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No. 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ebiturial Jutting, 
The annual meeting of the Board of 
Trustees of Union College was held 
January 13-16. There were present 
Elder E. T. Russell, Pres. of the Central 
Union Conf.; Elder R. A. Underwood, 
Pres. Northern Union Conf.; Elder L. F. 
Starr, Pres. Iowa Conf.; Elder R. C. Por-
ter, Pres. Kansas Conf.; Elder H. M. 
Stewart, Pres. Mo. Conf.; Elder A. T. 
Robinson, Pres. Nebr. Conf.; Elder J. H. 
Wheeler, Pres. Wyoming Mission Field; 
and the local members, J. H. Morrison, 
C. C. Lewis, P. E Berthelsen, and N. B. 
Emerson. Elder F. M. Wilcox, Manager 
of the Boulder Sanitarium, attended in 
place of Elder G. F. Watson, Pres. Colo. 
Conf, Elder E. G. Hayes, Pres. S. Dak. 
Conf., was also present by invitation 
and took part in the deliberations. The 
Board found the affairs of the College in 
so good condition that the meeting con-
tinued only four days. one of the short-
est sessions in the history of the school, 
although several meetings of the Central 
Union Conference Committee were held, 
and also a Health Food Convention for 
the factories at Des Moines, College 
View, Boulder, and Walla Walla. 
Only two or three changes were made 
in the entire corps of teachers and em- 
ployes, and these because of poor health 
of workers or their desire to enter other 
fields. Because of the general interest 
in the work of this Board, we devote 
considerable space of this issue to its 
decisions. 
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From a private letter, we learn that 
Brother Robert T. Nash, formerly of 
Minnesota, with two other brethren 
have been arrested at Campobello, South 
Carolina for working on Sunday. They 
were taken one night and placed in jail, 
where they remained until two o'clock 
next day, when they were released on 
bail. The trial took place on the day 
following. Brother Nash plead his own 
case and the papers said he did well. 
He had no more than finished when the 
sheriff sent up one dollar to pay his 
fine. Some outsider paid the fine of the 
other brethren and all went out free, af-
ter having a grand opportunity of pre-
senting the truth of why they kept the 
seventh day instead of the first.. The 
court room was well filled and a num-
ber of lawyers present gave good atten-
tion and helped Brother Nash in every 
way they could, but the judge said, "We 
must support the law of the st,ste, right 
or wrong." 
"A fancy for places and change has 
led many astray." 
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SOME DECISIONS OF THE BOARD 
MEETING 
From the minutes of the Union Col-
lege Board meetings we condense the 
following actions, which will be of in-
terest to all readers of the MESSENGER 
and friends of the College:— 
Improvements will be made in the 
barn to place it in a more convenient 
and sanitary condition. Cement floors 
will be laid, and the lighting and venti-
lation will be improved. One Babcock 
tester will be purchased for the dairy, 
and a record will be kept for each cow. 
A silo is contemplated, and may yet be 
decided upon. The Board expects the 
dairy to be conducted under conditions 
comparing favorably with those adopted 
by agricultural colleges. 
It was directed that operations in 
truck farming and fruit raising be large-
ly increased under proper supervision. 
Another team and all necessary facilities 
for carrying out this action are to be 
provided. As a necessary adjunct to 
this work a canning factory will be in-
stalled in the rooms of the old bakery. 
These enterprises will make additional 
work for students. 
One new boiler is to be purchased, 
and two hydrants near the College are 
to be provided for fire purposes. 
Some of the present large music rooms 
will be divided in order to furnish 
more practice room. 
More rooms are to be finished off in 
the College attic for the accomodation 
of the increased attendance which is 
expected the coming year. 
A full historical sketch of Union 
College and the Nebraska Conference, 
with a full page engraving of the Col-
lege buildings, will be prepared for the 
new History of Nebraska now in prepar- 
ation under the auspices of the State 
Historical Society. 
The insurance on each of the College 
buildings has been raised from $10,000 
to $35,000. 
It was voted to reorganize the Normal 
Department on the basis adopted by the 
General Conference Educational Con-
vention, and to secure a competent per-
son to devote his or her entire time to 
this department. 
The Dano-Norwegian Department is 
strengthened by associating Elder M. S. 
Reppe with Professor Berthelsen in the 
work. Elder Reppe being a Norwegian, 
his election will draw more Norwegians 
to the school. Heretofore the patronage 
of the department has been drawn al-
most entirely from the Danish element 
The Board expressed themselves as 
much pleased with the order of the 
school and the earnest and harmonious 
work of students and teachers. 
GLEANINGS FROM THE PRESI- 
DENT'S ANNUAL REPORT 
From the President's Annual Report, 
we summarize the following informa-
tion:— 
. 1. The enrolment of Union College 
at the middle of the year was 434, the 
largest of any year but one since the 
fourth year of school, 1894-1895. The 
rooms of the Home are taxed to their 
utmost capacity. 
2. Several important improvements 
have been made:— 
(a) Outside stairway to gentlemen's 
floor of Home. Cost $585.60. Result: 
Transfer of travel of 75 boys from inside 
of first and second floors to outside of 
building. Home much quieter. 
(b) Warming table and cupboard for 
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serving room, resulting in warmer food 
on tables. 
(c) Removal of corncrib and other 
old buildings from park back of Sani-
tarium. 
(d) 
New corncrib and wagon shed 
near large barn. Cost $244.75. 
(e) Electric motor pump at well, in-
stalled by our own engineer and run by 
our own dynamo. Cost, $350.00. The 
result is plenty of water, whether the 
wind blows or not. The tank is always 
full, with half a dozen immense cisterns 
full of water in reserve. 
(f) Barrels of water in the attic, fire 
extinguishers throughout buildings. 
Ladders in convenient places. 
(g) Ten new rooms completed in at-
tic of main building. 
(h) 
New electric wiring throughout 
both buildings. White wire, visible 
wiring. Old wiring was dangerous. 
(i) 
Improvem ents.and apparatus for 
the Science Department aggregating in 
value $828.41. 
3. Last year the College paid students 
for work as follows: South Hall, $499.69; 
boiler house, �
$543.55; farm, $804.46; 
printing office, $594.55; janitors, $270.00; 
bakery, $152.95; laundry, $83.12; repairs, 
$72.89; poultry, $51.61; floriculture, 
$18.94; improvements, $281.18. Total, 
$3,372.44 
Educationally, the work of the Col-
lege is recognized by the New York 
Board of Education. It is in affiliation 
with the Medical Department of the 
University of Nebraska. It is on cor-
dial terms with the Department of Pub-
lic Instruction of Nebraska. 
