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THE GENERAL CONFERENCE 
TEXT BOOK COMMITTEE 
On the last day of the General Confer-
ence, the General Conference Committee 
appointed the members of the Depart-
ment of Education, whose names were 
recently published in the Review and 
Herald. The members of this Depart-
ment at once organized, and appointed 
various committees, among which was a 
committee on text kooks. The address-
es of its members are given below, and 
they should be preserved by all inter-
ested in their work:— 
TEXT BOOK COMMITTEE 
Chairman, C. C. Lewis, College View, 
Neb.; Secretary, M. E. Kern, College 
View, Neb.; M. E. Cady, College Place, 
Wash.; B. E. Huffman, College View, 
Neb.; Miss Sarah E. Peck, Sanitarium, 
California; Miss Fannie M. Dickerson, 
222 N. Capitol St., Washington, D. C.; 
Mrs. Sara J. Hall, South Lancaster, Mass.; 
Mrs. N. H. Druillard, Madison, Tenn.; 
Mrs. Flora H. Williams, Industrial Acad-
emy, Battle Creek, Mich. 
11. �
WORK OF COMMITTEE 
It was expected that the Text Book 
Committee would examine all text 
books now in use in the schools of the 
denomination, not only those written 
by our own teachers but also those ob-
tained from other sources, also that 
they would examine manuscripts sub-
mitted to them, and be prepared to make 
definite recommendations to a general 
educational convention for the denomin-
ation, to be called next summer. It is 
the desire of the Committee to do thor-
ough work; and in order that they may 
have material upon which to begin, they 
would request all who are interested in 
the improvement of text-books for our 
church schools, intermediate schools, 
academies, and colleges to comply with 
the following requests as soon as 
possible:- 
1. Will those authors having text-
books already published or about to be 
published kindly send copies to the 
members of the Committee at the ad-
dresses given above, with such sugges-
tions in regard to the purpose and use of 
their books as they may think helpful?: 
2. If authors will send manuscripts 
of unpublished text-books to the secre-
tary of the Committee, the Committee 
will take pleasure in examining them, 
and in making such recommendation as 
their merit may deserve, 
THE EDUCATIONAL l:MESSENGER 
3. The committee will be glad to re-
ceive suggestions from any one in re-
gard to the best plans for carrying on 
their work, and of selecting the best 
hooks for conducting the work of Chris-
tian education. 
Address all communications to the 
secretary, Prof. M. E. Kern, College 
View, Neb., or to the undersigned. 
C. C. LEwis,Chairrnaa. 
"PRINCELY MEN IN THE HEAVEN-
LY KINGDOM" 
LESSON III 
Chapters V and VI 
George Leslie Mackay and Princely 
Martyrs of China's Spiritual Renaissance 
Study these chapters and also the 
questions on pages 240- 243 of Appen-
dix C. The questions on pages 243-243 
will make a good review of the whole 
book. 
In studying these lives one is remind-
ed of this quotation,— 
"There is no limit to the usefulness of 
the one who, putting self aside, makes 
room for the working of the Holy Spirit 
upon his heart, and lives a life wholly 
consecrated to God." — Test., Vol. 8. p.17. 
6rnrrat Artiritsti 
BACCALAUREATE SERMON 
PRESIDENT C. C. LEWIS 
INTRODUCTION 
T seems but a short time since 
the meeting of the General Con-
ference Committee at the open-
ing of our school last fall. The 
days and weeks have sped rapidly by 
and we have reached the close of our 
school year. Another company of young 
men and women have finished their 
courses of study and are about to leave 
us to find their places in the work that 
God has given us as a people to do. We 
come to them this morning for a parting 
word of counsel and encouragment. As 
a mother would take her son by the V 
hand upon the eve of his departure from 
home to seek his fortune in the world, 
so would the Alma Mater of these stu-
dents,--literally their foster mother, 
their nursing mother, their bountiful 
mother,— gather them about her for the 
last time, and sit down with them for a • 
farewell interview. This is a moment 
when every heart should be uplifted to 
God in prayer that suitable impressions 
may be made upon the minds of these 
students, and upon the minds of this 
congregation, upon all who are gath-
ered here this morning. This is a time 
when every unpleasant thought should 
be put away. This is a time when all 
failures and imperfections of the speak-
er, of these teachers, of this class of stu-
dents, of the school, of the entire com-
munity should be hidden under the 
blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. His 
righteousness should be written above 
human imperfections. We should lose 
sight of human errors, and should sit 
for a short time in the presence of our 
Heavenly Father, to receive from Him 
the message that He has for us to-day. 
As a suitable text upon which to base 
my remarks this morning, I will turn to 
the second chapter of II Timothy, the 
fifteenth verse: 
"Study to show thyself approved unto 
God, a workman that needeth not to be 
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of 
truth." 
OUR STUDIES TO CONTINUE 
Although we cease study in this schooli 
to-day, we are students still, and shall 
always be students. But our studies in 
the future will be different in some 
respects from our studies of the past, 
during school life. In the past our stu- ' 
dies have been restricted and formal. 
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We have been given certain tasks to be 
performed, so many pages of matter 
from a text book. In the future our 
studies will be broader and varied. We 
shall be left much to our own judg-
ment. In the past our study has been 
largely from books; in the future it will 
be more about men and events and the 
problems of existence. In the past our 
study has been for information, for ex-
ercise, for power; in the future we shall 
study more for wisdom rightly to apply 
our knowledge and power to the objects 
• of life. What shall we do with this knowl-
edge which we have gained? What use 
shall we make of it? How shall we ap-
ply the power we have developed to 
accomplish the most good in the world? 
Tkese are some of the themes we shall 
study. 
THE TRUE OBJECT OF STUDY 
Every true student should have before 
his mind, and will have before his 
mind constantly, the proper object of 
study. What is the true object of study? 
Is it not how to become competent 
workmen in our Lord's work in the 
earth? Is that not what our text says? 
"Study to show thyself approved unto 
God, a workman that needeth not to be 
ashamed." 
A PURPOSE IN LIFE 
Everybody should have a definite 
purpose in life,—some worthy object to 
accomplish,—not drifting aimlessly 
from one thing to another without 
knowing or thinking very much about 
what God has for him to do. That is 
not the design of God with reference to 
us. In His great work which he is do-
ing in the world we should have a part. 
We should have a definite purpose—
some work to do in life. How many 
e, lives are almost wasted for lack of a 
definite aim—something good and noble 
to accomplish. As one author has said, 
"That which dominates life, which is 
ever uppermost in the mind, generally 
comes somewhere near realization; but 
there is a great difference between a 
lukewarm desire and a red hot purpose. 
It takes steam to drive the piston of the 
steam engine; warm water will never 
turn the wheels. The longings that fail 
of realization are usually below the boil-
ing point." "Many will be lost while 
hoping and desiring to be Chris-
tians." They do not come to the 
point of yielding their will to God, of 
reaching the full determination to give 
themselves wholly to God, but are con-
tent with just desiring something. Be-
yond and back of all there must be 
the purpose to do that which God has 
for us to do. 
GOD'S PLAN FOR EACH PERSON 
God has a plan and a place for every 
person. I am glad to believe that this is 
true. I am glad to present this to these 
young men and women as an inspira-
tion continually, that God has some-
thing for them to do, a specific place in 
His infinite plan for the ages. This is 
plainly taught in the parable of the 13th 
chapter of Mark, beginning with the 
34th verse, where the man goes into a 
far country and leaves to every man 
among his servants his work. So Jesus 
Christ our Saviour has gone into a dis-
tant country and will return, but He has 
left to everyone of His followers a spe-
cific work to do in His absence, and He 
will call us in question for our work 
and we shall give account to Him in 
the great day for the manner in which 
we have performed it. And again, in 
the 12th chapter of First Corinthians, 
where the gifts of the Spirit are set 
forth, it is said that the Spirit giveth to 
every man severally as he will, and that 
the gift of the Spirit is bestowed upon 
every one to profit withal, to use to the 
glory of God. 
In the book "Object Lessons" there is 
a remarkable passage which says that 
"Each has his place in the eternal plan 
of heaven." Let us then not go on care-
lessly, having no purpose in life, but let 
us remember that God has a place for us 
individually, and our highest duty to 
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God, to our fellowmen, and to ourselves 
is to find that place, to fit ourselves pro-
perly to discharge its responsibilities, 
and then enter with all our hearts upon 
the work. 
GOD HAS A WORK FOR EVERY AGE 
Not simply has God a work for every 
person, but He has a specific work for 
every age, a special development in the 
unfolding of His eternal purpose. We 
see this as we glance back over the his-
tory of the world, especially the history 
of God's people. We behold the plan of 
God in the beginning and how the sin 
of man, for a time, seemed to turn aside 
the plan of God. We witness the great 
controversy that was then begun among 
the children of men and has gone on 
from that time until the present, and 
will never cease until sin is entirely 
destroyed from the universe and those 
who renounce sin are gathered with the 
people of God in His eternal kingdom. 
This controversy has been going for-
ward, and in tracing it we see the plan 
of God. We see Him, when wickedness 
had almost overwhelmed the people of 
this world, gathering out a few souls to 
preserve a righteous seed that the name 
of God might be preserved in the earth. 
