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THE ALUMNI NUMBER 
According to our announcement in 
the Commencement Double Number of 
the MESSENGER, we herewith present the 
Alumni Double Number. It may not 
be quite so large as our usual double 
numbers, but since the Commencement 
Number was three times the size of our 
regular issue our subscribers will lose 
nothing. We thought our readers would 
be pleased to have the special matter 
of each or these numbers all together, 
rather than separated in the usual 
smaller issues. Some of our friends 
forgot our plan announced May 15, and 
have been writing for missing numbers. 
Let all take notice that there will be 
only the present number during July, 
and that the next number will he dated 
August 1. 
The Alumni of Union College now 
number about 230. Over half of 
these are directly connected with 
the organized work of the denomina-
tion. The Alumni Association was 
organized four years ago. It has 
maintained yearly meetings since. At 
its last meeting, held at the College the 
evening of May 20, between sixty and 
seventy members were present, Every 
class was represented but that of 1895. 
The program was excellent but we will 
not speak of it further here, since a 
full report by the secretary will be 
found in another column. 
We believe the Alumni Association 
has the power to do the College great 
good. See in this connection Chan-
cellor Andrews' article on this subject 
printed elswhere in this number. The 
College is grateful for the loyal support 
of her children. She cherished them 
in their youth and she is glad to lean 
upon them in their mature years. Long 
life and good success to the Alumni 
Association! 
UNION COLLEGE UNDERGRAD- 
UATE ASSOCIATION 
Shall we have such an association? 
The thought is suggested by reading 
the report of the Alumni meeting. The 
undergraduates must number many hun-
dreds. They are scattered throughout 
the world. It would be a good work to 
search them out and bring them together 
into bonds of association even though 
comparatively few of them could attend 
the meetings that might be held. They 
could be present in spirit, and would 
greatly enjoy reading the reports of the 
doings of those who might have the 
privilege of attending. Think also of 
the experiences and observations of this 
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large army of old Union College stu-
dents so widely scattered. How varied 
and interesting! What a benefit to bring 
these experiences together in the con-
venient columns of the MESSENGER as 
the organ of the Association! Why, we 
almost have it, have we not? We move 
that such an association of the under-
graduate students of Union College be 
formed. All who are in favor of this 
motion please manifest their interest by 
writing at least a postal card to the 
editor telling what they think about it. 
UNION COLLEGE CALENDAR 
The Annual Calendar has been a long 
time coming but it is here at last. When 
we see its size, two hundred and thirty 
pages, we do not wonder at the delay. 
It does credit to the College Printing 
Department, where all the work was 
performed except the making of the 
photo-engravings, which was done by 
the old and well-known firm of Win. C. 
Gage and Son of Battle Creek, Mich. 
The illustrations, thirty-three in num-
ber, are a marked feature of the Cal-
endar. Nearly all are new, the photo-
graphs having been taken expressly for 
this number by Prof. E. C. Kellogg. 
When we remember that all but one of 
the six or eight hands of the office force 
are students, none of whom have had 
more than two years' experience, and 
when we learn from the annual finan-
cial report that the Office has pur-
chased a new job press, and still has 
come out $251.70 ahead, we feel like 
extending our congratulations to the 
Union College Press. 
Nor would we forget to say that we 
want every copy of the Calendar to go 
out and bring in a student. What will 
we do with them? Never mind; that is 
an after consideration. Send all appli-
cations for Calendars to the President 
of Union College, College View, Neb. 
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE 
I left College View Saturday evening, 
June 1, and reached the Des Moines 
campground the next day. Here I met 
a large number of Union College stu-
dents, and spent four very pleasant days. 
The most important educational item 
connected with the work of the Iowa 
Conference was the unanimous adoption 
of the second tithe system for the sup-
port of the church school work. This 
matter had been very carefully con-
sidered. Elder Owen's tract on the sub-
ject had been freely circulated by the 
Conference upon the campground, and 
the resolution was before the people 
three days before final adoption. Two 
public studies were given, and the ques-
tion thoroughly discussed in the Con-
ference. It was distinctly understood 
that if the delegates voted affirmatively 
it meant that they would themselves 
adopt the system as well as recommend 
the churches at home to do the same. 
 
When the final vote was taken, every 
delegate and nearly all of the people 
in the tent voted in the affirmative. By 
this new plan it is proposed to pay a 
second tithe on one's income after the 
first tithe is taken out. One-third of 
the second tithe will be devoted to 
local interests, and two-thirds will 
be sent to the conference treasury 
for the support of the church school 
work. I think Iowa is the second con-
ference to adopt this system. It cer-
tainly means much to the church school 
work, and all will watch with interest 
the result. 
We held a Union College reunion, 
which was well attended. Mr. Benson, 
who remained throughout the campmeet-
ing, said he never saw so good and 
an interest in college work among 
the people and believes that a 
larger number of students �
will 
attend the College from that State 
than heretofore. 
Leaving the Iowa campground Wed- 
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nesday evening, I reached tke Minnesota 
campground at St. Cloud Friday fore-
noon, and remained until the close of 
the meeting, Sunday evening, June 9. I 
have never seen better interest in the 
educational work than was manifested 
by the Minnesota people. My time was 
fully occupied in talking with those 
who expect to attend Union College 
next year, or who had questions to ask 
in regard to educational matters. We 
held a reunion of the old Union College 
students, and of the students of the 
Minnesota conference school, which 
was really the beginning of the educa-
tional work in the Mississippi valley 
and which finally developed into Union 
College. The attendance was large, and 
the meeting was an enthusiastic one. 
Several who are now actively engaged 
as ministers and presidents of confer-
ences related their experiences in the 
Minnesota conference school and in 
Union College, and altogether we had a 
very enjoyable and profitable time. 
After coming home one day to look 
after matters pertaining to the calendar, 
I started Wednesday, June 12, with Mrs. 
Lewis and my daughter, Irma, for the 
South Dakota campground at Sioux 
Falls. We stopped over at Elk Point 
Academy, and were much pleased with 
what we saw. The school was not in 
session, and everybody had gone to the 
campmeeting but Professor Thurber and 
family and two or three students who 
were working on the place. They are 
certainly setting us a good example in 
some of their industries. They have 
five acres of tomatoes, and expect to 
put up 20,000 cans this fall. There are 
at least four firms who stand ready to 
take every can they put up. Their 
broom industry is in a very flourishing 
condition. The school has prospered 
from the beginning, and the past year 
they had at one time more students 
than they could well accommodate. At 
the conference it was decided to put in 
a heating plant for the boy's dormitory, 
and other improvements will be made 
that will make the students more com-
fortable the coming year than in the 
past. 
The South Dakota people are very 
friendly toward Union College. They 
have always sent us a large representa-
tion of students. Twenty-six was the 
number last year, and all indications are 
that there will be more the comtng year. 
Leaving Sioux Falls Thursday, June 
20, I expected to reach the campground 
at Crawford, Nebraska, the next day, but 
my train was late at Sioux City, causing 
a delay of twenty-four hours, so that I 
did not reach my destination until the 
morning of the twenty-second. Here I 
met a goodly number of Union College 
students of former years and also those 
who were present last year. All who 
went to this field to engage in the can-
vassing work are doing well. Mr. Irvine 
and Mr. Jenkins are working on their 
second scholarships, and others are not 
far behind. We had a Union College re-
union, and it was found that one-fifth 
of all the people present had attended 
Union College. Nearly all of last year's 
students will return, and there were 
about a half dozen more who expect 
to be with us. 
The Wyoming Mission Field was or-
ganized into a conference. They started 
out with good prospect, having a surplus 
of about $3000.00. One of their first 
official acts as a conference was to vote 
$500.00 to the Foreign Mission Board. 
Few conferences have ever started out 
under so favorable conditions. 
Sunday evening, June 30, Mr. Benson 
and I took the train for Lincoln, fin-
ishing the 420 mile run at 12:30 Monday 
afternoon. We could not help admiring 
the country as we rode along. Reach-
ing home, I found an accumulation 
of correspondence, which required my 
attention for two or three days, and I 
am now getting ready to attend the 
young people's convention at Mount 
Vernon. Ohio, next week. 
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Alumni Anriation 
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THE EDUCATIDIVAL MESSENGER 
WELCOME TO SENIORS 
PROF. H. A. MORRISON 1900 
It is with pleasure that I meet and 
mingle with this assembly, an assembly 
whose hearts and minds are bound to- 
gether in a common cause. 
We meet no longer as the product 
but as the producer. A man is meas- 
ured by what he can do, by what he can 
produce. Some cultivate the parasitic 
quality, and thus have been enabled to 
accumulate large quantities of other 
men's product; but what have they 
added to the world? There is nothing 
that satisfies the human heart more than 
to do something useful and to do it 
thoroughly; to make something grow 
where nothing grew, or to make two 
stalks grow where only one grew before; 
or better still to plant one noble thought 
in a fallow mind and thus point one 
hungry soul to his divine Saviour, and 
to make our own lives teach cheerful-
ness, courage, and truth; but in order to 
do this the poet says:— 
"Thou must be true thyself, 
If thou the truth would teach; 
Thy soul must overflow 
If thou another's soul would reach; 
It needs the overflowing heart 
To give the lips full speech. 
Think truly and thy thought 
Shall the world's famine feed; 
Speak truly, and thy word 
Shall be a fruitful seed; 
Live truly and thy life 
Shall be a great and glorious creed." 
To-night we welcome the class 
of 1907 to become the factories from 
which shall ever flow the great princi-
ples for which this institution stands. 
We welcome them to join us in plant-
ing the seed of truth in the barren soil 
where it has never been sown. 
Just as the sturdy oak, each year, adds 
one ring to its mighty trunk and thus 
strengthens the strong, so we, to-night, 
are pleased to add to our number the 
class of 1907, with their "Love, Light, 
and Life for the World." 
And as expressed in the words of an-
other:— 
"Only when the sun of love 
Meets the scattered stars of thought 
Only when we live above 
What the dim-eyed world bath 
taught, 
Only when our souls are fed 
By the fount which gave them birth, 
And by inspiration led 
Which they never drew from earth, 
We, like parted drops of rain, 
Swelling till they meet and run, 
Shall be all absorbed again, 
Melting, flowing into one." 
PRACTICAL VALUE OF COLLEGE 
TRAINING IN WOMAN'S 
AFTER LIFE 
MRS. CHAS. H. HODGES 1896 
Higher education for women is of 
comparatively recent date, but already 
so many changes have been brought 
about in the educational, social, and 
business worlds that the magazines of to-
day are full of discussion as to the ad-
vantage or disadvantage, to woman 
herself and to the world at large, of this 
education. In the business world man 
has been compelled to quicken his pace 
or else he finds himself left behind. In 
the arts and sciences woman has made 
her presence felt to such an extent that 
the time honored question as to the 
superiority of the mind of man over 
that of woman is very little heard of 
nowadays. The question has resolved 
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itself into one of individuals not sex. 
The individual, man or woman, who 
has a mind broadened and cultivated 
by what is termed higher education, is 
certainly fortunate in equipment for life. 
Openings are to be found on all sides 
from which may be chosen an active, 
useful, independent life-work. The 
college girl has no thought of leading 
a useless life merely in search of her 
own happiness. Women who frivol 
away their lives in society are not col-
lege women, but are usually those whose 
education is limited to that of the com-
mon school, supplemented by a course 
in a "finishing off" school. Has the 
college woman, in later life wealth and 
leisure, she generally devotes her ener-
gies to educational or philanthropic 
work. She cannot be idle. The energy 
and perseverance that enabled her to 
complete her college course will stand 
her in good stead in whatever life-work 
she may choose. 
But what of the woman who marries, 
and whose talents are limited, in a 
measure .to her own home? For the 
college girl has proven that she is just 
as apt to marry as is any other. What 
now, we hear people ask, does her edu-
cation amount to? Wherein has she 
any advantage over others? Is not 
home-making the same the world over? 
First of all let us ask the college 
woman herself. She will invariably 
tell you that not for anything would 
she exchange her education; that the 
pleasure and satisfaction she gets from 
it are not to be estimated. And if, as 
has been said, our brief life here is but 
a search for happiness, if education so 
increases her happiness, it is a factor not 
to be overlooked. True happiness is 
found only in usefulness, and that 
woman is without doubt happiest who 
finds her most congenial work in her 
own house and with her own family. 
And when we say for the college that 
it prepares woman to be useful, compe-
tent, and happy in her home-life, we 
say the very best thing that we can say 
for it. 
With all things equal, a girl, entering 
her own home with the benefits of what 
a college training should mean to her, 
has a distinct advantage over one to 
whom such training has been denied. 
And as she values that home, will she 
consider no degree of culture or refine-
ment she may possess too great to bring 
into her home-life. The study of Latin, 
of history, of art, of music, has been 
refreshing and broadening, and will 
prove in later years a source of pleas-
ure and comfort to her. Her knowledge 
of mathematics, of physiology, and of 
chemistry forms the practical side of 
her education. Surely the value of 
hygiene, the beauty of order, the value 
of work and of system in all under-
takings have been impressed upon her 
mind if her educational opportunities 
have been of any worth. She is not 
content to do merely as she sees others, 
but avails herself of the help of which 
books and magazines are so full, adding 
to this the results of her own experi-
ments; for which her hands are busy, 
her brain is ever active, planning her 
work with the view of accomplishing 
the best results with the least expen-
diture of time and strength. A brief 
experience with average domestic help 
would serve to convince anyone of the 
value and need of brains in housework. 
To educated women we look to think 
out methods and devise appliances that 
shall rid housework of its drudgery and 
make its commonest duties a pleasure. 
Many of the brightest women of the 
age are devoting their lives to the solu-
tion of these domestic problems, and 
have been and are accomplishing much. 
It would be well for the college girl 
if she had the advantage of a course in 
cooking. But be that as it may, if she 
possesses an ordinary amount of ability 
there is no reason why it be not possi-
ble for her to attain unto that wisdom 
which in a housewife passeth under- 
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standing—that of a superlatively good 
cook. 
As a mother, she adds to love, knowl-
edge. The college woman does not 
stupify her infant with drugs, feed it 
on sugar, dose it with herb tea, dress it 
like a doll, nor treat it like a plaything. 
She studies the individual child, and 
by simple living and regular habits, she 
builds for it a foundation of health. 