6. The religious interest is good. 
Two baptisms have been held, with six-
teen candidates. Another baptism will 
take place soon. The College and 
Church Young People's Societies have 
united. They have two personal work 
bands of thirty to forty members each. 
Missionary bands meet weekly, with 
membership as follows: Canvassers', 
sixty-five; Ministerial, eighteen; Bible 
Reading, thirteen; Young People's 
Work, fifty-seven; Missionary Reading 
Circle, twelve; Medical Missionary, 
twenty-five. These bands hold prayer 
meetings every Tuesday and instruction 
meetings every Thursday. The German 
Department has organized a dozen fam-
ily Sabbath schools with 100 members 
among the German population in Lin-
coln. 
THE GERMAN DEPARTMENT 
G. A. GR kUER 
It may be of interest to the readers of 
the EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER to hear 
something of this department. We have 
an enrolment of nearly fifty students. 
A prominent feature of our work is the 
earnestness and marked purpose on the 
part of the students to make the most of 
their time and opportunities. 
We have bestowed a great deal of 
thought and energy upon the religious 
side of our work. We organized nearly 
he entire department into a workers' 
band for actual service, believing that 
he who helps someone else helps him-
self. A lively interest is manifested in 
this work among the large numbers of 
Germans in the near-by city of Lincoln. 
We have there eleven Sabbath schools 
with over one hundred pupils, who are 
taught by the students every Sabbath 
afternoon,--two students going to one 
school. This work so developed that 
we now give Bible readings in a number 
of places, and on Sunday regular preach-
ing services are held. The people are 
quite interested, and we begin to feel 
the influence of the enemy; but we are 
of good, courage believing that He who 
began the work will also finish it. 
Beside this we sold in Lincoln about 
425 numbers of the Hausfreund, and fol-
low up this work with tracts, etc. 
Our regular missionary meetings are 
held on Friday evening. We are send-
ing fifty copies of the Hausfreund 
through the mail to people whe are 
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interested, and correspond with them. 
We are praying, and we invite all to 
join us in praying, that the Spirit of 
God may breathe upon this department 
and make it a living and powerful 
means for the salvation of souls, and the 
training of workers for the harvest field. 
*THE PLACE AND KIND OF ATH-
LETICS IN COLLEGE WORK 
This topic involves two preliminary 
questions and two main questions The 
preliminary questions are, What is 
meant by "athletics?" and, What is meant 
by "college?" The main questions are, 
What is the place which athletics should 
occupy in college work? and, What 
kinds of athletics are best adapted to ac-
complish this purpose? 
The term "athletics" is commonly un• 
derstood to mean out-door sports, games, 
and exercises, as distinguished from 
gymnastics, or those exercises which 
are conducted within the gymnasium. 
To this meaning the discussion will ad-
here. 
The only question about the meaning 
of the term "college" in the topic, grows 
out of the fact that this Association is 
composed entirely of Christian denom-
inational colleges. The men present to-
day are Christian men, the representa-
tives of these Christian colleges, and it 
would seem to be scarcely worth our 
while to discuss the place of athletics 
in secular or state colleges. I therefore 
understand the term as referring to 
Christian colleges; and from this stand-
point shall proceed to the discussion of 
the first of the main questions, re-
stated as follows:— 
What is the place of out-door games 
and exercises in a Christian college? 
Place refers to rank or importance or 
*Read before the Association of Col-
lege Presidents of Nebraska, Dec. 26, 
1906. 
appropriateness of related objects. 
What place should Bible study have in 
a Christian college?—A very high place 
indeed. The Bible is the hand book of 
Christianity, and hence its place would 
be in the front rank of studies in a 
Christian college. What place should 
the study of agriculture have in such a 
college?—Clearly it would not be out 
of place. Indeed it is deserving of a 
higher place than it has, for not only 
are its study and practice in harmony 
with Christianity, but they can be 
shown to be conducive to the growth of 
the principles of Christianity. How-
ever, no one would think of according 
to agriculture as high a place as the 
Bible in the curriculum of a Christian 
College. What place should the study 
and practice of gambling have in a 
Christian college?—None whatever. 
Gambling is subversive to the aims of 
Christianity, and would be entirely out 
of place in a Christian college. 
Similarly, we must ascertain the 
place of athletics in the work of a 
Christian college. Is that place in the 
front rank as becoming a matter of 
greatest importance? Is it subordinate, 
as of something in harmony with the 
aims of a Christian College, and helpful 
in reaching those aims? Or are athletic 
games entirely out of keeping with the 
work of a Christian college? The only 
way of reaching a satisfactory answer 
to these questions is by considering the 
aims and purposes of a Christian college, 
and noting whether athletics are in har-
mony with such aims and purposes, 
and adapted to their promotion. 
A Christian college is a place where 
men go to obtain a general summary of 
the world's knowledge, to learn how 
to interpret this knowledge in the light 
of the teachings of Jesus Christ, and to 
prepare to use the knowledge thus 
gained in the world's work as the great 
Founder of the Christian religion would 
do if He were in our place. Christian 
colleges should not pattern after the 
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colleges of the world. They have a mis-
sion peculiarly their own,—to stem the 
tide of worldliness and commercialism 
which at present threatens to sweep 
everything before it, and to hold aloft 
the banner of Christian principles, in 
following which is found the world's 
only hope of salvation. Anything adap-
ted in its nature and shown by experi-
ence to be good for promoting Christian 
principles, should be welcomed to a 
large place in such a college. How 
stands the case with athletics? 
One of the fundamental principles 
of Chistianity is this, that the body, as 
the instrument of the soul and the 
dwelling-place of the Holy Spirit, 
should be kept as free from defilement 
and as perfect in health as possible. This 
principle is thus laid down: "I beseech 
you therefore, brethren, by the mercies 
of God, that you present your bodies a 
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto 
God, which is your reasonable service." 
