If you should settle this
land near the school with
private houses, and then
be driven to select for
cultivation other land at
a distance from the school,
it would be a great mistake,
and one always to be
regretted. All the land near
the building is to be
considered the school farm,
where the youth can be
educated under of well
qualified superintendents.
The youth that shall attend
our school need all the
land near by. They are
to plant it with ornamental
trees and with fruit trees,
and to cultivate garden
produce. The school farm
is to be regarded as a
lesson book of nature,
from which the teachers
may draw their object
lessons. Our students
are to be taught that
Christ, who created the
world and all things
therein, is the life and
light of every living thing.
The life of every child
and youth who is willing
to grasp the opportunities
for receiving a proper
education, will be made
thankful and happy while
at school by the things
which his eyes shall rest
upon.
