Methodist Work in
France Good
Paris, Feb. 15—(By Mail)—American Methodists as part of the
church’s $120 million centenary movement, have just completed an investment of
$50,000 in purchasing a site at Grenoble for an institution where war orphans
may be educated and cared for.
“Burdened down with a tremendous war debt, France finds
herself unable to act as foster mother to all the thousands of children who
have been left without parents,” said Dr. Frank Mason North, head of the
Methodist delegation now in Europe which made the arrangements. “Schools such
as the one just founded, are destined to be insurance policies for the future
of France.”
$40,000 of the money spent came from the board of foreign
missions in the form of special gifts; and the remaining $20,000 from the
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society. The institution already is endowed with
$10,000, which has been contributed towards its maintenance.
Besides the school itself, the property will include a
demonstration farm of 250 acres, where peasants of the surrounding districts
may learn up-to-date methods for increasing productivity of the soil.
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