(Rom. 12:1) "Know ye not that ye are 
the temple of God, and that the Spirit 
of God dwelleth in you? If any man 
defile the temple of God, him shall God 
destroy; for the temple of God is holy, 
which temple ye are." (I Cor. 3:16, 17 
"What? Know ye not that your body 
is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which. 
is in you, which ye have of God, and ye 
are not your own? For ye are bought 
with a price: therefore glorify God in 
your body and in your spirit, which 
are God's." (I Cor. 6:19, 20.)" 
It is clear, therefore, that anything 
which promises to promote the health 
of the body and to develop and build 
up its various organs, is entitled to a 
place in the work of a Christian college. 
Now the practice of athletics makes 
this very promise, and with large show 
of fulfilment. It calls the student out 
of stuffy rooms into the open air, floods 
his lungs with life-giving oxygen, 
sweeps the poisonous gases from his 
blood, and sends him back to his books 
with mind invigorated for its work. It 
gives exercise to his muscles, develops 
strength, courage, and endurance, culti-
vates accuracy and skill in the use of 
his members, and in short prepares the 
body to become the ready and efficient 
instrument of the mind. All these re 
sults are conducive to the growth of 
Christian character and the practice of 
Christian principles. Hence that which 
produces them should have an honor-
able place in a Christian college. 
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DRAWING 
ELSA NORTHRUP 
We chose a rabbit for our lesson be-
cause it is a good type of familiar ani-
mals, and is, perhaps, the easiest to 
draw. It is batter to study thoroughly 
one animal and learn to draw it in any 
position or action than to try to draw 
different animals at first, because a 
knowledge of one will make the draw-
ing of others easy. 
We can draw the body and head of 
the rabbit and then add short ears and 
a long tail, and our sketch will look 
like a cat; or we might give him small 
ears and a big, bushy tail, and we would 
have a very good squirrel. 
No one ever made a good picture 
without first making many sketches 
and studies of its different elements. 
The children should be urged to make 
many drawings of the objects they are 
studying, not for the sake of the sketches 
THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER 
themselves, or just to learn how to 
draw in a general way,. but that they 
may be able to show with their pencils 
what they have learned in some good 
story or lesson. 
A little girl is given flour and water 
and yeast and told that she must prac-
tice a great deal that she may some day 
be able to make bread. She soon grows 
tired of her task; but tell her to make 
some nice buns for papa's dinner, and 
she sets to work eagerly, because her 
work is going to amount to something. 
Let all the practice be a means toward 
accomplishing a definite result. Let 
them illustrate a song, or lesson, or 
story, and encourage them to do their 
best, that the final result may be worth 
keeping. 
They may make little booklets for 
their stories by folding several sheets 
of drawing paper in the middle and ty-
ing with a cord. A piece of gray or 
brown paper makes a nice cover for 
such a book, and the rough paper will 
take chalk or charcoal or colord crayon 
nicely. Such paper can be obtained at 
almost any job printer's. But the 
beauty of the result does not depend 
so much upon the materials used as up-
on thoughtful planning and careful 
workmanship. Each page of the little 
book should be carefully and neatly 
prepared before the book is bound or 
tied. The writing or printing should 
be as uniform as possible in this work, 
and the writing should be as carefully 
planned as the drawings, as it has just 
as much to do with the effect of the 
whole. The book cover should have 
the title of the book in neat large letters, 
and the author's name, and some little 
design suggestive of the contents. Each 
pupil should plan and make his own 
design for the book cover. With water-
color brush and ink he can make shadow 
pictures of the animals he has been 
studying. He can show how the ani-
mal looks when it stands; sits up; lies 
down; walks, or runs. He can make 
rows of these shapes, all just alike, for 
a border on his book cover. Or he can 
place two shapes so that they seem to 
face each other. If the children have 
no brushes, they can work with char-
coal and chalk on dark gray, rough 
paper. 
Here is a rhyme for the smaller chil- 
dren to illustrate:-- 
A naughty rabbit 
Had a bad habit 
Of eating the flowers 
In gardens and bowers. 
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of a Rabbit's Life, or the fable of the 
tortoise and the hare, in their own lan-
guage. 
The children's books should be kept 
as the property of the school. 
If the teachers could bring examples 
of their children's work to the Teachers' 
Institute, they might have a little ex-
hibit, and thus have the pleasure and 
profit of seeing what others have done. 
STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION 
NO. V. "THE EDUCATION OF ISRAEL" 
1. What is God's ideal plan for an 
educational system? 
Ans.—Every family a school with the 
parents as teachers. As fast as the chil-
dren grow old enough, they shonld be-
gin sharing the responsibilities of the 
home and school. The school should be 
located in the country and made indus-
trial. When parents feel the need of help 
in educating their children, a Christian 
teacher should be employed as an aid 
to them in their work, and an indus-
trial school should he established in 
which the Bible shall be the basis of 
all study and work. 
2. What should be the sole object 
in each of these schools? 
Ans.—To develop Christian workers. 
3. 
Is the parents' responsibility 
either lessened or shifted when the chil-
dren enter such a school? 
Ans.—No, it is added to, for their own 
duties to the children are the same as 
before, and they must now study the 
teacher's plans and co-operate with him 
in carrying them out. 
4. What is the, duty of teachers in 
these schools? 
Ans.—To conduct the school on right 
principles and to study the parents' 
plans and to co-operate with them in 
carrying them out. 
5. Is this the plan of education 
which God desired to establish in Israel 
when he brought them out of Egypt? 
Ans.—It is. 
6. Could it be set into operation op-
eration at once? Why? 
Ans.—"This was the method of edu-
cation that God desired to establish in 
Israel. But when brought out of Egypt, 
there were among the Israelites few pre-
pared to be workers together with Him 
in the training of their children. The 
parents themselves needed instruction 
and discipline. Victims of lifelong sla-
very, they were ignorant, untrained, de- 
graded. They had little knowledge of 
• God, and little faith in Him. They 
were confused by false teaching, and 
corrupted by their long contact with 
heathenism."—"Education," p. 34. 
7. What must first be done? 
Ans.—The parents themselves must 
be educated in these principles. 
8. How did He seek to accomplish 
this result? 
Ans.— He organized the whole camp 
of Israel into a great school. The chil-
dren from each family (tribe) were seat-
ed together under their own standard 
or ensign when in camp, and marched 
together when journeying. See Num. 
2; 10:11-28. God Himself was to be their 
teacher and leader, speaking to them 
through Moses and Aaron. In this way 
the parents were to receive an education 
and training which would fit them to 
teach their children the principles of 
Heaven. Deut. 6:1-12; 11:18-21. 
