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seeking to do that which the regular educational 
institutions leave undone, and many earnest souls 
are devoting their powers to teaching the people 
how to live as well as how to think and believe. 
Perhaps no better illustration of the struggles and 
conquests of these workers can be given than that of 
Brevard Institute, near Brevard, in the French 
Broad Valley. This school, started in 1895, through 
the self-sacrificing efforts of one man has struggled 
on, kept alive mainly by that internal heat which 
alone gives any institution real growth-power. 
To-day it enrolls nearly two hundred pupils, most of 
them girls, as the department for young men is not 
yet fully developed. Here come young people from 
all parts of the mountains and for a price within 
their means receive home, education, and training 
in the practical things of life. That the spirit in 
which the school was founded yet persists is felt the 
moment one enters its doors, when one becomes 
aware of such an atmosphere of love and helpful- 
ness, from the principal down to the youngest pupil, 
that it is a pleasure to go there and bask in the 
warmth of it. Not that, even to-day, the equipment 
is anything like adequate to the needs, but the re- 
sults prove that the poorest tools in loving hands can 
accomplish much. 
Besides the ordinary academic subjects and special 
religious training, the pupils are here taught "a 
dread of debt, promptness in attending to business 
obligations of every sort, a love for thoroughness and 
accuracy in doing work of every sort, self-control 