Because of the influence of heredity 
and her daily teaching her children are 
apt in learning. Her knowledge of 
literature will enable her to establish 
correct literary tastes in her children 
when mere infants. And is it too much 
to say that usually they are far on the 
road to an education when others of 
the same age are only starting? And 
as they grow older she travels on with 
them, finding new joy in their every 
development, and growing young in 
years and sympathies as time goes by. 
There is no reason why the college 
woman's brain should grow rusty, as we 
express it, whatever her life work. She 
may forget her Latin declensions, but 
the benefit of that training will be hers 
always. And wherever she finds her-
self, if she keeps her mind active and 
her heart open to learn the lessons life 
teaches, she may continue a college 
student to the end. 
WHAT WE CAN DO FOR OUR 
ALMA MATER 
E. C. KELLOGG 1904 
There are no doubt many things 
which we can do for our Alma Mater, 
but I shall speak of only a few. First 
of all we can cherish its memory. When. 
we think of the acquaintances formed, 
when we call to mind its pleasant 
associations, and when we remember 
the direct benefit to us as individuals, 
we can not fail to respond with feelings 
of fond and lasting regard for the insti-
tution. No matter how far we wander 
from Union College, no matter that we 
be removed the length of a continent or 
the breadth of the wide, wide sea, in 
memory's hall choice pictures of Col-
lege life will ever hang. 
One reason for the organization of 
the Alumni Association was that of 
being a source of help and encourage-
ment to the graduating class. The mem-
bers of the class are made to feel that 
they have friends who have preceded 
them and that they have passed along 
pleasantly from school to the expe-
riences of real life. But this was not 
the only purpose of the association. In 
fact this was included in the broad idea 
of doing good. I believe the Alumni 
should be noted for doing things. Now 
I do not wish to startle you but I be-
lieve we can and should start an en-
dowment fund. If the College had a 
fund of one hundred thousand dollars, 
the proceeds of which should go to 
supply and maintain better equip-
ments, the efficiency of the work would 
be decidedly increased. When we call 
to mind the fact that the best invest-
ment on earth is that made in our 
young people and further that the Col-
lege is sending out many into the mis-
sionary field, we can see the impor-
tance of this move. Not a few could 
be interested in this that would not care 
to help in other lines. We may not be 
able to give large amounts but we can 
make a start and put ourselves on 
record as standing for the principle. 
Another thing. Not a few schools 
have the Alumni represented on the 
Board of Management. Would it not 
be well for the association at its annual 
meeting to elect two nembers to serve 
on the Board? No doubt the necessary 
and proper arrangements could be made 
at the meeting of the Central Union 
Conference. No one more than grad-
uates of the College could have an inter-
est in it and work for its success. An 
increase in the membership of the 
Board would tend to stability, breadth 
of purpose, and efficiency in the man-
agement. 
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And finally in closing, we can do no 
better than stand for the principles of 
the institution which has exercised its 
fostering care over us all. The College 
pledges itself to the work of the lowly 
Nazarene, it heralds the good tidings of 
great joy, it stands for a pure gospel. 
Let us therefore do it honor by repre-
senting the message of love than which 
the world has seen nothing greater or 
more sublime. 
THE ALUMNI ECHOES 
C. L. BENSON 1905 
"How cruelly sweet are the echoes that 
start 
When memory plays an old tune on the 
heart." 
"Fond memory brings the light of 
other days around us" as we unroll the 
records of the past, and recount the 
deeds of valor of our noble Alumni. 
By thus doing we revive old times, and 
in our memories preserve and still keep 
green those happy days. When thus 
tracing the progress of each alumnus, 
we are forcibly reminded that the world 
knows nothing of its greatest men and 
women. 
There were just two in the '94 class, 
Robert H. Biron and Herbert A. Owen; 
the latter has labored for eight years in 
Spanish Honduras. He is now in the 
United States for a short time arranging 
for the better prosecution of our work 
in Central America. He writes, "I'll 
never forget the days spent in Union 
College. My inspiration for service in 
the more destitute parts of the earth 
was greatly confirmed and fixed while 
there." 
Under the motto, "For God and Man," 
the class of '95 sent out five represen-
tatives; four long and one short course 
graduates. Guy Dail, the first graduate 
from the classical, is now secretary of 
the General European Conference. New-
ton G. Evans is a practicing physician 
in Murray, Kentucky. Norman T. 
Loughhead writes, "I am now employed 
in Mt. Vernon College as the teacher of 
History. This school is situated in 
central Ohio. It has a beautiful location 
and a standing as an institution of learn-
ing, which has been freely recognized 
by some of the leading colleges and uni-
versities of the Eastern states. I am 
now informed by persons in touch with 
the work of other colleges in Ohio that 
the History course in Mt. Vernon has 
received careful scrutiny by teachers of 
history in those schools with the result 
that some of them are adopting the texts 
and plans used here. Without the train-
ing I received at Union, my work here 
would have been impossible. To the 
teachers in Union College, in its early 
days, 1 owe a debt of gratitude which 
can never be discharged." 
The following word comes from Miles 
W. Lewis: "I have been engaged in the 
ministry since 1898. I was ordained that 
year and have been engaged in the work 
ever since. I came to Menominee, Mich-
igan, July 2, 1901, and have been here 
since that time. The Lord has given us 
some precious souls in this place." 
Eldon D. Sharp is ;teaching in the 
Pacific Union College. 
The class of '96 was composed of four-
teen graduates, eleven of whom were of 
the long courses. Inspired with the 
motto, "Live thy best to-day," eight of 
this class are actively engaged in the 
work. Roger W. Brown and Bertha 
Shanks are both teaching in the Avon- 
dale School. �
Anna Jeffers-Dail is 
engaged whith her husband in the Euro-
pean work. Chas. H. Bodges and wife, 
formerly Mabel Blocher, live near Col-
lege View; Mr. Hodges is the College 
View Post-master. Clara Shepherd-
Ashton is the wife of a minister in the 
Pennsylvania Conference. And Harry 
Washburn is a teacher at Walla Walla 
College. 
Twenty three graduates left Union 
when the class of '97 went out. Their 
motto was, "Do the next thing." Twelve 
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from this class are to-day in the work. 
John Isaac has charge of the German 
Department at Walla Walla College. 
Marshall J. Low is teaching at Elk 
Point, South Dakota. Alfred Ogden is 
Vice-president of the Kansas Conference. 
He writes, "Ever since leaving Union 
College I have been engaged in the min-
istry. This time has been spent in Kans. 
with the exception of two years which 
I spent in South America as Superinten-
dent of the West Coast Mission Field." 
Louis Victor Finster is president of the 
West Australian Conference. 
Henry H. Block writes from Alberta: 
"When I think of the old home, our dear 
Union College, I feel like Israel in 
Babylon; by the river of Alberta, there I 
sat down, yea I wept when I remem-
bered Union College. This was the case 
as I left College View for Alberta and 
also after arriving here. Union still 
looks to me as Jerusalem looked to 
Israel in Babylon. �
I saw the fruit of 
God's work there in converting young 
men and women who came there so 
wild that nothing in the world Could 
save them but the school. I saw dozens 
and dozens of these wild ones baptized. 
Union College is a real mother for 
training babies. God bless Union Col-
lege." 
Daniel Isaac is Director of the South 
Russian Mission. 
In his letter David Voth informs us 
that his home is near Hitchcock. He 
writes, "I have worked under the direc-
tions of the Oklahoma Conference as a 
minister, for the last three years. Before 
coming to Oklahoma, I labored two 
years in Switzerland and one in Ger-
many, but on account of my health I 
was obliged to leave Europe. Last year 
I became a member of the Oklahoma 
Conference Committee, and a few months 
ago the brethien appointed me Church 
School Secretary." 
John Huenergardt is a minister and is 
serving on the Executive Committee of 
the Gorman Union Conference, 
Louis Christian is engaged in the 
Gospel ministry as saperintendent of 
the Danish-Norwegian Mission Work in 
America." 
W. W. Hobbs writes from Lincoln, 
"I am general agent of the Des Moines 
Life Insurance Co. at a little better than 
$5000.00 per year." 
The class of '98 composed of twelve 
long course and nine short course stu-
dents had the motto, "From stepping 
stones we rise." This class circle has 
been severed by the departure of two 
class mates, Durley Powell and Ethel 
Grover. Arthur Fulton is the principal 
of the Diamante School, Argentine, 
South America. Perlie Adams is a min-
ister of the British Columbia Conference. 
M. E. Ellis is the Missionary Secre-
tary of the Nebraska Conference. He in-
forms us that the life of a conference 
laborer—which life he has been exper-
iencing for the last six weeks only—"is 
like a rolling stone, and like that pro-
verbial article, gathers no moss or any-
thing for the moss to grow in, unless it 
happens to take a claim somewhere." 
M. E. Kern is head of the History 
Department of Union College. �
Etta 
Allee-Black is living in New Mexico on 
a dry claim, while Leonard Harris is 
farming in Minnesota. 
The class of '99, recognizing that grad-
uation means simply beginning, took 
for their motto, "It cloth not yet appear 
what we shall be." Nine from this class 
are actively engaged in the work. 
Howard Peebles is a printer in Spanish 
Honduras. Ellen Hedgecock-Nethery is 
a missionary to Egypt. Pearl West is 
teaching at Claremont Union College, 
South Africa. Carrie Segebart-Lude is 
preceptress of the school at Argentine, 
South America. Orrin A. Hall is prin-
cipal of the North West Training School, 
Manitoba. 
M. J. Fritz writes from Portage La 
Prairie, "When without hearing the 
voice of a living preacher, but through 
the testimony of the silent messenger 
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present truth found me, I concluded 
that there must be few proclaiming 
this message, and a fire, that is still 
burning, was kindled in my breast. I 
longed for years for a better education 
and when I accepted present truth the 
Lord graciously opened the way for me 
to enter Union College. I soon realized 
that the four years' course would so 
more than give a good foundation, so I 
remained until I had finished my 
course. With pleasure I now look back 
to the soul-saving instruction by God-
fearing teachers in the class room, the 
sweet hour of prayer, the precious gos-
pel meetings, and to the good associa-
tions of both teachers and students. 
Union College has given me a prepara-
tion to instruct some of the younger 
members of the Lord's family, which 
gather at the North Western Training 
School from Saskatchewan and Manitoba. 
May God• bless Union College that it 
may continue to send out laborers into 
the harvest field of our Lord and 
Saviour." 
H. T. Curtis writes, "As I look over 
the list of those who have finished 
courses in Union College since its foun-
dation, and try to place them on the 
earth's surface, it presents one of ' the 
best evidences that this message is real-
ly going to every nation, tongue, and 
people. For four years I have taught 
science in the Keene School, and in ad-
dition have audited the books of all the 
Conference Tract Societies and Institu-
tions in the Southwestern Union Con-
ference each summer." He sends best 
wishes for the success of the College 
family. 
Bertha Payne-McNeil is at Washington 
D. C. 
"Not finished, but begun" was the 
motto of the twenty-six who finished 
in 1900. From this class death has 
claimed Laura Fisk for its victim. 
Thirteen have engaged in the work. 
Leslie Elliot is a physician at Hawley-
ville, Iowa, Ethel Reeder-Farnsworth 
is at Missoula, Montana. Russell Potter 
is Religious Liberty Secretary and Pro-
vincial Agent in Manitoba. Grace•Til-
lotson is Secretary of the Wyoming 
Mission Field. Isaiah Moore and wife, 
Laura Collins, are missionaries to Cuba. 
Mercia Morse is bookkeeper at the Hins-
dale Sanitarium. 
Six long course and twenty short 
course graduates completed their work 
in '01, inspired by the motto, "Upward 
and Onward." Thirteen entered the 
work from this class. Florence Barbee-
Lunquist writes from Ogallah, Kansas: 
"Dear College Friends: Six short years 
have elapsed since the College doors 
closed behind the class that I so fondly 
look back upon. As I recall those days 
it makes me long once more to be num-
bered among those who are seeking a 
thorough education within its walls. 
Having spent six years of pleasant work 
in the teachers' profession, I am at pres-
ent enjoying a rest in a quiet rural dis-
trict in western Kansas, where freedom 
and peace are abundant and life most 
pleasant and happy. Hoping the Alumni 
Association may enjoy, each succeeding 
year, a more cherished remembrance, 
I join you in the interest of the future 
success of the school." 
August Larson is teaching in Union 
College. 
Esther Johnson-Wills writes from 
Rockford, Illinois: "We are enjoying 
our home very much and I find myself 
busy with the home duties. Best of 
wishes for everyone of the Alumni and 
dear 'Old Union.' " 
Josephine Nelson is bookkeeper for 
the Nebraska Sanitarium. 
Fay Eagle is a Bible worker in the 
Oklahoma Conference, and sends greet-
ings. 
Estella Hamilton-Nelson writes from 
Verndale, Minnesota, "Greetings to the 
Alumni. How much I would enjoy 
attending the commencement exercises, 
but as distance is too great, that cannot 
be. At present I am house-keeping on 
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a farm in North Central Minnesota. 
Best of wishes to each alumnus." 
Effie Northrup and Anna Peterson 
are stenographers at the Boulder Sani-
tarium. 
A. L. Boynton writes, "Dear Fellow-
workers:—Several days ago I received a 
letter signed by our Historical Secretary, 
requesting a letter from each member of 
the association. And then in a day or 
two I received my copy of our good 
paper, THE MESSENGER. I couldn't help 
but sit right down and read it through. 
When I came to where it gave the pro-
gram for commencement week, it re-
minded me of the week of '01, and made 
me very homesick for "Old Union." To 
tell the truth I think if I could possihly 
spare the time, I would silently steal 
away from Mountain View to suddenly 
appear at Union College and live a few 
of the days over. �
Of course there 
would not be many familiar faces there, 
but there would be some; and we are 
children of the same school, so to speak, 
and that, I am sure, would be sufficient 
to make us all friends. I have been in 
the electrical business here in Mountain 
View nearly a year and a half and my 
work is progressing nicely. I have 
much to thank and praise the good 
Lord for, and my prayer is that He can 
make us all useful in His cause, so that 
we will be prepared to meet Him when 
He comes." 
A telegram just arrived from Wyom-
ing, bearing greetings to the Alumni 
Association, signed, Mrs. W. S. Boynton, 
Mrs. H. H. Fish. 