9. What principle is here revealed 
in regard to seating a school? 
Ans.—That the responsibility of seat-
ing pupils in a school rests with the 
teacher; also, that it is a good plan to 
have children of the same family seated 
together rather than to have them dis-
tributed promiscuously over the school 
room. 
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What lessons were so hard for 
Israel to learn? 
Ans.—"God was seeking to strengthen 
their faith by revealing to them the 
power that was continually working 
for their good, and having taught them 
to trust in His love and power, it was 
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His purpose to set before them, in the 
precepts of His law, the standard of 
character to which, through His grace, 
He desired them to attain. �
God 
sought to impress Israel with the holi-
ness of His character and requirements, 
and the exceeding guilt of transgression. 
But the people were slow to learn the 
lesson."—"Education," pp. 34, 35. 
11. Were they the only people who 
have difficulty in learning these lessons? 
12. 
What method of instruction did 
their teacher employ to make these les• 
sons impressive? 
Ans.--He gave them object lessons—
the sanctuary and its service. 
13. How were these objects pre-
pared? 
Ans.—By the school. All had a part 
in providing the material, and the in-
dustrial department did the work under 
the direction of the teacher. Ex. 25:2; 
35:21, 22; 31:1-6. 
14. What kind of school could Israel 
properly be called? 
Ans.—An industrial training school 
for Christian teachers and workers. 
(To be continued) 
Voting People's Work 
THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S' MISSION- 
ARY MOVEMENT 
The young people's work is assuming 
gigantic proportions. Not only in the 
ranks of Seventh-day Adventists is it 
receiving increasing attention, but 
throughout all denominations people 
are awakening to the fact that a great 
force is in their midst, which if proper-
ly organized and disciplined, could do 
much in advancing the cross of Jesus. 
Twenty-eight per cent of the evangel-
ical church members of the United States 
are young people, comprising an aggre-
gate membership of over 5,000,000. 
Recognizing the need of trained lead-
ers, for such an agency in the world's 
evangelization, an interdenominational 
movement, controlled by a board of 
Managers limited to fifteen persons, all 
of whom are secretaries of denomi-
national or church missionary boards 
called the "Young People's Missionary 
Movement" was organized July 18, 1902, 
for the purpose of educating leaders to 
marshall this vast army. 
The Young People's Missionary Move-
ment has as its field, not only the 5,000,-
000 young people in the church societies, 
but also the 14,000,000 Sunday-school 
scholars and other unorganized young 
people in the United States and Canada. 
The movement holds each year in dif-
ferent parts of the United States and 
Canada missionary conferences and 
training schools to prepare leaders for 
young people's work. The conferences 
of 1906, four in number, enrolled about 
fifteen hundred workers, or preparatory 
leaders. 
In addition to the conferences it is 
the policy of the movement to hold 
each year not less than twenty institutes 
in the leading cities of the United States 
and Canada. By studying the geograph-
ical location it is hoped each year to 
reach the greater part of these countries 
with these training schools for workers. 
In view of these facts, of the call for 
the young men and young women who 
really love Jesus to organize themselves 
as workers, and considering the world 
wide message that the Lord expects us 
to give, is it not time we were unfurling 
the banners to the breeze and sounding 
the rallying cry to our 50,000 young 
people? Shall we be less wise than the 
children of the world? 
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The thought was expressed at the Ed-
ucational Convention held at College 
View last summer, that 'we are expend-
ing nearly all of our energies in keep-
ing the front door open and inviting 
the Gentiles in, but meanwhile the back 
door is open and our young people are 
slipping out. In no way would we dis-
parage or decrease the effort expended 
for the first class, but do let us bestir 
ourselves in behalf of our young people. 
"Let us attempt great things for God, 
and expect great things from God." We 
can say with Judson, "The prospects 
are just as bright as the promises of 
God." �
C. L. B. 
THE COLORADO STATE YOUNG 
PEOPLE'S CONVENTION 
LOUISE L. WYSS 
The Colorado state young people's 
convention was held at Boulder, Dec. 
26 to 30. 
There were about one hundred and 
thirteen delegates present, including the 
members of both the Boulder societies. 
Mead MacGuire, Prof. M. E. Kern, and 
Eld. B. E. Huffman were present be-
sides several other conference workers. 
Deep interest in this young people's 
movement was manifest from the first. 
The influence and leading power of the 
Holy Spirit was felt in all our meetings. 
Many renewed their consecration to 
• God and all felt that His call to each of 
us to-day is an individual one, though 
this call to some may be merely the 
realization of the need of the world, yet 
we have been called to a place no one 
else can fill. 
We are sure this convention has been 
a blessing to all, and that our societies 
• will put forth greater efforts in sound-
ing the message of a soon coming Sa-
viour to all the world. 
"No one can with safety command 
who has not already learned to obey." 
TO THE LEADERS OF YOUNG 
PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES 
A leading minister once said that 
when he was a boy he thought it was 
thunder that killed people, but when 
he became older he found out that it 
was lightning, so he determined he 
would thunder less and lighten more. 
We all recognize that facts make im-
pressions, they hit the bull's eye, thus 
arousing co-operation or producing op-
position, either of which will keep a 
subject from dying. A. T. Pierson said, 
"Facts are the fingers of God. To know 
the facts of modern missions is the one 
condition possible for intelligent sym-
pathetic interest." The one condition 
possible to make your society what it 
should be, the banner society of your 
conference, is to dispose of those ob-
stacles confronting it in such a manner 
as to derive strength from the effort, 
and to lift the society up on the table-
land just beyond your present difficul-
ties. 
Through the MESSENGER it is desired 
to continue the column "Chats with 
Leaders." All who recognize their need 
of fuel to make their own and their 
society's missionary fire burn brighter, 
are requested to send to the Central 
Union Conference Young People's De-
partment some of the problems con-
fronting them, also to furnish short, 
pithy, bristling experiences they are 
having. 
In the colonial days when the stage-
coach was the means of transportation, 
three passengers one day secured pas-
sage on the .same coach to go to a dis-
tant town. One had purchased a first-
class ticket, another a second-class, and 
the last, a third-class. When they came 
to the coach, each presented his ticket 
and was instructed to get inside. The 
man with the first-class ticket was sur-
prised, as were the other two, to see that 
all enjoyed the same comforts. The stage 
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TEE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER 
rolled on, while reflection had her per-
fect work. At length they came to a hill. 
