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24 TH Expert Testim CLUSTER SPRI For Boys an< "At the mouth of three witnesses sh EXTRACTS FROM LETT! EDWIN A. ALDERMAN, L. L. D.. Pr I want you to know that the Un: the work you are doing, and has n efficiency of Cluster Springs Academ GEORGE H. DENNY, L. L. D.. Presi It is a pleasure to announce tht placed upon our "Accredited" list, a work you have done in bringing you j. gray McAllister, d. l. d., ex I have been impressed with the fi Academy, with its teaching force and george ben johnson, l. l. d., It gives me a great deal of plea Academy to those who have the dirt tho 1UC vjuaiiuvaiiwns CA1I1 UILt* U UV lib 1 been of the highest type and indicate REV. THORNTON S. WILSON, D. I Atlanta, Ga. I very heartily commend Cluster the education of boys at heart. I a worthy of confidence. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDII R. Miller, M. D., Proctor. The impression we have received students who have come to us has done their work faithfully and success traits of character which reflect creci HON. JOHN W. CRADDOCK, Lynch of University of Virginia. It gives me pleasure to express to made by my son during the past tw Your instruction has been thorough ai n nrnmof n f Ka *- 1 ? ww (fiuuiutc 111'- UtTBl ICBUIIB, UUlll 111 building. A. H. KING, ESQ., Atty-at-Law, Jacks We appreciate the kind and thor Cluster Springs Academy during th< fulfillment of your ambition and effor are doing. JUDGE WILLIAM R. BARKSDALE, I I take pleasure in saying that I progress at Cluster Springs Academy. shall we send our boy," 1 heartily < It the success it so richly deserves. JUDGE JOHN D. HORSLEY, Presider I have been very much gratifiei during the two years he was at Clu? and mentally. JUDGE WILLIAM A. HOCKER, Asso. Tallahassee, Fla. The great improvement which tw has made in my son prompts me to re< The school seems to be sincrularlr adequate and wholesome, the instruct the location is in the country and tt boy receives careful attention. J. P. AGNEW, ESQ., Cashier Bank of After much deliberation 1 select e< because I believed he would receive of efficient teachers as well as the i atmosphere. I have not been dlsai saying so. The verdict of this jury of dist celebrated physicians, learned juristi vince you that at CLU8TER 8PRINC tne ntAHT, MIND AND BODY OF E Our catalog which gives in detail tion to: HAMPDEN WILSOl W. O. RYBURN; M./ * V E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU ony Regarding NGSACADEMY i Young Men all the matter be established."?Deut. ERS TO THE PRINCIPAL. esident University of Virginia. iversity esteems in the highest degree atural pride in the distinction and yident Washington and Lee University, it Cluster Springs Academy has been nd I congratulate you upon the good r school to the front. -President Hampden Sidney College. ine type of students at Cluster Springs with its admirable home life. President Medical College of Virginia, sure to commend Cluster Springs action of the education of young men. siuuenis who nave come to us have a very thorough training. 5., Editor Presbyterian of The South, Springs Academy to parents having m fully convinced that the school is SINE, RICHMOND, VA. By William of Cluster Springs Academy from the been distinctly favorable. They have fully and have exhibited many sterling lit upon their previous training. burg. Va., Member Board of Visitors you my satisfact as to the progress | o years at Cluste. ">rings Academy, ad the influences of tue school such as scholastic training and in character onville, Fla. ough training our boy has received at b past two pears, and wish you the is in the most commendable work you Sixth Circuit of Virginia, Houston, Va. was entirely satisfied with my son's To parents asking themselves "Where :ommenu >our school and I wish for it First National Bank, Lynchburg, Va. d at the improvement my son made iter Springs Academy, both physically ? ??.? juoutc supreme uourt or Florida, 0 sessions at Cluster Springs Academy commend it to the parents of the South. exempt from sickness, the fare is / Lo.s are men of character and ability, / le n. -r^l and religious training of th<^ Crewe, Crews-,. Va. ' 1 Cluster Springs Academy for my boy ! conscientious training at the hands nestimable benefits of a clean., moral >pointed and take great pleasure in inguished educators, err<lnent divines, i and successful bankers should con>8 ACADEMY we know how to trsin IOY8. our methods will be sent on appllcaPrincipal, or i., Associate Principal, Cluster Springs, Virginia. TH. August 25, 1909. KING COLLEGE. An important event in the history of King College has just transpired, viz.: the * laying of the corner stone of the "Caldwell-Tadlock Memorial Hall," on the 5th of August. This is the forty-second anniversary of the opening day of the first session of the institution as the Bristol High School, and the fortieth anniversary of its opening as a chartered college. Under the beautiful trees on the campus the friends gathered to participate in the exercises of this auspicious occasion. Addresses appropriate to the occasion, recalling much of the history of the college and the self-denying labors of the Rev. Geo. A. Caldwell and Rev. J. D. Tadlock in the days of its beginnings, were made by Drs. C. C. Carson and S. R. Preston. Others participating were Dr. Wallace, President Smith and John H. Caldwell the president of the Board of Curators. Rev r-oi#! well's widow and Dr. Tadlock's daughter, Mrs. Wallace, deposited valuable historic articles in the corner-stone. This is the first building erected since 1893. It is the beginning of greater things along this line for the old college that has done so much for the church and the nation?a college whose foundations were laid in prayer and which was dedicated to the glory of God by the fathers whose names are on the old and the new buildings. Nobly and heroically did they do their work to meet the needs of church and state in those dark davs following the Civil War. By the liberality of Rev. James King' who in the year 1867 gave property worth then about $15,000, the college became a possibility, and by the arduous labors of the Rev. Geo. A. Cald well and the Rev. J. D. Tadlock it was projected on its high mission. Sixty-nine preachers out of its one hundred and thirty-three graduates, are belting the globe with their influence for Jesus Christ, while many of the other sixtyfour have been ornaments to the other orofessions and various pursuits of life, ?three of them at one time members of Congress. Who can estimate the eternal fruitaee from the inhnw ?L __ u wi tuUOC V*LIU founded King College? The redeemed in glory will sing everlasting hallelujahs because of its birth and its mission. But its work is not yet done. It rises from the conflicts and adversities of its past history where splendid victories have been achieved stronger than ever and facing a brighter future. Seventy-seven students were enrolled last session after the college had been closed for a year, and next year there will be a hundred or more. A faculty of noble instructors will greet them, with such men as President B. R. Smith and Revs. Dr. Wallace and Asa Watkins among them, and what mav nnt vest be? Oh you men who have money In your possession, as Qod's stewards, why not give hub oia couege the equipment need* j ed for its God-given work? Your material enterprises will perish, the biggest of them; but this work in mind and j heart has the sweep of eternity before It.