The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-06-17
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK SCHOOL
ORGANIZATION is BEGUN
Garrett County Resoure will be Center
of Education for Foreign Missionaries

Garrett County ResOure will be Center
of Education for Foreign Missionaries
When the new center of missionary
education is established at Mountain
Lake Park, two miles from Oakland,
by the Methodist Episcopal church
this summer it is expected that about
400 foreign missionaries and candi-
dates for the mission fields of that de-
nomination will be students of the new
school. 1t will be the training cen
ter of the church for foreign mission
aries.
These students will come from all
parts of the country, being for the
most part young men and women pre-
pairing for foreign mission work. A
faculty is being organized by the For
eign Mission Board of the church,
the property coming into their hands
through donations from the Noun
tain Lake Park Association and the
residents Of Mountain Lake Park,
Oakland and the community immedi-
ately surrounding these two points.
The property presented the Mission
Board is valued at more than hun
bred thousand dollars.
Besides the preparatory courses at
I the school there will also be courses
for missionaries who have had actual
experience and who are in this coun-
try on leave of absence from their
various fields. The Park will be place
of recreation as well as of study for
them, as it also viii Be the center of
a large nart Of the foreign mission
airy activities Of the church when it is
ftr1ls- g-Aoh1s-L1I A
planned to hold the schools of instruc-
4. ton for the missionaries only in the
summer months.
Plans already are Icing SHAPED W
for the opening Of this ambitious mis-
si0nary school. The tract of more
than eight hundred acres with all
the building. was presented the So
ciety after it had been operated for
more than two decades by the found
ers as a summer religious and educa-
tional resort. The buildings are now
being put in thorough repair by the
Mission Board and are adequate for
the present. but will be added to in
the future as necessity demands.
The Rev John +. Goucher. who was
in Oakland on Wednesday when the
property was formally transferred to
the new owners, and who sailed on
the following day for London, Eng,
to attend some religious conferences
of international Importance, is given
chief credit for putting this educa-
tional plan for missionaries into eff
feet He is a member of the Board of
Foreign Missions, and was the chief
stakeholder in the Mountain Lake
Park Association. He returned this
spring from a tour OF the mission
fields in the Far East, and has been
closely identified with Methodist mis-
sions for more than generation.
Others who were identified with TIE
old association and who contributed
largely in making the trasfer Of the
property to the Mission Board posi-
bic are :Messrs. Gilmor S. Hamill. A.
D. Naylor, the heirs Of the estate Of
the late D. E. Ofutt Charles S. Da-
Wis, Of Oakland; Dir. Charles W. Bald
win. Of Baltimore: Or. ". d. Reed
Of F'airmont, recently OF Oakland. and
others whos7S90$ 1880 7S9 09978222
"A large number Of others who sub
scribed sCns Of from S25 to $1,000
each to take up the bonds and pay OF
the debts Of the old corporation so
that il could be turned over to the
new owners free Of debt and which
was che of the conditions upon which
the transfer was made.
The proposed school Of missions will
cost several thousand dollars annu-
ally TO operate. The money will come
chiefly from the Centenary Fund, as
the whole project was made possible
by il and is a direct outcome of the
Methodist Centenary Movement.