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Baylor College —A Great Texas Institu
tion For Nomen.
Baylor College, at Belton, is the “diamond pin”
in the bosom of the great Baptist denomination of
Texas. More than four hundred girls this year are
drinking in the best possible inspiration toward life’s
purest ideals within Baylor’s classical, consecrated
walls. About twenty years ago, when it became
necessary to move the Baptist College of Texas
from the rural village of Independence, the plucky,
enterprising town of Belton captured the Baylor for
girls, while Baylor University for boys absorbed the
old Waco University—the co-education then obtain
ing at Waco still holding at Baylor University with
her thousand matriculates every year.
From one hundred to more than four hundred,
this splendid institution has steadily grown, until
new buildings have seemed to “rise from the
earth,” and yet ground has just been broken for
another dormitory, in which to house and develop,
like another conservatory, the beautiful “Prairie
Flowers” of the Lone Star Empire.
The writer first visited Baylor in the autumn of
’96, and from those golden October days till now the
heart has been quickened ever and anon by the mem
ory of audiences large and generous, and the fra
grance of friendships beautiful and abiding.
President Wilson; the Gentle “Father” of Baylor
Girls.
I met him first the summer before in San Antonio,
and we journeyed to the “land of the Montezumas”
together, and I saw in W. A. Wilson that rare
blending of innate gentleness and fatherly firmness
and wisdom which unite to make the ideal presi
dent of a school for girls. And at Belton I found
him walking in the honored footprints of Luther
and of Wells whose splendid foundation work gave
the new president from Missouri and his noble wife,
a pedestal of vantage upon which to build a larger
pyramid of Light and Blessing.
Beautiful Work From a Woman’s Devotion.
One of the great forces toward Baylor’s growth of
power in Texas’ educational life has been one of
Baylor’s most gifted and consecrated daughters, Mrs.
E. G. Townsend, now wife of Rev. Ernest G. Town
send, the stalwart pastor of the First Baptist church
of Belton. She was Miss Elli Moore, still known
and loved over Texas as “Miss EHi.”
Sold her Jewels for the Jewels of Humanity.
The consecrated young teacher lay sick and trou
bled. The invalid’s chamber was haunted by the
wistful faces of anxious, struggling Texas girls.
She prayed for guidance and an open door. Sud
denly the Light broke into the gloom of the sick
room of this handmaiden of the Lord. The situa
tion was all clear now. The skeins were untangled.
The problem was settled. She would sell her jewels
■—the cherished treasures of her girlhood’s pride—-
she would sell them all and let God transmute them
into hopes and homes and hearts and lives' better
fitted for the Master’s use.
Immediately her narrow room was peopled with
Cherubim and Seraphim and Heaven bent down to
kiss that thought and hope into the assurance of
full fruition.
Twelve girls in a little makeshift of boards and
shingles! What a beginning!
And now a handsome brick building as the heart
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The Golden Age for May 31,1906.
of the “Industrial College,” and more than a hun
dred splendid girls every year drinking in the best
that grand old Baylor can give!
By her side Miss Ella Yelvington( now Mrs. Ely
—her husband a faithful preacher of righteousness)
has walked hand in hand and heart to heart, going
all over the state and calling women of means, es
pecially, to the intelligent service of consecrated
gifts to Baylor’s cause. AV. D. U.
International Medical Missionary College
By DR. R. J. MASSEY.
I wish to call the attention of the public to an
article in the Montreal Daily Witness, April 7,
which says:
“The name of Dr. George D. Dowkontt is one well
known in medical missionary circles. Twenty-five
years ago he established in New York the Interna
tional Medical Missionary Society, which has al
ready sent out nearly two hundred of its students.
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DR. GEORGE D. DOWKONTT.
Dr. Dowkontt is now at the head of a recently
opened missionary training school in Atlanta, Ga.
This school, 1 The International Medical Missionary
College and Training School for Nurses,’ provides
free medical training for all those who wish to be
prepared for medical work in the foreign field.
Atlanta contains three hospitals conducted on
Christian principles, a Presbyterian, a Baptist and
a Methodist. To all of these, and several other in
stitutions, the students have access, while the high
elevation of the city, 1.100 feet above the sea level,
makes it very cool and healthy.
In recent years the work of medical missionaries
has been supplemented by providing them with nurses
trained in the home land. A special feature of this
college is to train nurses as well as physicians for
missionary service. They will he aided financially
by having cases to nurse as opportunity offers. A
limited course for emergencies, etc., lasting one ses-
sion, is provided for theological or other mission
aries of either sex, who desire some medical knowl
edge in order to care for themselves and others.
The charter of the college allows the trustees to ac
cept some students who are not intending medical
missionaries. These will pay fees at this college, as
they would at any other, and will thus aid in the
support of the institution. Only those of Christian
character, however, are accepted. The college pro
vides Biblical instruction and knowledge of missions
generally, with special teaching in regard to the re
ligions, customs and diseases of mission lands. The
full medical course will occupy four years of eight
months each: that for nurses two years of twelve
months each, being equal to three years in medicine.
The next session of this college will begin on October
3, 1906, and terminate on May 28, 1907.
Those interested as possible donors or students
will receive pamphlet by writing the president, Dr.
G. D. Dowkontt. or the dean, Dr. J. McF. Gaston,
104 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, Ga.
Dr. Dowkontt is the author of “Tell Them” and
“Murdered Millions.”
Dr. Dowkontt has had an interview with some of
the most distinguished mon in this country and
r+her countries. Tie secured from ex-President Mc-
Kinley the privilege of having medical missionary
work done in the army in the Spanish-American
war.
The great interest of all the denominations in the
work of medical Missions began with the work of
David Livingstone in Africa, and has continued un
abated to the present time, when all are reading of
the labors of Dr. Grenfelt and others.
Georgia has already sent out some great medical
missionaries, among whom may be mentioned Dr.
T. W. Ayres, for whose support Mrs. W. J. Northen
succeeded in raising a fund some years ago.
1 he president, Dr. Dowkontt, has been engaged in
medical mission service for thirty years, the last
twenty-five in New York Citv, aiding and training
medical missionaries. The dean. Dr. Gaston, was
born on the mission field, and as the founder of this
college in 1904, has devoted himself Io its welfare.
The Rev. Dr. Howland was for several years prin
cipal of Jaffna College, Ceylon.
Admission of Students, Etc.
Intending missionary students will be received
upon the following basis:
First. They must be members of some Evangeli
cal Church and be endorsed generally by their pas
tors and two others, and at least be graduates of a
high school.
Second. They must fill out an application blank
satisfactorily, as to their age, occupation, general
health and full purpose of missionary service, etc.
All applications must be acted upon by the Com
mittee on Students.
The institution will continue next fall under the
most auspicious circumstances. A great many stu
dents, five from Canada and seventy from different
States, have written to learn what they could of
the new Medical Missionary College.
Dr. George D. Dowkontt and his wife will have
charge of the dormitories, where students can be
given free residence and pay board on the most
economical basis possible.
Contributions of provisions and all supplies for
the table are solicited,
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