We see this plan of God in the call of 
Abraham to leave his home, and his kin-
dred, who were idolaters, and to go out 
into a land which he knew not, bearing 
a message to the world. We see the same 
plan of God as He suffered His people 
to go into bondage in Egypt, and then 
raised up a man and trained him to 
bring them forth. We watch the out-
working of the plan of God as He, in 
the wilderness, develops faith and cour-
age in the hearts of that people until 
finally, as they enter the promised land 
after centuries of careful, patient toil 
upon the part of Jehovah, a people are 
developed who were true to the one liv-
ing God. And then when the fullness 
of the time was come, and everything 
was ready for the further development 
of the plan of God, He sent forth Jesus 
Christ, His dear Son, into the world as 
His word to the children of men, His 
mode of speaking to men, to show them 
His own character. Then we observe 
how the Word of God was proclaimed 
throughout all the world; and how, tak-
ing root among the heathen nations, it 
overturned their philosophy, their learn-
ing, and their wisdom, and established 
itself among all the nations of the mod-
ern world. Then we behold the great 
apostasy and we see the controversy go-
ing forward until the world is shrouded 
in darkness. Finally we notice the 
hand of God in the Reformation, raising 
Luther and other noble men to preach a 
pure gospel of salvation through faith 
in the Lord Jesus Christ. 
The work of God for any age is to be 
found in such events as have just been 
described, and not in the great ambi-
tions, the wonderful works, the cruel 
wars, and the schemes for riches and 
power which absorb the attention and 
effort of mankind. The temptation is 
constantly presented to the young to 
pursue after worldly power and honor. 
But God has something for them better 
than this. The labors of this life are 
preparatory to the greater, nobler, purer 
life which is to come. 
GOD'S WORK IN THE PRESENT AGE 
In this age we have reached the per-
iod of the great consummation, the clos-
ing up of this controversy between the 
powers of evil and the powers of good, 
the time when the last view of the 
world's panorama is to be unfolded to 
the gaze of the universe. I need not 
stop to present the evidences for this 
statement. The very presence of those 
who are here assumes that this is the 
case. Union College is established up-
on this truth as a foundation. It would 
4 
not be here to-day, neither would this 
village exist, nor would this congrega-
tion be gathered, if we did not believe 
in our hearts, or if our friends did not 
believe, that we have come to the time 
of the end, the time just before the great 
THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER �
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p 
consummation. This school was estab-
lished that men and women might be 
trained to take part in the work of warn-
ing men everywhere of the earth's im-
pending doom, calling them to repent-
ance, exalting the Saviour, and teaching 
men to love Him and to prepare for His 
coming. This is the work that God has 
for the world in this age; and although 
it may be obscured at times by the am-
bitions of the world, yet by the eye of 
faith we are able to perceive the work 
which God is carrying forward quietly 
amidst the babel of confusion. This is 
the work that God calls upon these 
young.men and these young women to 
do. If this be not the case, then we 
would be like many of those who took 
part in the work of building the ark. 
Of what value to us to have been here 
during these years and have learned 
about these precious truths, unless deep 
in our hearts we have a living interest 
in them ourselves. In our remarks this 
morning we assume this interest, and 
are glad to believe that as a fact it exists 
with those who are present to-day. 
THE TEST OF OUR WORKMANSHIP 
The right handling of the word of 
truth is the test of our workmanship. 
"Study to show thyself approved unto 
God, a workman that needeth not to be 
ashamed." What is such a workman?—
one who rightly divides the word of 
truth, or, as the Revised Version has it 
who rightly handles the word of truth. 
Handling the work of truth aright, di-
viding it properly, is the thought. This 
is our work as we go forth to apply the 
Word of God to the hearts of the chil- 
dren of men, to speak to them its proper 
interpretation, to apply it arigbt to their 
condition• and the test of our workman-
ship is our ability rightly to handle the 
word of truth. 
THE PREPARATION NEEDED 
For this mighty work of carrying the 
last message of mercy to the world lying 
in wickedness, we need a thorough pre- 
paration of heart and mind in order that 
we may do the work acceptably. And 
this preparation is to be obtained first 
through a thorough, but a temperate or 
moderate, study of the foundations of 
learning, —the accumulated knowledge 
of the world's history, literature, lan-
guages, arts, and sciences. It is true 
that we can not master all these, espec-
ially when we enter the realm of lan-
guage; there is not time. But there is a 
work which language study, especially, 
has to do in the training of the mind for 
the work of God. Our purpose should 
be, not simply to store our minds with 
the language and literature of the pagan 
nations now dead and gone, but 
whose baleful influence is still exerted 
in the modern world, but to enable us 
the better to carry the blessed gospel of 
our Lord Jesus Christ and His soon ap-
pearing to the nations who know it not. 
Some of these languages lie at the foun-
dation of the modern languages of the 
world. That person who goes forth as a 
missionary never having studied any 
language but his own, and takes up a 
new language in aforeigu field, is work-
ing at a great disadvantage. If he has 
had a thorough training in the study of 
some language before going to his field, 
he will know how to take up the study 
of the native language more successfully 
and do it more thoroughly and quickly. 
Behind and above and underneath his 
purpose should be the desire to carry 
the gospel to nations who speak other 
languages. And so with all our studies. 
In order that the workman may have 
a common standing-ground with those 
for whom he labors it is essential to ob-
tain a thorough, but at the same time a 
temperate, preparation in all these mat-
ters in our schools. I speak advisedly 
when I mention temperate preparation, 
for there is danger, and that danger 
ought to be pointed out, that students 
become intoxicated with study until 
they are unfitted for practical work. 
They hoard knowledge as a miser his 
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gold, for the selfish satisfaction of gain-
ing and keeping it, and not for the good 
he may do with it. In this connection 
I will read some quotations from the 
book "Christian Education," showing 
the advantages of a good education, and 
afterwards I will read others guarding 
against intemperate study. 
"The Lord bids us love Him with all 
the heart, and with all the soul, and 
with all the strength, and with all the 
mind. This lays upon us the obligation 
of developing the intellect to its fullest 
capacity, that with all the mind we may 
know and love our Creator. " 
"If placed under the control of His 
Spirit, the more thoroughly the intellect 
is cultivated, the more effectively it 
can be used in the service of God. The 
uneducated man who is consecrated to 
God and who longs to bless others can 
be, and is, used by the Lord in His ser-
vice. But those who, with the same 
spirit of consecration, have had the ben-
efit of a thorough education, can do a 
much more extensive work for Christ. 
They stand on vantage ground." 
"The Lord desires us to obtain all the 
education possible, with the object in 
view of imparting our knowledge to 
others. None can know where or how 
they may be called to labor or to speak 
for God. Our Heavenly Father alone 
sees what He can make of men. There 
are before us possibilities which our 
feeble faith does not discern. Our 
minds should be so trained that if nec-
essary we can present the truths of His 
word before the highest earthly author-
ities in such a way as to glorify His 
name. We should not let slip even one 
opportunity of qualifying ourselves in-
tellectually to work for God."-- Christ's 
Object Lessons, p. 333. 
"In the future there will be more 
pressing need of men and women of lit-
erary qualifications than there has been 
in the past; for broad fields are opening 
out before us, white already for harvest. 
In these fields you may be laborers to-
gether with God." 
How wonderfully the last passage is 
fulfilled in these days when the mis-
ionary fields are opening before us in 
all parts of the world. "In these fields 
you may be laborers together with God," 
and so God calls upon us to make a 
thorough preparation for this work. 
But, on the other hand, let us guard 
against going too far in this matter, be-
coming so swallowed up in the work of 
gaining an education for its own sake 
that we shall forget the very object we 
had in mind when we set out to gain an 
education. �
In the chapter entitled �
• 
"Speedy Preparation for Work," it is 
said that "the teachers in our schools 
must be on guard constantly lest their 
plans and management shall depress and 
quench the faith of students who have 
had their hearts deeply impressed by 
the Holy Spirit. They have heard the 
voice of Jesus saying, 'Son, go work to-
day in my vinyard.' They feel the 
need of a proper course of study that 
they may be prepared to labor for the 
Master, and every effort should be made 
to hasten their advancement, but the 
object of their education should be 
constantly in view. Unnecessary delay 
should not be advised or allowed." 
"Too great devotion to study, even of 
true science, creates an abnormal appe-
tite." It is possible, then, to have too 
great a devotion to the study of true 
science. We see from this how much 
knowledge we should obtain—as much 
as is essential to do the work of the 
Lord; but more than is essential to do 
that work, we should not pursue. "The 
pursuit of knowledge merely for its own 
sake diverts the mind from devotion to 
God, checks advance along the path of 
practical holiness, and hinders souls 
from traveling in the way which leads 
to a holier, happier life. 
"Intemperance in study is a species of 
intoxication, and those who indulge in 
it, like the drunkard, wander from safe 
paths, and stumble and fall in the dark-
ness. They are not to exhaust and waste 
their physical and mental powers in 
THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER �
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seeking to acquire all possible knowl-
edge of the sciences. 
"A course of study at Ann Arbor may 
be thought essential for some." (At the 
time this was written we had no medical 
school of our own. I suppose it was 
these very thoughts that encouraged and 
impelled our leaders to establish the 
American Medical Missionary College in 
order that our medical students might be 
educated under influences that would 
• not suppress in their hearts the mission- 
• 
�
�
ary spirit, but that would foster and de- 
velop that spirit, so that when their edu-
cation would be completed they would 
be ready to go into the dark corners of 
the earth.) "But evil influences are 
there ever at work upon susceptible 
minds, so that the farther they advance 
in their studies, the less they deem it 
necessary to seek a knowledge of the 
will and ways of God. . . . I would 
warn students not to advance one step 
in these lines,—not even upon the ad-
vice of their instructors, or men in po-
sitions of authority,--unless they have 
first sought God individually, with 
their hearts thrown open to the influ-
ence of the Holy Spirit, and obtained 
His counsel concerning the contempla-
ted course of study." 