With the motto, "Discipuli in vitae 
schola" the class of '02 sent forth twen-
ty-four graduates, fourteen of whom 
have been connected with the work. 
Joseph Stansbury is an employee of the 
Pacific Press Publishing Co., Mountain 
View, California; Byron Morse is a mis-
sionary in London, England; Christian 
Lude is teaching iu Argentine, South 
American; Susie Shively is a graduate 
nurse at the Boulder Sanitarium; Hjal- 
mar Anderson is continuing his studies 
in Stockholm, Sweden; Margaret Neal is 
teaching at Osceola, Iowa; Max Smith is 
practicing medicine in Philadelphia, Pa.; 
Lillie Preston-Larson is connected with 
the Des Moines Sanitarium; Carl Nelson 
and Eugene Stansbury are completing 
their second 'year of the medical course 
in the University of Nebraska. 
Elmer H. Johnson writes from Los 
Angeles, California, "I am at present 
located in Los Angeles, coming here 
sometime after the burning of the Pacif-
ic Press in Mountain View, where I was 
previously employed. I am still doing 
the same kind of work, that of operating 
a linotype machine, being employed at 
Neuner Co., Publishers, of this city, and 
the best equipped plant of Southern 
California. To me printing is not a 
mere trade. I entered it because of the 
great desire to have something to do in 
the making of books, a desire which has 
not diminished in the least since I be-
came engaged in the work. From the 
crude copy to the finished product--
the making of half tones and cuts, the 
setting of type, the press work, the 
binding—it is all of intense interest. 
Nothing thrills me so much as the 
clickety-click of- the linotype machines 
and the thunder of the presses, knowing 
that the printed page will be scattered 
far and wide, among so many people. 
To me printing is "the art preservative 
of all the arts." 
Will Warren writes from De Smet, 
South Dakota: "After graduating from 
Union College in 1902 I commenced 
the study of law in the University of 
Minnesota where I remained one year. 
As I was intending to practice in South 
Dakota, it seemed best for me to take 
my last year's work in this state. 
Accordingly I entered the University of 
South Dakota and graduated from the 
College of Law in June, 1904. I com-
menced a systematic study of law soon 
after leaving Union College and contin-
ued the same in school and out until 
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my graduation. By this extra endeavor 
I was able to complete a three years' 
course in two. I was admitted to prac- 
tice in this state in June 1904 and have 
since been practicing at De Smet, South 
Dakota. I have a satisfactory practice, 
and one that I greatly enjoy. Last fall 
I had the pleasure of being chosen 
State's Attorney for this county and 
took my office, January 1, 1907. On the 
whole I can offer no complaint as to my 
present conditions and circumstances 
and only wish that I could be sure that 
all the Alumni had fared as well as I." 
Jeanette Hardiman taught at Oswego 
the past year. She writes from Kansas 
City. Kansas, that she is now teaching 
in the Kansas institute for Church 
school teachers. 
Lilah States writes from Cedaredge, 
Colorado: "It is with feelings of great 
pleasure that I look back upon 'Old 
Union' and the days spent in seeking 
knowledge with the dear instructors 
during the time of 1900-1902. Those 
years marked a new era in my life. At 
present I am at home, where duty now 
seems to call. I am keeping books for 
our mine and am also secretary and 
treasurer for the company. �
I hope it 
will not be long before we can sell and 
put the money in the cause and be out 
doing more active missionary work." 
Ten completed their course in '03. 
Their motto was, "Purpose, labor, vic-
tory." Ida and Hattie Brown are 
Iowa church school teachers. 
Wavie Tubbs writes from Maplewood 
Academy, Maple Plain, Minnesota. "It 
has been nearly four years since I left 
Union College, but I have as much in-
terest in the school as I ever had. At 
present I am teaching English and Geog-
raphy here. I am not doing very heavy 
work, for I have only five classes to 
teach. It does me good when I read of 
the College students going out into the 
work to spread this glorious message." 
Daniel Madsen is teaching in South 
Dakota. 
"We gather light to scatter" was the 
rallying cry of the ten long and nine 
short course graduates of the '04 class. 
From this class Clara George has laid 
down her life's burden. But of the re-
maining eighteen all but two are, or will 
be, engaged this summer, in some line of 
the message. 0. J. Graf is at present 
engaged in the Educational and Young 
People's work of the Northern Union 
Conference. George Nelson spent the 
past year at Walton, Nebraska, teaching 
public school. �
William Nelson is 
teaching in Walla Walla College. H. C. 
Pitton writes from Stanton, Michigan, 
that he is very busy; matters of great 
importance demand his attention just 
now. A word to the wise is sufficient. 
He is engaged in the ministry in the 
West Michigan Conference. B. L. Ander-
son is a missionary in Amoy, China. 
Lawrence Anderson is attending the 
University of Nebraska this year. Elsie 
Andrews has been living on a claim in 
New Mexico the past year, but will 
teach in Union College next year. Ad-
die Wheeler is teaching church school 
in Wyoming. H. P. Hansen writes 
from Hoffman, Minnesota, "When school 
closed 1906, it was my privilege to go 
to Michigan and assist Carl Hansen in 
the Danish tent work in Greenville." 
Since last November, he has been labor-
ing around Hoffman, Minn. 
0. E. Johansen writes from Thief 
River Falls, Minnesota, "The hand of 
Providence has seen fit to place me in 
northern Minnesota and assigned me the 
work of Gospel ministry, with all its 
hardships as well as its enjoyments." 
Twenty graduated in the '05 class, 
inspired by Livingstone's motto, "Any-
where, provided it be forward," •Four-
teen have been actively engaged in the 
work. Gertrude Burghart, Calvin 
Bungor and Gertie Grant heve spent the 
past year in "Old Union" doing addi-
tional work. Arthur Allen is farming 
in western Nebraska. John Bland has 
been teaching church school in Kansas. 
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Alma J. Graf is at present farming in 
New Mexico, but after June 1, she will 
be engaged in the Educational and 
Young People's work in the Nebraska 
Conference. Nora A. Hiatt has charge 
of the English Department at Keene 
Academy. Nora Hough has charge of 
the Educational and Young People's 
work in Missouri. Pearl Jones is sten-
ographer for the Nebraska Conference. 
Bessie Nettleton is a nurse in the Port-
land Sanitarium. Naomi Small is a 
nurse in the Nebraska Sanitarium. 
Gertrude Thompson writes, "I am con-
nected with the Cheyenne River Acad-
emy, Harvey, North Dakota. I am teach-
ing in the English Department of the 
school and am also preceptress. �
The 
work in North Dakota is prospering 
under God's blessings and we are en-
couraged to go forward." 
Bertha Woods-Shryock is teaching 
music in Union College. Lena Hunt 
expects to teach school the coming year. 
Max Hill sends greetings from Mountain 
View, California, couched in the fol-
lowing words: "My first year in sunny 
California brought a number of changes 
but landed me finally in the editorial 
rooms of the Signs of the Times office, 
the position of "Pencil-pusher" for the 
editor being mine. Then just a little 
over a year ago the earthquake came. 
That meant changes in a number of ways 
and I was transferred to the circulation 
department of the Signs office where I 
worked under 0. A. Tait, in his absence 
carrying the work alone. December 1, 
Elder W. N. Glenn, who had been on 
the Signs staff for many years, died, 
leaving M. C. Wilcox alone with all the 
editorial work; 0. A. Tait being busy in 
the construction of the new building. 
That gave me a good experience indeed, 
about half of my time being devoted to 
editorial and other work not purely 
stenographic. So I am busy and alto-
gether enjoying my occupation in the 
Signs work. 
"As Recruits to the front" the '06 class, 
though small, went forth all but one to 
actively engage in the work. John 
Anderson is in Canton, China. Clara 
Krassin is in school this year. J. H. 
Schmidt is a minister in South Dakota. 
E. Rosenwold writes, "My present loca-
tion is in Des Moines, Iowa, but I have 
walked all over the state of Iowa this 
year hunting for Swedish people. As 
you know I am doing ministerial work 
among my own people." 
P. E. Brotherson is laboring in New 
York among the Scandinavians. He 
writes, "I can only look back to `Old 
Union,' the recruiting station, with 
anxious eyes to await the newly mus-
tered, well-armed recruits hastening to 
the front." 
"A sacred burden is this life ye bear: 
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly. 
Stand up and walk beneath it stead- 
fastly. 
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, 
But onward, upward, till the goal ye 
win." 
REMINISCENCES 
C. H. HODGES, 1896 
It pleases me to r,ca't flic pleasant 
memories of the class of 1896. This 
class was first to organize as Juniors. 
It was on Arbor day, 1895, that two 
students visited the President, asking 
permission to organize the Junior class. 
His consent having been gained, a meet-
ing was called and an organization 
perfected with R. W. Brown as presi-
dent and Cora Deming as secretary. 
It being Arbor day, it was thought 
commendable to plant a tree and thus 
perpetuate the memory of the class. A 
tree was selected and a large hole dug. 
Numerous blisters on the hands of the 
lady members of the class bore evidence 
of a controversy in which the ladies of 
the class were successful. For they 
said to the gentlemen members of the 
class: "We are seven, you are only 
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seven; so why should we, who are vastly 
your superiors in mental strength, not 
share equally in this arduous labor?" 
The gentlemen of the class yielded, 
meekly. Never was a tree planted with 
more imposing ceremony. While some 
were shoveling, others stood by and 
chanted a class song prepared for the 
occasion. 
I never knew just what killed that 
tree, unless it was a large pickle bottle 
which was deposited in the bottom of 
the hole. This bottle contained a class 
roll, a history of the class organization, 
a copy of the class song, and a few 
small coins; one bearing the date of the 
founding of the institution; one, the 
current year; another, the year some-
body was born. This bottle was care-
fully sealed, and I suppose, is now 
resting under the class stone. 
I must also tell you about our class 
"sing out." Just before commencement, 
the class enjoyed a very pleasant even-
ing at the home of Professor and Mrs. 
C. W. Irwin. While there the class 
decided that, while the "lid was off," 
that evening, they would go promptly 
at midnight to the class tree and stone, 
and sing everything they knew. Ac-
cordingly, at the appointed hour, a 
circle was formed around these two 
objects. Then began a discussion as to 
what they should sing. Fortunately for 
the people of the village, and disaster-
ously for the 'sing out," no program had 
been arranged: the only song they could 
agree on, was, "Shall We Meet Beyond 
the River?" When they once started 
on that song, there was nothing to stop 
them but the end. So each stanza was 
sung. When they had finished, Harry 
Washburn said, "I don't feel like sing-
ing any more." The rest of them felt 
just as Harry did, so when "Good night" 
had been said, each went his own way. 
This was the last social meeting of the 
class. Now they are scattered in all 
parts of the earth, to such an extent that 
the sun never sets on the class of 1896. 
D. K. NICOLA 1897 
Before the successful establishment of 
any institution there are liable to be 
four distinct stages or experiences. 
First, the suggestion; next, a trial; then 
approval; followed by a reaction—the 
period when conservative elements 
manifest themselves. I wish it under-
stood that this fourth period is the very 
most important for if the institution 
survives this period of criticism, it has 
come to stay. 
The establishment of "the Senior 
class" of Union College was suggested 
by two graduates in 1894. 1895 furnished 
a sample, which being good, made the 
way very easy for the class of '96, 
which flourished in that period of ap-
plause, those concerned baying up to 
that time seen nothing but docility and 
innocence. But kind indulgence has-
tened the development of this lamb-like 
institution, and the appearance of a 
little love of power was the first sug-
gestion that the class was developing 
into an entity which might wield an in-
fluence for good or ill. 
The chances being that this influence 
would be for ill, during the school year 
which terminated in 1897 no effort was 
spared to explain to all concerned, how 
useless were all grades and markings, 
how worse than vanity were diplomas, 
and how depraved the student who 
coveted a bachelor's degree. 
So the class of '97, became a very 
humble class, slipping about on tip-
toe, as it were, and all but denying 
their seniority. And to-day show me 
a member of the class of '97, and I'll 
show you an example of humility. If 
he travels, his diploma is in the bottom 
of his trunk. If he is so fortunate as 
to have an abiding place, his sheep-
skin reposes back on top of his cup-
board. It is in a little roll, encircled 
by a faded ribbon and crowned by a 
tiny windrow of dust. 
But all gold is not made to glisten 
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and it takes a rainy season to bring 
forth fruit, and we, the class of '97 feel 
to rise and take credit for the success 
of all classes which followed. We, 
who could plant only an humble thorn 
tree, lay some claim to the pleasant 
groves of later planting; we who piled 
no stones, look. upon the monuments of 
later years and are proud; we who had 
no Class Day, no receptions, no ban-
quets, behold the achievements of 
succeeding classes and are satisfied. 
But the class of '97 had ideals, also 
ideas! For example, one member held 
to the idea that for a young man, ac-
customed to clothing himself in a shirt 
of black sateen, to don on any occasion 
a garment of linen, treated to a solution 
of C6 H10 05, displayed thereby not 
only his vanity, but his weakness. Sug-
gested that the class have its picture 
taken! Agreed! But will the young man 
with the idea wear the conventional 
garb? Oh no! And that young man's 
loyalty to principle brought forth a 
scene never before witnessed since 
classes were. For behold the fair 
maidens of the class of '97 (one at least) 
with beseeching, tear-bedimmed eyes, 
pleading before our stalwart youth, 
begging that he for once, and for one 
short hour should wear a "biled" shirt! 
But the ladies of the class of '97 also 
had ideas. Among them this. The ex-
penditure of a vast slice of Papa's for-
tune for apparel to be worn on one oc-
casion is also vanity. And true to 
their convictions, each appeared at 
commencement with clean and smiling 
face and clad in a dress the cost of 
which, including buttons and thread 
was exactly seventy-two cents. 
In conclusion allow me to say that in 
reality no class thinks more of itself 
collectively, in pairs, or individually, 
than the class of '97, and although the 
boys did not graduate in overalls, we 
were proud of the girls and we are all 
exceedingly proud of our humility. 
