the Bible
tells us that it was pleasing to God. St. Paul holds out the hope
that one day we shall know as we are known. But there is a vast
difference between knowledge and being wise. In fact, from the New
Testament itself we are led to believe that the devils knew far more
than even the Disciples.

The school is an essential part of the orphanage. Seeing that the
village children needed education just as much as those for whom we
were more directly responsible, and realizing the value to both of the
cooperation, and that the denominational system which still persists
in the country is a factor for division and not for unity, it became
obviously desirable for us to provide such a bond. Friends made the
building possible. The generosity of a lady in Chicago in practically
endowing it has, we feel, secured its future. We have now a proper
building, three teachers, a graded school, modern appliances for
teaching, and vastly superior results. In these days when the
expenditure of every penny seems a widow's mite, one welcomes the
encouragement of facts such as these to enable one to "carry on."

Modern pedagogy has brought to the attention of even the man in the
street the realization that education consists not merely in its
accepted scholastic aspect, but also that training of the eye and hand
which in turn fosters the larger development of the mind. In the
latter sense our people are far from uneducated. Taking this aptitude
of theirs as a starting-point, some twelve years ago we began our
industrial department, first by giving out skin work in the North, and
later started other branches under Miss Jessie Luther, who
subsequently gave many years of service to the coast.

The cooperative movement is the same question seen from another angle,
and is almost contemporaneous with our earliest hospitals.

It is not unnatural that man, realizing that he is himself like "the
grass that to-morrow is cast into the oven," should worry over the
permanency of the things on which he has spent himself. Though Christ
especially warns us against this anxiety, religious people have been
the greatest sinners in laying more emphasis upon to-morrow than
to-day. The element which makes most for longevity is always
interesting, even if longevity is often a mistake. Almost every old
parish church in England maintains some skeleton of bygone efforts
which once met real needs and were tokens of real love.

The future is a long way off--th