The coach stopped, the driver alighted, 
opened the door, and cried out, "First-
class passenger, keep your seat; second-
class passenger, get out and walk; 
third-class passenger, get out and push!" 
The moral is: Wanted, not third class 
pushers, but third class passengers who 
will be first class pushers on making 
"Chats with Leaders" a success. 
C. L. B. 
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GENERAL CULTURE COURSE-
"LIFE SKETCHES" 
LESSON III 
Chapters 6 and 7 
1. Discriminate between mesmerism 
or sanctification and the true personal 
experience that a child of God has. 
2. Note carefully what was revealed 
in these visions. Contrast such with 
this earth, the cross it was to the author 
to relate and to deliver a message of re-
proof, and have it rejected; also the 
responsibility resting upon us if we 
know the truth of God and do not warn 
others. 
3. What was the condition of the 
Adventist people at this time, and how 
did the Lord reveal His love for them? 
Tell how you regard Miss Harmon. 
4. What practical lesson can you 
draw from the scene on board the 
vessel? 
5. From the way Brother and Sister 
White sacrificed, what do you think of 
their consecration and love of the truth? 
6. Note carefully the visits they 
made, the conditions met, what was ac-
complished, and the power of prayer. 
7. Notice the conditions under which 
Present Truth was printed and sent out 
as compared with the publication of the 
Review and Herald now. 
8. Give your appreciation of the con-
secrated lives of Brother and Sister 
White. 
WHAT SOME THINK OF THE GEN-
ERAL CULTURE COURSE 
The following quotations are extracts 
that have been taken from answers 
sent in, in response to the examination 
on the "Life of Bates." They show how 
the course is regarded by those who are 
taking it:— 
"I can say that the General Culture 
Course is of great value in raising ques-
tions in one's mind as he reads, thus 
calling for more study on different sub-
jects."—Mary Shafer, Burdett, Kans. 
"I think the Culture Course will im-
prove a person's mind and cause him 
to think what he is reading about"—
James Tattersall, Mich. 
"I think the General Culture Course 
is alright. It not only helps us to con-
centrate the mind on what we read, but 
by beholding the lives of others we be-
come changed."- --Emma Ball, Sylvia, 
Kans. 
"I like the General Culture Course so 
much. Especially is it good for those 
who have not the privilege of attending 
school."—Florence Van Dorn. 
"I think that the General Culture 
Course is a splendid thing for our young 
people. The books show what the 
pioneers of the Message went through, 
and should inspire each one with fresh 
courage to go on and finish the work of 
warning the world as quickly as pos-
sible, that we may all go home and en-
joy the things that God has prepared for 
THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENOZR �
11 
n that love Him."--Alma Watts 
Hampton, Ia. 
think that the General Culture 
rse is very important and should be 
by all our young people. Yes, even 
older ones."—.I. P. Scantlin, Keene, 
as. 
think the General Culture Course 
be improved by all the young peo-
studying it with their whole hearts 
asking God to impress the truths 
al their minds."—Maude M. Affolter, 
wood Park, Ia. 
n my experience I can say that the 
feral Culture Course has led me to a 
per study of the work in the earlier 
s of this message. I believe this 
feral Culture Course will do much 
and fitting us, the youth, to carry 
closing message to all the world in 
generation."—Stella Voris, Boulder, 
D. 
rhe General Culture Course has been 
7tat blessing to me. I think this is 
: what we need as young people to 
ke us up to realize our opportunities, 
better fit ourselves to proclaim the 
;sage. The life of such a man as 
es ought to give us stamina, which 
are so sadly in need of."—Anna 
nson, Franksville, Wis. 
The General Culture Course will be 
'eat benefit to me."-- Thompson Warn-
Logan, Kans. 
The General Culture Course encour-
s me at least, to know that there are 
Many other young people reading 
;e good books, and trying to fol-
the lives of these noble men and 
nen."—Minerva Wammack, Logan, 
The General Culture Course is on 
whole good. The books are vain-
; especially to the young as convey-
the early history of the message."—
s. Mary H. Moore, Decature, Ark. 
think the Reading Course a fine 
ortunity for self culture and study 
enominational history."—Miss Mary 
Ire, Decature, Ark. 
"I think the General Culture Course is 
a good thing; it gives one something to 
read which is inspiring and makes one 
want to be as good as Bates."—Hattie 
Hough, Lockwood, Mo. 
"The General Culture Course is splen-
did. I• am determined that the prin-
ciples that governed Elder Bates shall 
hereafter be the principles that govern 
me."—J. H. Schmidt, Lake Preston, S. D. 
Those who have not yet sent in their 
examination papers on the book just 
completed, are requested to do so at 
once. $1.25 will take to your address 
the second book of the course,—"Life 
Sketches of Elder and Mrs. White." To-
day is the opportune time to order. 
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE Y. P. S., 
College View, Nebraska. 
GOOD BOOKS AT COST 
We have several copies of "Addresses 
for Young People," by Prof. C. C. Lewis, 
and "Studies in Gospel History," by 
Prof. M. E. Kern, that are slightly im-
perfect in binding. The real value of 
the books is not impaired in the least, 
but their appearance is a little off. We 
will fill orders for these, postpaid, for 
just half of the regular retail price of 
the books, namely 50 cents for the "Ad-
dresses" and 38 cents for the "Gospel 
Studies." This is an excellent oppor-
tunity to get these books for church 
school libraries, for reference, etc. But 
order quick, for we have only a few 
copies in this condition and they will 
soon be gone. 
UNION COLLEGE PRESS, 
College View, Neb. 
"For as a ship without a rudder is 
driven hither and thither by the waves 
so a man who is negligent and incon-
stant is tempted in manifold directions." 
"No one can with safety appear in 
public, unless he himself feels that he 
would willingly remain in retirement." 
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THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER 
A CIRCULATING LIBRARY 
H. M. HIAFT 
While teaching public school I was 
much impressed with the interest taken 
by the pupils in our public library. 
When new books were added there was 
a great eagerness manifested on the part 
of the students to get at these books 
first. In the same school while I was 
a student myself, I have secured books 
rich in various kinds of wisdom and 
read them far into the night, greatly to 
my benefit. 
