. live, and we must carry on our class- Large sums were donated by Indian busi- work." At this they agreed to build for us nessmen, including more than thirty semipermanent structures in a section of thousand rupees for the industrial unit, the campus that they would allow to re- given by Sir Cussaro Wadia. Even main with us. though war conditions caused some to The next day was Sabbath, and the hesitate, there was little cause to doubt brethren praised God that at least they that God was leading. In seven or eight would be able to carry on the work months the staff and students were arriv- without a break, though under hardship. ing on the campus. The main building On Sunday afternoon the Air Force en- and the boys' dormitory were near gineers were to stake out the buildings enough to completion to be occupied. for their needs as well as ours. They came As the war effort developed in India, with full plans and began staking out this new college plant appeared to be the site and marking foundation lines. just what was needed as offices for newly The work was to start without delay. formed departments of the growing army. But God is good. The plan went into Other institutions had been taken over, some army file, and the engineers went why not this one? The Air Force caused elsewhere• to build! The army did not the greatest concern. High-ranking offi- erect any buildings; they did not take cers came from the capital bringing civil over. God took charge, for His work is and military authorities to look the place of greater importance. Spicer Missionary over and present reasons why they should College stands today as a monument to have it for the new Air Force training His guiding and keeping power. center. Finally came the offi- cer who was to take over the new unit, his station wagon loaded with high echelon officers. Definite plans were being made, and a meeting was to be held next day in the garrison engineer's office to finalize plans. There was no doubt of the officers' intentions as the brethren met with them that afternoon. Spicer Mis- sionary College was to be an Air Force school. Our repre- sentatives asked what they were to do with the students. Administration Building, Spicer Missionary College, India VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 35 Teaching in Ethiopia V. E. Toppenberg *

IN 1909 a committee met at the capital, was given by the emperor to Asmara, in the Italian colony of Eritrea, Mr. and Mrs. Hanson for educational to plan for missionaries to enter Ethiopia. purposes, in appreciation of their service Little did anyone imagine that a dozen in Ethiopia. It is reputed to be one of years would pass before it would fall to the best schools in the country. Children my lot and privilege to pioneer the way of prominent Ethiopians have studied into Ethiopia, and thirty-eight years be- there, and today occupy positions of in- fore my youthful ambition to lead the fluence and are appreciative friends of work among the Gallas of southern the mission. Many students, too, have Ethiopia would be realized. become loyal Adventists and lay work- Some time after the first world war, ers. During the Italian conquest and oc- when missionaries were permitted to re- cupation, missionaries were expelled or turn to African stations that had been interned, schools were closed, and build- closed, the way opened also into long- ings and equipment greatly damaged. closed Ethiopia. Because of opposition When Ethiopia was liberated in 1941, on the part of jealous Coptic priests, it the few remaining missionaries had to was necessary to begin in a quiet and in- gather up the remains. About this time offensive manner. In our living-room I returned to Ethiopia, after an absence window, open to the public road, I of fourteen years, and urged starting a played a phonograph, and invited into workers' training course such as had our home the young people who stopped proved such a blessing in other places in to listen, with whom we played and sang Africa. But few young people were Christian hymns. Erelong we had a school ready to enter such a course, and most started, and students attendirig the Im- were too poor to pay the school expenses. perial school preparing for college edu- Upon my return from furlough in cation abroad requested me to coach 1947, it was decided that I should try to them in subjects in which they felt un- begin work in southern Ethiopia. I made ready to pass college entrance examina- courtesy visits to prominent officials, one tions. Some time later the heir apparent of them an old friend, a counselor to the —the present Emperor Haile Selassie I— emperor.. When he heard of my desire to invited us to the palace, and we received go to southern Ethiopia, he said he might a large sum of money in appreciation of be able to help me, since he was largely our educational work. During the next responsible for an institution for home- two or three years mission schools were less boys down in Gallaland, which it started—by G. Gudmundsen in the was impossible to manage satisfactorily north; W. Koelling and K. Kaltenhauser because of its remoteness and the diffi- in the west; and R. Stein in the east. culty of finding an efficient and depend- Educational work in Ethiopia made able staff. He thought the emperor might good progress. M. J. Sorenson, H. A. be glad to employ me as manager, or Hanson, P. M. Myhre, and Miss Mae perhaps turn the institution over to us. Matthews developed advanced schools in With Mrs. Toppenberg and two Ethio- Addis Ababa, Addis Alam, and Akaki. pians, I made an extensive tour south The last-named estate, ten miles from and east of the lakes, but found no * Pastor Toppenberg, now retired, spent twenty-five years promising place. We then turned west in Ethiopia and thirteen years in Egypt and the Upper Nile Mission. and south of the lakes, winding up at 36 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION was clean and orderly, however. I explained that experience had taught us that when students had lived in fine dormitories with modern conven- iences, it was difficult to send them out as teachers in the provinces where they would have to live under primitive condi- tions. To this he smil- ingly agreed. Leaving the huts, he asked about the extensive and well-kept Training School Classroom. V. E. Toppenberg in Rear, Miss Gladys Martin at Right gardens surrounding them. I told him that the institution of which I had been told; each student was required to do voca- and all agreed that it was by far the best tional work, in addition to which he cul- we had seen. After reporting this to our tivated twelve square feet of land, and committee, I went back to the counselor. was graded on his work. All proceeds Meanwhile he had spoken with the from the sale of his produce were his, to emperor, who remembered me from my be used toward payment of tuition, cloth- former stay in Ethiopia, and was willing ing, and school expenses. Again the em- to turn the institution over to us. The peror seemed pleased. offer was accepted, and three weeks after We had been informed in advance that our return from furlough we were estab- the Imperial family would also visit in lished at what is now the Kuyera Mission. our home, so I led them through our When General Conference and divi- thriving gardens and orchard toward the sion leaders visited the place and looked waiting chauffeur; but the emperor sug- into conditions and the contract, they gested that we walk up together, and that agreed that it was suitable for a long- the other members of his household fol- needed training school. In 1949 we began low in cars. After a view of the extensive a two-year provisional course for a special estate from the hill, we went inside, group of students who had had some where seats for the emperor and empress elementary schooling. I have never had had been placed in the living room. As a more appreciative or responsive group I remained standing, waiting for the of students than at Kuyera—from the other members of the Imperial family very beginning they went with us to do to be seated, the emperor motioned me village preaching. to a seat at his right, and began to tell Shortly before Mrs. Toppenberg and of his pleasure in all he had seen. I left Ethiopia, in the spring of 1952, the When the emperor learned that we emperor and his family visited us. They were leaving Ethiopia not to return, he came right into classes during recitations, sent his regrets and stated that if our and then went with me to the mission hearts should yearn to return to Ethiopia, village. When we had to stoop a bit to he would give us a property and positions enter the students' simple mud-and-stick with salary. These favors were probably huts, with earth floors and grass-thatched due not so much to the emperor's feel- roofs, I wondered what the emperor's im- ings toward us personally as to his appre- pressions were. Everything in the huts ciation of Christian education. VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 37 Christian Education Begins in South Africa Helen M. Hyatt *