M. E. KERN, 1898 
The class of '98 is distinguished for 
having the most egotistical motto, plac-
ing the largest stone on the campus, put-
t ing the first class flag on top of the Col-
lege, having an after reception and ban-
quet, the largest class history, grad-
uation during the administration of the 
largest president of the College, and 
having the first graduate from the Liter-
ary Course. I am free to say that I 
do not approve of all these things that 
distinguish us. I feel that the little 
banquet that the class had, savored of 
worldliness, and not for Christ. I believe 
that it is possible to have pure and 
unalloyed pleasure without violating 
any principle. I believe that as we 
come to sense more the reality of 
heavenly things, we shall find no pleas-
ure, but rather unhappiness in all of 
these things which are in any way 
questionable. 
I remember with a shudder the plac-
ing of the flag on the College top. I 
went half way up the roof of the belfry 
while Mr. Arthur Fulton went to the 
top and fastened the flag. The drop-
ping of a hammer did not loosen the 
nervous tension of that hour very much. 
We all remember very well the haul-
ingof those stones, and especially the 
large one. They are rather ornamental 
to the campus and furnish a convenient 
place for the taking of pictures. 
We had a class day exercise, and the 
parts given in it were published by Mr. 
Ellis, our printer, in a neat book called 
"Rose Leaves." We also had a class 
letter after school, which went the 
rounds for about five years, but is now 
lost. 
Our class was the fifth and we did 
not have all that later classes have had, 
but as has been said, "We are omnibus-
es in which all our ancestors ride;" 
therefore we claim part of the credit of 
the things which have developed since. 
Aside from a few things, I remember 
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with pleasure our class and its work, 
although there are many pleasant re-
membrances and associations about our 
Alma Mater which are not connected 
with the class (Mrs. Kern was not a 
member of my class.) As I look back 
upon my school days, I see what an 
influence school days and school asso-
ciations have had upon my life. I feel 
what success I may have attained or 
shall attain is largely due to Union 
College. 
MAUDE MORRISON - W ILKINSON, 1899 
As I look over this happy company 
of old school-mates and teachers, the 
pleasant memories of the past chase one 
another. 
I very well remember when I arrived 
at this place two weeks before school 
opened the second year of its existence. 
I could scarcely wait till school com-
menced. Having heard so much of the 
English teacher who had recently come 
from Yale I was anxious to begin in 
that branch particularly.. At once, I 
formed a picture of this great professor 
in my mind. I was very sure that he 
was a man weighing over two hundred 
pounds, over six feet tall, with large, 
black eyes and black, waxed mustache, 
but when I was ushered into room 20 
and saw Professor Lewis I was quite 
surprised but not disappointed, for I 
found him to be the same fatherly man 
that I heard he was,. taking an interest 
in every one of his pupils. 
I was also anxious to register in the 
Art department, but when I saw Prof-
essor Owen who is with us to-night, my 
courage forsook me. I was afraid of so 
much dignity and so young a man of 
such a classical type. 
I remember very well, too, the first 
time I ever saw Professor Kern. He was 
not Professor then, but was washing 
silver-ware in the serving room„ and 
and Miss Rankin brought me to dry 
the silver for him. After a formal in- 
• 
troduction and a few formalities, Mr. 
Kern said to me, "I believe you are 
older than I?" That was one secret I 
could keep, though I answered very 
positively that I knew he was older 
and I did not tell him my age. 
But to-night I wish to say to Mr. 
Kern that I with the rest of my class of 
'99, am still young. We accomplished 
no great feats like his class. Only one 
thing of which we could boast and that 
was the number twenty-seven, the 
largest class that ever left their Alma 
Mater up to that time—and true to cur 
motto yet—"It doth not yet appear 
what we shall be." 
MRS. H. A. MORRISON, 1903 
The class of 1903 was extremely 
small—that is in numbers, but when 
you heard them speaking of themselves 
it was always of quality rather than 
of quantity. You may have felt something 
as a certain noted divine who became 
exasperated at the egotism and self con-
ceit of a certain preacher who asked 
him his opinion of a discourse he had 
just delivered. Thinking for a moment 
the divine said, "There was one very 
good passage in your sermon." 
"Well, which one was it?" 
"Well, it was the one you made from 
the pulpit to the vestry." 
So in your estimation the best thing 
the class of '03 ever did may have been, 
to finish. 
The class never delved into the caves 
of the earth for its rocky treasures nor 
were left to mourn the failure to place 
a marble slab on this familiar hill to 
mark their memory, but into their im-
aginations crept the beauty of sweet 
scented flowers, so with sedulous care 
they placed them in royal style on the 
slope. Despite their earnest efforts and 
cultivation the class saw the College 
"jewel's" (Juhl) work in mowing them 
to the ground. There they struggled 
without one smile of recognition from 
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the floriculture professor of the Alumni. 
The perennial hydrangas have gone but 
not the fond hopes of the class of 1903, 
and we are glad to join with you in the 
bright prospects before us as Alumni if 
faithful to the principles of our Alma 
Mater. 
GEORGE NELSON, 1904 
Some of the class of 1904 came to 
Union College at the beginning of the 
school year 1897, others came at each 
succeeding year till 1904, when our Fac• 
ulty discovered they could get along 
without our assistance, and so we were 
turned away from the sheltering roof 
of our Alma Mater into life's hard 
school. It was a trying ordeal for us 
to leave the dear walls around which 
we had worked, yes and played some, 
for from one to seven years. 
To tell all the incidents that our 
class enjoyed or regretted would be im-
possible. Indeed I hardly think it would 
be best, because—"Silence is golden." 
Very few classes have exceeded ours 
in number, and still fewer in feeling, 
especially in June, 1904. Twenty-four 
hours later we were ourselves, and our 
heads were normal in size. But com-
mencement time comes but once, enjoy 
it if you can, although you imag-
ine you are far above the common weal. 
We carried books during our school 
days. For what? Well some carried 
them for exercise, others for a bluff, but 
the joke and loss are on them. I am 
glad to say some sought "heights, by 
toiling upward in the night." Not only 
in study, but also on the fire escape. 
We learned many things by expe-
rience outside of the regular routine of 
school life. 
One thing very essential was that you 
be careful what company you kept. For 
instance; studying the stars with the 
aid of a professor was strictly proper, 
with a fellow-student it was not so 
proper and would result in the entire 
Faculty's assisting us in studying the 
stripes in Room 19. 
But amid the trials, perplexities, and 
enjoyment of our college days behind 
us we, as a class, are glad to say we 
have been at dear "Old Union," under its 
influence, and learned some of the prin-
ciples of truth for which it stands. May 
we be found worthy of scattering some 
of this light, is the wish of every mem-
ber of the class of 1904. 
LENA HUNT, 1905 
Two years have passed swiftly by 
since the '05 class bade farewell to dear 
old Union, but the happenings of the 
years spent in school are as fresh in 
our memories as though it had been 
only a day since we took our last look 
at the school which was ours, and yet 
no longer ours. 
Our class was organized a few weeks 
before the close of school 1904. As 
Juniors we had a very pleasant time 
being of some little service to the '04 
graduates. Our memories of them are 
of the kindest even if they did call us 
the "naughty fives." Be it a fact of his-
tory--not particularly of glory—that 
our class was the one that introduced 
black and red as junior colors. 
The characteristic feature of our 
Senior year was hard work. Times of 
recreation were the exception rather 
than the rule, although we did find 
time for a Senior sleigh ride which we 
shall not soon forget. 
In several of the class symptoms of a 
very serious disease were developed, in 
spite of the vigilant watch-care of a 
most faithful Faculty. All efforts were 
unavailing in the cases of three, and 
Miss Kern, Miss Woods, and Mr. Pear-
son fell victims to that fatal disease. 
Perhaps the most interesting time of 
the year forthe class (excepting class 
meetings) was the learning and rehears-
ing of those Class Day orations. Mr. 
Allen's "undoubtedly" will not be for• 
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gotten, and Miss Hough's "Woe to them 
that trample on the mind, that priceless 
gift" hangs over our heads yet like a 
death sentence. After a long and delib-
erate consultation Miss Burghart's 
"human lobsters" were eliminated. 
The dust raised by that little class 
pin has long since settled and perhaps 
we, as well as some others, can see more 
plainly because of the experience. 
Our president had the reputation--
like some other great men—of being 
"first in war, first in peace," and first 
in his classes. 
Our class numbered twenty-one. 
Never has a more loyal class than the 
'05's left the care, protection, and advice 
of its Alma Mater. Long live Union 
College! 
CLAR A KRASSIN, 1906 
"Class of '06." Small in quantity but 
great in quality. There were only five 
in our class, four boys and one girl, viz., 
E. R. Rosenwold, J. P. Anderson, J. H. 
Schmidt, P. E. Brotherson, and myself. 
All the gentlemen members have en-
tered the field and are now laboring 
for their Master. The map of the world 
which was presented to the school by 
our class has many golden threads 
showing that many of the Union College 
students have gone to foreign fields, and 
we have the honor and pleasure of 
claiming one of those golden threads. 
Mr. Anderson had a great love for the 
yellow man, and he has gone to China 
and is doing splendidly. To him we 
owe the honor of having one of the gold-
den threads on the missionary map. 
May it have more! 
Mr. Rosenwold is working in Iowa 
and is having much success. 
Mr. Schmidt likes the western plains, 
and is working in South Dakota; he too 
has done much for the Cause. 
Mr. Brotherson and wife have gone 
to the East doing much for that large 
city Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Our motto, "As Recruits to the Front," 
truly is our desire, and we mean to be 
such for our God and Master who has 
done so much for us. God bless our 
class, class of '06. 
H. U. STEVENS, 1907 
It gives me great pleasure this eve-
ning to extend to the Alumni Associa-
tion the heart-felt appreciation of the 
graduating class for the kind reception 
which you have so generously given us. 
One of the teachers, before coming to 
this room, asked me what I called my-
self, a senior or an alumnus. Which I 
did not know; there are now other 
seniors than we and we are not Alumni 
till after the evening is gone. I felt 
somewhat on the fence hardly knowing 
whether to drop over on the outside 
or be like the boy who became so 
much attached to his study of Latin 
that he decided to go back and "take it 
over again." 
Union College school days are in the 
past. This thought brings a feeling of 
sadness. We must leave the shelter of 
our dear Alma Mater and launch out 
upon life's broader sea. The future 
seems uncertain; but as we look into 
your faces, beaming with the happi-
ness of victories gained, we take cour-
age and know that he who nobly strives 
will surely succeed; and are ready for 
the struggle with whatever may come. 
Once again let us thank you for the 
most excellent entertainment which 
you have given us to-night and which 
shall ever be a bright spot in our 
memories. 
REFRESHING MEMORIES 
A letter sent to all the Alumni by the 
Historical Secretary, asking for answers 
to the questions—(1) What is the 
chief incentive or agency that caused 
you to go to Union College? (2) What 
caused you to remain until you corn. 
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pleted your course? (3) What do you re-
gard as the greatest service that the 
school rendered you?—brought the fol-
lowing interesting and characteristic re-
plies:— 
It is the Spirit of God that first deep-
ly impressed me to go to Union College, 
that I might better qualify myself for 
the Master's service, and thus be a great-
er blessing to mankind. Also to prepare 
for the ministry, if the Lord should 
open the way. With that object before 
me and in view of my incompetency, I 
felt that I must go to school and better 
prepare myself for such a high calling 
in life. After arriving at the College, the 
more knowledge I gained the more I 
saw my inefficiency to do better work 
for the Lord. Another reason I re-
mained was this, the more knowledge 
the greater the desire for study on lines 
of thought wherein I lacked. �
The 
motto on the wall in the chapel, "They 
shall all be taught of God" will never 
be forgotten by me. It is the key to a 
well-balanced Christian education. It 
turned my mind also to the source of 
my strength and wisdom. The spiritual 
instruction in the school setting before 
us the real motive we should have be-
fore us in trying to educate ourselves to 
labor in the cause of God in some way 
to honor Him, stimulated me to reach up 
higher in the divine life that I might 
accomplish the most in the shortest time. 
—M. W. Lewis, Menominee, Michigan. 
The chief agency in getting me out of 
my former work and into Union College, 
was the continual working of God's Spir-
it on my mind, telling me I must seek a 
preparation to do something in giving 
the truth to others. I remained because 
I considered that the only work of any 
value is a finished work. The greatest 
service rendered me by the years I spent 
in school, was that I gained a much 
broader idea of God's work, and the 
magnitude of the work to be done both 
inside and outside the church before the 
Lord can come for His people.—H, T. 
Curtis, Keene, Texas. 
My connection with Union College 
was originally due to the interest of my 
parents in Christian education; but, 
since entering the school, the pleasant 
associations, the advantages offered, and 
the need of trained workers in this 
message, which is constantly kept before 
us as students, have made the discon-
tinuing of my preparation almost an 
impossibility. — N. C. Bungor, College 
View, Nebraska. 
The chief incentive of my going to 
Union College was a desire for the in-
tellectual culture which is offered by 
the College. I believed that I was getting 
that training which I desired to fit me 
for a successful life. The work done by 
the teachers was careful, thorough, and 
efficient. The associations in the Col-
ege were helpful and inspiring. Both 
the Faculty and student-friends many 
times proved their deep, personal inter-
est in my welfare and advancement, 
and did all that I would permit for my 
improvement. I had a sincere desire 
to complete the course I had begun and 
was encouraged by everyone in the 
College to carry my desires to a suc-
cessful termination. Although the Col-
lege gave me a better mental training 
than I had anticipated, yet as compared 
with what I gained while there in an-
other way, I feel that the intellectual 
requirements drop into insignificance. 
I was an avowed agnostic, at the time I 
matriculated. But while in the College 
an experience came to me which con-
vinced me of the truthfulness of the 
religion of Christ, and I became a be-
liever in the truth: It completely revo-
lutionized the ideals, plans, and pur-
poses of my life, and instead of living 
for worldly gain and pleasure, I have 
endeavored to live as a child of God, 
and to act a humble part in advancing 
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the cause to which dear "Old Union" is 
dedicated.—Norman T. Loughhead, Mt. 
Vernon, Ohio. �
• 
The need of a good education, and as 
Union College is the only school that 
has a Swedish Department, I saw the 
need of going to that school. It is a 
pleasure and an education in itself to 
complete something. It taught me to 
live by principle.—E. Rosenwold, Des 
Moines, Iowa. 
The reason I chose to attend Union 
College in preference to any other, was, 
there students were prepared to enter 
the Master's work, there the principles 
of Christian education were taught. It 
was my plan, before I entered College, 
to complete the course if possible. 
