The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 7, July, 1880Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 7, July, 1880
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
The saw-mill, which since September last has cut over a million feet
of lumber, the knitting-room, which has produced this year 12,000
dozen mittens for a Boston firm, the market-garden, from which have
been sent this spring thirty barrels of peas a day to Baltimore, and
from which have been raised peas and asparagus, together amounting
in value to $1,500, the ice house, in which are stored 180 tons of
ice, the industrial room, where are made the students’ uniforms,
the cooking school, in which the girls are taught the culinary art,
the printing office, from which is issued monthly “The Southern
Workman,” the shoe shop, the blacksmith’s shop, the wheelwright’s
shop, the carpenter’s shop, the repair shop, the brick-yard, which
has supplied all the bricks used on the buildings of the Institution,
the $6,000 barn, where fine blooded stock is kept, the farm of 330
acres—these departments of activity, wonderful for their variety and
completeness, are steadily training the students and the inhabitants
of the surrounding region in ways of industry. But this is not all,
nor the principal benefit, the students receive. If we may judge from
a hasty inspection of classes, from the scope and skillful expression
of thought in the graduating exercises, and from the testimony of
teachers, a thorough and sufficiently extended education in all
mental departments is given. Best of all, as the crown no less than
the beginning of wisdom, the students, entering the school without
special religious impressions, seldom leave it without becoming
devoted Christians. The result of the combination of industrial
with other forms of training, is seen in the evident union in
Hampton students of hard good sense with scholarly intelligence and
unostentatious piety.
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