THE early Advent believers in ment. Some men of large means had ac- South Africa had a real vision of the im- cepted the three angels' messages, and portance of Christian education. Before they donated generously for the erection the church school movement had made of Claremont Union College, near Cape any considerable headway in America, Town. The institution was opened in two elementary schools had been opened February, 1893, with a staff of efficient in the Cape province, one at Beacons- teachers: Prof. and Mrs. E. B. Miller, field and one at Claremont. The children Miss Sarah Peck, and Harmon Lindsay. and young people from the homes of These, with some help from educated the new believers found it difficult to South Africans, offered a full secondary attend the public schools, since regular school and workers' training course for classes as well as sports events were mature young people. Other teachers scheduled to meet on Sabbath, the usual who came during the nineties were Prof. required reading assignments were dis- and Mrs. J. L. Shaw, Prof. and Mrs. W. tasteful to these zealous Adventists, and A. Ruble, Prof. and Mrs. C. H. Hayton, many of the schools were taught by and Miss Grace Amadon. Each of the clergymen, who made life intolerable for men in turn served as principal. a Sabbathkeeper. So much money had been donated by The school in Beaconsfield was first the Wessels, Scholtz, and other families taught in 1894 in a small wood-and-iron that the school was able to open its doors building not far from the rich Kimberley and invite young people to come at no diamond mines. The teacher was Mrs. cost to themselves. Consequently there Jessie Rogers, a brilliant young woman was a large patronage during the early whose missionary zeal caused her to years. But the supply of money, which at gather in children from the neighbor- first seemed unlimited, began to dimin- hood for the story hour and for Sabbath ish. The idea of paying tuition and other school. Who shall say that the jewels she fees was not acceptable to many of the thus gathered will not shine brighter in small constituency; there were no Gen- her crown of rejoicing than the brightest eral Conference subsidies to help support gems of the Kimberley mines! the institution; and no industries to Another devoted Christian young supply labor, even if the students had woman, Mary Robertson, taught the been willing to work. Thus year by year school in Claremont. With a zeal for the enrollment fell off, until only a few the souls of youth, she taught a crowded boarding students remained, and most school, doing full justice to the religious of the small income was derived from instruction as well as to the fundamental day students. This experience was a school subjects. severe trial at the time, but it proved Meanwhile, plans had been laid for later to be a real blessing, because it a secondary school, where those complet- forced the leaders of the work to seek ing church school might continue their ways and means whereby the young peo- education under a Christian environ- ple might earn their own way at school. At the time the situation was most * Miss Hyatt was one of the first three teacher training graduates from the Claremont College in 1901, and was for discouraging. Manual labor was consid- many years in educational work in Africa. After her African service she taught at Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska. ered degrading for a white man, and 38 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION some left school rather than work—in these men in later life to become power- contrast with the example set by the ful workers in the cause of God. staff. When Professor Shaw was the prin- Gradually the way opened for the cipal, his wife was the matron and taught development of industries. An entirely domestic science. Professor Ruble led a different attitude toward labor devel- group of students into the sandy patches oped, and most of the young people were around the buildings and literally made glad to go into the shop or field, with the desert blossom as the rose. Straw- their teachers leading the way and direct- berries grew in abundance, tomatoes and ing the work. If that generation had watermelons thrived, and large flower learned nothing else than the dignity of gardens bloomed profusely. All these labor, the experience would have been products were turned into money to help well worth while. By 1900 the students the struggling school. Professor Hayton had a choice of several types of work: arranged a very well-equipped woodwork gardening, dairying, printing, woodwork- shop, where many articles were made for ing, carpentry, broommaking, as well as the Cape Town market. The financial work in kitchen, bakery, and laundry. struggle was terrific. Often there was no When my parents went to South Africa money in hand to pay the bills or the in 1898, I had my first opportunity to teachers' salaries; but that group of God- attend a Christian school. My first fearing men and women prayed their teacher was Grace Amadon, daughter of way through the problems, and God Martha Byington, who, forty-five years honored their faith. Though many times before, had taught the first church school the money did not come until the last in the denomination. Miss Amadon was moment, the bills were always paid and a brilliant scholar, a wonderful teacher every staff member received his salary in of all subjects. I shall never forget her full. 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Beaconsfield Church, Near Kimberley, Organized in 1887; First Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Africa. Here, in 1894, the First Church School Was Taught by Mrs. Jessie Rogers VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 39 Solusi Mission School J. V. Wilson *