Spiritual discernment and strength, and 
a greater desire to aid in the Master's 
cause—telling the old, old story, to the 
lost and wayward world—I consider as 
the greatest service the College rendered 
me.—Alma J. Graf, College View, Nebr. 
The incentive that caused me to go to 
Union College I cannot explain; it was 
heaven-born. I longed to fit myself to 
serve mankind. I longed for an oppor-
tunity to train my mind and I craved 
the association of -young people. I re-
mained to complete my course, because 
I wanted to finish what I had started. 
I wanted to make that event a mile-post 
in life's progress, something that would 
give me a foothold for great strides for-
ward. The greatest service the school 
rendered me I consider was to be mas-
ter of any situation, to rise above diffi-
culties, and make life a success.—H. C. 
Pitton, Stanton, Michigan. 
I came to Union College that I might 
obtain an education in a Christian insti-
tution. I decided to prepare for a 
church school teacher, so completed the 
course I was taking. My views of life 
and its usefulness were broadened, a 
greater desire for knowledge, and higher 
ideals were some of the things that Col-
lege View gave me.—Retta King, College 
View, Nebraska. 
The cause of my going was Christian 
parents. I remained because I desired a 
training such as only Union College 
could give. The greatest benefit was the 
influence of religious teachers and stu-
dents. --Geo. A. Nelson, College View, 
Nebraska. 
It was a desire to be better prepared 
to give the message for our time which 
caused me to go to Union College. I re-
mained because of a realization of my 
need, and of a firm belief that the school 
was able to supply just that need. The 
greatest service the school rendered me 
was that daily inspiration to yield my 
life, my all to God and His work for 
time and eternity.—O. E. Johnson, Thief 
River Falls, Minnesota. 
The strongest incentive which caused 
me to go to Union College was a burning 
desire to become a teacher in one of our 
denominational schools. Union College 
I considered the best school; consequent-
ly I went there. I remained at Union 
because the work I wanted was given 
there. One of the greatest benefits I 
received was a deep interest in foreign 
missions —Wavle D. Tubbs, Maple Plain, 
Minnesota. 
I attended Union College to get an ed-
ucation, so that I might be better able to 
accomplish something in life. My school 
work was very enjoyable, and I felt as 
Herbert Spenser says, "A thorough col-
lege education prepares one for complete 
living." The greatest service I derived 
was a clearer mind and, I trust, a purer 
heart.—W. W. Hobbs, Lincoln, Nebraska, 
R. F. D. 4, Box 104. 
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I was sent to Union College by my 
father though I was heartily in favor of 
the plan. I always enjoyed my work in 
Union College immensely, and should 
have regretted very much to have left 
before finishing my course. My aim 
was to get a good education to fit me 
for life in general, and Union College 
offered me this opportunity, together 
with its high moral atmosphere. I con-
sider that the moral tone of Union 
College, the good associations I formed 
while there, the high principles of truth 
and honesty taught, to have been of the 
greatest value to me. I sometimes chaf-
fed under the restraint of rules, but now 
am thankful that the restraint was there. 
While I value the acquisition of knowl-
edge and the accumulation of facts, I 
value the general influence of the strict, 
good training much more.—Elmer John-
son, Los Angeles, California. 
I was attending high school when I 
was impressed that I should seek to 
combine the Christian education with 
regular high school work. In many of 
our classes things contrary to our belief 
Were taught and my faith was being 
tested. The kindness and patience of 
my teachers I can never forget. I real-
ized at once that I was cast among Christ-
ian people which gave me confidence 
in all.—Lilah E. States, Cedaredge, Col. 
Almost as long as I can remember I 
have had an intense desire for an edu-
cation. When I became a Christian this 
desire was increased. I obtained a Un-
ion College calendar and the study of 
this together with visits with Union 
College teachers at camp meetings, 
brought me to Union instead of some 
of our other schools. My desire for a 
thorough education, together with a 
slight emulation and my great enjoy-
ment of the school work, kept me until 
I had finished my course. My expe-
rience at Union College broadened my 
conception of God and His work in the 
earth, and my relation to Him and the 
work.--0. J. Graf, Minneapolis, Minn. 
MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING 
OF THE ASSOCIATION 
May 20, 1907 the Union College Alum-
ni Association met at six P. M. in Room 
seventeen of the College. After parta-
king the supper which had been spread 
by the reception committee, we went to 
room seven, where the following pro-
gram was given;-- 
Piano Solo, �Mrs. B. R. Shryock 
Welcome to Seniors, 
Prof. H. A. Morrison 
Response,- �
H. U. Stevens 
Practical Value of a College Education, 
Mrs. C. H. Hodges 
What can we do for our Alma Mater, 
Prof. E. C. Kellogg 
Quartet, 
Anna Pierce, Gertrude Burghart, 
Adam Schmidt, Prof. E. E. Farns-
worth. 
Following this, the secretary's report 
was read and approved. Moved and 
seconded that the chair appoint a com-
mittee of three to nominate officers for 
the coming year. Those appointed were, 
J. F. Nelson, E. M. Stansbury, Miss Lena 
Hunt. 
Moved by Professor Kern that a by-
law be added to the Constitution em-
powering the President to appoint pro 
tern officers to fill any vacancies that 
might occur during the year. Seconded 
and carried. 
Moved by Chas. Hodges, seconded by 
Professor Kellogg, that the by-laws be 
amended so as to give the chair the priv-
ilege of appointing the nominating com-
mittee before the meeting. Carried. 
Considerable discussion was had in 
regard to the suggestion which Professor 
Kellogg made in his address concerning 
an endowment fund for the College. 
Several spoke in favor of the movement. 
Prof. E. C. Kellogg, First President of Alumni A,s'n 
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Professor Kern moved that the chair be 
empowered to appoint a committee of 
five to study the question of endow-
ment and take charge, temporarily at 
least, of any funds that might accrue 
before the next meeting. Seconded and 
carried. The following were appointed: 
Prof. E. C. Kellogg, C. L. Benson, Dr. A. 
H. Larson, C. D. Nelson, Prof. M. E. 
Kern. 
Pledges and donations were taken to 
the amount of $140.71. 
There was some discussion in regard 
to a member from the Alumni Associa-
tion being on the College Board, but no 
action was taken. 
The report of the nominating commit- 
tee was then given and adopted as fol-
lows:— 
President, D. K. Nicola; Vice Presi-
dent, Edith Shively; Secretary and 
Treasurer, Gertrude Burghart; Assistant 
Secretary and Treasurer, Della Potter; 
Historical Secretary, 0. J. Graf. 
Following this we were favored with 
a solo by Miss Auna Pierce, after which 
reminiscences were given by representa-
tives of the different classes 
which have gone out from 
the College. All the classes 
were represented except the 
classes of 1895 and 1906. 
Mr. C. L. Benson then told 
us of the "Alumni Scattered 
Abroad." 
The program closed with 
the song, "Blest Be the Tie 
that Binds." 
H. A. Morrison, 
President, 
Mertie Wheeler, 
Secretary pro tern. 
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 
ORGANIZED 
JOSEPHINE NELSON, 1901 
June 6, 1904, the graduating 
class of Union College; to-
gether with several former 
graduates, met for the pur-
pose of forming an Alumni 
Association. The meeting 
was called to order by Prof. 
E. C. Kellogg, who stated its 
object, and a motion was 
made and carried that an or-
ganization be effected by 
nominating and e 1 ec ting 
officers. 
This election resulted as follows: 
President, E. C. Kellogg; Vice President, 
M. E. Ellis; Secretary, Josephine Nelson; 
Assistant Secretary, Frank Ogden; Treas-
urer, Mrs. Pearl Morrison. 
A committee of three was then ap- 
The Alumni in Attendance at Their Iasi Meeting 
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pointed to draw up a constitution for 
the Association, and the following was 
submitted to be acted upon:— 
I. This organization shall be known 
as the Alumni Association of Union 
College. 
II. The object of this Association, 
shall be to bring into closer touch with 
one another, all graduates of Union Col-
lege, and to assist in promoting the 
principles of Christian education, for 
which the institution stands. 
III. The UNION COLLEGE MESSENGER 
shall be the official organ of the Asso-
ciation. 
IV. Each member is asked to give 
twenty-five cents as a membership fee, 
for the present year, to defray the nec-
essary expense of the Association. 
V. The officers of this Association 
shall be a President, Vice President, 
Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and 
Treasurer. They shall hold office for 
one year. 
The different articles were discussed, 
after which they were adopted, and the 
names of the charter members taken as 
follows:—E. C. Kellogg, Mrs. Pearl Mor-
rison, E. M. Stansbury, F. J. Ogden, B. 
L. Anderson, M. E Kern, Win. E. Nel-
son, H. P. Hansen, Della Potter, Ruth 
Jones, H. C. Fitton, H. A. Morrison, 
Elsie Andrews, M. J. Low, Emil Johan-
sen, Olaf J. Nerlund, Effie G. Northrup, 
Nettie Hardiman, Mertie A. Wheeler, 
Ida A. Nelson, Mollie Wiess, Addie I. 
Wheeler, Gertrude Thompson, Estella 
Hamilton, Hattie E. Brown, Mrs. C. T. 
Lewis, Otto J. Graf, Vera Thompson, and 
Josephine F. Nelson. 
A LETTER FROM CHINA 
We are very glad to receive the fol-
lowing interesting letter from Elder B. 
L. Anderson, whom Union College stu-
dents will remember as having passed 
through College View with his wife, on 
his way to the mission field a year ago 
last winter. �
Brother Anderson is a 
graduate of Union College of the class 
of 1904. 
"More than ever since coming to this 
land have I paused for a moment and 
reflected on our last visit at Union 
College. The sympathy and words of 
cheer expressed by students and teach-
ers greatly encouraged us as we were 
preparing to leave friends and native 
land, possibly never again to return. 
And I wish right in this connection to 
express our appreciation of your good-
will towards us. 
"Of course, since our arrival most of 
the time we have been busy with the 
language, and are steadily making pro-
gress. While I have not as yet begun 
to preach in Chinese, yet it is quite a 
relief to be able to converse with the 
natives, and in the very near future I 
shall begin to preach in Chinese. They 
have several times suggested that I 
preach to them in their own tongue. 
"It is of course clear that missionaries 
coming out here, do not, as a rule, do 
much with the characters the first two 
years; their time is occupied learning to 
talk and read the Romanized form, and 
besides, there are other smaller books 
and a large lexicon. These are splendid 
helps for beginners. We are certainly 
much indebted to the pioneer mission-
aries. 
"Other mission societies have done 
much towards the opening up of China, 
and in preparing the way for the Third 
Angel's Message. The men sent out to 
these parts are as a rule well prepared 
so far as training is concerned; and as I 
meet them from time to time, I cannot 
help but feel that we should exercise as 
great care in selecting men for the mis-
sion field. There is a constant tendency 
on the part of young men and women to 
get in a hurry, and excuse themselves 
by saying, 'There is not time for a prep-
aration.' If that be true, then such an 
one, the Lord surely would have had 
born earlier, that there might have been 
time to lay the foundation for life's 
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work. China is looking to Union Col-
lege for men and women with large 
hearts, trained, tried and true. 
"All China has one written language, 
but no man speaks this written lan-
guage. It is only read and taught in the 
schools. Besides this, each province 
has its own vernacular which is written 
in the character as it is spoken; but this 
written language is used in the schools 
only a very little. So as a result each 
province has two written languages, 
and we therefore find in each district 
where missions are operating, the Bible 
in two languages—vernacular and liter-
ary. But Fookien province is an ex-
ception to this rule. Here we have no 
Bible in the vernacular character; the 
capital, Foochow, is an exception, how-
ever. This peculiarity is possibly due 
to the fact that in this province the 
Romanized system of writing has been 
quite fully developed. It is one of the 
provinces first entered by missionaries. 
By the way, an older brother of Dr. 
Talmage was one of the pioneer mission-
aries, if not the first. 
"Now, this Chinese written language 
may be illustrated in this way. Here is 
a certain thought. 
That thought may 
be expressed in the language of litera-
ture, say, by the use of only two char-
acters, whereas to express that same 
thought in the vernacular would require, 
say, twelve characters. But this is not 
all: there is still another written lan-
guage called the 'easy wenli.' By the 
use of this language the thought may be 
expressed by the use of about six char-
acters. 
It is really wonderful and I quite 
agree with the young man who said 
while speaking to his fellow students 
on Chinese religion: 'The Chinese have 
many things which They themselves do 
not understand, and which I don't even 
understand.' �
However it all may be, 
this much is certain, the gospel of Christ 
is able to transform men and women in 
this land as well as in other lands, 
"For some time a Chinaman, compre-
dore for the Standard Oil Co., has been 
talking to me about his son whom he 
desires to give a foreign education. 
The boy, thirteen years of age, graduated 
from the Anglo-Chinese College this 
spring. Re speaks English readily, is 
of a quiet disposition, and well ad-
vanced for his age. I recommended 
Union College to Mr. Ang Thian Un 
(Heavenly Grace), and he did not seem 
adverse to the proposition. He accord-
ingly desired me to write you about the 
boy and ascertain your mind, whether 
you would be willing to receive a stu-
dents that young or not. The boy, of 
course, is a little young in years, but 
well advanced intellectually, and I 
think he would make a good addition 
to your school family. The father is 
prepared to meet all of the boy's 
expenses. We shall await your reply 
to this matter with a great deal of inter-
est, and hope the way may be open for 
the young man to go, if the parents are 
fully decided. Personally, I feel this 
way: if the parents are going to send 
their son abroad for an education, I 
would much prefer to see the boy in 
Union College rather than any other 
school. 
"Under separate cover I send you a 
pair of Chinese shoes, showing how the 
feet are bound and the type of shoes 
worn. These are not the smallest shoes 
worn, but very nearly. This pair of 
shoes was made by Mrs. Keh and her 
daughter, Soug-Khai. They may serve 
to create an interest in China among the 
students. After they have served their 
purpose, may they then be given a place 
in the Union College Museum? I will 
also send a few other things, such as a 
Chinese lady's hat, and a few chop-
sticks. 
"We appreciate the MESSENGER'S visits 
very much, not only for the sake of 
learning the whereabouts of Union Col. 
lege's sons and daughters, but also for 
its many beautiful gems of thought," 
 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY AND THE 
ALUMNI 
It would be hard to overstate the ex-
tent to which its alumni fix the status 
and fortunes of an institution of learn-
ing. They do more to determine these 
than either students or patrons do. 