"Watch, lest your studies shall accu-
mulate to such proportions and become 
of such absorbing interest to you that 
your mind shall become over-burdened, 
and the desire for godliness be crushed 
out of your soul. With many students 
the motive and aim which caused them 
to enter school have gradually been 
lost sight of and an unholy ambition to 
secure a high class education has led 
them to sacrifice the truth." 
"Do not lengthen out the time for ob-
taining an education to many years. 
Many are better prepared, have more 
spiritual discrimination, and knowledge 
of God, and know more of His require-
ments when they enter upon a course of 
study than when they graduate." (This 
statement ought to lead us most earnest- 
ly to search our hearts and to seek God 
for His blessing upon us.) "They be-
come inspired with an ambition to be-
come learned men, and are encouraged 
to add to their studies until they be-
come infatuated. They make their books 
their idol." And it is possible my 
friends to do that very thing,—to become 
so devoted to our books and our studies 
that we forget God and give more 
thought, more attention, more worship, 
to our books and our studies than we do 
to God, the author of all truth. "They 
make their books their idol, and are 
willing to sacrifice health and spiritual-
ity in order to obtain an education." 
"Precious probationary time will not 
permit of long, protracted years of drill. 
God calls; hear His voice as He says, 
`Go work to-day in my vineyard.' " 
"There is a large work to be done, and 
the vineyard of the Lord needs laborers. 
There are now open doors on every 
side; we cannot afford to wait to com-
plete years of training; for the years be-
fore us are not many and we need to 
work while the day lasts. It is not 
best to advise men and women to take a 
course of study in Ann Arbor. Many 
who have been there have not been ben-
efitted in the past, and will not be in the 
future." 
"Students are counseled to spend 
months and years in institutions where 
the truth is denied and controverted, 
and where error of the most specious, 
unscriptural character is insidiously 
introduced. These doctrines become 
mingled with their studies. They be-
come engrossed in advancing in educa-
tional lines, and they lose their love for 
Jesus, and before they know what is the 
mafter with them [a very strange and 
important suggestion] they are far 
from God and are all unprepared to re-
spond to the command, `Go work to-day 
in my vineyard.' The desire for mis-
sionary effort is gone. They pursue 
their studies with an infatuation that 
closes the door to the utterance of 
THE EDUCATIONAL iVIESSENO ER 
Christ. When they graduate and have 
full commision to go out as properly 
educated students, some have lost all 
burden for the work and are far less 
prepared to engage in the service of God 
than when they came to Battle Creek at 
first." 
When I read that passage I thought of 
a scene which I shall never forget, 
when Mr. Moody spoke to the students 
of Yale University. He was a fearless 
preacher, a man who spoke the plain 
truth, and he spoke it upon this occa-
sion. He said to them, "You spend 
four years in finishing first the regular 
College course, and then you spend 
three years more in a theological Semi-
nary, and then you go to Europe and 
study in the universities for two or 
three years more, and then you come 
back and settle down to a pastorate in 
some quiet village; but all these years of 
preparation have taken you farther and 
farther away from the people for whom 
you are to labor, until in the study of 
these intricate problems you have un-
fitted yourselves to reach their hearts, 
and have, in a measure, destroyed the 
sympathy that ought to exist between 
pastor and people. When you come to 
preach to them you speak above them, 
beyond them, over their heads. They 
can not understand what you are talk-
ing about. Then you have to unlearn 
much of your education before you 
come to the point where you can preach 
the simple gospel and reach the hearts 
of the people and lead them to Him." 
Let us guard carefully against these er-
rors. 
THE PREPARATION OF THE WORD 
But there is another preparation that 
I am very sure we can not obtain too 
much of. It is that which is to be ob-
tained through a profound study of the 
Word of God as the sword of the Spirit, 
the only effective weapon against the 
false philosophy and the evil practices 
of men. We shall never be able to suc-
cessfully combat the false philosophy 
which has come down to us through 
the ages by a study of that philosophy 
and an argument against it. The minds 
of these heathen men are brilliant and 
shrewd, and in their own mind 
they will be able to answer all the ar- • 
guments you can make; but they never 
can answer the argument of a humble, 
godly life based upon the religion of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, nor can they 
answer the beautiful and wonderful 
words that come to us from Jesus Christ 
our Saviour, reaching our hearts and 
• 
lifting us out of ourselves up toward 
God, the Author of our being. 
"The time has come when those who 
are rooted and grounded in the truth 
may manifest their firmness and deci-
sion, may make known the fact that 
they are unmoved by the sophistry, 
maxims, or fables of the ignorant and 
wavering. Without foundation men 
will make statements with all positive-
ness of truth; but it is of no use to ar-
gue with them concerning their spurious 
assertions. The best way to deal with 
error is to present the truth, and leave 
wild ideas to die out for want of 
notice." 
THE PREPARATION OF THE SPIRIT 
Then there is another preparation 
that I am very anxious every one of us 
should have. It comes through a com-
plete surrender to the will of God and 
a daily baptism of the Holy Spirit, who 
alone can teach us how to handle His 
own weapon aright. That preparation 
every one of us must have, or else the 
literary preparation will be of little use 
to us in the cause of God. We must 
have a thorough preparation in the 
things of divine truth and the unction 
of the Holy Spirit, that will enable us 
to use the Scriptures of truth aright, 
"rightly dividing the word of truth," 
bringing it to bear upon the soul and 
conscience of men. "The prince of 
the power of evil can only be held in 
check by the power of God in the third 
person of the God-head, the Holy Spirit," 
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THE WORKMAN'S SUSTAINING MOTIVE 
Finally, the approval of the Master 
Workman is the sustaining motive of 
the worker. "Study to show thyself 
approved unto God." All mankind are 
ti looking to one another for approval in 
every walk of life. Even among the 
wickedest and vilest of men, every one 
is looking up (or down rather) to some 
one lower and viler than he, having 
more skill and more talent in sin,--
looking to such a one for approval. So 
• it is generally. We are looking for the 
approval of others. With the great 
mass of mankind this is the motive 
which actuates them. It is not because 
they need food and clothing and shelter 
that these great rich men who control so 
many interests are laboring and toiling, 
depriving themselves of rest; it is that 
they may obtain a great name, that they 
may receive the approval of others, 
that they may do something greater 
than others have done. This is their 
ruling motive. But what is this com-
pared with the approval of God? The 
approval of God is infinitely more to be 
desired than that of men, and hence it 
constitutes the highest motive. and fur-
nishes the strongest power to sustain 
the worker. We may not always see 
this truth with the natural eye. It is 
only by the eye of faith that we can 
look forward and upward into the face 
of God and make His approval a living 
reality to us. My friends, I would 
rather, when that great day comes, hear 
the words of Jesus Christ our Saviour, 
saying unto me, "Come ye blessed of my 
Father inherit the kingdom prepared 
for you from the fouodation of the 
world, you have been faithful over a 
few things, I will make you ruler over 
many things, enter thou into the joy of 
thy Lord," than have the approval of 
all the wise men and the great men that 
this world can afford. Let us learn to 
count the approval of God as the high-
est object of life. Let us study to show 
ra =selves approved 11149 God, workmen 
that need not to be ashamed. Let us 
abide in Him that when He shall ap-
pear we may not be ashamed before 
Him at His co ming. 
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATES 
Young ladies and young men of the 
class of 1905: The time has arrived for 
you to go forth from Union College to 
mingle with the world and to find your 
place in the work of the Lord for this 
generation. You have sat for years un-
der the Word of God as taught in this 
school. How has it affected you? How 
have you profited by it? What are 
your aspirations and plans as you turn 
your faces toward your life work? 
The eyes of the denomination are upon 
you. Your friends look for much from 
you. God expects everyone to do his 
best. You who have had sufficient 
literary training to do acceptable work, 
and are willing to seek spiritual dis-
cernment and divine wisdom to rightly 
divide the word of truth, should not de-
lay to offer yourselves as gospel work-
ers in various departments, and make 
known your willingness to go wherever 
the Lord would have you go, and do 
what he would have you do. Mean-
while, be what he would have you be. 
And while waiting for the call to your 
appointed field, do the first thing that 
comes to your hand. Do it faithfully 
and well, as unto the Lord. 
Be true, noble, Christian men and wo-
men. Have convictions and stand by 
them. "No one connected with the sa-
cred work of God can remain on neutral 
ground. If a man is divided, undecided, 
unsettled. until he is sure that he will 
lose nothing, he shows that he is a man 
that God cannot use." Look not this 
way and that, but straight ahead. Be 
true to duty. And be not afraid of the 
word duty. Some would have you 
think there is no place for duty in the 
divine economy, that if you regard any-
thing as duty there is little virtue in 
doing it. Be not deceived. Love and 
duty are not antagonists, they are twill. 
triumph. Labor on His side and you 
will triumph with His truth. 
"Workman of God, 0 lose not heart, 
But learn what God is like; 
And on the darkest battlefield 
Thou shalt know where to strike. 
Thrice blest is he to whom is given 
The instinct that can tell 
That God is on the field, when He 
Is most invisible. • 
Blest too is he who can divine 
Where truth and justice lie, 
And dares to take the side that seems / 
Wrong to man's blinded eye. 
Then learn to scorn the praise of men, 
And learn to lose with God; 
For Jesus won the world through 
shame, 
And beckons thee His road. 
For right is right, since God is God, 
And right the day must win; 
To doubt would be disloyalty, 
To falter would be sin." 
