Kansas City National Training School - Shield Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Cflhv iitanaaa Euilhing For three years we have planned, talked and prayed for a new building and before another issue of our Shield is publfshed we hope it will be a reality. We are proud of our two splendid halls, but God has prospered our work until we have inadequate room and equipment for our present needs. Will you step into one of the class-rooms with me? This room is 11 ft. by 14 ft. and in it there is a piano, nature study specimens and cabinet, hand work cup- board, a loom, gymnasium equipment, samples of Kin- dergarten and Junior handwork, charts for Domestic Science, chairs and desk. Just across the hall is the Domestic Science Kitchen. It will accommodate ten and there are over thirty in the class, so the teacher must have the pupils come in relays, teaching the same lesson three times, when it might all be done at once and with so much less inconvenience, had she more room and laboratory equipment. Missionary work requires some musical training and so you hear the quartette practicing in the chapel, someone practicing the scales in class room No. 1 and someone else vocalizing on ah in the dining room. It really sounds more like a conservatory than a Bible Training School and is rather disturbing to the stu- dents who are trying to concentrate on a line of thought for a thesis or homily, or, to a teacher who is conducting a class. Several rooms in the new build- ing are planned for the music department. The Okla- homa Conference have made this possible by a pledge of 33,000 We have a fine tennis court, excellently located, but a very small gymnasium and very little equipment. The W. H. M- S- will make possible a splendid gym- Hasium lLl1I'0'-lgh their generous pledge of S10,000. For the practical Kindergarten, Industrial and Re- ligious Educational training, we have little or no room. The Children's Department of the W. H. M. S. have pledged the 352,000 for the Kindergarten Roomg the Alumnae Association of K. C. N. T. S. has taken the Manual Training Department which is also EiS2,000. The two 351,000 class rooms are the gifts of Mrs. George O. Robinson and Mr. and Mrs. Judy, the par- ents of one of our graduates. The Exhibit Room which wlll cost 352,000 will be taken care of by the Ne- braska Conference. Many gifts have come, ranging from 3525, which will name a window, to thousands of dollars, from our friends in many states. Anyone who would make a gift of 525,000 had the privilege of naming the building. Last fall at the W. H. M. S. Convention, the women of the Kansas Conference pledged the required amount and named it Kansas Building. ' '. Paz 19

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Is all this sacrifice of time and money worth while? The usefulness of this Institution will be increased and multiplied many-fold with the equipment provided in the new building. In this new day, greater opportunities and larger fields of service are open to deaconesses and missionaries. X Woman has gained a new place in the Church as well as in national life. The ideal type of woman in the present age must think in world terms and have a world-wide vision. She must break away from Old ideals and assert herself and be prepared to bear bur- dens and accept responsibilities. She must be trained for leadership and Jesus Christ must be the center of her training as well as the center of her life. The girls of the K. C. N. T. S. have this ideal eXP1'0SSGd ill their motto, Not I but Christ and hundreds have passed through this school and have gone east, west, north and south with hearts full of radiant joy to do sweet ministry for their Master. They are ministering on the frontier and in crowd- ed city, to the joyous and to the sorrowing heart, to the homeless and friendless, but best of all to the souls who are tired of sin and need someone to show them the Saviour. We people of America, in Home Missionary ter- ritory, cannot as blind, lead the blind. We must be quick to see the needs of this old world and know the best way of meeting them. The Training School, ap- pointed of God, is the means of accomplishing this. Wonderfully and mystically, God has worked out His divine plan for K. C. N. T. S. through its conse- crated President and corps of earnest Workers. Now, when our support is needed, we must not fail them. We so often pray, Thy will be done, thy Kingdom come. Are we ready to help answer that prayer? Service is the supreme comittment of life and substance. Then let us give freely of both that God's Kingdom may come on earth. Pan 20