No popularity, no populousness, no 
wealth, no splendor of other record, 
no amount of other influence can take 
the place of that subtle but imperative 
charm which is guaranteed to a center 
of learning by possessing an illustrious 
alumni roll. 
Very much depends on who and what 
your alumni are. A long list of distin-
guished men hailing from a university: 
physicians, lawyers, clergymen, scien-
tists, statesmen, men of letters and men 
of business who have made each his 
mark in his particular calling, is one of 
the best assets that such university can 
have. It gives it name and fame, creates 
patrons for it, attracts students to that 
seat of learning and inspires them with 
industry and loyalty after they arrive. 
Very much depends, too, upon what 
your alumni do, their present-day worth 
to the communities where they live, 
which is a very different thing from the 
stored-up worth denoted with more or 
less exactness by their reputations. It 
is a much more vital and valuable thing. 
A man's reputation soon ceases to be a 
power after he ceases to add to it by 
new deeds. 
Very much depends, for any univer-
sity, on what its alunni do for it pur-
posively and directly, by keeping its 
needs and its work in mind, by turning 
young people's thoughts and steps to it 
by praising it when they consistently 
can, by criticizing it with considerate- 
ness when they must criticize, and by 
helping create far and wide a public 
opinion favorable to its maintenance 
and growth. 
.Many university graduates are defi-
cient in gratitude for the start in life 
they got when students, taking their 
academic privileges like their common 
school education and like the sunshine, 
as a matter of course. Alma mater's 
image is thus painfully belittled in many 
souls. College spirit lacks flavor, fervor 
and depth. The majority of our old 
students are more or less warmly loyal, 
but too few are passionately so. 
"It is, sir," said Daniel Webster, 
pleading for Dartmouth before the Su-
preme Court of his country, while tears 
stood in reverend judges' eyes—" it is, 
sir, a small college, but there are those 
who love it." 
Love like this should abound in Ne-
braska, for it is due. The average State 
University alumnus is more deeply in-
debted to his alma mater than any one 
could have been to Dartmouth when 
Webster spoke these words in 1818.—E. 
Benj. Andrews, Chancellor of University 
of Nebraska, in University Journal. 
THE SABBATH SCHOOL AND YOUNG 
PEOPLE'S CONVENTION 
We are in the midst of the work of the 
second day of the convention. Of the 
first meeting our secretary, Mrs. Plum-
mer, said, "The spirit of all the remarks 
of the opening meeting may be told in a 
few words,— 
"Needed—a spirit of consecration that 
is absolutely complete, perfect. 
"Wanted—an inspiration from heaven 
that will enable us to see clearly the 
heights, depths, and breadth of the work 
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to be accomplished by this convention." 
Last night Eld. Warren gave a stirring 
discourse on "Our Young People, Their 
Call to Prayer and Work." The bless-
ings already received show clearly that 
God will here give us a flood of light on 
this important work. 
Those present from the Central Union 
Conference are, Prof. C. C Lewis, Elds. 
B. E. Huffman and L. F. Starr, Misses 
Alma Graf and Winnie Hunt, Mrs. Flora 
Dorcas, brethern Meade MacGnire, H. M. 
Hiatt, M. E. Ellis, C. L. Benson, and the 
writer. We have met Miss Matilda 
Erickson, and Otto Graf, as well as 
many other dear friends. 
Best of all, we have met the Lord here. 
Our constant wish has been that every 
young man and woman and every work-
er in the Central Union Conference 
might be here, so we were especially 
glad yesterday when it was voted to 
publish a report of the convention, to be 
sold for ten cents. Order through the 
regular channels at once, as the report 
will be out soon. �
M. E. K. 
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, July 11, 1907. 
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF UNION 
COLLEGE, JUNE 6, 1906 TO 
JUNE 16, 1907 
The following financial statement has 
just been issued by the Business Mane-
ager of Union College. It shows a de-
gree of prosperity for the past year be-
yond the expectations of those who were 
most intimately acquainted with the 
conditions. In spite of the fact that 
nearly $4,000.00 has been spent for re-
pairs and improvements, there is still a 
gain of nearly $3,000.00. This statement 
should be modified, however, by the 
fact that last year when the books were 
closed an item of about $1400.00 had not 
at that time been received from the 
conferences on the payment of salaries 
of Bible teachers. This year's report 
includes this item for both years. Last 
year's report showed a loss of a little 
over one dollar, whereas there should have 
been a gain of nearly $1,400.00. If this 
item had been credited to last year, the 
gain for this year would have been 
about $1,600.00. When this explanation 
has been made, it will be seen that both 
years have been fairly prosperous. 
Gain previous to closing books 
last year 
$8601.50 
RECEIPTS 
Board 
$8529.66 
Bookstore 
372.30 
Bakery 
88.20 
Chemistry 
214.86 
Drayage 
172.11 
Diplomas 
19.00 
Interest 
376.98 
Keys 
3.00 
Library 
296.26 
Laboratory 
90.89 
Music 
1224.72 
Medical Department 
2.35 
Printing 
251.70 
Poultry 
224.28 
Rent 
70.50 
Summer Board 
1351.78 
Sewing 
1.00 
Tuition and Room 
18,474.57 
Typewriting 
18.00 
Total 
$31782.16 
EXPENDITURES 
Biology 
$5 45 
Boiler House 
768.17 
Cleaning 
123.15 
Entertainment 
4.01 
Farm 
414.22 
Furnishings 
314.01 
Fuel 
3870.96 
Floriculture 
35.81 
General Expense 
3231.32 
Ice 
300.56 
Improvements 
1374.09 
Janitors 
266.65 
Laundry 
552.45 
Night Watch 
80.00 
Provisions 
4998.04 
Repairs 
2366.44 
South Hall Labor 
1424.56 
South Hall 
82.65 
Salary 
7850.37 
Taxes 
182.50 
Ed. Messenger 
51435 
Lost Accounts 
45 87 
Total 
$28805.63 
Gain for the year 
$ 2976.53 
Gain to date 
11578.03 
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RESOURCES: 
Accounts Receivable 
$15740.94 
Inventories 
13460.24 
Cash 
1081.62 
Total 
$30282.80 
LIABILITIES: 
Accounts Payable 
$12829.18 
Stock (Equipments) 
5875.59 
Total 
$18704.77 
Surplus 
11578.03 
AVAILABLE RESOURCES AND IMMEDIATE 
LIABILITIES 
Amount invested in bonds $9573.70 
Accounts Receivable �
15740. 94 
Cash on Hand �
1081.62 
Total �$26396.26 
Accounts Payable—Money deposi-
ted, payable on demand $12829.18 
Available Surplus �$13567.08 
N. B. Emerson 
Bus. Mgr. 
From June 6, 1906 to Sept. 25, 1906 
the books were checked by L. E. Koon. 
This is to certify that I have ex-
amined the books, papers, and accounts 
of Union College, covering the period 
from Sept. 25, 1906 to June 16, 1907, and 
find them correct. 
T. M. French 
Acting Auditor C. U. Conf. 
THE NEEDS OF UNION COLLEGE 
We are told by the Spirit of Prophecy 
that our training schools are the most 
important institutions among us, and 
Institution �
Place 
York College �York, Neb. 
Doane College �
Crete, Neb. 
Neb. Wesleyan Uni. Uni. Place. 
Uni. of Neb. �Lincoln, Neb. 
Gates College �Neligh, Neb. 
Alfred Uni. �Alfred, N. Y. 
Alma College �Alma, Mich. 
Auburn Theol. Sem. Auburn, N. Y. 
not many months ago we were instruct-
ed that our training schools should be 
strengthened year by year. 
The meagerness of our library has for 
years been a matter of great perplexity 
to us. From time to time the students 
and teachers have taken the matter up 
and contributed and solicited con-
tributions for the purchase of books. 
Our Board has done the best it could, 
but the funds available have little more 
than kept up running expenses. The 
library now contains 2557 books. That 
the reader may understand how this 
compares with other colleges, let us 
consider a few items taken from the 
"Century Book of Facts" for 1901 inclu-
ding statements concerning all Nebraska 
Colleges given, and a few others se-
lected at random. 
Out of the whole number of univer-
sities and colleges in the United States 
listed in the "Century Book of Facts," 
421, only 37 have smaller libraries than 
Union College, and the great majority 
have productive funds running all the 
way from several thousand dollars to 
$15,000,000. 
What tools are to the mechanic and 
instruments to the surgeon, books are to 
students. We are in the midst of the 
greatest reformatory movement of the 
world's history. With the message for 
Pagan, Mohammedan, and Christian 
alike, we need to develop leaders of 
broad 
Denomi- 
nation 
U. B. 
Cong. 
M. E. 
non sect. 
Cong. 
S. D. B. 
Presby. 
Presby. 
Catholic Uni. �
Washington, D. C. 
Colorado College Colo. Springs, Colo. 
Iowa College �
Grinnel, Iowa �
Cong. 
Union College �
College View, Neb. S. D. A. 
scholarship, 
Instruc- �
Student 
tors 
men and 
Vol. in 
Library 
women 
Productive 
Funds 
10 
194 
1,000 
$50,000 
12 
140 
7,600 
79,256 
20 
400 
3,000 
10,000 
185 
1915 
40,000 
175,000 
- �
11 
201 
5,000 
20,000 
18 
150 
11,728 
289,000 
19 
223 
15,000 
220,000 
10 
100 
32,000 
569,775 
30 
175 
46,580 
856.283 
34 
450 
25,000 
360,000 
32 
506 
26,000 
475,000 
21 
342 
2,000 
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who are thinkers not imitators, men 
who can meet and grapple with the 
tremendous problems that confront our 
work in every nation under heaven. If 
our young people know how to think 
and do research work they must learn 
it in our schools. Every position of 
our faith will be questioned in this last 
great conflict. We believe that provi-
sions should be made for the most 
thorough study of the whole field of 
prophecy and every phase of our work 
and faith, as well as a thorough literary 
and scientific training. It is our con-
viction that as we become better equip-
ped with men and facilities to give this 
thorough work more and more will we 
attract and hold a strong class of stu-
dents. We must be able to refer our 
students to the sources from which 
our own book writers have drawn and 
many from which they have not drawn. 
The teachers of Union College ought 
to have time to specialize on their sub-
jects, especially those that bear directly 
upon our message and work, and to 
work up a list of the very choicest and 
best books bearing upon the subjects. 
The preparation of such a well selected 
and exhaustive bibliography is the work 
of months and years. This is more dif-
ficult for us than teachers of the world, 
for we are not always satisfied with the 
results of the latest research, but 
often find greater reflections from the 
"Light of the World" in older and more 
obscure works. Our teachers have such 
books in mind and would have more 
but for the fact that there has seemed no 
hope of procuring what we need. There 
is not to our knowledge a strong well 
selected library along Seventh-day Ad-
ventist lines in existence. Can we not 
have such a library in Union College, 
our largest institution of learning, an 
institution whose influence is world-
wide? It is our earnest conviction 
that nowhere could money be in-
vested that would be more lasting and 
permanent in its influence in the home 
and foreign fields than in Union Col-
lege. 
We need $10,000 for equipment. Not 
only do we need books for the library, 
but apparatus for physical culture and 
work benches and tools for manual 
training and agricultural pursuits. 
What can be more important or more 
practical for the proper training of our 
young people than adequate equipment 
for these departments? But at present 
the equipment is so meager as to be un-
worthy of mention. 
Again, other colleges think them-
selves unable to do their work without 
endowment funds. There is Gates Col-
lege of Neligh, Neb. Although almost 
unknown, not even belonging to the 
Nebraska Association of Colleges, of 
which Union College is a member, yet 
it has an endowment of $20,000. Look 
at Alfred University, the leading school 
of the Seventh-day Baptist denomi-
nation. With one-third the students of 
Union College it has four times the 
number of library books and 289,000 
times the endowment, for Union College 
has not a dollar. Is it not time the 
friends of Christian education in our 
own denomination began to consider 
the duty they owe to their leading edu-
cational institution? 
While we need at once, as before 
mentioned, $10,000 for equipment, we 
modestly ask for only half that sum—
$1500 for the library, $250 for the gymna-
sium, $250 for manual training, and 
$3,000 as a nucleus of an .endowment 
fund. If the Carnegie "Foundation" as-
sociation or the Rockefeller "General 
Board of Education" should offer us 
$25,000 or $50,000 on condition that we 
raise a like fund for endowment, then 
we would have a beginning, a founda-
tion upon which we could build with 
good prospects of success. 
Five thousand dollars is a low esti-
mate of what our library needs. We 
would not expect to expend such a sum 
at once, but should spend at least $1500 
THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER �
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for present needs, and provide for grad-
ual and permanent enlargement. The 
greatest asset of this denomination is its 
young people; and our institutions for 
training them, let us repeat, are the 
most important institutions among us. 
Our schools bring in no money from 
the outside; they have, we may say, no 
earning capacity. Such a need as we 
have outlined must be supplied from 
donations and bequests by philan-
thropic friends of the College. We are 
in immediate need of books for our 
Bible and History work, the re-organ-
ized Normal Department, History of 
Missions, Industrial Education, and 
English language. 
There are two things especially that 
Union College teachers long for,—that 
the institution shall be clear of debt, 
and that it shall be adequately equip-
ped. It is really a poor policy to so 
meagerly equip an institution that cost 
$305,000 and in which more than $10,000 
a year is spent for salaries. It is analo-
gous to manning a fine battleship with 
men, but providing them with no guns 
or ammunition. �
M. E. K. 
SUMMER SCHOOL NOTES 
An interesting and exceedingly profit-
able teachers' institute was held in 
College View, from June 25, to July 9. 
About twenty-five teachers were in at-
tendance. With two exceptions these 
will continue in the school work, either 
in Nebraska or some other field. 
The classes were arranged as follows: 
Bible and Nature, Prof. B. E. Huffman, 
Miss Cole; School Management, Prof. 
Huffman; Reading, Miss Graf; Gram-
mar, Miss Peebles; Arithmetic, Prof. 
Huffman, Miss Lena Hunt. Round 
Table Talks—History and Geography—
Professor Huffman; Instruction in music 
was given by Professor Shryock, in 
drawing by Miss Northrup, in penman-
ship by Professor M. A. Farnsworth. 
