The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-05-16
MOODY SCHOOLS
Sketches Of the Four Famous
Institutions.

Mr.. H. n. Jacobs, who drilled and
directed the big singing organization
during the Moody weeks, has come here
on purpose to take charge of the concert
ana Mrs. David Il. Carter is TO be the
organist. The entertainment is Tor
| The benefit OF the Moody schools ana
| the fact alone is sufficient To call out
large audience to Infantry Hall, Friday
| evening. The Moody schools are Tour IN
number and their work is unique in an edu-
| cational way. Believing that NEws readers
| Will have an especial interest In learning
something about these institutions, hev.
| III. B. Hartzler, one of the faculty OF tho
| Northfield schools, has written expressly
| for this paper the following comprehen-
sive story Of them:
The educational work OF Dwight l..
Moody has for some years been the SUP
ject OF considerable attention and inter-
| est. The four schools founded and fostered
| by him have won UNIQUE place
among the distinctively Christian eou-
cational forces of the land. Their provi-
dental origin and history, their pur-
pose and plan, their remarkable develop
men. and their attained results and pros
poets have become more or less familiar TO
| the public. Yet there is a commendable
desire To know more OF this part OF the
life-work of one Of the foremost evangei-
lists OF the age.
The germ of all his educational work
concern for the welfare OF a certain class
of young people, whose needs and
narrow limitations touched bis sympa-
thetic heart. He came from Chicago
in 1876 to make his home at Northfield,
the place of his birth, and as he saw show
the country about him, with only
meagre district schooling, and no
proper training in the Bible, he thought
that II they could be gathered into a
school where, with the usual studies
and better teachers, the Bible
would greatly add to their
character, resources, usefulness and hap
piness as Christian women" For him to
think was to act. He began by opening
his own house for school, then
he built small addition to 1T,
with rooms for eight girls, into
which twenty soon crowded their way
he could not stop there and turn
away the eager applicants from his
doors. He built small dormi-
tory and class room near his
own house. This also soon overfiowed,
and it became evident that God had COM
which he had not dreamed.
Step by step, as God led the way,
Mr.. Moody followed and the result is
before the world, in four prosperous
schools, two located at Northfield, one at
Mount Hermon and one in Chicago,
where last year over 1000 stud
tion of over so regular teachers and many
eminent scholars from this and other
lands who rendered special occasional
service. From three to four thousand
students of both sexes, representing Is
States and Territories of our Union, 25
different nationalities and races. between
nd fktrfv roIi0inna demon m
tions, and upwards of fifty occupations,
have already shared the privileges and
blessings of these schools since first their
doors were opened.
The school property embraces over one
thousand acres Of land, with over forty
of q well-appointed farm and industrial
community, the whole valued at over
100000.
The Northfield Seminary.
The first of the schools that sprqng out
of the small beginning in Mr.. Moody's
own house was the Northfield Seminary
for ladies. The first of the group
OF splendid buildings for the school
now clustered upon the green
Northfield hills was East Hall, which
was dedicated in the fall of 1880. The
second school in the order of develop
meut was the Mt. Hermon School for
Young Men, which began its course
in 1881. Eight years later
q third school was opened, in the city of
Chicago, known as the Chicago Bible
Institute. In 1890 the fourth and last OF
his schools was organized, in the Hotel
Northfield, known as the Northfeld
Ladies' Training School.
The location OF three Of the schools is in
the northern corner OF Massachusetts, on
the borders of New Hampshire and
Vermont, two on the eastern and
one on the western side Of the
Connecticut Piver, about four miles apart.
In less that fourteen years the school pro-
perty has grown from nothing to magni-
ficent domain of over 1000 acres OF land,
with about fifty buildings Of various kinds
and all the stock and outfit of such an
immense farm thoroughly organized for
the specific purposes OF the enterprise.
Here truly is q playground and gymna-
sium of the most ample dimensions for
all purposes of physical culture. The
buildings devoted to school purposes
proper number some twenty, the
principal ones ranging in value
from $4,000 to $4,000 each. The
grand auditorium now being completed
at Northfield, for the special accommoda-
tion of the great summer conferences,
will cost $4,000. The entire property
pertaining to the schools represents
money value equal to about 100000.
Northfield Seminary is designed to pro-
mote the Christian education OF young
women. The aim of all the instruction,
discipline ana influence brought to bear
upon the students, is to secure the best
results in the development of character,
aud preparation for lives OF consecrated
service in any and every sphere of womanly
activity.
Mount Hermon School.
Mount Hermon School is for young men
Of sound bodies, good mind, and aims,
who want to be and do something worthy
of immortal beings. Its leading purpose
is to furnish for earnest young men who i
desire to serve God, such opportunities as
they need to secure q better preparation
for such service. IL also provides
place where young men, whose early edu-
cation has been neglected, can be
instructed as they need. Then il
aims TO care for the physical
welfare OF its pupils, to train
them to industrious habits, and to
give them some practical knowledge OF
work, by requiring of each one q certain
amount OF manual labor daily.
The Training School.
The Training School is for young
women desiring to fit themselves more