THE first school to be opened by to flee to Bulawayo and leave everything, Seventh-day Adventists for the native but when they returned all was safe. A Africans was the Solusi Mission School, local headman had hidden all movable begun in 1896. As a result of the Mata- property in a cave on the mission and bele war, thousands had died of starva- saved the cattle by driving them around tion, and our brethren at the Solusi Mis- in gradually increasing circles so they sion took into their homes a number of could not be followed by the enemy. famine orphans found in different parts Thus the Lord cared for everything dur- of the country. Some of these were among ing the absence of the missionaries. the first students. This first school was The school opened with an enrollment taught in the Sindebele vernacular, and of from thirty to fifty children. The a formidable task it was for the first Africans took very little interest in edu- European teachers. A further hardship cation, feeling that if their children at- was the fact that the students were not tended the school they would lose them. able to pay any school fees or to supply Especially did they not want their daugh- themselves with suitable clothing. Ap- ters to leave home, because most of them propriations from the homeland were had been promised as wives to old meager and insufficient, so the mission friends. At first all teaching was done in had to be almost self-supporting. More- the vernacular, and later English was over, at that time the railway came only introduced. When I took charge of the as far north as Mafeking—about five school in 1908, two sessions were being hundred miles to the south—and the held—the vernacular from 8:00 to 10:00 missionaries had to wait many weary A.M., and the English from 10:00 A.M. months to get from the United States to 2:00 P.M. The English went as far as replies to their letters. The rinderpest standard four (approximately grade six). had recently swept the country, so there Our enrollment then was about one were practically no cattle left in what was hundred boys and twenty girls. It was once a country of large herds. But the still very difficult to get girls into school, Lord's eye was on the work, and His because the parents objected to their prospering hand was laid on the breth- daughters' being educated. Many girls ren's efforts to keep the infant school would run away from home to come to going. school, but would invariably be followed During the rebellion the brethren had by their irate fathers and forced to return * Elder Wilson, now retired, was one of the early graduates home. of Claremont Union College and was a pioneer worker at Solusi. ----Please turn to page 61

Early Picture of Old Solusi Mission Campus 40 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION The Founding of Malamulo

Joel C. Rogers *

NOW that my active denomina- mandments. School opened with two tional work is finished, my mind often hundred African pupils, who met in a goes back to our educational beginnings hut built of bamboo overlaid with dried in Africa. Those pioneering days were grass and covered with a thatched roof. so long ago that many who read these This schoolhouse was also used for words were not yet born. My wife and I church services on the Sabbath. The pu- were young then, full of vigor, and eager pils came clad only in loin cloths, their to further Christianity and teach the peo- thirst for the white man's education so ple. We were privileged to help make a great that some of them walked many part of what has become the history of miles to reach the school. They worked Nyasaland. three hours a day on the two-thousand- Beginning our second term of service acre farm, only a portion of which was in 1907, we took the train from Cape cleared for planting, the rest being forest Town to Beira, a Portuguese port on the and grazing land. east coast of Africa, and there boarded a We had to begin teaching without coastal steamer, which took us to a town knowing the language, depending on the called Chinde, on the delta of the mighty little English spoken by some of the Zambesi River. For two days we slowly Africans. We learned the Nyanja lan- ascended the river in a paddle wheel guage by living with the people, and as boat, until we reached the fork where they could not talk to us we had to learn the tributary Shire River joined it. This to talk to them. This was like throwing Shire had come from the great Lake a child into deep water to teach him to Nyasa, in the far interior, and up this swim. Yet so well did we progress that tributary we proceeded, with plenty of some time later I took a tent and a cook time to observe the animal life and vege- boy and retired two miles from the mis- tation on the banks. sion, where I prepared a sixty-four-page At Chiromo we were met by forty book of Bible stories. Later on we added Africans with two machilas to carry us fifty hymns, optimistically printed two and our belongings; and we started the thousand copies, and sold them all. long trek across the Shire River Valley, In 1908 we completed a burned-brick which was so hot that the carriers would school building at the mission and had travel only by night. On reaching the six outschools, with 295 pupils. The next escarpment we had to walk or scramble year our church membership was one on hands and knees to reach the top. It hundred, with eight hundred in village was a long and arduous journey, but schools. By 1910 we had fifty village out- always before us was the vision of teach- schools, and the educational work for the ing the people and bringing to them African natives was well under way. the blessings of Christianity. I often think of the students we had in On reaching the mission we found those far-off days—some of whom have much to be done. We changed the name developed into wonderful workers for from Plainfield to Malamulo, a word in God—and am persuaded that the divi- the local language meaning laws, or corn- dends paid by Christian education, whether for European or for African, are * Elder Rogers, now retired, first went to Africa in 1894 and has served for more than fifty years on that continent. incalculable, and only in eternity will He was a pioneer who, as he says, helped to make the history of Nyasaland. they be fully revealed. VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 41 SCHOOL NEWS COMMENCEMENT WEEK END at Coral Sea FULTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY, at La Sierra Union Missionary College (Kambubu, College, is a favorite retreat for summer New Britain) last November 21-23, was study, with its new $10,000 air-conditioning packed with joyous experiences. Sabbath system. morning eight students were baptized. Sun- MORE THAN $1,500 was raised by the day morning early 89 students were in- campaign to furnish the lobby of the girls' vested in the various JMV classes and re- dormitory at Wisconsin Academy. What a ceived the appropriate pins and honor transformation has been made! tokens, and later the new boys' dormitory was formally dedicated. In the afternoon THE THEOLOGY CLUB of Mount Ellis came graduation service for the eight young Academy (Montana) has been distributing men of the first class of C.S.U.M. College. literature and conducting Bible studies in All were immediately app9inted to teach- the Bozeman area. One woman has been ing positions, which they are now ably baptized as a direct result of these studies. filling. MORE THAN FORTY PUPILS Of the upper FIVE PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONS were elementary grades at San Diego Academy represented in the third annual short course (California) have been baptized during the in parasitology and tropical hygiene for past twelve months, and an additional 20 nurses sponsored by the CME School of are preparing for baptism in a class formed Tropical and Preventive Medicine. Church after the spring Week of Prayer. groups represented were Baptist, Church of A SANITARY ENGINEERING LABORATORY IS Christ Alliance, Seventh-day Adventist, being developed by Karl Fischer in CME's Seventh Day Baptist, and Lutheran. The School of Tropical and Preventive Medi- 4-week course is recommended by the Chris- cine. This project includes construction of tian Medical Council, which represents 60 working models for use in teaching water Protestant denominations. purification, waste disposal, drainage, and SOUTHERN MISSIONARY COLLEGE is justly tropical housing. This will help the STPM proud of its new fire truck and well- in presenting courses to future missionaries. organized volunteer fire department, al- ready credited with having saved $387,500 EDUCATIONAL DAY worth of property and merchandise, only a few weeks after being put into action. Not Sabbath, July 25, 1953 only the college campus but the surround- There should be an educational ing community and nearby towns of Oolte- rally in every church. Please use wah and Apison have been served. the excellent program materials WISCONSIN ACADEMY announces that all that will be sent to each church in present teachers have been re-elected for ample time. Watch for this special next school year, and that in addition material. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knutson and Fred Stephan will join the staff, to assist in Bible MONTEMORELOS VOCATIONAL AND PRO- and mathematics. FESSIONAL COLLEGE (Mexico) reports 51 stu- INGATHERING FIELD DAY at Forest Lake dents in the elementary department, 107 Academy (Florida) brought in $1,220.56, in the academy, and 20 in the college passing the $1,000 goal for the day and courses-10 commercial, 5 normal, 5 minis- helping the academy church to set an all- terial. Twenty-two missionary groups go time record of $5,253.72 for Ingathering. out into the surrounding villages week by week. The nurses' training school at Monte- LYNWOOD ACADEMY (California) wel- morelos graduated its third class of nurses comed Mary Oliver as librarian, at the be- last November 1, ten in number. Thirty ginning of the second semester. more are in training. 42 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION The Impressive Bulk of Mount St. Helena as Seen From Northern Napa Valley Near Pacific Union College

