ookbindery and
printing establishment, and many other institutions were founded.

=The Institutions at Halle.=--In a few years Francke had in successful
operation a marvelous system, a work founded upon love of humanity and
dependent upon philanthropy for its support. The results attracted
attention from all Europe, and students came from many lands. "At the
death of Francke in the year 1727, the following report of the
_Institutions_ was sent to King Frederick William I.: (1) In the
_Pedagogium_, 82 scholars, 70 teachers and other persons; (2) in the
Latin school, 3 inspectors, 32 teachers, 400 pupils, and 10 servants;
(3) in the common school, 4 inspectors, 98 male teachers, 8 female
teachers, 1725 boys and girls; (4) orphans, 100 boys, 34 girls, 10
overseers; (5) at the free table, 225 students, 360 poor children; (6)
employed in the drug store, bookstore, etc., and other persons in the
establishment, 82."[118] This makes a total of over 3200 persons
instructed, sheltered, employed, or otherwise connected with these great
_Institutions_. The foundations were so firmly laid that the progress
has been steady from that time to this. At present there are no less
than twenty-five different enterprises connected with the
_Institutions_, among which may be mentioned a free school for boys, and
one for girls; a common school for boys, and one for girls; a royal
_Pedagogium_; a Latin school; a higher girls' school; a _Realgymnasium_;
a preparatory school for the high school; a _Real-school_; an orphan
asylum for boys, and one for girls; a boarding house for students; a
Bible house, which has distributed about 6,500,000 Bibles and religious
works; a teachers' seminary (normal school) for each sex; a bookstore, a
printing house, and a drug store.[119] About 3000 children receive
instruction in the various schools, and about 118,000 have been
recipients of the benefits since the _Institutions_ were founded two
hundred years ago. The cost is about one million marks a year, which is
covered by endowments, by tuition fees, by profits from the productive
departments (bookstores, printing establishment, etc.), and by moneys
received from the State. Francke's idea of depending upon voluntary
gifts has been abandoned.

All this work is the result of the energy of a man who began with a
capital of less than three dollars, and a vast amount of faith to found
"something of importance."

=The Training of Teachers.=--While Francke's grea