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The Baptist Training School. By LUCY MORTON ZACH RY. OMING all the way from Atlanta, Ga., and being unacquainted in Philadelphia I was first of all impressed by the home life of the training school which fea ture has been a great blessing to me in my work. The example of the pre ceptress and her assistant, their con secrated lives and spirit of self-denial greatly help the students in their efforts C to show forth these same traits of character. In this, the fourteenth year of the training school it claims the largest graduating class since its or ganization. Fourteen of its students are to be graduated on the twelfth of June. The Thought of This School. was implanted by God in the heart of Mrs. J. N. Cushing, and the institution was opened November 1, 1892. Following Mrs. Cushing as preceptress, was Miss Frances Schuyler, who acted in this ca pacity for a period of five years, and by her energy and devotion to the work she did much for the suc cess of the school. The school set excellence for scholarship and Christian character above all else and as it still holds fast to these ideals a student who finishes a course here goes out well fitted in both mind and heart to do good work in the world. Out of seventy-two graduates thirteen are in foreign mission fields and of the remainder some are con tinuing their preparation for foreign work while others are now laboring in the home field. Os the present enrollment none are members of the Volun teer Band. The school is a Place of Character Building, and the preceptress now in charge, Mrs. M. B. Kirkpatrick, enters into each student’s life to ad vise, to lead and to help, endeavoring to develop a disposition for lovting (service. Mrs. Kirkpatrick is aided in the care of the household by Miss Trickett who endeavors in every way to make the home attractive and comfortable. No special uniform is adopted by students and the Word of God hidden in the heart as the Sword of the Spirit, with the Bible as an outward badge of a peaceful errand is the worker’s equipment. God has richly blessed the Training School by giving it the Best of Teachers and Lecturers. Some of these are professors at Crozier Theo logical Seminary, some are busy pastors and others are learned professors and all endeavor to impart to the students the wisdom resulting from years of research and experience. It is deemed a privilege by the students to be un der the instruction of Rev. 11. G. Weston, D.D. President of Crozier Seminary. He comes every Saturday morning at 9:30 and is a beloved and val ued instructor. A brief account of one day’s work will show that no time is wasted with us. On Saturday mornings we rise at half past six and breakfast at seven. From eight to nine we are busy with domestic work; from nine to nine thirty is a time set apart for the students to have undisturbed quiet for communion with God and this OHB wi lEv ME ■ who JIB The Golden Age for May 10, 1906. half hour is much appreciated. Instruction from Dr. Weston comes at nine-thirty; from ten-thirty to eleven-thirty comes the study of Romans led by Mrs. Kirkpatrick; for the next half hour the Sun day School lesson is taught by one of the students. Dinner is at twelve and at one-thirty we leave for the Sunday School Union where a special treat awaits us in the blackboard illustrations by Miss Florence Darnell. From three to five-thirty an Industrial School is conducted by the students. About three hundred children—ltalian, Jewish, Pol ish and Americans gather to sing, repeat Psalms and listen to stories. They also learn to sew and when garments are completed they are given to the / fl \ / * \ / Jw \ J * \ ■ku' * wia wl* j jßr ' \ I \ wir I \ S- • "»• ’ t 3 ■: 'l / \ ' A* *' 7 MRS. M. D. KIRKPATRICK pupils. At five-thirty tea is served (the students acting as waitresses) after which we have a meeting of the Farther Light Society. This Society devotes its time to teaching more of the heathen world both from the students on the programs and from returned missionaries. By ten o’clock all lights are out and the house is quiet. Sunday is a well filled day; each student is as signed to a church where she receives much training that is beneficial to her in her future work. On Tuesday afternoons I assist the pastor by calling upon the absent ones and I have an interest ing sewing class on Friday evenings. Besides familiarity with the Bible and skill in applying its truths to varied circumstances and all classes of people, we receive knowledge of the struc ture of the body; the laws of health; the prevention of disease; the cure of the sick; the preparation of wholesome food and clothing, and in fact every thing that enters into intelligent Christian home making. The school is under the Care of a Board of Managers, representing two hundred or more Baptist churches. Mrs. John Miller of Wayne, Pa., is the President. The managers spare no pains for the comfort and welfare of the students. They have even anticipat ed their need of the necessary money with which to take training and have provided for this purpose a loan fund. A student faking the two years course may have the benefit of this fund and return the amount when she has earned it after her entrance into active service. This has been the happiest year of my life. Be cause I have gained a better knowledge of my Bible I have been enabled to enter into closer fellowship with my heavenly bather, and it is with regret that 1 realize my (wo years course is drawing to a close. Monroe College Commencement The Commencement program of Monroe College for ’O6 has ben arranged and is considered as the best that the college has had. Friday, 23, 8:30 p, m.—Clioniau, vs, Kappa Del tas, Essays and Readings. Friday, 26, 8:30 p. nt. —“Midsummer Night’s Dream’’—Department of Expression. Sunday, 2/, 11 a. m. Baccalaureate Sermon—By Rev. W. L. Pickard, D.D., of Lynchburg, Va. Sunday, 27. 8 p. m.—Sermons on Missions—Bv Rev. W. L. Pickard, D.D. Monday, 28, 9:30 a. m.—Exhibit by Art Depart ment in Art Room. Monday, 28, 9:30 a. m.—Exhibit by Industrial Depaitnient in Industrial Hall. Monday, 28, 10:30 a. m.—Meeting of Alumnae. Monday, 28, 10:30 a. m.—Meeting of the Board of Tiustees. Monday, 28, 3:00 p. m.—Recital—Departments of Music and Expression. Monday, 28, 8:30 p. m.—Grand Concert. Tuesday, 29, 11 a. m.—Baccalaureate Address— By Rev. Junius Millard, I).I)., of Atlanta, Ga. Delivery of Medals, by Rev. L. R. Christie, of Valdosta, Ga. Conferring Degrees. The Georgia Tech. We were honored in having performed under the auspices of our school and the Atlanta Art Asso ciation, last Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, Mav 5,7 and 8, the very best production of Shakespeare’s comedies of to-day. 'Two of the comedies were giv en, “As You like It,’’ and “Twelfth Night,” by the Pen Greet Company, of England. The perfor mances were unique in two ways: they were given out of doors, and without any scenery at all, in just the way that they are supposed to have been rendered in the Elizabethan Age. The acting, from Ben Greet ’s down to that of. the meanest clown, was so perfect, and the general im pression of the plays so delightful, that those of us students who were fortunate enough to see them, have concluded that, after all, they didn’t need and scenery. It hrs been a long time since we have enjoyed anything as much tIS we did the u Twelfth Night® especially. Bewis R, Jackson, * m 9