Later we took membership in a cir-
culating library—one composed of 
twenty-five hundred volumes which 
were shipped in sections of one hun-
dred books, each in charge of a librarian 
elected by us. Rules regulating mem-
bership were printed in each volume, 
one of which was that at a certain defi-
nite time our librarian must collect all 
these books and ship on to the next 
station, or reading-circle, whose num-
ber was next higher than ours. The 
fact that we had a certain time in which 
to read the books and then they must 
move on, acted as a stimulus and 
caused us to do more reading than we 
would otherwise have done had there 
been access to the same books at any 
time. Any failure to ship the books on 
might mean a money forfeit or a sur-
render of membership. It was so ar-
ranged that the whole library of twenty-
five hundred volumes would pass 
through each reading circle within two 
years at a very little cost to each mem-
ber. Something of this kind should be 
in our state, with a carefully selected 
library in smaller sections, for instance, 
twenty-five books each. 
I would suggest as some of the books 
for this library, Motley's "Rise of the 
Dutch Republic," "D'Aubigne's History 
of the Reformation," "Life of Elder and 
Mrs. White," Lives of our early pio-
neers in the truth, early reformers such 
as Luther, Wesley, Wycliffe, Roger 
Williams, and biographies of differ 
missionaries. Many other books c 
taming wholesome reading may 
added. 
This will take the place of novels 
other fiction which is sometimes s 
creeping into our homes. It will 
create among young and old a great 
terest in mission fields, both at lit 
and abroad. 
CHURCH SCHOOL READERS 
The following announcement has b 
received from the Pacific Press 
Co. in regard to church school reader 
The readers known as the "Christ 
Educator Reading Series," were adop 
by the General Conference at its Edu 
tional Convention held in College Vi 
Neb., June 29 to July 10, 1906, and 
commended for use in all our chu 
and primary schools. The first edit 
of this series of readers has for g( 
months been exhausted. A new edit 
is now in preparation. It is to 
known as the "True Education Rea 
Series." The series consists of the 
(owing hooks:— 
Books I-VI, for grades one to 
respectively, and Book VII for gra 
above the sixth. 
Book No. II is now ready. Book 
I will be ready in about two we 
Books Nos. III and V will follow s 
thereafter. Book No. VII is bi 
pushed along rapidly, but we cat 
promise exact date of publication. 
The author of Books No. IV and 
VI promises us copy in time to I 
these books on the market before 
fall terms open. 
Prices on No. I and No. II will be 
each, postpaid. The prices on the o 
books are not yet decided upon. 
"Seek a convenient time to devol 
yourself, and meditate often on the 
efits which God has bestowed u 
you." 
THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER �
13 
Ehuratinital fritssettyr 
esenting the Educational D.partment of the Cen-
I Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists 
which embraces its Training College, Inter- 
mediate Schools, Church Schools, Sab- 
bath Schools, Sanitariums, Nurses' 
Training Scho.,Is and Young 
People's Sqcieties 
rd the 1st and 15th of each month by 
the Central Union Conference 
ege View, �
Nebraska 
TOR �
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C. C. LEWIS 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS 
ung People's Work �
M. E. Kern 
ristian Education �
B. E. Huffman 
lucational News �
E. C. Kellogg 
t Editors: �
J. I. Beardsley Myrtie Wheeler 
Business Manager, M. E. Ellis 
insigned articles are by the editor; associate edi-
tors sign their initials 
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 
Z. YEAR, IN ADVANCE, 50 CTS, 
red as second-class matter January 4. 1905. at 
postoff ice in College View, Neb., under Act of 
ngress of March 3, 1879. 
Nriu.,9 and Notta 
'qlTARIUM SIFTINGS 
laude Weller is taking the nurses' course at 
Des Moines Sanitarium. 
r. G. A. Droll delivered the address at the 
:s' graduation exercises at the Wichita San-
im. 
.iss Lou Trease, of the Nebraska Sanitarium, 
tending a few days with home folks in 
ouri. 
her a six weeks' vacation at her home in 
a Rapids, Neb., Miss Emily Lull has 
ried her work in the Nebraska Sanitarium. 
R. Knox, formerly of the Boulder Sanitari-
who has spent the last six months in Chica-
sing post graduate work is now physician-in-
e of the Colorado Springs Sanitarium. 
le special class in Christian Help Nursing 
ri is offered this year by the Colorado San-
rn, began work January first and is to con-
six months. The class has a membership 
ie, and very practical and helpful work is 
taken up. 
Miss Rose Wise returned last week from a vis-
it with friends in Chicago. 
Miss Clara Nelson has just returned to the 
Colorado Sanitarium from several weeks' nursing 
in Denver. 
Dr. G. A. Droll has secured a good building 
in Kansas City for the extension of the medical 
work, being prepared now to care for a few 
patients as they are cared for in our sanitariums. 
The address is 1224 Charlotte St., Kansas City, 
Mo. 
The following are members of the new nurses' 
class at the Colorado Sanitarium, which began 
work January first: — 
Leah Beltz, Grace Mitchell, Hattie Caviness, 
Roy Truman, Luella Truman, Henry Darby, 
Louise Peterson, Pearl Easter, Victoria Stowe, 
Helen Bixby, Frances Glasgow, Annie Jensen, 
Ethel Sargent, Nellie Waggoner and Lottie Gal-
pin. Several others are expected soon to take up 
work with this class. 
COLLEGE VIEW HAPPENINGS 
Saturday evening, January 26, Josie and Edna 
Schee and Mrs. Rentfro and family, entertained 
forty of their friends at their home. �
The invita- 
tions read "to a poverty aggregation," and every-
thing was strictly ragged. 
January 26th being set . apart as Young Peo-
ple's Day, the young people's society of College 
View were granted both morning and afternoon 
services. The program suggested by the Instructor 
was carried out with some additional numbers by 
members of the society. The watchword of the 
society, "The Advent Message to the World in 
this Generation," was suspended above the plat-
form and over this as many flags of the different 
nations as could be obtained, were arranged. 
At the:recent election of officers for the Col-
lege View Young People's Society, the following 
officers were chosen,—M. E. Ellis, Roberta An-
drews, and Glenn George, leaders respectively of 
the yong men's personal work company, the 
youndadies'ipersonal work company, and the 
Sabbath_ afternoon meeting; R. S. Irvine, Lydia 
Rishel, and Millie Rogers, secretaries of the same: 
Arthur Smith,,treasurer; B. R. Shryock, choris-
ter; Ada Madison, organist; Mrs. M. E. Ellis, 
leader of the junior society. 
