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Since then, under the patronage of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, many educational institutions have started, struggled and expired-notably four in Missouri alonebut probably the fittest have survived. each case, however, the failing colleges made the educational soil fallow for the coming institution which was destined to permanency. They were the sacrifices of a vital faith.

I cannot attempt in this brief review to give attention to all the present educational institutions of the Cumberland Presbyterians, but only to such as are of commanding importance, and which every informed Presbyterian should know something about, as part of his new possessions, resulting from the union.

Ist. The oldest and in some ways the most important is Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn. It has a Law School which has equipped many of the leading lawyers of the South. It has a Theological School, also (the only one in the Cumberland Presbyterian

Church), which has six professors and usually about sixty students. The preparatory work for the Literary Department of the University is done by Castle Heights School with an attendance of 211 boys and Lebanon College for Young Ladies having an attendance of 170. Many of the teachers work in two or more of these institutions. The statistics are included in the table, because each of the other colleges includes its preparatory department. The buildings are adequate and recent. The imperative present need is endowment for all departments, as that is far in arrears of its other material equipment.

2d. Waynesburg College at Waynesburg, Pa., is next in seniority. It began its educational work in 1852. For forty years this institution was presided over by Alfred B. Miller, D.D., LL.D., our most distinguished educator in letters, as Richard Beard, D.D., of Cumberland University, was in theology. Waynesburg deserves great credit for being the cradle of our foreign missionary work-the Rev. J. B. Hail, D.D., Moderator of our General Assembly at Fresno, Cal., in 1905. having been our pioneer missionary to Japan in 1875, and his brother, Rev. A. D. Hail, D.D., having followed him shortly after. Rev. M. L. Gordon, M.D., D.D., had preceded both of them, but had gone out under the American Board, our Board not being courageous enough at that time to send him.

3rd. Lincoln University comes third, having its foundation laid in 1865, though it is now a part of James Millikin University, the latter being composed of Lincoln College at Lincoln, Ill., and Decatur College and Industrial School at Decatur, Ill. These two are under the amended Lincoln University Charter, a valuable asset. The change of name was a result of the munificence of James Millikin,

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of Decatur, who gave a half million dollars to rehabilitate Lincoln and to start Decatur College and Industrial School in 1902. His gifts are the largest in behalf of any Cumberland Presbyterian institution. The two years of work which have been done in the University under the new conditions more than justify the ample gifts of this generous man. Including the two colleges at Decatur and Lincoln the material equipment including endowment, buildings, etc., is over $700,000; the income is about $65,000 annually; and the total attendance is over a thousand.

4th. Trinity University is a college and was originally located at Tehuacana, Texas, in 1869, and had many years of useful and influential history while located at that off-the-railroad point. In 1902 it was removed to Waxahachie, Texas, a vastly better location in one of the best parts of the state. It has two good new buildings and is erecting a third. Its material equipment is quite in advance of its endowment. Texas has not learned to give to endowment yet-she prefers to put money where it can be seen. Besides the Southern idea seems to be that tuition should be able to support a college. As a matter of fact, no first-class institution doing proper college work can be operated on the income from tuition and fees. Trinity is in sore need of endowment. Her patronage and buildings are good, but she lacks an adequate fund for the maintenance of her faculty.

5th. Missouri Valley College is located at Marshall. Mo., a beautiful city in the central part of the state. It was founded in 1889. It differed from all other institutions of the Church in two respects: It started with

enough endowment to insure its permanency and it started doing high-grade college work. These facts gave it position at the very begin

ning and it has continued to grow in the esteem of educators. It has had the courage to stick to undergraduate work-does not confer any but Bachelor degrees. When a student gets his B.A. or B. Ph. degree he goes elsewhere. Thus the resources and energy of the college have not been dissipated on a few graduate students, who might be better served in a regular university. Missouri Valley has the distinction of attracting the largest number of undergraduate candidates for the ministry of any of our colleges. This may be because it offers as a part of its curriculum an elaborate course in Biblical instruction-a course which is partly historical and partly literary, and which is as exacting on the time of the students as any other studies. There were 33 young preachers in Missouri Valley last year-240 students in all.