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sister and brother. And you will not 
have learned how to live most truly un-
til you have learned to love duty better 
than life. "There is no hope for man, 
woman, or child, who will not hear and 
obey the voice of duty; for the voice of 
duty is the voice of God." 
The cause needs sturdier men, and a 
sturdier education based more upon 
principle and less upon feelings and 
preferences. "The greatest want of the 
world to-day is the want of men,—men 
who will not be bought or sold; men 
who in their inmost souls are true and 
honest; men who do not fear to call sin 
by its right name; men whose conscience 
is as true to duty as the needle to the 
pole; men who will stand for the right 
though the heavens fall."—Education, 
p. 57. 
If you prove to be such men and wo-
men you will need moral courage at 
times to stand alone against criticism 
and opposition. Those whom you 
count as your friends may turn against 
you. You will be misunderstood, your 
motives maligned, and your best acts 
misconstrued. But stand firm, brave 
heart, be not discouraged. Remember 
that Jesus said, "Woe unto you when 
all men shall speak well of you! For 
so did their fathers to the false proph- 
ets." Of such men, who never do any-
thing that provokes opposition, the poet 
has well spoken: — 
"He has no enemies," you say? 
My friend, your boast is poor; 
He who hath mingled in the fray 
Of duty that the brave endure, 
Must have made foes. If he has none, 
Small is the work that he has done, 
He has smote no traitor on the hip, 
He has cast no cup from perjured lip, 
He has never turned the wrong to right, 
He has been a coward in the fight." 
Go forth then unto your work. Be 
brave, be pure, be upright. Let no un- 
manly action mar your life. Study to 
show yourselves approved unto God, 
workmen that need not to be ashamed. 
Let your hearts be filled with courage. 
God lives and reigns; His cause will 
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TOWARD THE HEIGHTS 
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, UNION COLLEGE 
PROP. E. C. KELLOGG 
may think of life as a journey 
with the possibility of ascend-
ing to greater heights. Happy 
the child with a disposition to 
rise above his surroundings and attain 
the heights of his power! I say, happy 
the child, because it is the aspiration, 
the diligence, and the love of knowledge 
of tender years that determines an edu-
cation and a commencement scene a lit-
tle time ahead. Many, though not all, 
of the great events of life are the out-
growth of childhood's experiences. The 
Duke of Wellington when looking at 
the boys engaged in sports on the play-
ground of Eton, where many of his 
younger days were spent, exclaimed, 
"It was there the battle of Waterloo was 
won." 
There are glories celestial; the sun has 
his glory, the moon has her glory, and one 
star differs from another star in glory: 
there are glories terrestrial; education 
has her glory; but where is the glory of 
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ignorance? What has she ever done, 
what is she doing, what will she ever 
do to uplift or in any way benefit an 
individual? She is the mother of no 
virtue, moral or otherwise. A very 
scholarly bishop was once called in 
question for his learning by a parishion-
er who was not only extremely ignor-
ant, but very proud of the fact. As his 
crowning argument against learning, he 
said the Lord could get along without 
the bishop's education. To this the 
bishop modestly replied, "True, my 
brother, but He can make no use of 
your ignorance." 
Not a particle of education is wasted 
in the great march of human progress. 
The microscope creates nothing, but it 
reveals many things. The educated eye 
interprets the meaning of hundreds of 
forms and colors that are otherwise un-
known. The cultivated ear revels in a 
soul-thrilling harmony whieh is power-
less to move others. The skilled hand 
is graceful, steady, strong. The trained 
mind can feel, think, and act calmly, 
accurately, and intensely. 
Nothing less than educational ideals 
have influenced the world and molded 
society. They may not always have 
been the best, yet what has been done 
has been done by education. The po-
sition of an individual, the position of 
a nation, is largely determined by edu-
cation. The idea of complete living has 
been the objective point, yet there has 
been a varying conception of its mean-
ing. The Chinese believe in living as 
their ancestors have for thousands of 
years; the Spartans espoused war as a 
profession and gave full attention to 
physical development; the monks in ear-
ly ages degraded the body and lived in 
isolation to avoid a sinful world. In 
later years scholasticism was occupied 
with heated discussions as to the number 
of angels that could stand on the point 
of a needle. The classical ideas for 
centuries limited education to a knowl-
edge of Greek and Latin. 
What is the present idea of education? 
What is the meaning of life and the ra-
tional mode of development? Different 
educationists use different terms, but 
they approximate the same general con-
clusion. It recognizes the individuality, 
encourages a richness of being, and a 
high development of native talent with 
a view of complete living. It under-
takes to advance the youth in his effort 
to become like the Infinite and to fit 
man for eternity. This is a great and 
comprehensive view of the subject, and 
reaches every experience of the individ-
ual throughout life. A true education 
recognizes such a tuition only as shall 
counteract tendencies to degrade and 
shall encourage those which tend to en-
noble and elevate. 
Thus, in the broader sense much that 
is educational is accomplished outside 
of educational institutions. Yet the 
school, to fufil its mission, must exer-
cise a positive and powerful influence 
in the acquirement of these high ideals. 
It should stand for physical, mental, 
and moral accomplishments. It should 
encourage habits that tend to health 
and vigor and a certain proficieny in 
physical training. There should be a 
cultivation of observation, concentra-
tion, imagination, and other intellec-
tual faculties. The attainment in moral 
lines should be nothing less than a high 
sense of honor, right, and duty. 
Therefore, if the school work is suc-
cessful, commencement means such a 
training of the powers of the student, 
such a relation of the individual to the 
essentials of life, and such a degree of 
development, as to pressage with reason-
able certainity a successful future. The 
transition from the multitudinous details 
of school affairs to the broader require-
ments of life is not small, yet a broad, 
generous managment which recognizes 
individuality, justice, kindness, and lib-
erty goes far toward preparing for a suc-
cessful beginning in the new field. 
Some things which are essential to 
the upward journey may profitably be 
considered at length. They are the tin- 
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portance and value of a life purpose, 
persistent work, and specialization. 
A true life implies a life purpose. 
As a mariner on the broad ocean waste 
amid the solitude of calm or the terror 
of tempest anxiously gazes at the Pole 
Star and directs his ship in her course, 
so voyagers on life's wide waters find a 
purpose their cynosure and direct their 
vessel to the desired haven. The pri-
mary and supreme purpose is to prove 
a blessing to others. Nothing else in-
sures so high a development. Nothing 
else puts to test the powers of the soul. 
The giver receives the greatest blessing. 
Nothing which he can bestow equals 
the mercy and benevolence acquired. 
These are divine virtues. It is a life 
given in unselfish service that lives 
in loving memory. The inspiration of 
this superior purpose, the beauty and 
richness of a sincere life, is within the 
reach of all. Without money, without 
noble birth, it is possible to serve friends 
and humanity. The particular work is 
not essential. Labor iu a trade is as 
honorable as practicing medicine; teach-
ing school, as preaching the gospel. 
The influence of a high purpose is 
best seen as manifested in a noble life. 
As an example we may notice the life of 
Pestalozzi, who is the most noted of 
modern educators. He was born at 
Zurich in 1746. His naturally sensi-
tive and imaginative disposition was 
greatly intensified by ,is mother's in-
fluence. His educational qualifications 
were inconsidera.ble, aud in general ap-
pearance and regard for pri.scril ed forms 
he was very deficient; but he had a 
great soul which was aglow with love 
for his fellow men. Fie saw many ut 
them suff,..ring from poverty and sunk 
it'Sr7.1t9tilt#1 rr( u. 
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was a et .pi �
Lust ttie 
most 
frightful poverty, and he was 
thus able to sympathize fully. Thou-
sands of times he went without din-
ner that he might realize his ideal. He 
risked everything to alleviate the needs 
of his people and he said his zeal to 
accomplish the dream of his life 
would have taken him through air or 
through fire if necessary to the heights 
of the Alps. 
His first attempt was in the ministry. 
He had often visited his grandfather, 
who was a clergyman, and had from him 
received strong religious impressions. 
In his first sermon he made a mistake 
in repeating the Lord's prayer, became 
embarassed, and gave it all up. He 
• 
next studied law. He had witnessed 
with intense interest and sympathy the 
injustice and oppression suffered by the 
peasantry. The blood of the early Swiss 
patriots, of whom he was a lineal suc-
cessor, rushed madly through his veins, 
and his zeal was fired to bring deliver-
ance. He worked so hard, especially 
in developing new theories. that his 
health failed and the work was discon-
tinued. Nothing daunted. he then be-
came an agriculturist. He conceived 
the idea of reclaiming the poor lands of 
his country by a special mode of farm-
ing, but his utter lack of financial abil-
ity bromeht him to failure again. 
He still had courage and his wife had 
money, so he started an industrial school 
upon the self supporting plan. He took 
the children, fed, clothed, and schooled 
them for what work they could do. 
Though this was a forerunner of many 
similar institutous which have proven 
a bless:itg, it was soon brought to a dis-
astrous failure involving the loss of all 
the money on hand and incurring a large 
debt as well. He did not know, as has 
been shown in later years, that uo indus-
trial school is self supporting. 
The �eighteen years dragged 
lirto.ri,y �
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valuable. 
Thus it was not until after numerous 
failures and late in years that he learned 
how to manifest his noble purpose for 
humanity in an immortal way. Though 
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his hair was gray, his heart was young, 
and owing to changes caused by the war 
he entered upon the work of the school-
master. He began under very discour-
aging circumstances but soon gained the 
affection of the children. He had no 
apparatus, nothing except himself and 
the pupils, but being blessed with a pro-
found pedagogical insight soon discov-
ered the powers and faculties of chil-
hood and encouraged their natural, pro-
gressive, and sympathetic development. 