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THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER 
Miss Hansegne Strunge, of Chicago, has ac-
cepted a position as secretary in the Danish De-
partment of the International Publishing Ass'n. 
STUART ACADEMY NEWS 
J. C. Jenson, a former student of the Academy 
is working at Omaha, Neb. 
Orders are beginning to come in for seeds and 
nursery stock for spring delivery. 
Miss Ruth Boynton and Walter Caviness were 
recently enrolled at the Academy. 
The Zoology class, having finished its work 
has taken up the study of Astronomy. 
Eld. J. H. Kraft and family are expecting to 
move to College View in the near future. 
T. W. Steen, formerly of the Academy, is 
teaching a church school at Iron River, Mich. 
The average daily attendance at the Academy 
has been greater this year than at any other time 
in the past. 
Miss Adaline Boynton, formerly of Lincoln, 
Neb., is spending a fortnight with the family of 
Prof. Bralliar. 
The school has several hundred bushels of ex-
tra good seed corn and a good supply of fruit 
trees and berry plants for sale. 
Five of the students who were in attendance 
at the Academy last year, are this year attend-
ing school at Union College, and two others are 
at the Iowa Sanitarium. 
Howard Nichols is acting as furnace boy, 
George Scism has the care of the poultry, and 
David Olson has charge of the dairy department 
at the Academy this year. 
Recently F. A. Warnick, an official judge of 
the National Poultry Association, visited the 
Academy for the purpose of scoring poultry. All 
of our poultry scored high but he says our Buff 
Orpingtons are some of the finest he ever han-
dled, several of them scoring as high as 95 points. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
• 
Eld. H. M. J. Richards recently spent a few 
hours at the Colorado Springs Sanitarium on his 
way to Loveland. 
Mr. J. M. Brown, who has for several years 
been a resident of College View, has taken charge 
of the health cafe in Lincoln. 
Elder C. A. Beeson has moved to Om 
Elder R. F. Parmele is now working in 
nection with the circulating department of 
Watchman. 
Miss Nettie Cornell, of Ottawa, Kans., 
accepted a position as stenographer in the Ce. 
Union Conference. 
Meade MacGuire recently paid the Colg 
Springs church school a short visit on his wt 
Pueblo where he was going to hold a seri, 
meetings in company with Elder Watson. 
Elder J. P. Lorenz, of 2547 Emerson 
St. Louis, has been appointed by the confer 
as state secretary of the Religious Liberty Del 
ment. He will soon be writing to the chin 
and suggetting plans for labor. We truit all 
do their part in bringing this branch of the 
up to where God would have it be.--Miss 
Record. 
Miss Lillian Kennedy, writing of the y 
people's society at Palisade, Colo., says: ' 
society here has been organized for two y 
but during the last quarter a genuine missio 
spirit has come into our midst. We ha 
membership of fifty, not including the junior 
partment. During the past quarter, Prof 
E. H. Curtis has had charge of our mee 
Our special work has been with the Life 
Health and Watchman. 
We take 100 of 
each month." 
A copy of the Canadian Union Mess, 
has reached us containing the following 
"On New Year's evening, the Galt church n 
bers gathered in our home [the home of I 
A. 0. Burrill] to witness the marriage of 
Katie Coleman, of Kansas, and Walter E. 
cock, of Texas. Brother Hancock has been 
us for some time, and is becoming known t 
readers of the Messenger as one of our labs 
Sifter Hancock comes from Union College, 
braska, where she has been connected wit 
work for the pail four years. She was edit 
the Nebraska Reporter. She has now 
asked to become matron of the Lornedale A 
emy, and also editor of the Messenger. 
wish both of these young people much c 
blessing of the Lord in these new relation 
responsibilities." In these good wishes 
Educational Messenger heartily joi 
THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER �
15 
Mr. Harvey Schrock, who was formerly steno-
grapher for the International Publishing Associ-
ation, has accepted a position as stenographer for 
the Northern Union Conference. 
Bro. E. Rosenwold has been in Des Moines a 
few days looking up some matters concerning the 
Swedish work in the State, and having some 
dental work done. This week he goes to Ruth-
ven to labor for a time.—Iowa Bulletin. 
Miss Mary Wilbur, who for a short time has 
been doing some good work in the canvassing 
field, has been in Des Moines a few days attend-
ing the young people's convention. From here 
she goes to Nevada to attend the canvassers' ins-
titute.- Iowa Bulletin. 
We are sorry to record the burning of the 
main building of Bethel Academy, January I. 
This building contained the school rooms, dining 
room and kitchen, and also served as a dormi 
tory for the lady students. The fire Started in 
the boiler room and was well along before dis-
covered. However, there was time to remove 
almost everything from the building. The insur-
ance amounted to $3,500. Union College ex-
tends deepest sympathy to Bethel in this 
calamity. 
UNION COLLEGE BREVITIES 
Eld. Andrew Nelson is president of the Ok-
lahoma Conference. 
Olof Nerlund, of Rock Creek, Minn., recently 
visited College View. He is in the ministry in 
his home state. 
Nancy Bland and Lillie Hornbeck, who went 
from Kansas to Wyoming to do Bible work, have 
located at Cheyenne and enjoy their new 
'location. 
Paul E. Bowen was married last June to Mar-
ietta Ripley, of Battle Creek. At present they 
are at home with his parents in Baldwin, Wis. 
He hopes to take the medical course at the State 
University in Lincoln next year. 
Eld. R. A. Underwood, president of the 
Northern Union Conference, and Eld. E. G. 
Hayes, president of the South Dakota Confer-
ence, attended the College Board meeting. 
They, with Eld. J. H. Wheeler, president of the 
Wyoming Mission Field, met with the Students 
from those conferences one Sabbath afternoon. 
Peter Mathiesen is in Colorado. 
Burton Emerson has been very sick but is now 
rapidly recovering. 
Mr. H. 0. Welty is just recovering from a very 
severe attack of pneumonia. 
Elmer Lindholm, who has been in school this 
year, has returned home on account of the sick-
ness of his father. 
Edward Graves, who was in College four 
years ago, was married New Year's Day and is 
making his home on a farm at Clay Center, Kan-
sas. 