Many helpful and practical devices 
for busy-work were suggested by Mrs. 
Eula Owen. 
Very precious moments were spent 
in prayer and in consecrating the best 
we have to the school work. 
During the two Sabbath afternoons 
spent together, the teachers adjourned to 
the grove on the campus and studied 
Nature and its relation to God. 
Many expressed the thought that the 
past two weeks have been the most 
profitable they had ever spent at sum-
mer school, and the work of God 
should improve. This is only what we 
may expect from year to year. 
A SPLENDID SERIES OF READERS 
Over and over again this people have 
been warned against the false theories 
found in the school books of the present 
day. In no subject is this evil so appar-
ent as in the readers found in our 
schools. 
Here the mythologist has tried to do 
his daintiest and most fascinating work. 
The deeds of the Greek and Roman he-
roes are lauded and extoled to the skies. 
But a series of readers has appeared 
in which this is all changed. The True 
Education Readers are clean from cover 
to cover. They are printed on beautiful 
paper, with large type, and well illus-
trated. The matter is of an instructive 
and elevating character. 
By correlation, the related subjects of 
language, history, spelling, and the like, 
are woven into the reading lesson in an 
interesting manner. 
By the use of the combined phonetic, 
word, and sentence method, the child is 
given in the first school year the key to 
English reading and hence to all lines 
of liberal education. 
The prices, 75c each for Books 1 and 2 
and 90c for Book 3, may seem high, but 
this is offset by the fact that no other 
text book whatever is required for the 
first two years, and only one other book 
in the third year. The publishers assure 
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TFIJ EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER 
us that they have made the price as low 
as possible considering the necessarily 
small editions as compared with those 
of regular school book publishers. Num-
bers one to three are ready. Number 
four will soon appear. Order of the 
Pacific Press, the Review and Herald, 
or of your tract society. 
THE INFLUENCE OF SUNDAY LEG-
ISLATION UPON RELIGIOUS 
FREEDOM 
The following speech was delivered 
by J. E. Patzkowski at a literary society, 
March 28, before his fellow students of 
the Hillsboro, Kansas, High School. It 
suggests an opportunity which many 
Seventh-day Adventist students in secu-
lar schools have for making an impres-
sion favorable to principles of religious 
liberty if they will only be loyal to the 
principles of truth, and will have the 
courage of their convictions. Such an 
address as the following could not help 
producing a strong impression upon the 
minds of those who listened:— 
"In reading the newspapers of the last 
few months my attention has been es-
pecially called to the question of Sun-
day Legislation. It is one of the great 
questions before the public of today; it 
is deliberated upon in Congress, in the 
State Legislatures, and is debated in 
social, political, and religious life. The 
spirit of Sunday legislation is prevailing 
everywhere, not only in the United 
States, but also in other nations, and 
even to the islands of the sea has it 
found its way. 
"The question of Sunday legislation 
is probably more interesting to me than 
to any one of you, because Sunday leg-
islation means the deprivation of my 
liberty and freedom; but it means the 
deprivation of your liberty and freedom 
in some sense, too. Since a Sunday bill 
was before the House of Representatives 
in our state last January, it occasions 
me to give a discussion of this impor-
tant question. 
"Canada has passed a Sunday law 
which has been in force since the third 
of March. It forbids buying and selling 
on Sunday and the doing of any worldly 
labor, business, or work except the con- 
veyance of travelers and mails, the sale 
of medicines, and works of charity. If 
any man violates this law in working 
on Sunday, he is fined from $1 to $40. 
If he gives another person work on 
this day, the penalty is $20 to $100, 
and a corporation is fined $50 to $500. 
This Sunday law in Canada has no ex-
ception clause to those who observe 
another day. If they will not obey it we 
can imagine what will follow. 
"Rev. W. F. Crafts has twice secured 
introduction of Sunday bills in Con-
gress to secure Sunday legislation in 
the District of Columbia, but the peti-
tions that we sent against it defeated it 
both times. Rev. Crafts thought that 
once having Sunday legislation in the 
District of Columbia the various states 
of the Union would soon follow the 
example of the national capital. Sim-
ilar attempts of exacting Sunday laws 
have been made recently by several 
states; as California, New York, Michi-
gan, Oklahoma and Kansas. Constantine 
made the first Sunday law on the sev-
enth of March, in the year 321 A. D.; 
and by the year 364 the Laodicean 
Council prohibited the keeping of the 
Jewish Sabbath under an anathema. 
"Experience in the past has taught 
that religious legislation turns into re-
ligious persecution. Catholics in France 
favored religous legislation in the eigh-
teenth century, when they were able to 
influence legislation in favor of the 
church. Later the unbelievers in the 
nation arose and turned the tide of leg-
islation in favor of infidel sentiments. 
"The goddess of reason was enthroned, 
every other god was cast out by na-
tional law, and religionists of every 
creed of faith were persecuted. Then 
THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER �
31 
the Catholic church awoke to the full 
meaning of the religious legislation 
which she had hitherto approved. Civil 
governments rule by majorities. Upon 
all subjects that it is proper for them 
to legislate it is proper for them to leg-
islate against as well as in favor of, ac-
cording to the judgement of the major-
ity. If Sunday legislation is right, re-
ligious legislation is right; because Sun-
day legislation is religious legislation. 
If religious legislation is right, then it 
was proper for France to rule God and 
Christianity out of the nation. It must 
be evident to all that religious legis-
lation is wrong and a usurpation of 
power by the civil government. If it 
was wrong in France it is also wrong 
in America." 
(To be concluded.) 
SPURGEON ON SUNDAY LAWS 
I am ashamed of some Christians be-
cause they have so much dependence 
on Parliament and the law of the land. 
Much good may Parliament ever do to 
true religion, except by mistake. As to 
getting the law of the land to touch our 
religion, we earnestly cry, "Hands off, 
leave us alone!" Your Sunday bills and 
all other forms of Act-of-Parliament re-
ligion, seem to me to be all wrong. 
Give us a fair field and no favor, and 
our faith has no cause to fear. Christ 
wants no help from Caesar. Let our 
members of Parliament repent of the 
bribery and corruption so rife in their 
own midst before they set up to be pro- 
tectors of the religion of our Lord Jesus. 
I should be afraid to borrow help from 
Government; it would look to me as if 
I rested on an arm of flesh, instead of 
depending on the living God. Let tke 
Lord's Day be respected by all means, 
and may the day soon come when every 
shop shall be closed on Sabbath, but let 
it be by force of conviction, not by the 
force of the policeman; let true religion 
triumph by the power of God in men's 
hearts, and not by the power of fines 
and punishments.—Liberty. 
liburational Messenger 
Representing the Educational Department of the Cen- 
tral Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists 
which embraces its Training College, Inter- 
mediate Schools. Church Schools, Sab- 
bath Schools. Sanitariums, Nurses' 
Training Schools and Young 
People's Societies 
Issued the 1st and 15th of each month by 
the Central Union Conference 
College View, �
Nebraska 
EDITOR �
C. C. LEWIS 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS 
Young People's Work �
M. E. Kern 
Christian Education �B. E. Huffman 
Educational News �
• �
E. C. Kellogg 
Ass't Editors: �
J. I. Beardsley Mertie Wheeler 
Business Manager, M. E. Ellis 
All unsigned articles are by the editor: associate edi-
tors sign their initials 
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 
PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE, 50 CTS. 
Entered as second-class matter January 4, 1905, at 
the postoffice in College View, Neb.. under Act of 
Congress of March 3, 1879. 
Netun and Notts 
COLLEGE VIEW HAPPENINGS 
Miss Alta Wordell spent July 4-7 at College 
View. 
Mrs. Burton Emerson leaves next Wednesday 
for Winfield, Kansas, for a month's visit at her 
old home. 
Zelma Small is spending the summer in Col-
lege View with her sister Amy, who is stenog-
rapher at the International. 
Sabbath, July 13, the program for the College 
View Young People's Society was on their own 
mission field, Nyassaland, Africa. The society 
is supporting Brother Joel C. Rogers and wife in 
this field. A geographical study was given by 
Cordie Teeple, who had prepared a permanent 
map of Africa for the Society. Myron Jenkins 
told of the work other denominations have done 
in Africa. �
Lora Clement followed . with our 
own work and Brother Rogers' plans for 
Nyassaland. A letter had been received from 
Brother Rogers, and was read with interest. At 
the close, all joined in prayer for "Ow 
Missionaries." 
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Mrs. Bonnie Shultz-Pearson and daughter have 
returned to their home in Pitkin, Colorado. 
Kate Sanborn expects to leave College View, 
July 22, to visit her relatives in Manhatten, Kans. 
She will be gone about three weeks. 
Last week saw most of the belongings of the 
Nebraska Conference moved to Hastings. Elder 
Robinson has also moved to the new location. 
Elsie Andrews has returned to College View, 
from her farm in New Mexico. Her sister Ro-
berta is now enjoying farm life in the South with 
their brother Gordon. 
Maude Bailey, who has been attending the 
teacher's institute at College View, will spend 
the remainder of the summer on a farm near 
Broken Bow, Nebraska. 
Miss Bell, of Battle Creek, Mich., has been 
engaged as principal of the College View Church 
School. �
Her assistants are Lena Hunt, Inter- 
mediate room, and Zellah Means, Primary room. 
Miss Winifred M. Peebles left July 15, for 
Boulder, Colorado, where she will assist in the 
Summer School. She also expects to attend the 
Colorado camp meeting at the close of the Sum-
mer School. 
After spending some time in New Mexico, 
Clem Benson returned to College View to get 
his work in shape and attend the Crawford, Neb., 
camp meeting before departing for the Young 
People's Convention. 
Irma and Agnes Lewis expect to leave College 
View about the last of July to spend a few 
weeks' vacation with relatives in western Nebraska. 
Their brother Harold has been visiting Thomas 
Nethery, at Miller, Nebraska. 
Tuesday, July 9, Professors C. C. Lewis, B. 
E. Huffman, M. E. Kern; Misses Alma Graf 
and Winnie Hunt; and Messers Clem Benson 
and Meade MacGuire left College View for the 
Convention at Mount Vernon, Ohio. They 
were joined in Chicago by 0. J. Graf and the 
delegates from Walla Walla, Washington. They 
report the Convention as being at the beginning 
all that could be expected. �
Also they report 
meeting our former fellow-student, Matilda Erick-
son, now of Washington, D. C., also Mrs. M. 
W. Newton and son, of Battle Creek, Mich. 
CHURCH SCHOOL NOTES 
Mrs. Eula Owen is visiting friends in Shelton, 
Nebraska. 
Miss Louise Tucker will teach during the 
coming school year. 
Miss Ruth Jones is with her parents in College 
View, this summer. 
Miss Lillian Fulton is visiting her brother, 
Doctor Fulton, of Havelock. 
Miss Hattie Brown of Pacific Junction, Iowa. 
will teach in Blair, next year. 
Miss Bertha Mosser, of Shelton, Nebraska, 
has been added to our list of teachers. 
Miss Peterson has returned to her home in 
Minatare, Neb. She will teach next fall. 
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Boynton are intending to 
canvass in Nemaha county during the summer. 
Miss Inez Dow, who has been teaching in 
Ft. Calhoun, has returned to her home in Beatrice 
for the summer. 
Miss May Foote, who has been attending 
Union College the past year, will engage in 
Church School work next fall. 
Mr. Owen, who has been teaching in Harting- 
ton, will teach in Oconto next year. �
He will 
canvass in Kearney during the summer. 
Miss Maude Blodgett, who has been teaching 
in Tekamah, will spend the remainder of the 
summer with her parents in Ft. Calhoun. 
Prof. M. A. Farnsworth and wife expect to 
leave soon for Graysville, Tenn., where they 
have accepted the positions of preceptor and 
preceptress in the Southern Training School. 
SANITARIUM SIFTINGS 
Miss Florence Marrs has returned to her home 
in Arrington, Kansas, for a month's rest. She 
will then take up her work here again. 
Miss Hilda Ackerman has resumed her work 
at the Sanitarium, after a much needed rest of 
several weeks, spent visiting relatives in Illinois 
and Minnesota. 
Miss Edith Jones, a graduate nurse of the class 
of 1900, is visiting friends and relatives, in Lincoln 
and College View. Miss Jones has been nursing 
in Fresno, Calif.. for Doctor Loper, for several 
years. 
THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER 
Miss Opal Garner, a graduate of the April 
class of nurses, is now located at Orion, Illinois. 
Miss Agnes Ackerman, of Des Moines, Iowa, 
is visiting her sister, Hilda, one of our Senior 
nurses. 
Mrs. Lloyd Manfull and daughter, are visiting 
Mr. Manfull, who is connected with the Sanitar-
ium work. 
Miss Celia Christensen is enjoying a few 
weeks' vacation at her home, in Dodge Center, 
Minnesota. 
Misses Martina Johnson, Helena Peters, and 
Ethel Ames are assisting with the work in the 
Sanitarium. 
Mr. Eugene Stansbury has joined the Sanitar-
ium family and will assist with the work in the 
Gents' Bath. 
Mr. J. E. Johnson has returned to the Sani-
tarium, after a six weeks' visit in California and 
Washington. 
Miss Hilda Hanson, who has been nursing in 
San Jose and St. Helena, Calif., the past six 
months has returned to her home in Wahoo, 
Nebraska. She spent a day with the Sanitarium 
family here. 
Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Callahan are enjoying a 
six weeks' vacation out West. They are visiting 
the various Sanitariums in California and Wash-
ington and will then spend a week at the Yellow-
stone National Park. 
Miss Emma Dennison, matron of the Walla 
Walla Sanitarium has been a visitor at the 
Nebraska Sanitarium for two weeks. She will 
visit a week at the Boulder Sanitarium before 
returning to Washington. 
Miss Dora Burke, one of our graduate nurses, 
who has been connected with the work in the 
Sanitariums at Los Angeles, Loma Linda, and 
St. Helena for the past year and a half, writes us 
that she will return to College View with Mr. 
and Mrs. D. R. Callahan. 
MESSENGER CORRESPONDENCE 
Find enclosed fifty cents, for which please send 
the paper to me at the old address for another 
year. I feel that I cannot get along without it, 
and therefore do not want to miss a single issue. 