As the children were led to appreciate 
their possibilittes the effect was elec-
trical, and from his great heart of love 
flowed an influence which encouraged 
the highest aspirations, and has ever 
since had a molding effect upon pri-
mary education. To him are forever 
secured the love and admiration of all 
friends of instruction, and as Compayre 
says,"That which assures him immortal 
glory is the high purpose that he set for 
himself—his ardor to regenerate man 
through instruction." 
Take another example—that of the 
"father and founder of missions," Wil-
liam Carey. Hs was of English paren-
tage and born in 1761. As a student 
he made good progress. When a young 
man he entered upon work with a shoe-
maker. Through the influence of fel-
low workmen, he was converted, and in 
addition to his other studies he pur-
sued with great ardor the study of the 
Scriptures. Besides working at his 
trade he opened a night school. Not 
long after this time he commenced 
preaching and was very successful in 
the work. However the remuneration 
was so small he continued shoemaking 
and teaching for a living. He never de-
spised this humble beginning in life. 
40 Overbearing one time some one speak-
ing of his having been a shoemaker, he 
replied,"Not so, only a cobbler." 
He thought continually of the need of 
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the world and the duty of all believers to 
carry the gospel everywhere. This soon 
became his all-absorbing purpose. Yet 
in advocating it he met with many a re-
buff, and found but little sympathy. At 
an opportune time he preached a power-
ful sermon upon the subject of "Expect-
ing Great Things from God and Attempt-
ing Great Things for Him." After some 
delay, plans were laid and towards 
seventy-five dollars raised to carry the 
gospel to the heathen. Not long after 
this he with others went to India. He 
met with many difficulties. For six 
years he worked in an indigo factory at 
a small salary. In connection with this 
he had some opportunity of engaging 
directly in what was now fully settled 
as his life work, but seven years passed 
before there was a convert. 
He made especially rapid progress in 
learning the native language, engaged in 
preaching, and soon made a translation 
of the New Testament. By this he was 
brought into prominence and received 
an appointment as instructor in a gov-
ernment school at a fair salary which 
was soon liberally increased. He con-
tinued in this position for many years, 
practicing the strictest economy. and us-
ing all the spare money for missions. 
His influence was manifested in many 
ways. He worked untiringly to abolish 
the practice of burning widows on the 
pile of their dead husbands, also to pro-
hibit the sacrifice of children at the an-
nual festivals. His town witnessed the 
first large printing press, steam engine, 
paper mill, newspaper in the native lan-
guage, and school for girls and women. 
He wrote numerous elementary books 
in the languages he had acquired, and 
translated the Bible, or parts of it, into 
over forty languages or dialects. A lep-
er hospital was founded; orphanages, 
numerous schools, and many mission 
stations were established. The seeds of 
great moral revolution in British India 
were sown and are bearing fruit to-day 
in the lives of about ten thousand souls 
who are working in various ways for 
the furtherance of the gospel. Nor is 
this all—the missionary influence start- 
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ed by Cary has extended throughout 
the length and breadth of Christendom. 
Numerous honorary recognitions and 
degrees were accorded him, yet he cared 
little for them. It was not for worldly 
praise that he labored unceasingly for 
forty-one years, without returning to the 
land of his childhood, but it was "to be 
useful in laying the foundation of the 
church of Christ in India." This was 
the divine purpose of his life. Amidst 
all the unbelief and opposition at home 
this purpose was to him as a pillar of 
cloud by day and a pillar of fire by 
night, and in the gross darkness of heath-
en India it shone with no less steady ray 
than had that star which centuries be-
fore guided the wise men from the East 
to the land of the Nativity. 
As beetling rock towers by the sea-
shore, witnessing unmoved the play of 
waves and tides and tempests, so man, 
with a great love that takes in humanity 
and a divine purpose inspired by that 
love, remains serene amid what to him 
are the trivial perplexities of life. 
Some things are worth dying for if need 
be; such things are pre-eminently worth 
living for. Supreme among these is the 
purpose of making some one happy. 
The attainment of a life purpose de-
mands persistent work. Idleness has 
no accomplishments and gains no vic-
tories. Waiting with up-turned face un-
der a plum tree is not the best way to 
manage a fruit orchard. In some state 
prisons ninety per cent of the inmates 
have no trade. Not a few men at the 
point of suicide have been turned by 
some means from a life of idleness to a 
noble work and a long and happy ca-
reer of usefullness. 
All people can work; few have genius; 
and genius to accomplish its best must 
work also. There is but one law for 
genius and mediocrity, and that is the 
law of work. The individual is not re-
sponsible for the number of talents, but 
for their use, and one talent used is bet-
ter than ten buried. The genius of in- 
telligent preparation is superior genius. 
This is the reason why many possessed 
of superior capabilities fall behind in 
the journey of life, and many an ordi-
nary boy becomes an extraordinary 
man. 
The time must be well utilized, for 
time is no cheap element. It is some 
times said "Time is money." This is so 
if we put our lif-, with all its possibili-
ties, upon a mercenary basis; for truly 
time is life and the moments are valued 
very highly when they are nearly gone. 
Thus time should mean more than mon-
ey; the spare moments are a test of char-
acter. John Stuart Mill composed most 
of his great work on logic while on the 
busy street between his lodgings and 
place of business. Booker T. Washing-
ton learned much of the Scriptures in 
the few moments between the close of 
school and the dinner hour. Jas. A. 
Garfield burned his lamp fifteen min-
utes later than his rival in the Academy. 
We have a pretty picture given by 
De Quincey. He represents a woman in 
a boat sailing over the sea. When she 
awakes from sleep she finds her neck-
lace unfastened and one end hanging in 
the water, while pearl after pearl is fall-
ing off. As she grasps for one just 
falling another glides forever beyond 
her reach. Thus our minutes, hours, 
days, yea our very lives, are going. 
Great achievements require long, per-
sistent work. Twelve lessons will not 
produce an elocutionist, fourteen weeks 
a scientist, nor a few months an oak tree. 
Michael Angelo studied anatomy 
twelve years that he might, as a sculp-
tor, create the masterpiece of art in 
his "Moses." He worked seven years 
decorating the Sistine Chapel, four 
years of the time being given to his • 
masterful work, the "Creation." Not in-
frequently he refused to see visitors 
and did not stop to dine but ate meager-
ly of bread kept within reach, and con-
tinued the work all night. Gibbon 
spent twenty years on the "Decline and 
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Fall of Rome." It took twenty-six 
years for Bancroft to write "The History 
of the United States." Webster's Dic-
tionary required thirty-six years' work. 
Field crossed the ocean fifty times to lay 
his cable while all the world made sport. 
It is said Thalburg never attempted a 
public rendering of one of his famous 
pieces upon the piano till he had 
played it fifteen hundred times. With 
him it was hard work as well as genius. 
Edison is a genius but a hard working 
one. He discovered the principle of 
the phonograph by accident, but he 
learned its application by hard work. 
One day as he was singing to the mouth 
piece of a telephone the vibrations of 
his voice caused a fine steel point to 
pierce his finger held just behind. As 
he thought upon this he decided it 
would be possible to make a machine 
which would record the motion of the 
point and then by reversing the motion 
he believed the sound could be repro-
duced. He made the machine and 
talked into it, ever repeating the same 
word. The response always lacked 
one letter. He continued that persis-
tent monotony from eighteen to twenty 
hours a day for seven months. The 
day Cornelius Vanderbilt was sixteen 
years old he borrowed one hundred dol-
lars from kis mother to buy a boat. He 
worked energetically every day and fre-
quently all night. Soon he had the best 
trade in New York harbor. Continuing 
for some years he acquired great inter-
ests in shipping and railroads, and be-
came the richest man of his day in 
America. When Russel Sage was seven-
ty-five years old and worth seventy-
five million dollars he Continued work, 
for he believed it was the best way to 
1414 keep in health and do good. 
The heights are not reached by a royal 
road, nor are they attained by a single 
bound. It requires persevering indus-
try. Great talent as well as moderate 
ability will be improved by it, and 
nothing meritorious is attained with- 
out it. Historical events which are 
great and noble and true are the result 
of vast preparatory training, time, and 
labor. Opportunities never come to 
idlers. There may be more defeats than 
victories, but final triumph. Washing-
ton lost battles more frequently than he 
won them, but was successful in the end. 
Temporary defeat brings out the reso-
lution and strength of an individual and 
painstaking effort wins the day. 
So long as there are new fields to be 
explored, so long as there are wrongs to 
be righted, so long as there are wounds 
to be healed, so long as there are tears 
to be wiped away, so long as there are 
thirsty souls to be led to the living wa-
ters, so long is work imperative—there 
is an eternity in which to rest. 
Successful progress requires a straight-
forward course without turning to the 
right hand or to the left—it demands 
specialization. The particular work, 
the chosen vocation, may be ordinary, 
but when entered upon it should be 
pursued in an extraordinary way, the 
work should be done better than is ex-
pected. It should have all the zeal and 
enthusiasm possible to command. 
Not long in the past it was possible 
for one man to attain universal knowl-
edge, but it is not so now. Knowledge 
has wonderfully increased in the last 
century. There has been phenomenal 
advancement in many lines, and inumer-
able things not dreamed of have become 
common-place. The whole energy of 
life may be wasted running to and fro 
while it should be definitely and per-
sistently directed to accomplish a noble 
work. This marvelous development 
and consequent increasing perplexity 
makes a high degree of technical ability 
necessary. 