Mountains this summer?

This summer, after you attend the Pan-American Youth Congress in San Francisco, June 16-20, you'll be almost on the doorstep of Pacific Union College. Why not plan to spend the summer studying on P.U.C.'s beautiful mountain campus? Special courses for teachers this summer Graduate work in many areas Approved for denominational and state certification Visiting professors in Education and Library Science G.I.-approved for all veterans Study where you will enjoy studying. For complete information write to— The Registrar PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE

Angwin California

VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 43 Educational Opportunities are available at CANADIAN UNION COLLEGE

"School of Character"

COURSES ARE OFFERED in Theology, Business Administration, Secretarial Science, Applied Arts, Junior Arts, Prenursing, Teacher Training, and High School.

CANADIAN UNION COLLEGE is situated two hundred miles from Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies.

GIVE CONSIDERATION to the advantages that you may receive at C.U.C. in high spiritual and scholastic attainment, lower rates, and an uninterrupted education.

Write for Our School Catalog College Heights Alberta, Canada

PHILIPPINE UNION COLLEGE was host to ONE THOUSAND Signs of the Times were 40 secondary teachers from the four acade- distributed last February 7 by students of mies of the North Philippine Union Mis- Upper Columbia Academy (Washington). sion last March. G. M. Mathews, associate secretary of the General Conference De- SEMINAIRE ADVENTISTE DU SALEVE partment of Education, W. 0. Baldwin and (France) reports an overflow enrollment of Ethel Young of the Far Eastern Division, 206 this school year, so that rooms off the V. R. Jewett of North Philippine Union, campus were rented for some students. and R. G. Manalaysay, president of the OSHAWA MISSIONARY COLLEGE celebrated college, were the instructors. its golden anniversary with a banquet and appropriate program on April 20. The THE INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES for school began in 1903 as Lorne Park Acad- the Prevention of Alcoholism will hold its emy, but in 1912 was moved to Oshawa and fourth session at Loma Linda, California, began operation as a junior college. July 13-24, 1953. The work will be con- ducted on a graduate level and will include lectures, discussion periods, seminars, work- shops, and field trips. Greater New York Academy 41.32 58th Street, Woodside, L.I., N.Y. SUNNYDALE ACADEMY CHURCH (Missouri) A Character•building, Life- and College- was the first in the Central Union Confer- preparatory Secondary School ence to reach its 1953 Ingathering goal— Courses in Bible, English, Mathematics, Science, Commercial more than $1,400. Specializing in Spiritual, Social, and Physical Activities SANDIA VIEW ACADEMY (New Mexico) Fully Accredited by Both State of New York and the General Conference Board was host to the Texico Conference Master of Regents Guide rally February 20-22. 44 1 HE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION College of the Golden Cords UNION . . .