—A. L. Boynton, Mountain View, California. 
W. E. Hancock sends fifty cents to have his 
paper sent to Niagara Falls, Ontario. 
Please change the address on my paper to the 
following—W. R. Stevens, Rocky Ford, Colo. 
Kindly send my Messenger to Loveland, 
Colo., till further notice. We pitch tent here to-
morrow, so will fully celebrate the Fourth—E. 
E. Farnsworth. 
Please be so kind as to send me all the back 
numbers from May 15. I am well pleased with 
my new place in the South. Asheville is a beau-
tiful city at an altitude of 2800 feet. I intend to 
return to College next fall.—Lauritz Larsen, 
Highland Home, Asheville, North Carolina. 
Anything addressed to Kalispel, Montana, 
will reach me. �
All is well out here. �
I took 
$225.00 worth of orders last week. It has been 
so wet that four days a week has been the best 
I could do for some time.—Raleigh K. Andrews. 
Note.—It is needless to say that Raleigh is can-
vassing. 
We take the following from a letter dated 
July 7: �
'11 am enjoying my vacation. �
This 
morning Orrin Hall and wife, Bert Hall, Ethel 
Jones, Roscoe Baer and wife, and my sister and 
I are going for a trip up into the Buttes. Ethel 
Jones came up here during the camp meeting and 
will return to College View to-night. Earl Jones 
also spent the Fourth here. —Mertie A. Wheeler, 
Crawford, Nebraska." 
I have had a very pleasant visit at home since 
leaving College View. Mother and I are now 
located in this town where we expect to stay all 
summer. �
It is a great saw mill center of the 
South and ripe for the harvest. Mother is work-
ing for our religious books; I am working for 
"Home Hand Book." We have worked but 
one week as yet, but have had good success, 
and if I keep on at this rate for the rest of the 
summer I will return with near five scholarships. 
Excursions run to the Gulf frequently by boat 
and we expect to avail ourselves of the pleasant 
opportunity. I think any vacation will bepleas- 
ant and profitable, and next September I will be 
found in good old Union College readyjifor 
another year. I have not received the M esse n-
g e r, for which I am anxious. Please direct my 
paper to 14I I Ryan St., Lake Charles, Louisiana. 
—0. F. Frank. 
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THE' EDUCATIONAL MESSENOEIi 
 
Our address will be Douglas, Wyo., for the 
next two months.—Albert C. Anderson. 
Please change my address from Lake Preston, 
S. Dak., to Volga, S. Dak.—J. H. Schmidt. 
I enjoy the Messenger very much and feel 
that I cannot miss one copy.—Henry Bergquist, 
Herndon, Kansas. 
Please send me the Messenger for one year, 
for which find enclosed fifty cents. I would ap-
preciate a new Calendar.—Mae 0. Wilcox. 
My parents left last Saturday night for Den-
mark, so now I am boss of the farm. I miss 
Union College: there is no place like it, and I 
want to come back next year if I possibly can. 
I enjoy my work very much.—Mary Hansen, 
Ringstead, Iowa. 
Miss Effie Northrup, who has been our corre-
spondent in Boulder, Colorado, writes from Platt 
City, Mo., "I was suddenly called away by the 
frailness of my mother's health, and expect to 
spend the summer here. We all enjoy the M e s-
senger very much." 
I have already asked you to change the address 
of my paper several times, but must do so again. 
I am saying this with a smile on my face, so do 
not be alarmed. First the paper was requested 
to be sent to 90 Attarine St., Alexandria. Then 
I wrote you to send it to 31, First Khedive St., 
Alexandria. From there I wrote you to send it 
to House of Attia Wahby, Faggalla, Cairo. 
I have always received the paper although sent 
to the first mentioned place. �
1 am sending the 
full history so you will have no trouble in tracing 
me. Yours,—Jay J. Nethery. 
This is a beautiful country around here. The 
land is all irrigated and everywhere there are 
evidences of prosperity. �
Wheatland is the 
most beautiful town of its size that I believe I 
ever saw. We have begun tent-meetings and 
the interest is increasing daily but of course we 
cannot tell what the end will be. There are no 
Adventists in this place; but we hope there will 
be some before we leave who will have the 
courage to stand out upon what they see to be 
right. The harvest is truly ripe but the laborers 
are few. I am looking forward with glad antici-
pation to the time when school will begin again. 
Please send the last number of the Messenger 
and change my address to this place. Sincerely 
yours,—F. Irvine Blue, Wheatland, Wyoming. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
A. B. Hall is farming at Crawford, Nebr. 
Mr. John Weir and wife are living at Sheldon, 
Wyoming. 
Earnest and Louise Mathwig live on a farm at 
Oelrichs, S. Dakota. 
Mr. and Mrs. Cush Sparks are assisting in 
tent work in Denver. 
Adolph Kurz is chairman of the Colorado 
Springs Young People's Society. 
Prof. Win. Nelson and his bride are visiting 
relatives and friends in College View. 
The Wyoming church school teachers will 
attend the Colorado teachers' institute. 
Oswald Roberts of Florence, Colo., recently 
paid his parents a visit, at Colorado Springs. 
Addie Wheeler living at Crawford, Nebr. ex-
pects to teach church school the coming year. 
Prof. W. T. Bland has resigned his position in 
the Sheridan, Illinois school to go upon his farm 
in that state. 
H. E. Reeder, at a recent camp meeting in 
Wyoming was appointed Educational and Young 
People's Secretary. 
Married, Tuesday, June twenty-fifth, Miss 
Adaline A. Boynton to Mr. Carl Graf, at 
Portales, New Mexico. At home after July 
fifteenth, Elida, New Mexico. 
Julius Johnson recently returned from Clifford, 
N. D., where he has been working. His sister 
Ida returned with him. After spending a few 
days at home, Julius left for Sterling, Nebraska. 
June 30, Josephine and Edna Schee started 
for Los Angeles, California, where they expect 
to attend the International Teachers' Association. 
They plan to visit many points of interest during 
the trip. 
We are grieved to learn that Theodore Wei-
shaar's mother passed away last Thursday, and 
was buried Sabbath, at their home in Turon, 
Kansas. We know that Theodore has a large 
circle of close friends among our readers, having 
been so long connected with our school, first as 
student, and then as bookkeeper, who join us in 
sympathy for him in his affliction at this time. 
He expects to return to South Dakota soon, and 
hopes to visit Union College on the way. 
THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER �
35 
Ralph Woolsey is on his claim near Pierre, 
South Dakota. 
Mr. A. C. Dick is at present at his home in 
La Harpe, Kans. 
A. A. Carscallen is being very successful in 
his work in Central Africa. 
Inez Hoiland reports "a fine time" in Chicago, 
where she is visiting relatives. 
Prof. M. W. Newton recently visited the 
General Conference Office in Washington, D. C. 
At the close of the Teachers' Institute, Gertie 
Grant joined Altie Wordell in canvassing at York, 
Nebr. 
Roscoe T. Baer, in addition to doing ministe-
rial work, is Religious Liberty Secretary in 
Wyoming. 
M. H. Serns will be one of the laborers con-
nected with the tent meeting at Grand Rapids.—
Wisconsin Reporter. 
Mr. and Mrs. J. Sutherland have returned to 
their home in Lawrence, Kansas, after a few 
weeks' visit with friends in Missouri. 
A pretty wedding took place Wednesday, 
June 19, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 0. E. 
Cole, Sand Lake, Mich., at 5 p. m., the occas-
ion being the marriage of their daughter, Myrtle 
Louise to H. C. Pitton. There were about 
seventy-five relatives and friends present. �
After 
the ceremony refreshments were served.— West 
Michigan Herald. 
UNION COLLEGE NOTES 
Ada Woolsey, who has been in attendance at 
the teachers' institute, expects to go to Tennessee 
this fall to join her parents, who have made that 
state their home. �
Last winter Miss Woolsey 
taught a family school of five pupils near Omega, 
Nebraska. �
As a result the oldest girl, aged 
seventeen, is now keeping the Sabbath. 
R. B. Barker, Hygiene, Colo., writes that Mr. 
Chas. Innis and his wife, (nee Adella Barker, 
class of 1901) are working for U. C. scholar-
ships and are doing well; also Mr. Barker's son, 
just home from Texas, has begun canvassing, and 
expects to enter school next fall. �
A young 
German lady there has already $400 worth of 
orders for, "Coming King." 
Sadie Reed is visiting in Leadville, Colo. 
Elsie and Mabel Peterson plan on returning to 
Union this fall. 
Twenty-nine loyal Union College students 
attended the Crawford, Nebr. camp meeting. 
Ruth Teasdale has written for a room in 
South Hall, for herself and sister, for the coming 
year. 
Louise L. Wyss has returned to her home in 
Denver for a vacation, having closed a successful 
term of church school in Colorado Springs. 
J. F. Beatty, a Union College student in 1891—
'92, and for years an employee of the Pacific 
Press, now lives at Hemingford, Nebr. 
Ruth Knudson has given up her Bible work in 
Pueblo and is at present at her home in Denver. 
She expects to return to Union next fall. 
Under date of June 30, Edgar Brigham writes 
from Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, that he is within 
a few dollars of his first scholarship. �
He pro- 
poses to win a second after the Fourth. �
His 
permanent address is Dodgeville, Wis. 
We understand that our canvassers are meeting 
with excellent success. We have endeavored to 
obtain the names of those who have completed 
their scholarships but we presume our state 
agents are too busy shipping books to tell the 
Messenger about them. 
The friends of Jessie Seward will be pained 
to learn that the happiness of her summer vaca-
tion has been sadly marred by the sudden death 
of her brother, which occurred June 25. In all 
probability this will prevent her returning to 
school this winter, since she must remain at 
home to care for her aged parents. 
After having spent so many years in Union 
College, many of his friends had their sympathies 
aroused last spring when Nathan Aalborg cheer-
fully remarked that he could hardly expect to 
return next year. When pressed by his friends 
for the reason, he intimated that several successive 
years in school had worked a hardship to his 
finances. This has all been explained since June 
22; as we are informed that on that day, our 
former schoolmate was united in marriage, at 
Gladstane, Ontario, with Miss Anna Johnston, a 
trained nurse of Battle Creek, Mich. 
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THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER 
Beatrice Baharian is in York, Nebraska. 
Myron Jenkins is doing carpenter work in 
Lincoln, Nebraska. 
Matilda Erickson spent an enjoyable Fourth 
on Chesapeake Bay. 
A. D. Hanson celebrated the Fourth at his 
home in Harlan, Iowa. 
Mabel and Della Berg are at their home in 
Hudson, South Dakota. 
Lillie George is having excellent success in the 
Young People's Work in Missouri. 
Ralph Brown has signified his intention to 
return to Union College next year. 
Dr. A. H. Larson is spending the summer at 
the Sanitarium in Madison, Wisconsin. 
Miss Ada Madison has recently gone to Wis-
ner, Nebraska, where she expects to teach music. 
George Grant, Arthur Smith, and Curtis Rent-
fro have joined Raleigh Andrews at Kalispel, 
Montana. 
B. L. Morse, Union College class of '02, is 
tract society secretary in the North England 
Conference. 
The employees of the Union College Press 
and their friends spent a very quiet Fourth resting 
in a little grove a few miles east of Lincoln. 
Herma Ward of Western Nebraska, writes of 
the good Union College did her last year, and 
her intention to return next year and bring with 
her two cousins. 
Mrs. E. E. Farnsworth has been canvassing 
f or "Home and Health," at Greeley, Colo., with 
marked success. She has now joined the Pro-
fessor and Eld. H. M. J. Richards in the tent 
work at Loveland, Colorado. 
Other people may have had better successs 
canvassing than has Will Wineland, but evidently 
he, like the "Hoosier School Master," has "medi-
tated on the subject of bull dogs" and is going to 
hang to it. We wish .him the same success. 
On June 23, at the close of three weeks' 
work, Oren Durham had $242.00 worth of 
orders, and T. A. McFarland had $191.50. 
They are canvassing at Waxahachie, Texas. 
Oren expects to return to Union, while Tillman 
will go to Keene. 
Maude Hardesty is now an employee of the 
College Press. 
Mary Lamie, a student of Union in 1891-'92, 
is living at Sheldon, Wyoming. 
Irvine Blue and Lawrence Anderson are with 
a tent company in Wyoming. 
One thousand persons have received the 
Union College Calendar for '07-'08. 
C. G. Bunnell and wife, of Mason City. 
Nebr., are planning to enter Union College. 
James S. Houseman, who attended U. C. 
1893-'94, '96, now lives at Custer, S. Dakota. 
Gladys Shufelt reports "catching up in sleep" 
as her principle occupation, since returning home. 
Mabel McMoran is at her home in Mt. Ver-
non, Wash. She plans to return to school next 
fall. 
The crippled boiler in the College Power 
house has been removed, and a new one is being 
put it its place. 
V. E. Toppenberg is having excellent success 
canvassing in Iowa. �
It is sometime since he 
began on his second scholarship. 
E. Max Trummer is canvassing agent for the 
Wyoming Conference during vacation. �
He 
expects to return to Union this fall. 
H. E. Darby is working for a scholarship at 
Trinidad, Colo. �
He has never attended our 
schools, but expects to enter Union next fall. 
Edgar R. Brigham, one of our canvassers from 
Dodgeville, spent a portion of last week and two 
days of this at the Sanitarium.—Wisconsin Re-
porter. 
Emilie Johnson writes, "I do enjoy my work 
so much, and pray that God will make me a 
true light-bearer as I carry the printed page from 
door to door." 
Miss Matilda Erickson writes: "We are very 
busy at the Office now, Mrs. Plummer's absence 
leaving many added duties for us who remain. I 
enjoy the work. Wish you all might attend the 
Mt. Vernon Convention.' 
Edith Rigby writes from Iowa, where she is 
canvassing for "Home and Health:" "I'm com-
ing back to Union next year to study German, 
and shall at least endeavor to learn how to ask 
for something to eat in that unknown tongue." 
HEARD OF UNION COLLEGE? 
If you are interested in gaining an all-around 
education, and find expenses hard to meet, before 
you decide upon going elsewhere, just drop a 
card to Union College, College View, Nebraska 
for a Calendar. And if you have any questions 
concerning arrangements, address the President. 
He will gladly correspond with you. 
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