This does not discourage a broad 
training; in fact, it implies a great 
breadth of mind and far extending 
sympathies. It demands a general cul-
ture in keeping with the chosen work, 
it also necessiates a comparatively inti- 
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mate knowledge of closely related inter-
ests. With all this one may stop by the 
way to visit the afflicted as Gladstone 
visited the poor, sick boy who swept 
the street crossings, or do other deeds of 
kindness as Philip Brooks cared for a 
baby in the slums of Boston while its 
mother took a walk in the fresh air, or 
as President Lincoln restored to their 
mother the little birds which had been 
blown from their nest in a storm. 
Though this age, more than any other, 
requires specialization to succeed, it is 
true that in all time the individual who 
has made the greatest success is the one 
who has consecrated his efforts upon 
one thing. The continual dropping of 
water w,11 wear the hardest rock. The 
goal has not been reached by wavering 
and faltering, but by a constant and 
steady aim at a definite end. When 
Columbus was on his voyage of discov-
ery, he wrote in his journal each night, 
"This day we sailed westward which 
was our course." 
This plan of specialization is contin-
ually gaining general favor. A 
physician can acquire greater profic-
iency as a specialist than as a general 
practicioner, a teacher can render bet-
ter service when restricted to a chair 
than when compelled to occupy a 
"settee," and nothing meets with more 
general approval than for a minister to 
specialize on preaching the gospel. 
New Jersey has many harbors, but 
they are so shallow and narrow that it 
is restricted to a limited coasting trade; 
whereas New York, with only one 
ocean port, which, however, is broad 
and deep and grand, leads America in 
her great commercial interests, and 
sends her vessels to every country of 
the world. 
The particular work is determined by 
the capabilities and inclinations of the 
individual. To these, careful and seri-
ous consideration should be given, and 
the work should be chosen accordingly. 
The finding of the exact place is a for- 
tunate thing. Some make the choice in 
early life, and thus have the advantage 
of all the time. On the other hand, 
,ome wait till later years when a more 
general view of the field has been taken. 
It may be that with increasing knowl-
edge a change can profitably be made, 
but the thorns of one's own vocation 
and the roses of another's should not be 
allowed undue influence. 
There are a great many things to be 
done. Many abuses are to be corrected, 
many good deeds to be performed. 
There is room for new inventions and 
the discovery of new truth. There is a 
chance for every one who will espouse 
a noble cause and use all the ability he 
has or may acquire in carrying it for-
ward to success. 
The advancement of a century in the 
differentiation of affairs has not failed 
to recognize womanhoo!. A centennial 
ago the educational advantages offered 
girls in our country were very meager. 
Some years later a decided advancement 
was made in establishing seminaries for 
young women. About seventy years 
ago Oberlin College opened its doors 
to them on the same conditions as to 
young men. From this beginning they 
have steadily and rapidly progressed 
toward equality everywhere. Though 
it is true that the supreme touch of 
womanly grace paints its most beautiful 
pictures in the home, yet this same 
grace executes masterpieces outside in 
many ways now open to women. 
Human capabilities are too limited to 
become proficient in all the ways with-
in reach. Life is too short to ascend all 
the peaks along the journey. Thus it is 
best to make careful selection of some 
one, and having made the choice, to ad-
vance with sure and steady progress to-
ward the very heights. There may be 
throngs at the base, but there is room at 
the top; and the higher the light of 
truth is placed, the farther its genial 
rays will be seen. 
It is the part of wisdom to have qc,4' 
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company and guidance all the way. It 
is He that hath stretched out the 
heavens with all their etherial loveli- 
ness, it is He that hath created the 
mighty deep and set the bounds of her 
proud waves, it is He that hath spread 
forth the earth with the beauty of her 
springing verdure, it is He that hath 
reared the mountains in all their sub- 
lime grandeur. He too knows the ex-
periences of every life with its possi- 
bilities and destiny. In the more 
pleasant experiences one has abundant 
companionship. "Laugh and the world 
laughs with you." It is well to be hap-
py and make others happy. In bring-
ing joy to another life not only is glad-
ness created for the moment, but happi-
ness is made twenty years hence in 
memory of the event. Yet there are 
deeper experiences in iife--in these we 
walk alone, Grief is not expressed na-
turally. Conventionality, perhaps prop-
erly, places a restriction upon it, and 
intense feeling is too deep for expres-
sion. No human heart can fully appre-
ciate the experience of another. The 
nearest approach is accomplished by 
one of strong sympathetic nature and 
suffering like affliction. "Weep and 
you weep alone." In the deeper exper-
iences of sadness time drags wearily 
on, moments seem hours, and time eter-
nity. The silence is undisturbed except 
by the throbbing of the afflicted heart, 
and the tears fall in a solitude which 
furnishes no witness save some mental 
picture, or the portrait of a departed 
loved one. In such moments the world 
with all its wealth, fame, honor, and 
tinsel show, rapidly recedes and vanish-
es, being revealed by the glory of the 
bow about the throne and the manifes-
tation of love and sympathy of a Fath-
er's face, a Father's smile. 
When the prescribed course shall 
have been finished, when the journey 
shall have been completed, when the 
heights of time shall have been reached, 
and when the dawning beams of eternal 
day shall have dispelled the mist before 
the future and painted a blush on the 
cheek of earth's dark night, happy the 
one who shall be permitted not only to 
take a view of the promised land, but to 
step over onto the foothills of eternity. 
With space left behind, with time in 
the past, with a universe before, with 
eternity ahead, and with the Master 
Teacher to instruct, what possibilities 
will there not be to the successful can-
didate? Happy, yea supremely blessed, 
in that grand, glad commencement day 
the one who receives a diploma signed 
with the never fading blood of the 
crucified, sealed on the cross of Cal-
vary, and delivered by the loving hand 
which shall ever bear the scars of an-
other's guilt. 
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GENERAL CULTURE COURSE 
"PRINCELY MEN IN THE HEAVEN-
LY KINGDOM" 
EXAMINATION 
1. What is the meaning of "Princely 
Men in the Heavenly Kingdom"? 
2. Give a brief sketch of the life of 
Robert Morrison. 
3. What were some of the difficulties 
be had to meet in entering China, and 
how did he overcome them? 
4. What valuable work did he do for 
missionaries that follow? 
5. Give an account of the way in 
which Mackenzie was enabled to begin 
the work and establish a hospital at 
Tientsin. 
6. What course did Gilmore pursue 
in learning the Chinese language? 
7. Give a brief account of Dr. Nevins' 
plan for mission work. 
8. Name f par qualities which are 
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prominent in the lives of these mission-
aries--qualities which are necessary for 
each one who would make a true suc-
cess in life? 
9. What was the cause of the Boxer 
Uprising? 
10. Was this a movement directed 
especially against religion? 
Why did missionaries suffer more 
than other foreigners? 
11. Give practical lessons which you 
have gained from the study of this 
book. 
"UP FROM SLAVERY" 
EXAMINATION 
Write brief statements on not less 
than ten points in the life of Booker T. 
Washington which seem to you of 
special importance. 
world? Explain the force of these 
figures. 
4. What was Jesus' attitude toward 
the law of God? 
5. What illustrations of the spirit-
uality of the law are given by Jesus? 
6. What is the true motive of service? 
What double blessing comes from works 
of beneficence? 
7. What should be the attitude of 
God's children toward those in error? 
8. Explain the significance of the 
golden rule. 
9. What illustration is given at the 
close to show the results of the right 
and wrong way? 
10. You should commit to memory 
the beatitudes, the Lord's prayer, the 
golden rule, and Matt. 6: 33. 
Have you done this? 
YOUNG PEOPLES' WORK 
"THOUGHTS FROM THE MOUNT OF 
BLESSING" 
NOTE 
Through the failure to receive at this 
office the last three lessons on "Thoughts 
from the Mount of Blessing" from the 
one appointed to prepare them, and be-
cause of the absence of the Secretary of 
Young People's Work, these lessons 
have not appeared. We hope that many 
have profited by a careful study of this 
most beautiful exposition of the Sa-
viour's great sermon, outlining the prin-
ciples of His kingdom. We present 
herewith a list of test questions on the 
book. 
EXAMINATION 
1. Where was the sermon on the 
mount delivered, and with what other 
great event in gospel history was it con-
nected? 
2. Sum up the characteristics of the 
true children of God as set forth in the 
beatitudes. 
3. What beautiful illustrations are 
used by the Saviour to show the office 
and work of the children of God in this 
The young people's work is onward. 
There is soon to be sent out from the 
General Conference Sabbath School and 
Young People's Department a leaflet of 
instruction to church officers on this 
important branch of the work. 
CARD OF THANKS 
To THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF UNION 
COLLEGE 
It was indeed a surprise and pleasure 
to us when we opened a package to-day 
and found enclosed an album filled 
with views of Union College buildings, 
grounds, and groups. We do not hesi-
tate to say that our friends in the College 
could not have chosen anything that 
would give us more pleasure: and as we 
look at the pictures, each one of which 
represents a scene so familiar to us, our 
hearts shall always be filled with grati-
tude and fond rememberance of the 
donors of this beautiful and expensive 
gift. �
J. SUTHERLAND 
MARY SUTHERLAND 
Lawrance, Kans., 
June 28, 1905. 
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KANSAS SANITARIUM OPENED 
L. C. CHRISTOFFERSON 
N the afternoon and evening of 
June 14th a large audience as-
sembled to commemorate the 
opening of the Kansas Sanitari-
um, which is beautifully located on an 
elevation in the center of a 20-acre 
tract of fertile soil donated by the citi-
zens of Wichita. This valuable tract of 
land lies just outside the corporate lim-
its of the city, which has a population 
of over 35,000 people. 