SYMBOL of PROGRESS— • New Men's Dormitory Under Construction • Increased Curricula: Nurse Technician's Course and Two•Year Pre- Engineering Course • No Enrollment Decrease During National Trend of Enrollment De- cline Since 1949 —and STRENGTH • Fully Accredited as Liberal Arts College and Collegiate School of Nursing • Special Emphasis on Spiritual Leadership • Degrees Granted: Liberal Arts, Religion, Agriculture, Business Ad- ministration, Education, Music Education, Nursing, Secretarial Train- ing • Placement of Graduates

UNION COLLEGE Lincoln 6 Nebraska VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 45 LA SIERRA COLLEGE and the College of Young Man With a Satchel Medical Evangelists recently awarded the second of two $200 Public Relations (Continued from page 22) scholarships to Don Dick, a junior English There was no money to hire a builder. student at L.S.C. The scholarship is given Pedro Peverini, grandfather of the pres- to public-relations-minded English students ent president of the college, came with a to afford them firsthand experience in the young man from the Santa Fe Chaco, and intricate and complex interpretative pro- worked without charge. Elder Westphal gram demanded of a medical-educational was the mortar mixer and carried the center and its hospitals. Thus the College of hod. N. Z. Town cooked for the crew in Medical Evangelists develops a new edu- cational opportunity—the training of Sev- a small chicken house which Elder West- enth-day Adventist youth in the important phal had moved to the location. Because field of medical interpretation. mortar with lime was too expensive, it was made of plain mud. A well was dug, THE GOLDEN CORDS CHORALE, of Union Luis Ernst finishing it when the regular College, presented 16 programs of sacred well diggers quit for fear of a cave-in. music during the spring itinerary through- Thus by the first of December the build- out the Central and Southwestern Union ing was roofed; and on April 20, 1900, conferences. The 40 singers are directed though the building was far from com- by J. Wesley Rhodes. plete, the second school year opened—

TWELVE PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE STU- the first year of the Rio Plata College. DENTS have been nominated for listing in From such beginnings has come the the 1953 edition of Who's Who Among college of today. The spirit of sacrifice, Students in American Colleges and Univer- the courage, and the missionary zeal of sities. the first builders has never been lost.

"Where education ii tile"

First in ADELMAN ACADE111 Christian Holly, Michigan Write the Principal for Information Education with

• High Christian Standards

• Outstanding School Spirit

• Unexcelled School Homes

• Certified Unified Teachers

• Ever Growing Enrollment

• Loyal Student Boosters

• Exceptional Work Opportunities

The School of Today for the Leaders of Tomorrow 46 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION EMMANUEL MISSIONARY COLLEGE Berrien Springs, Michigan

"First Things First"

Check These Advantages as You Choose Your College.

✓ EMC is rich in traditions, being the oldest Seventh-day Adventist College (founded in 1874).

✓ EMC has a spacious campus with modern buildings in a beautiful rural environment (yet convenient to large cities).

✓ EMC encourages in every way possible the spiritual growth of its students (through public services, voluntary prayer bands, and personal devotions).

✓ EMC is a fully-accredited college, offering a wide variety in both liberal and applied arts (majors in 15 fields).

✓ EMC keeps abreast of current educational trends (new curricula in engineering, music education, and nursing).

✓ EMC has a well-planned program of social and cultural activities for its large student body (approximately 1,000 friendly students).

✓ EMC offers competent instruction by an outstanding faculty of over 50 teachers (16 hold the doctoral degree).

✓ EMC has an extensive program of directed recreational activities (featuring both a large gymnasium and a beautiful recreational park).

✓ EMC offers unusual opportunities for part-time employment (students earned over $400,000 last year).

YOU ARE INVITED TO WRITE TODAY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Director of Admissions, EMMANUEL MISSIONARY COLLEGE, Berrien Springs, Michigan

VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 47 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY We Serve Our Workers in All the World

"All who engage in the acquisition of knowledge should strive to reach the highest round of the ladder." —"Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students," p. 394. 'FOR A MORE EFFICIENT MINISTRY The Bachelor of Divinity degree—three-year professional curriculum in Bible and Systematic Theology, Practical Theology, Church History, Archaeology and History of Antiquity, and Biblical Languages. FOR MASTER TEACHERS IN ACADEMY AND COLLEGE The Master of Arts and Master of Arts in Religion degrees—one-year graduate curricula concentrating in Archaeology and History of Antiquity, Bible and Systematic Theology, Biblical Languages, Church History, and Homiletics and Speech. FOR EXPERIENCED MINISTERS, TEACHERS, AND MISSIONARIES Short refresher courses in all fields selected according to the needs of qualified workers without respect to entrance requirements. FOR CATALOG, ADDRESS THE PRESIDENT SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C.

the work you do in faith and hope will bring you Beginning of Education into fellowship with Christ and His faithful serv- Work in Australia ants. It must be carried on in simplicity and faith and hope, and eternal results will be the reward (Continued from page 25) of your labors." ' " 9 tempted to tell you a discouraging chapter in our experience; but I will talk faith. If we look at With these words of encouragement things which are seen, we shall be discouraged. the brethren were enabled to press for- We have to break the soil at a venture, plow in hope, in faith. We would see a measure of ward and lay a strong foundation for a prosperity ahead, if all would work intelligently, great and successful work. How much and with earnest endeavor put in the seed. The present appearance is not flattering, but all the light good has been accomplished by the faith- that I can obtain is that now is the sowing time. ful Christian teachers of the Australasian The working of the grounds is our lesson book; for in exactly the way we treat the fields with the Missionary College and by the students hope of future returns, so we must sow this mis- who have gone from its halls to be mis- sionary soil with the seeds of truth." "'We went the whole length of the grounds we sionaries, pastors, evangelists, teachers, were cultivating. We then returned, conversing as colporteurs, doctors, and administrators we walked along; and I saw that the vines we had passed were bearing fruit. Said my husband, "The in the work of the denomination! Not fruit is ready to be gathered." only in Australia but in many parts of "'As I came to another path, I exclaimed: "Look, look at the beautiful berries. We need not wait the world has been felt the influence of until to-morrow for them." As I gathered the fruit, this school of God's planting. I said: "I thought these plants were inferior, and hardly worth the trouble of putting into the ground. I never looked for such an abundant yield.".. . 1 Ellen G. White, Life Sketches, p. 363. "'My husband continued: "Ellen, you are on 2 F. C. Gilbert, Divine Predictions of Mrs. Ellen C. White missionary ground. You are to sow in hope and Fulfilled, pp. 343, 344. 3 White, Life Sketches, p. 373. faith, and you will not be disappointed. One soul 4 White, Fundamentals of Christian Education, pp. 312-320. is worth more than all that was paid for this land, s Ibid., pp. 322-324. and already you have sheaves to bring to the Master. 8 White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6, p. 179. 7 White, Life Sketches, p. 358. The work commenced in other new fields . . . was 8 Isaiah 41:6. quite as unpromising as the work in this field. But 9 White, Life Sketches, pp. 360-362. 48 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION At LA SIERRA COLLEGE

