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“The Entrance of Thy Woras Giveth Light." NOTE—The eyes of the student world are turned this week toward Nashville and the four thousand “Student Volunteers’’ in convention there. THE GOLDEN AGE will have next week an il lustrated story of this wonderful gathering of students who are planning so gloriously to spread the Light of the World. • ♦ ♦ • • ♦ 4 • • ♦ • What Means This Great Convention? ♦ • ♦ 4 By WILLIAM D. UPSHAW. • • ♦ * (Dedicated to the Students’ Volunteer Convention Assembled in Nashville, Tenn. £ J February 28 —March 4, 1906.) ? * • * Our hearts have felt an impulse— That we who, once in darkness, • And our eyes have seen a power Rejoiced to see the Light, ? ® Which they never comprehended Will ‘ ‘speed away” our blessing ♦ • Till they met this mighty hour! To those in rayless night! f • . Indeed, it is so wondrous It tells that “foreign missions” * * We can not tell it all, Mean just the same as “home”— • ♦ For God Himself is moving To all in death and blindness— • ♦ Within this very Hall! That Life and Hope are come! • ♦ ♦ • What means this mighty concourse?—■ It means our Faith is strengthened; J • This eager, listening throng— For more than e’er we see ♦ • This depth of soul and feeling That where’er Christ is lifted, f • That swells in every song? There’s Love and Liberty!—■ > • This blessed Christian fellowship That purse-strings shall be loosened, * • That glows in words and eyes, And scholars now be fleet • + And keeps us daily feeding To rise and cast their treasures • • On manna from the skies? Down at the Master’s feet! • i ... ; What mean these thrilling stories It means our own America—■ • • Os conquests far and near?— The nations—all the earth— ? • This joy that seeks expression Must catch the holy fire ♦ • In smile or happy tear? And know the “second birth”!—- e What means this mystic Presence Our churches be more active > • That makes these faces shine, In th’ light these students leave, • 4 And wraps the whole convention As day throws back its splendor • • In atmosphere divine? In th’ golden glow of eve!—- • • ••• ♦ • It means that if some skeptic That “in this generation” • • Within these walls should stray— The Cross—the Cross shall stand ? • Hear all these stalwart students “From Greenland’s icy mountains ♦ • Who love and work and pray, To India’s coral strand”! f • His “theories” would crumble—- We’ll “go” or send another, > • He’d feel the sacred flame, Till idols fear and fall, * ? And own the saving power And “every tribe and nation” • Os Jesus’ love and name! Shall “crown Him Lord of all’”! • : * f It means that Christ our Captain, And in that Day of Crowning • • In golden word and deed, Whose dawning now we see, £ • Still reigns above all dogma—- The Light of this Convention ? • Still shines in every creed!—■ Will kiss the Crystal Sea! ♦ • That every name and kindred Then—then we’ll know the fullness— • Forgets the lines between, In the harvest of the years— * • When on the world’s Golgotha The meaning and the mission • • Our blessed Lord is seen!— " Os the Student Volunteers! • • ♦ : • The Golden Age for March 1, 1906. AN HONORED SON OF MISSISSIPPI. Georgia bad as her guest last week one of the most honored sons of Mississippi. He was Professor B. G. Lowrey, co-president of Blue Mountain college, who has for more than thirty years been a great power for the Christian education of women in Mississippi ami the South. Blue Mountain now has over four hundred students. 'While Professor Lowrey was in Georgia he visit ed Monroe college at Forsyth and charmed students and faculty by his eloquent “common sense.” Here is part of a letter to the editor from one of the brightest girls at the college, telling how greatly Dr. Lowrey’s visit was enjoyed: Monroe College, Feb. IS, 1906. Your kindness in sending Professor Lowrey to us so unexpectedly can not be overlooked. When we heard that we were to have a lecture in the chapel on Saturday night we were a little disappointed because you know that is our only holiday, and we are always tired by then. But every girl left the chapel with a radiant face, which told that she had thoroughly enjoyed the evening. I wish you could have been here. I have never enjoyed anything we have ever had at the college more than I did that “heart to heart” talk, and I think I voice the sentiment of every girl when I say it. I feel sure that my whole future life will mean more for God and more for humanity because of the beautiful thoughts which were given me. I took notes from the talk and would love to give you an outline of it if I had time to write it and you had time to read it. Professor Lowrey’s talk was so refreshing.” Conwell’s Temple. (Continued from Page One.) But Dr. Conwell doesn’t confine himself to the spiritual side only, but to the educational and phy sical as well. One morning recently I spent a very pleasant half day at the Temple College. I visited the different departments, from the Kindergarten to the Medical and Theological departments. In ISS4 seven young men with limited means wanted to study for the ministry and Dr. Conwell, busy though he was, offered to give them instruction evenings. This was really the beginning of the work which has now become a college of seven thousand students. The original idea was to make it a school where those employed during the day might have an opportunity of fitting themselves for higher positions in life. The present college was built in LS93, but the accommodations have now be come too small, and they expect to build a larger college in the near future. Some of the branches now given at the college are: civil engineering, chemistry, elocution and oratory, painting and drawing, sign writing, mechanical and architectu ral drawing, music, physical training, and a feature especially interesting to me is the training of the young women in such useful arts as dressmaking, millinery, cooking, embroidery, etc. The Samaritan Hospital is a monument to the sympathetic nature of Dr. Conwell. This hospital which was started in two rooms, now occupies half a square, ami more than a thousand patients were cared for last year. This Samaritan Hospital has been a benediction to the poor of the city. From it none who cannot pay are turned away. In it young women are trained to follow the profession to which they are peculiarly adapted—that of car ing for the sick. At the present time the patients in the hospital, by means of the megaphone, can listen to the services conducted at the Temple on Sunday. Dr. Conwell is also noted as a lecturer. Several of his lectures have been published in the story of his life by A. R. Burr. An interesting fact con nected with his return trips from the various places at whi( h he lectures is that his stenographer meets him half way with his mail and takes dictation during the remainder of the trip. This indicates that Dr. Conwell in his busy life has learned to use his time to the best advantage. This, and many other valuable lessons I have learned as I have come in contact with Dr. Conwell in his work. 5