The program arranged for the occasion 
consisted of speeches and music, an or- 
refreshments, consisting of the different 
health foods while short talks on health 
principles were given in response to 
the many questions asked. City friends 
complimented us with large palms for 
rooms and corridors, hanging baskets 
for verandas and three hundred folding 
chairs for the occasion. 
The work which has resulted in the 
erection and completion of this institu-
tion, now launched upon its work, 
found a beginning three years ago when 
Mrs. Christofferson and the writer came 
to Wichita by recommendation of the 
Nebraska Sanitarium. At first we se-
cured rooms in a prominent five story 
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chestra rendering selections till late in 
the evening. Dr. David Paulson of 
Chicage, delivered the opening address, 
which was in brief, "The need of Sani-
tariums, and the work they are accom-
plishing." Mr. C. L. Davidson, presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce of 
the city of Wichita, acted as chairman 
for the occasion. Prominent citizens 
participated in the exercises. All 
present manifested a deep interest in 
the stirring and timely remarks, and 
many expressed that their souls had 
indeed been watered, also realizing that 
this sanitarium may prove a blessing 
not only to Wichita, but to patients 
who would come from every part of the 
State. After the exercises the building 
with its equippment was open for in-
spection. Then every visitor partook of 
business block and with health litera-
ture, and sanitarium foods readily ob-
tained work, and gained access to many 
of the influential homes of the city. 
Daily we were questioned concerning 
health principles and the nature of our 
work, which steadily grew. In a short 
time we leased a two-story frame build-
ing, where we served hygienic meals, 
sold health foods, and administered the 
most essential hydrotherapic measures to 
a growing list of patients. Ere long we 
employed several nurses and leased an 
adjoining twelve-room building. The 
citizens of Wichita manifested some in-
terest in equipping the Treatment Rooms 
and prominent residents as well as 
Statesmen here visited us, and found 
relief from disease and suffering. 
Though expenses were very high, the 
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Lord sent us many patients and blessed 
every effort put forth, enabling us to 
meet all expenses connected with the 
work. 
Since the fall of 1903 we have con-
ducted a nurses' training school, the 
two present classes numbering thirteen. 
We have been blessed with intelligent 
and devoted workers, who have taken 
hold of the work in a very earnest way. 
About one year ago work began on the 
new building, which is erected on a 
knoll, commanding a choice view in 
every direction. It is veneered with 
brick and has a capacity of about thir-
ty-five patients. The measurements are 
44x88 feet, four stories; and the wing to 
the west is 30x32 feet, three stories 
high. The sanitarium is equipped with 
its own water, heat, and electric light 
plant. A lawn of four acres surrounds 
the building, covered with young shade 
trees. The balance of the land is used 
principally for garden purposes, several 
acres having already been set to fruit of 
various kinds. 
For months prior to the formal open-
ing the confusion incident to our build-
ing work could not keep away a num-
ber of those seeking physical relief, 
hence we have enjoyed considerable 
patronage before the institution was 
ready for inspection. 
We realize that the Lord has especial-
ly worked for us, and that this building 
is His planting. As He sends us pa-
tients, we have many opportunities to 
teach the people how to live, also that 
these truths are of heavenly origin. 
UNION COLLEGE LABOR BUREAU 
BULLETIN NO. 1 
WORK WANTED 
Nos. 1, 2.—Two young ladies of excel-
lent character and habits. Brought up as 
Seventh-day Adventists. Have finished 
a course in stenography and typewrit-
ing, but have not had much experience 
in practical work. Hence would expect 
only moderate salary. Ought to make 
faithful and efficient secretaries. 
No. 3.—Man and wife of long and ex-
cellent experience in teaching. Several 
years in our denominational schools. 
Graduates of Battle Creek College. Man 
is a good speaker, a carpenter, and a 
horticulturist. 
No. 4.—Young man, single, graduate of 
Union College. Has taught a successful 
term of church school. Has had some 
experience in printing. Would like 
editorial or other literary work, or 
teaching. 
No. 5.—Good music teacher, wants a 
position in one of our schools. Can 
teach other branches also. Can give the 
best of references. 
No. 6.—An excellent teacher of consid-
erable experience in one of our higher 
schools. Graduate. Prefers English. 
No. 7.—Man and wife of below middle 
age. Baker and teacher. No children. 
Willing to go anywhere as missionaries. 
WORKERS WANTED 
No. 1.—George Crawford, Cove Creek, 
N. Carolina, wants a thoroughly conse-
crated young man to help him in a 
school which he started three years ago 
in the mountainous region of the state. 
An excellent opportunity for canvassing 
when not teaching. Write him direct. 
No. 2.—Elder J. W. Christian, Viborg, 
So. Dak., wants three or four German 
teachers for the church school work of 
that conference. 
No. 3.—A male teacher thoroughly 
qualified to take charge of the science 
work of one of our advanced schools. 
For further information in regard to 
the foregoing cases write direct where 
addresses are given, otherwise to the �
fr 
Bureau. Refer by number to the cases. 
Those who want labor in any depart-
ment of the Third Angel's Message, also 
those who want laborers, are requested 
to write to the UNION COLLEGE LABOR 
BUREAU, College View, Neb. No ex-
pense, but please enclose postage. 
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THE EDITt.ATIONAL MESSENGER �
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SIR Etattational 
Ra•rwatlo` the Educational Department of the Cen-
tral Union Conferenns of Seveath-day Adventists, 
which embraces its Training College, Interrnedi- 
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ate Schools, Church Schools, Sabbath Schools, 
Saattariums Eunice' Training Schools. and 
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the Young People's Societies. 
Issued the 1st and 15th of each month by 
the Central Union Conference, 
College View, �
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416 All unsigned articles ars by the editors associate edi-
tors sign their Initials 
terms of Subscriptton 
Per sr. in advance. posts's...is. goo 
Nrius anb Notts 
Harry Baker is canvassing at LaJunta, 
Colo. 
H. E. Reeder is canvassing at Rocky 
Ford, Colo. 
Oscar Frank is canvassing at Buena 
Vista, Colo. 
Gladys Shufelt is canvassing at Las 
Animas, Colo. 
Cush Sparks is canvassing at Grand 
Junction, Colo. 
John J. Weir and wife have gone to 
the Battle Creek, Mich., Sanitarium. 
Myron B. Jenkins is canvassing at 
Payette, Idaho. He writes encouraging-
ly of his work. 
Gertie and George Grant are at their 
home at Rosalia, Kans. George expects 
to return to school this fall. 
A letter from W. L. Snair, M. D., who 
was a student at Union College some 
ten years ago, makes inquiry concerning 
‘44 the work of the school and of the Home 
on behalf of a young lady who wishes to 
enter the College. The letter shows 
that Mr. Snair is practicing medicine at 
Walden, Colorado. We are always glad 
to hear of the success of our old 
students. 
Otto Black is canvassing at Kinsley, 
Kans. 
Addie Green is canvassing at Spring-
field, Mo. 
Dwight Pettis and C. B. Evilsisor are 
canvassing near Boulder, Colo. 
Merle Scott is doing office work for 
Brother C. H. Tyrrell in Sioux Rapids, 
Iowa. 
Arthur R. Smith is working at Pitkin, 
Colo., this summer for Brother J. F. 
Pearson. 
Lena Koenig is canvassing for "Great 
Controversy" near Council Bluffs, Iowa, 
and is doing well. 
Dr. W. S. Butterbaugh, who was a stu-
dent at Union College, several years ago, 
is located at Johnson, Neb. 
We have word from Eld. D. Nettleton 
and family, to the effect that they are 
enjoying their stay on the Pacific Coast 
very much. 
Lena Hunt, class of '05, is assisting 
Prof. B. E. Nicola in a summer school at 
Battle Creek, Mich. She has charge of 
the first five grades. 
Please remember that the June and 
July Mess en gers are double num-
bers; there will be only one issue for 
each month, instead of two as usual. 
Lilah E. States is at her home in 
Cedaredge, Colo., this summer. She is 
planning to send some seeds and bulbs 
of a most beautiful lily which grows on 
their place, for the College campus. 
Max Hill is working as a stenographer 
in the Pacific Press office at Mountain 
View, California. He spent the Fourth 
of July in San Fransisco and reveled in 
the Pacific Ocean water at the famous 
Sutro baths. 
Married, at the home of the bride's 
parents, Miss Mabelle Cartwrite, of 
Bridgeport, Neb., to Mr. Wallace C. 
Carlson, of Pilot Mound, Iowa, June 
15, 1905. They will make their home 
at Pilot Mound, Ia. 
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A HASTY DEPARTURE 
Miss Carrie Segehartt, the Matron of 
Union College, returned Friday, July 7, 
from a visit to her home in Kansas. 
We wish we could say that she entered 
at once upon the work of superintend-
ing the cleaning and repairs necessary 
before the opening of school, but we 
cannot. Instead, she began to pack her 
things, and Monday, July 10, she started 
for South America. Her friends were 
so surprised that they hardly had time 
to recover their breath before she was 
gone. About a dozen of them, however, 
gathered in the reception room of South 
Hall fifteen minutes before she took the 
car, presented her with a serviceable 
"steamer rug," and bade her good bye. 
President Lewis made a few presenta-
tion remarks, Elder .Hoopes offered 
prayer, the parting words were said, and 
she had started upon her long journey. 