"The School Where God Is Reverenced and Men Are Trained"

The prospective student will find—

A beautiful campus A school plant progressively growing in buildings and equipment A chance to learn and to work A well-prepared and experienced faculty Inspiration to genuine scholarship Training and stimulus for Christian living and service Industrious and friendly students who believe in Christian ideals and culture

For Bulletin and admissions data, write to— THE DEAN'S OFFICE La Sierra College Arlington, California

VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 49 HOW BIG IS YOUR WORLD?

WIDEN THE HORIZON

PREPARE FOR WORLD SERVICE IN THE GREATEST OF CAUSES

Select a Course from the 1953 Bulletin Home Study Institute Takoma Park Washington 12, D.C.

PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE announces pro- motion of seven faculty members by recent board action. Drs. R. K. Boyd (business administration), M. E. Mathison (chemis- try), and I. R. Neilsen (physics) from asso- ciate professors to professors; and Evelyn Rittenhouse (secretarial science), Mrs. Eleanor Nidetsky (nursing education), Joe Maniscalco (art), and Cyril Dean (physical education) from instructors to assistant pro- fessors. BATTLE CREEK ACADEMY (Michigan) was Gptitia.sitim-.Iurlitoriunm host on March 22 to the Michigan Con- Cedar Lake Academy ference Band Festival, with representatives from the four Michigan academies—Adel- CEDAR LAKE, MICHIGAN phian, Battle Creek, Cedar Lake, and School of Opportunity for Youth of E.M.C.—participating. Western and Northern Michigan FIVE STUDENTS OF SUNNYDALE ACADEMY • State Accredited (Missouri) were baptized Sabbath, Feb- • Denominationally Accredited ruary 21. This left only three unbaptized • Rural Environment students, two of whom planned to take the • Liberal Work Opportunities rite in the near future. • Christian Teachers • Christian Association INGATHERING FIELD DAY at Auburn Acad- emy (Washington) brought in $1,400 and Write for bulletin of information many enrollees for the Voice of Prophecy Bible Correspondence Course.

50 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION BUILDING .

Men and Women for SERVICE Architect's sketch of Library-Administration Building recently occupied on the Loma Linda campus of CME. This structure is part of the present $8,500,000 building program being undertaken by CME and the Seventh-day Adventist Church to help provide adequate facilities for the training of young men and women in the healing arts.

Seventh-day Adventists have always considered the care of the sick as part of the gospel of the Great Physician. The better to prepare young men and women for the noble professions of the healing arts, CME is rebuilding its physical facilities. Thus the College will continue to provide the Church with well-trained dietitians, nurses, physicians, and technicians to carry the gospel of health to those in need, and will soon add dentists to this list.

SCHOOLS OF— Dentistry . . . Laboratory Technique Medicine . . . Nursing . . . Nutrition Physical Therapy . . . X-Ray Technique Tropical and Preventive Medicine COLLEGE OF MEDICAL EVANGELISTS Loma Linda and Los Angeles, California

VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 5 1

OZARK ACADEMY "Educettia.7 *oat‘ to Zoe " Accredited by the State of Arkansas Department of Edu- cation and the General Conference Board of Regents • For Information and Bulletin GENTRY Write to the Principal

A CLASS IN FIRE FIGHTING AND CONTROL was HYLANDALE ACADEMY (Wisconsin) wel- offered by Pacific Union College this spring, comes Warren A. Griffith as business man- sponsored by the California Department of ager, and Mrs. Fred Kingman as matron Education and the State Firemen's Associ- of the Health Home, which is a unit of the ation. The instructor, Harvey Gruber, school. served several years on the Berkeley Fire THE PRECEPTORSHIP PLAN, whereby a Department. junior medical student accompanies a gen- WALLA WALLA COLLEGE 15 entering upon eral practitioner of medicine on his calls a five-year building program that will cost for a four-week period, is being scheduled approximately $1,000,000. Included in the the second year at CME's School of Medi- program are an addition to Conard Hall, cine. Sixty-three of the students have chosen a new building to house the cafeteria and locations out of the State of California. the home economics department, and a new Thus is assured a greater distribution of church building. interest among students at graduation. Mount Vernon academy

•

An Entrance to

SPIRITUAL

TRAINING

and

CHRISTIAN

LIVING

•

J. R. SHULL, Principal - Mt. Vernon, Ohio 52 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION ATLANTIC UNION COLLEGE

Accredited with the New England Association

" flew Ongland orffor the Stuentd

Haskell Hall—Administration Building

Founded in 1882. The oldest Seventh-day Adventist school in continuous operation. The college is situated on a spacious campus in a three- hundred-year-old historic village. Here in the midst of the beautiful New England countryside the student is surrounded by a wealth of literary, historical, and denominational beginnings. The college is in a rural setting, yet close to great com- mercial and industrial activities. Employment opportunities are adequate both at the college and in nearby towns. Housing facilities are ample.

Write to the Registrar for Bulletin and Descriptive Leaflets

SOUTH LANCASTER, MASSACHUSETTS

VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 53 COMPTON'S PICTURED ENCYCLOPEDIA

For 1953 Now Ready

The Finest School Encyclopedia Ever Built Another big year of continuous building and revision has gone into the 1953 Compton's to make it an even better and finer source of reference than ever before. Further Enriched and Expanded: 480,000 words of newly written text 501 new or extensively revised articles 1,069 new pictures, maps, charts, and graphs.

