General Conference Bulletin, vol. 1

TRAINING FOR HOME MISSIONARIES

J. H. KELLOGG

THE Mothers’ Missionary School conducted in connection with the Haskell Home, the first annual commencement exercises of which were recently held, has just entered upon its second year with greatly improved advantages and facilities for the instruction of young and middle-aged women in those branches of home missionary work which pertain especially to work for children and the home. GCB October 1895, page 570.1

In this school, instruction is given in hygiene, the healthful care of children, the sanitary care of the home, the training of children, correction of faults, development of character, the physical care and training of children, the care of the nursery, the care of the sick, instruction of children, nature methods in teaching kindergarten work, kitchen-garden, sloyd, cookery; the holding of cooking schools, mothers’ meetings, Christian Help work, and other kindred subjects included under what is termed “Mothers’ Missionary Work.” GCB October 1895, page 570.2

The missionary mother can do the most efficient service for God and humanity. Well-qualified workers of this class are needed in every city and in every community. In the great South, with its 10,000,000 negroes and 5,000,000 poor whites, there is an immense opportunity for work of this sort, and this field is rapidly opening to missionary efforts in this and other lines. GCB October 1895, page 570.3

It is not expected that all the different members of the school will become equally well qualified in all the different lines mentioned, some students making a specialty of one branch, and others of another. All have an opportunity for practical experience as well as instruction in assisting in conducting the work at the Haskell Home. GCB October 1895, page 570.4

A kindergarten training school has been recently organized in connection with the Medical Missionary College Settlement at Chicago. The kindergarten work, both at Chicago and the Haskell Home is under the care of experienced and thoroughly qualified teachers. Single women who have had some experience in teaching, or in the care of children, are best adapted to this work. It is a work which affords scope for the very highest abilities, and there is room for an almost unlimited number of consecrated workers. Those interested may address the undersigned, or Mrs. E. H. Whitney, Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Haskell Home. GCB October 1895, page 570.5

J. H. KELLOGG, M.D.

Life is a school. Divinity of character is the ideal result of all training, all knowledge. GCB October 1895, page 570.6