We understand that she goes as Matron 
of the school at Diamante, Province of 
Entre Rios, Argentine Republic, of 
which A. J. Fulton, Union College, Class 
of '98, is principal, and C. D. Lude, Class 
of '02, is in charge of the German depart-
ment. There is a well-defined rumor 
that the last-named person is the insti-
gator of this plot to abduct our matron 
and transport her to a foreign clime, 
but we dare not mention it until further 
developments. We submit, however, 
and bid her God-speed. Union College 
has had her as matron for several years, 
and ought not to cling selfishly to her, 
but rather be glad to be able to furnish 
so faithful and capable a worker to the 
cause in South America. Miss Sege-
bartt will join J. W. Westphal in New 
York, will stop with him to attend the 
camp meeting in Germany; and then 
they will proceed on their long voyage 
to Argentina. May the protecting bless-
ing of God accompany them. 
Eld. W. T. Hills, one of our former 
students, is with a tent company at La 
Junta, Colo. 
Gertrude Burghart is at her home in 
Olivia, Minn. 
Thos. S. Anderson is at his home in 
Spirit Lake, Iowa. 
A. J. Nelson, who was a student at 
Union College three yeari ago, died re-
cently at his home in Iowa. His broth-
er is working for the International 
Publishing Association. 
Beatrice Baharian recently received 
the joyful news that her father, who 
with several companions had been im-
prisoned about a year at Ourf a, Turkey 
in Asia, for preaching the gospel, has 
been set at liberty. 
Mercia Morse, who attended Union 
College about 1898, called upon Miss 
Elsa Northrup on her way home to 
Sacramento, Neb. She has served as 
bookeeper in the Chicage Branch Sani-
tarium and in the Life Boat office at 
Hinsdale. She expects to return to her 
work in October. 
Our hearts were made sad a few days 
ago by the news of the death of one of 
our students, Miss Eva Beard, who 
spent three years in Union College. 
The following is from the Lincoln Daily 
Star:— 
Stanton, Neb., July 13. —Miss Eva 
Beard, the 17 year old daughter of 
County Surveyor Jesse Beard, was 
drowned in the Elkhorn river south of 
this place at 3 o'clock yesterday after-
noon. A party of Stanton people had 
established a camp at this place and 
yesterday afternoon a party of girls vis-
iting at the camp went into the river to 
bathe. Miss Lou Underberg, aged 15, 
while wading along near the bank of 
the river stepped into a deep hole and 
was carried into deep water by the swift 
current of the stream. Endeavoring to 
help her friend, Miss Beard slipped and 
was carried beyond her depth. She 
came to the surface but once after going 1 
under. The current carried Miss Un-
derberg over the deep water and she 
caught hold of the limbs of some trees 
hanging over the bank and got ashore. 
At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon the 
body of Miss Beard was found in about 
three feet of water and within twenty 
feet of where she was drowned. 
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Miss Ruth E. Millette is living in 
Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
John Neufeldt and wife are connected 
with a tent company at Sutton, Neb. 
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J. H. Schmidt is working with the 
9 Scandinavian tent company at Omaha, 
Neb. 
J. J. Weir and wife are at the Sanitar-
ium, Battle Creek, Mich. He is prepar-
ing for the medical course. 
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Miss Nora Hiatt, Union College class 
of 1905, has been engaged by Keene Aca-
demy as teacher of English Language. 
Carrie Dowden is working in the 
Colorado Conference. She has lately 
been enjoying a much needed rest at 
Boulder. 
Mrs. L. Flora Plummer is again secre-
tary of the General Conference S. S. 
Department and will take a special in-
terest in the young people's work. 
Mr. Willers, Miss Laura Newman, and 
Emil Rosenwald are working in Omaha, 
Neb., in connection with the canvass-
ing work and the Swedish tent company. 
Wavie Tubbs is attending the summer 
session of the state normal school at 
Mankato, Minn. She has been teaching 
since leaving Union College, and is 
planning on returning at some future 
time. 
Prof. and Mrs. J. L. Jones, from Keene 
Academy, Texas, recently called a few 
hours upon President Lewis's family 
while on their way to Bozeman, Mont., 
where they go to take charge of the 
Montana Intermediate School, about to 
be established in the beautiful Gallatin 
Valley. 
F. J. Wilbur has recently been ap-
pointed secretary of the young people's 
$ work in Iowa to succeed Miss Fannie 
Black who went to California. Brother 
Wilbur is taking hold of the work with 
earnestness and we expect to see a suc-
cessful work done among the great 
army of young people in the state of 
Iowa. 
Mary Hanson is at her home in Ring-
sted, Iowa. 
Walter Rich is working with the tent 
company at Ansley, Neb. 
R. T. Baer is doing ministerial work 
in the Wyoming Mission Field. 
Katie Hein is at Palisade, Neb. She 
expects to be in school again this year. 
L. E. Colson lives at Tekamah, Neb. 
He is spending a part of his time in 
missionary work. 
Frank Kennedy and wife expect to be 
in Union College next year. Mr. Ken-
nedy is at present working in Des 
Moines, Iowa. 
J. W. Christensen a former student of 
Union College is now acting as super-
intendent of church schools in the 
South Dakota Conference. 
Cornelius Dirksen, who was in school 
a short time last year, is at his home in 
Alexandria, Iowa. He thinks of taking 
up school work again next fall. 
D. L. Huenergardt writes from Dur-
ham, Oklahoma, that he is planning to 
return to Unicn College next fall, and 
hopes to bring two or three other stu-
dents with him. 
Eld. A. R. Ogden, Union College, 
class of '97, sends a list of addresses for 
calendars from Logan, Kansas. He will 
soon be at Downs, Kan., where a local 
camp meeting will be held the latter 
part of July. 
The son of Bro. S. A. Crichlow, Port-
of-Spain, Trinidad, will sail for New 
York August 26, on his way to Union 
College, where he expects to study sev-
eral years. He is due to reach College 
View about September 4. 
Elmer H. Johnson of the class of 1902 
is working in the Pacific Press at 
Mountain View, Cal. He has charge of 
the linotype machines and operates one 
himself. He has lately enjoyed a visit 
with his parents at Cambria, Wis. His 
brother, Ernest, expects to be in Union 
College this year. 
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A. B. Hall, Union College 1902, 1903, 
is working on a farm near Crawford, 
Neb. 
Misses Mabel and Palma Peterson, 
former students of Union College, are at 
the Iowa Sanitarium. 
B. M. Garton attended Union College 
in 1899 and 1900. He is now engaged 
in the ministry, and his address is Key-
stone, S. D. 
E. R. Mathwig, Union College, win-
ters of '98 and 1900-1903, is at present on 
a ranch at Oelrichs, S. D. He expects 
to teach a church school this fall and 
winter. 
Maude Bailey attended the Chadron, 
(Neb.) camp meeting. She will spend 
the summer in Deadwood, S. D., where 
she expects to engage in church school 
work next fall. 
Isabella. McClelland, at the close of 
the College, visited her Aunt, Mrs. 
French, at Bozeman, Montana, where 
she remained several weeks. On her 
return she made a short call upon Mrs. 
Lewis at College View, and then went 
to her home in Milo, Kansas. 
We note with sadness the death of 
Eld. D. T. Bourdeau, one of the oldest 
ministers in the denomination. He at-
tended the General Conference and the 
writer congratulated him upon his good 
health. Elder B. died at Grand Rapids, 
Mich., June 30. His funeral was held 
in tife Tabernacle at Battle Creek, and 
he was buried in Oak Hill cemetery, 
July 2. His sickness lasted only two 
weeks. 
Miss Gertrude Thompson safely ar-
rived at home in Mauston, Wis., after 
the close of school, and is now caring 
for her brother's little children, whose 
mother died recently. She writes: "My 
whole ambition is that the children 
may be raised to be little Christians. It 
only that can be, any effort that I may 
put forth will be small indeed. I am 
so glad for the help I have had at old 
Union." 
Josephine Linstrom is at her home 
with her mother at Lansing, Iowa. 
Mr. Kawai has gone to Rush county, 
Kansas to work. He expects to be in 
school next year. 
W. T. Showers, who was a student a1# 
Union College about twelve years ago, 
is in Prescott, Iowa. 
Iva Leech, who attended Union Col-
lege in 1900 and 1901, is secretary of the al 
Wyoming Mission Field, with head-
quarters at Crawford, Neb. 
M ertie Wheeler spent her vacation-
with the "home folks" at Crawford, Ne-
braska, and attended the camp-meeting 
of the Wyoming Mission Field, at 
Chadron. 
Jay Nethery is engaged in tent meet-
ing work with Eld. L. B. Porter, at 
Chadron, Neb. He attended Union Col-
lege during the winters of 1899 and 1900. 
His wife is Ella E. Hedgecock, of the 
class of 1899. 
Philip Runck, who attended Union 
College about 1901, has finished his pre-
paratory course at Battle Creek College, 
and has made application to the N. Y. 
Board of Regents for a medical certifi-
cate to enter upon a medical course. His 
present address is Republican City, Ne-
braska. 
Nellie Reese reached her home safely 
in Turin, Iowa, and writes that it seems 
real good to be at home again. But she 
gets "real homesick" at times for the 
College associations, especially on the 
Sabbath. She is true to her convictions, 
though alone in her belief, and wants to 
be remembered to all inquiring friends. 
Prof. P. E. Berthelsen attended the 
camp meeting at Woonsocket, S. D., 
and, by invitation of the South Dakota 
Conference, will spend two or three 
weeks in a tent meeting at Viborg, with 
Elder J. W. Christian, a former Union 
College student. After that he will vis-
it several Scandinavian churches in 
South Dakota before returning to Col-
lege View, 
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