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March 9, 1910. THE
sent of the Assembly we have ended our
co-educational work. We have sold the
Durant property to the town and are
now erecting one of the best college
buildings to be found anywhere, for the
education of the girls and young women
in our new state. Think of it! It will
be the only college of high grade for
girls in the State, and many a parent is
now waiting with deep interest for the
opening of such an institution as our college
will be.
An Urgent Call. The writer is now
out of the State in the itnerest of the
college. The work was progressing rapidly
on the new building when he left
home. Material was coming in by carloads.
Each month brings to our treasurer
an estimate that must be met. Our
funds were practically consumed when
I left home. To suspend work means
heavy loss. These conditions should
concern the whole General Assembly. It
is your school, if you are a Presbyterian,
in a great mission field, and you should
aid in its construction.
Mrs. Stewart, of Richmond, Va., acting
for the Ladies' Union of the Synod
of Virginia, is still putting forth earnest
efforts to raise $25,000.00, with the help
of the ladies of the chyrch. Through
the papers she is calling for the ladies
to give at once to the fund, and thus enable
her to publish to the Church and to
the world, by April 1 that the work has
been accomplished. I want to take up
her call and echo it in the hearing of all
of our noble women. They will give no
doubt. But they should give now.
A Gentle Hint. The women always
"acquit themselves like men." This
time they will surpass them. But why
not all the men encourage the ladies'
movement in this matter and give to
this worthy cause. If your daughter
were in the far away new state of Oklahoma
and could get schooling only by
going to a state institution or to a mixed
school with its evil influences and
results you would feel deeply the importance
of helping to establish this
Christian institution for the making of
cultured and refined womanhood for the
Church and State. Let the men all help
the ladies in their efforts to build a college
for the girls of Oklahoma.
Stern Facts. We were forced to plan
for greater things. A smaller plant than
our 172,000.00 building would not meet
the demands. Even with it, I fear greatly
that we will not be able to admit all
of those who will apply. There has never
been such an opportunity in this
Western country for Christian education.
The writer has in his possession
.a proposition from parties in Oklahoma
City offering thirty acres of land, 200
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locate a college there for young men.
Think of it, while the Texas Presbyterian
College for girls at Mllford, Texas,
can accommodate 150 young ladies, yet
Dr. Evans, the President, has turned
away over 175 applicants since September
last.
To make a college a success it must
be able from the start to take in a cer
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tain number of students, otherwise it
will be a sinking enterprise and will
meet with certain failure in the end. You
can feel that if you give to Oklahoma
Presbyterian College tor Girls that you
are taking stock in an enterprise that
will be on a paying basis and that you
will be making an investment that will
yield returns in the production of Christian
character and noble womanhood.
Dr. Evans of Milford, Texas, that peerless
college president, came up to Durant
at the invitation of the Board of
Trustees, to see our work. We had
hoped that we might secure him for our
college, but he notified us before coming
not to expect him to take the presi
dency, but that he would come on his
own expenses and see us and help us.
He is so intensely pointed and practical
in his ideas and suggestions that we
were greatly benefitted by his trip. As
we stood with him at the depot, as he
was about to leave, he said, "You have
projected a splendid plant and I do not
know of a community or a church that
has such a great opportunity as that
which you offer right here in Durant."
We have been forced to suspend our
educational work this year, while we are
building. If we can complete our building
in time we will open our college for
girls in September. If not, we will lose
another year. Send your gifts to Mrs.
A. M. Howison, Staunton, Va.
W. T. Matthews.
Durant, Oklahoma.
A VETERAN PASTOR WRITES TO A
FRIEND.
There was sickness in the home more
or less serious, and "the shadow of the
valley" rested on every heart. It passed
after a time and there was the dear shining
after the rain. Among the letters of
sympathy and affection was one from a
Christian minister of experience and mature
reflection, from which we make the
following extract:
"Thank you for your kind notes telling
us how things go. The will of God be
done, in His way and time. Amen. This
is best. He knows when to call us hence
and when all is ready for us there. All
in time?all in His own perfect time.
Amen, things are changing very rapidly
with me. The realness. and rest of the
other side come on very fast into consciousness.
I think the desire "to depart"
grows fast, much faster than I fever
thought it would?it is all getting very
real to me now. I recently awoke to see
why old people can not guide and mould as
the younger. People measure a man by
his power to execute, rather than to see.
When we loss power to make do what
we grder or advise, our words fail to be
considered "worth while," more and
more. Simeon and Anna can linger at
the temple and pray and prophesy, but it
does not make disciples nor worry Herod.
The force of the physical man is a big
factor in the leaders of the world. This
is a new and most interesting course of
study to run through the Bible. Mephibosheths
have a hard time keeping their
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at "the King's table," and are apt
to lose "half of the land." So many
things come out at eventide, as do the
stars, that we did not see forenoon or
noon. Life is so vast and the Bible so
deep and full."
AN EMBARRASSING SITUATION.
For some years past the Rev. Dr. G.
B. Strickler, of Union Seminary, has been
considered one of the most able and attractive
preachers in the Southern Presbyterian
Church. He has left his impress
not only on the large and intelligent
congregations which he has served
as pastor but equally so nnnn tho
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student body of Union Seminary which
has come under his moulding hand. This
has been so noticeable that many of the
students leave the Seminary not only
with his style of preaching vividly impressed
upon them but even carrying
away with them the sermon outlines, (in
their heads of course!) and have gone
into all sections of the country preaching
with such effect as to astonish their
audiences with their profound scholarship
and convincing arguments built upon
the soundest principles of pure logic.
Recently the Rev. Dr. gave his consent,
most reluctantly because of his extreme
modesty, to have a series of his
sermons published. They are enjoying
a large circulation, indeed every one who
has ever heard this prince of preachers
desires a conv nf thio wainoMn 1??-1
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hence it is going into many congregations
throughout the church and being
ravenously read from cover to cover by
the rank and file of the church.
Some of these sermons are old (!) to
some of the readers of this volume and
they are wondering if it is really true
that the author has "appropriated" the
plunder of their young pastor!
While it is with great joy and edification
this volume of magnificent sermons
is hailed, yet it doubtless seems a pity
to some of the young theologues that
some of their best sermons have become
public property! Buy a copy of this
book and thereby preserve a copy of
your pastor's best sermons!
D. H. S.
SMALL TASKS BEFORE GREAT
ONES.
"The only way to remove mountains,'*
it has been said, "is to begin on grains
of sand." Wisdom and strength grow by '
exercise. Small tasks are preparatory to
great ones, and even so-called trifles, if
attended to with care, may sharpen the
wits or train hand or heart for larger enterprises.
He is Indeed foolish who despises
the dav of small fhinco /? ...?*?
through lack of perception of the value
of the opportunities that come his way,
neglects the petty duty near at hand for
the imagined opening at a distance to
which he is not really called of God. But
when a man has humbled himself to perform
the task of removing grains of sand,
God may call him to grander duty on the
high mountains of duty and vision.?Exchange.