The employees of the Union College Press 
recently took a four days' enforced vacation on 
account of an accident to their heating system 
during the recent cold snap. The engineer took 
the opportunity to rearrange the system and no 
further trouble is anticipated. 
John N. Herboltzheimer writes in a recent 
letter from Japan: "Our work is making good 
progress. Recently we went to the beach and 
Brother Okahira baptized three precious souls; 
and to-day we received word from Nagasaka 
that three more were buried with their Lord in 
baptism. We are all of good courage, and thank 
God for a part in this closing work." 
John Bland write as follows concerning his 
school at Mineral, Kans.: 
"The Lord's work is prospering here. The 
school is a success. I now have an enrolment of 
thirty-one with an attendance of about twenty-
three. They all• seem well pleased with the 
work and are doing well. I have not heard even 
one complaint so far. The parents of most of my 
pupils are not Adventists, but they seem pleased 
with the school and are ready to pay the tuition 
and send the children here rather than send them 
to the public school. Since the school started 
the number in our Sabbath school has increased. 
We have a real good Sabbath school, but no 
young people's meetings, for there are none of the 
young people here who belong to our church. 
Truly the harvest is great and the laborers are 
few. I often look back with pleasure to the days 
spent in Union College and I wish I could be 
there this winter, but when I think of the need of 
workers I am willing to stay here and do what I 
can." 
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THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER 
Harley Wallace is working on the home farm 
at Bedford, Iowa. 
Miss Dottie P. Jones is spending the winter at 
Los Angeles, Cal. 
The College recently erected a new cattle shed 
12 x 50 ft. at the big barn. 
Oswald Roberts is attending the Agricultural 
College at Fort Collins, Colo. 
A tailoring class of ten members is a part of 
the College work for the winter term. 
John Myhre, a Student of Union College last 
year, is now attending Stuart Academy. 
Prof. P. E. Berthelsen has returned from a 
Danish convention in Minneapolis, Minn. 
Miss Katie Earl, a former Student of Union 
College, is engaged in Bible work in Oskaloosa, 
Iowa. 
Elder and Mrs. Chas. Burman are conducting 
a three months' canvassers' institute at Leduc, 
Alberta. 
South Dakota has nine church schools, five of 
which, at least, are taught by former Union Col-
lege Students. 
Ruth Fasig has an enrolment of eight pupils in 
her school at Minatare, Nebr. She is well, and 
enjoying her work very much. 
David Voth is Educational Secretary for Ok-
lahoma. He also finds time to teach a church 
school at Cooper, in the same state. 
William Voth, a graduate of Union College, is 
performing the duties of State Sabbath School 
and Conference Secretary for Oklahoma. 
The Union College Commercial room has been 
much improved by the addition of office fixtures 
for a bank and commercial exchange, also a pos-
tal syStem. 
Since leaving Union College about four years 
ago, Dave Gaede has taken the nurses' course 
and expects in another year to complete the med-
ical course in Kansas City, Mo. He intends to 
return to Oklahoma to practice. 
On a recent Sabbath the College Sabbath 
school review was conducted in a unique manner. 
Numbered slips were handed to all present, the 
odd numbers containing queitions to be answered 
by the following even numbers. It was found to 
be a very interesting way of reviewing the lesson . 
Anna Isaac is teaching a church school in 
Bowdle, S. D. 
Bessie Reiswig, a former Student of the Col-
lege, is with her brother in College View. 
Walter Jensen is on his farm at Lein, N. D. 
He expects to attend school again next year. 
Ammon Shaver, formerly baker for Union 
College, is farming near Deer Park, Washington. 
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sutherland are spending 
the winter in Kansas City with Dr. G. A. 
Droll. 
Miss Maude Blodgett is teaching a church 
school at the home of Brother Colson, Tekamah, 
Neb. 
Carlton Bunnell, a former student of Union 
College, is spending a few days at the Nebraska 
Sanitarium. 
Adam Stern, who was in Union College last 
year, is attending Brown's Business College in 
Lincoln, INfebr. 
Elof Johnson, formerly a Student in the Scan-
dinavian department of Union College, was re-
cently assigned ministerial work in the New Eng-
land States. 
Miss Maude Patterson left Union College Jan. 
30, for her home in Missouri. The evening be-
fore her departure a few of her friends gave her 
a little surprise at the home of F. F. Byington. 
The third annual recital of the Union College 
Music department was given Sunday evening, 
Jan. 13, under the leadership of Prof. B. R, 
Shryock. The numbers consisted mainly of 
choruses, and were appreciated by the audience 
which packed the English chapel. 
Elide, New Mexico, is gaining quite a Union 
College settlement, a few of whom are, Elsie 
Andrews, class of '04; Lena Hunt and Alma J. 
Graf, class of '05; Gordon Andrews, Carl Graf, 
and William Hardt. All are well, enjoying the 
mild southern weather during our northern win-
ter. At this season they are setting out their or-
chards. They have a Sabbath school of thirty. 
five members, with Lena Hunt as superintendent, 
and Mrs. Henry Hardt, nee Sarah Grobe, foi 
secretary. They express themselves as enjoyini 
the visits of the Messenger. Gordon An-
drews was the last name added to our lift from 
this place. 
THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER 
THE MISSIONARY IDEA 
"The Missionary Idea," by Mrs. 
.R. E. Ellis, is the most compre• 
hensive, the most practical, and 
the most suggestive missionary 
manual that has ever been putout 
by our people. It should be in the 
hands of every field secretary, 
and no young people's society 
should think of being without it. 
It deals with leadership and the 
various plans of society work.- -
From a paper on "Helpful Litera• 
ture for Field Secretaries," by C. 
L. Benson, fiss't Sec. Young Peo• 
pie's Work in Central Union Con• 
ference. 
Price, Postpaid, 75 cents 
cc UNION COLLEGE PRESS 
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We breed nothing else, for we believe 
that they 
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liens, pullets, and cockierels, $2 each. Trio, $5. Eggs in 
season $1.50 per fifteen. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Union College Poultry Yards 
College View, �
Nebraska 
UNION COLLEGE 
Office in the 
TAILORING DEP'T 
College Building 
 
 
Does the highest grade of work at the lowest living 
prices. Full and complete line of latest samples 
and styles always on hand. Cleaning and pressing 
a specialty. Give us a trial. We also carry a full 
line of ready-to-wear clothing. Be F.urc tc see us 
before buying elsewhere, as we can save you money. 
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