In addition to the
agricultural training which we give to young men, and the
training given to our girls in all the usual domestic
employments, we now train a number of girls in agriculture each
year. These girls are taught gardening, fruit-growing, dairying,
bee-culture, and poultry-raising.
While the institution is in no sense denominational, we have a
department known as the Phelps Hall Bible Training School, in
which a number of students are prepared for the ministry and
other forms of Christian work, especially work in the country
districts. What is equally important, each one of the students
works . . . each day at some industry, in order to get skill and
the love of work, so that when he goes out from the institution
he is prepared to set the people with whom he goes to labour a
proper example in the matter of industry.
The value of our property is now over $700,000. If we add to this
our endowment fund, which at present is $1,000,000, the value of
the total property is now $1,700,000. Aside from the need for
more buildings and for money for current expenses, the endowment
fund should be increased to at least $3,000,000. The annual
current expenses are now about $150,000. The greater part of this
I collect each year by going from door to door and from house to
house.
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