Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1908 — WINONA SCHOOLS [ARTICLE]

WINONA SCHOOLS

Special Instruction Is Given During i the Summer Along Educational and Religious Lines. I SEASON FOR INSTITUTES .' ' ■ Mission Workers, Public and Sunday School Teachers, Bible and Nature Students, and Others Provided For. '• —Schools Are for Young and Old.— ! Some of the Instructors.

I Eight summer training schools and institutes, all of them giving special instruction along religious and educational lines, will be in session at Winona Lake during the coming season. These schools, some of them conduct ed under the direction of the Winona management, but most of them independent organisations which meet at Winona Lake because ot the facilities and social diversions, have been increasing in number year after year. The first of these schools, and one of the oldest, is that for mission workers, conducted by the wojnen of seven church organisations, who make headquarters in Chicago. For several years the mission workers gave their attention to the foreign cause, but when the school opens on June 22 for a week’s session one division of it will be devoted to the study of home mission methods. The foreign mission branch will study a text-book on “Missions in Mohammedan Lands," apd a series of lectures will bejgiven on dt by Mrs. Helen Montgomery of Rochester, N. Y. The text-book which the home mission workers will use is “The Frontier,” by Miss Katherine R. Crowell, and general lectures will be given by Miss Lydia A. Finger, general secretary of the Home Mission Union of the Congregational Church. i The Winona Normal School, which gives much of its attention to training teachers for -&y.blic school service, opened on June 1 with a generous enrollment, and its summer term of six weeks begins on July 13. The Normal has been organized under the provisions of the Indiana state law, and in September will open its regular year for at least thirty-six weeks. The president is Jonathan Rigdon, for years president of the Central Normal College at Danville, Ind., and he has a corps of over thirty teachers who have been obtained from colleges and universities over the country. The Winona Bible School, which is annually attended by hundreds of students of the Scriptures, including many teachers of Bible classes, Sunday School workers and ministers, will be in session from July 6 to'Aug. 6, under the direction of Dr. Frank N. Palmer. He spent four months tn the Holy Land this spring gathering information first hand for the students of his school. He will also conduct the II o’clock Bible hour in the Winona auditorium. * The Sunday School Associations of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Kentucky have for years held a training school for Sabbath School workers at Winona Lake, under the direction of Rev. E. W. Halpenny of Indianapolis. The school will this summer be in session for a week, beginning Aug. 7, and its teaching force has been reorganized. The faculty now includes Miss Margaret Slatterly, professor of psychology of the State Normal at Fitchburg, Mass.; Marion Lawrence, general secretary of the International Sunday School Union; Rev. Herbert Moninger, of Cincinnati; Mrs. J. Woodbridge Barnes, Newark, N. J.; Ralph E. Diffendorfer, Sunday School secretary of the Young People’s Missionary Movement, New York; W. C. Pearce, of the International Sunday School Association, Chicago, and Mrs. M. J. Baldwin, of Indianapolis. Considerable Institute work will also be done at Winona Lake during the summer. The young people’s department of the Presbyterian Board of v Home Missions will open an institute on July 6 for a week, under the direction of Rev. Willis L. Gelston, of Philadelphia, superintendent of this department of the Presbyterian church. The purpose ot the institute will be to train leaders in local church work. Ono of the speakers will be Amos R. Wells, editor of the Christian Endeavor World; another Is Von Ogden Vogt, secretary of the Presbyterian young people’s work, and a third is B. Carter MUlikln, assistant educational secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Robert Speer, John Willis Baer and other noted workers among Presbyterian young people are on the list of speakers. From August 6 to. 13 the National Reform AseoMatton will hold a dtiseashlp institute at Winona Lake, the chief speakers to be Dr. W. I. Wishart of Allegheny, Pa., and Rev. William \ Parsons of Beaver Falls, Pa. On Aug. 12 the association will begin a three days’ conference following up the lines of its institute, and a long list of wellknown reform workers will be .heard. A new Winona feature will be meetings for business men, the purpose of which will be to point out how religious activity and Christian efforts generally may be applied to commercial life. E. A. K. Hackett, editor of the Fort Wayne Sentinel, will be one of the leaders of these meetings, another will be John H. Converse, president of the BaMwta Locomotive Works, of PhtiadelfMa, and a third is E. Y. Yarneße, a Fort Wayne iron merchant, and others wifi be heard.