6th. Arkansas Cumberland College at Clarksville, Ark., was established in 1892. It is needed in that state where there are twelve thousand members of our Church, and few good colleges. It is a beginning in a good locality and should have encouragement.

7th. Indianola College at Wynnewood, I. T., is a good beginning in a rich part of the territory. It has a good building and should be fostered. It is needed.

8th. In conclusion, it may be added that there are other educational institutions connected with the Church, such as Bethel College, McKenzie, Tenn.; Auburn Seminary, Auburn, Ky.; Texas Female Seminary, Weatherford, Texas; Southern Female College, Westpoint, Miss.; Maddox Seminary, Little Rock, Ark.; all of which are doing good in their various localities, but which do not have general influence through the Church.

The following table of statistics may properly close this contribution:

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already sold. Many other lots were also sold; so I was not the first one desiring to make a purchase.

"The land office was the only building in the town, excepting a restaurant which was under construction, and the farm buildings that were purchased with the land by the railroad company.

"On alighting from the hack that brought me from Justus to the land office in Brewster, I met three ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, one being the presiding elder, and the others near-by pastors. We looked over the situation together and chose what we thought suitable lots for churches. We were the first that had selected lots in the new town for such a purpose.

SECURING THE PURCHASE MONEY.

"The next thing for me was to get money with which to purchase the land selected, for no lots were being donated for church purposes, though the railroad company does agree to make a liberal donation toward building houses of worship, after they are under construction.

"Returning to Massillon, I had further conference with Dr. Bigger. The following morning he and I went to Canton, the county seat, and had a conference with one of the pastors there, who advised us to get advice from a certain banker, who could tell us just where to look for help.

"This banker, Mr. Troutman, is an elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Canton. We found him very busy, but he was evidently glad to hear of our plans for Brewster, and directed us to several men whom he thought might help us to secure the lots.

"At my request, Mr. Troutman telephoned to the first man we were to see, and thus introduced us and our business while we were on the way to his place of business. This friend, Mr. Vicary, is also an elder of the First Presbyterian Church. He is a clothing merchant. He had just come from the telephone as we reached his store, and we found him a ready listener. He said that the banker had told him that our proposition seemed good to him, and that after hearing it directly from us, he, too, was convinced that it was a good scheme. Then he added, 'Well, gentlemen, whoever buys those lots ought to do so at

once. I will meet you at the one o'clock car, and we will go and look at the lots this afternoon.'

"It began to rain before one o'clock, but Mr. Vicary, Dr. Bigger and myself were not daunted by it. We went to Brewster, walking from Justus to Brewster and back through the rain, a distance of about two and a half miles. We got there just in time to catch the land agent, who was coming away on account of the inclement weather. After looking at the town site, and visiting the lots I had selected, we all concluded that the choice was a good one, and Mr. Vicary at once made the purchase, holding the lots for a Presbyterian church until such a church is able to take them off his hands; and they will not cost the church so much as they have cost Mr. Vicary.

A PROVIDENTIAL COMBINATION.

"The following evening, I was at the Westminster Church prayer-meeting, in Wooster. At the close of the meeting, Dr. Davis, the University librarian, asked me if I could not do something to help Mt. Eaton Presbyterian Church. I had not heard of this church before, but, on inquiry, I found it to be within five or six miles of Brewster. This was just the thing needed to complete the plan for work in the new town: an old church near-by needing help, thus each could help the other. So I went to Mt. Eaton the next morning and stayed there until the following Sabbath.

"The people at Mt. Eaton I found to be very desirous of having work begun in the new town; and were greatly pleased when I told them of the steps already taken in this direction. I learned, also, that a minister had just visited Mt. Eaton Church with a view of taking up the work; and that he had expressed his willingness to undertake the charge provided the church would be willing for him to spend part of his time in helping other needy fields within reach.

"More than this, I found that some of the families of Mt. Eaton Church live close by the place where Brewster is to be established. On Monday, the 14th, I visited all of these families, and found them very glad to know of the prospect of a church close at hand.

"Thus, while Brewster is still nothing more than a name we have plans well matured for establishing a good work there."