Compton's has always been a favorite Beautiful pictures in profusion, in full among teachers, librarians, and children. color, black and white, and gravure; every For the classroom and in the library picture selected to tell its full part of the Compton's provides an unfailing source of story right along with the text. quick, dependable reference. The unique Fact-Index thumb-tabbed at the For boys and girls Compton's is a never- back of each of the 15 volumes makes every ending source of interest and information. fact and every picture instantly available. Compton's gives all the facts but relates Give your boys and girls immediate advan- them so that clear concepts are formed. tage of this finest of school encyclopedias. For all grades and high school See the 1953 Compton's. Write now for full particulars F. E. COMPTON & COMPANY, Chicago 10, Illinois

54 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION COME TO AUBURN ACADEMY A Christian School in the Beautiful Pacific Northwest

OFFERING: Both College Preparatory and General Curricula Excellent Opportunities to Earn While You Learn

i-ur Information, write to R. W. Fowler, Principal Auburn Academy Auburn, Washington

SEVEN GRADUATES OF BAUTAMA TRAINING SOUTHWESTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENT SCHOOL (Papua, New Guinea) received ASSOCIATION is broadcasting over Cleburne's diplomas and certificates last November station KCLE a 15-minute Sunday after- 25, and are now teaching within the terri- noon program of music, prose, and poetry tory of the Coral Sea Union Mission. emphasizing holidays and seasons. Another "graduation" in the evening saw NEW STAFF MEMBERS at Caribbean Train- 29 Friends, 12 Companions, and 20 Guides ing College (Trinidad, B.W.I.) for the invested and awarded appropriate pins and school year beginning March 9 include Dan honors. Edge, in charge of the woodwork and Loin ACADEMY (California) is proud of broom shops; and four graduates of C.T.C. its new eight-foot telescope with twelve- —G. E. Trotman, college press; G. R. and-a-half-inch reflector, built and as- Thompson, secondary Bible and history; sembled by A. Cieslak, of Soquel, and pre- Bruce Dummett and Letnie James, assist- sented by him to the academy. ants in the business office.

CAMPION ACADEMY AT THE FOOT OF THE ROCKIES

1953-54 Term Opens September 1. LOVELAND, COLORADO

VOL. 15, NO. 5, JI—NE, 1953 Hamilton Hall—Men's Dormitory

SOUTHWESTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE

"Where Students Learn to Live"

Keene, Texas

56 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION Proper Education therefore fail to do the amount of good they could do if they had had the ad- (Continued from page 6) vantage of a good school. Ignorance will It is this inexcusable ignorance in regard not increase the humility or spirituality to the most needful duties of life which of any professed follower of Christ. The makes very many unhappy families. . . . truths of the divine word can be best The foregoing is a statement of what appreciated by an intellectual Christian. might have been done by a proper sys- Christ can be best glorified by those who tem of education. Time is too short now serve Him intelligently. The great object to accomplish that which might have of education is to enable us to use the been done in past generations; but we powers which God has given us in such can do much, even in these last days, to a manner as will best represent the reli- correct the existing evils in the educa- gion of the Bible and promote the glory tion of youth. And because time is short, of God. we should be in earnest and work zeal- We are indebted to Him who gave ously to give the young that education us existence, for all the talents which which is consistent with our faith.. . . have been entrusted to us; and it is a Young men should not enter upon the duty we owe to our Creator to cultivate work of explaining the Scriptures and and improve upon the talents He has lecturing upon the prophecies when they committed to our trust. Education will do not have a knowledge of the impor- discipline the mind, develop its powers, tant Bible truths they try to explain to and understandingly direct them, that others. They may be deficient in the we may be useful in advancing the glory common branches of education and of God.

OAK PARK ACADEMY

A school that stands for Christian ideals, thorough

work, and cooperation between students and teachers.

Nevada, Iowa R. E. Hamilton, Principal

VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 57 Science Hall MADISON COLLEGE

The specific objective of this institution is to equip and train students for leadership as lay workers in self-supporting missionary activities. Offerings in courses leading to B.S. degree are available, together with certain one- and two-year terminal courses.

DISTINCTIVE FEATURES

1. A senior college and a sanitarium-hospital operated by one administration on the same campus. 2. Study courses in Bible and evangelism designed especially for laymen. 3. Strong emphasis on the practical and vocational, with opportunities for students to specialize in agriculture, building trades, mechanics, business, medical, secretarial, nutrition, home- making, laboratory technique, nursing leading to the R.N., attendant nursing. 4. Excellent opportunities are provided for students to earn part or all of their college expenses by employment in the 200-bed hospital, food factory, engineering division, various industries, offices, and on the farm.

For information, write to the Dean Post Office MADISON COLLEGE TENNESSEE

58 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION

vr- -v- ^TVTWTV'TTWTVTV'TTVT Xynwood Academy Lynwood, California

"A School of Character Building"

A fully-accredited, nonboarding, secondary day school

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A SPECIAL TEMPERANCE BROADCAST over COLUMBIA ACADEMY (Washington) cele- Huntsville Station WFUN on Sunday, brated its 50th anniversary April 10-12, with March 1, concluded a dynamic temperance all events conducted by alumni. week at Oakwood College which featured FIFTEEN SENIOR AND JUNIOR STUDENTS of speeches, motion pictures, posters, lectures, Emmanuel Missionary College have been and a workshop in the college chapel. named for inclusion in the 1953 edition of UNION COLLEGE reports 491 of its staff Who's Who Among Students in American and student body are engaged in some type Colleges and Universities. of missionary project, one result of which HAWAIIAN MISSION ACADEMY staff and is that 355 persons are receiving Bible 225 students are proud and happy to be studies regularly. occupying the roomy and beautifully deco- SEVENTEEN STUDENT COLPORTEURS were rated new administration building and also awarded scholarship certificates for Philip- the equally attractive new and efficient )ine Union College last January 19. library building.

A FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE

Well-trained Faculty

Excellent Physical Plant

56th YEAR

Administration Building

OAKWOOD COLLEGE HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA A School Dedicated to Progressive Christian Education

For Information and Bulletin Write to the Registrar

VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 59 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR . . .

— training for lifework?

— Christian fellowship?

— a chance to "work your way"?

— cultural opportunities without rival?

You will find them at . . .

WASHINGTON MISSIONARY COLLEGE

"at the nation's capital"

Catalog on request Washington Missionary College

Takoma Park Washington 12, D.C.

60 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION for happy experiences I in

reading listening talking We can writing spell and Watch us • grow in write,too. reading. THE NEW BASIC READERS and THE BASIC Seventh-day Adventist Edition of the new "Oti New Friends" and its Think-and-Do Book now PU E available, approved by the General Conference LANG AG PROGRAM r,d Write) CURRICULU SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY FOU M NDATION S ER Chicano 11 • Atlanta 3 • Dallas 2 . San Francisco 5 . New York 10 IES

Solusi Mission School (Continued from page 40) Maplewood Academy The schoolhouse consisted of one un- Hutchinson, Minnesota ceiled room, with a floor of earth and a corrugated iron roof. During the hot M aplewood A rls encouraged weather the thermometer would often A nswers C haracters developed register 100° F. and over. School equip- P roblems A mbitions fostered L imiting D evotion advanced ment was practically nonexistent. The E ducation E fforts rewarded students sat on brick seats one foot high W ork M anagement friendly and nine inches wide. Later boards were O pportunities Y outh wanted O n placed on top of these, but no back rests D ocket were added. One can well imagine how the students felt after having sat on these Outstanding Musical Features for four hours, especially since they were accustomed to roaming the veld at will. Accredited by State of Minnesota Bible was always the main subject and taught, and students who remained in General Conference Board of Regents the school any length of time received a good knowledge of the Book. Pioneer "Educating for Eternity" conditions often produce superior work- For Information Write to— ers, and in this Solusi was no exception. Some of the first students have been B. G. Butherus, Principal among the best workers produced by !Ca Ca giC-RE-K-E-Ea--EK--K4-W-Eiff-KE-CEE-K-E-Eff-wic the mission. VOL. 15, NO. 5, JUNE, 1953 61 PLAINVIEW ACADEMY "Prepare Today for God's Service Tomorrow" Write G. Glenn Davenport, Principal Redfield, South Dakota

THE BROOM SHOP at Union College is one of its newest industries, yet the 22 students MOUNT AETNA employed there produce some 200 dozen brooms each week and earn $1,750 a month ACADEMY to pay their college expenses. From $60,000 to $70,000 business is done per school year by the broom shop. Route 1, Hagerstown, Maryland CME's SCHOOL OF MEDICINE'S DEPART- MENT OF PEDIATRICS has received $15,000 In the Cumberland Valley from the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation In the Heart of Nature to cover the first year's operational costs of a nursery school for cerebral palsy children • between the ages of one and a half and * • four years. SOUTHERN MISSIONARY COLLEGE proudly counts among its staff 26 workers and wives who represent a total of 265 years of over- MODERN EQUIPMENT seas mission service, and whose lives exert CHRISTIAN TEACHERS a powerful influence in putting the "mis- RURAL SURROUNDINGS sionary mold" on the student group. TEACHERS OF TOMORROW at Adelphian Secure Bulletin From Academy (Michigan) assist the Home and C. B. Mosher, Principal School Association by caring for small chil- dren so that both parents may attend the meetings of the association.

62 THE JOURNAL OF TRUE EDUCATION Christian Education Begins one year of college work was offered, in South Africa directed by Mrs. Ruth Haskell Hayton. I was one of the three graduates at the (Continued from page 39) close of that first year. No work that I Bible lessons, which were often taught have since done in college or university out-of-doors, where, like our Saviour, she has been as thrilling to me as was my found illustrations in nature. In imagina- practice teaching under her direction. tion I can still see the large tree growing Since the turn of the century, under alone in a pasture, strong and symmetri- the blessing of God and the devoted cal, which we called "the Moses tree." effort of workers and people, educational Geometry was a fascinating experience work in the Southern African Division of mathematical discovery and mechani- has grown in size and importance. The cal drawing. In the astronomy class the principal and most advanced training glorious southern heavens became some- school is Helderberg College, at Somer- thing more than a mass of brilliant stars. set West, the Cape, since 1928 the succes- Here were the Pleiades, with which Job sor to Union College, Claremont. At was familiar; there, the nebula of Orion, Helderberg both secondary and collegi- the portal to a better land through which ate courses are given, the latter including Jesus and all the host of heaven will come theology, teacher training, home econom- to claim the redeemed from this earth. ics, Bible instructor, commerce, and We thought, "What a wonderful privi- stenography. Since 1950 courses can be lege it will be to pass through those selected by the student which will qualify golden gates with Jesus," and our young him to sit for the external examination hearts yearned for that time to come. for the baccalaureate degree of the Uni- In 1901 a normal course consisting of N ersity of South Africa.

MORE CHILDREN are "AT HOME" IN ARITHMETIC with

THE WORLD OF NUMBERS

By Dale Carpenter and a Staff of Grade Specialists

Arithmetic meaning that reaches the pupil Program Features: Children are helped to "feel at home" by learning the ways that numbers and number processes are Number Relationships related. Helps With Difficulties Here is instruction that reaches the pupil by approach- Planned Tests ing all new skills through related skills already learned. Pupils who have grasped these relationships become Maintenance and Drills competent problem-solvers. Grades 1-8. Guides and Workbooks

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