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December 31, 1913. FAMILY PAPER. It<br />
ST. LOUIS, MO.<br />
wagons and moved bim out to bis<br />
Miss Maggie Edgar, missionary to new home on Tuesday afternoon and<br />
Latakia, Syria, is sojourning at the Wednesday forenoon. Mrs. Hagadorn<br />
home of her brother, Rev. Geo. A. later visited a lew days with Mr.<br />
Edgar.<br />
Our communion was held tbe third<br />
Sabbath of October and we enjoyed<br />
the services of Rev. J. M. Wylie of<br />
Kansas City, who assisted the pastor.<br />
We have had visiting in our midst<br />
recently. Miss Rebecca Middleton of<br />
Kansas City, Mrs. M. I. Dripps of<br />
Parsons, Kansas, Mr. Robert Wylie,<br />
formerly of Chicago congregation,<br />
Mrs. J. C. French from Denver, and<br />
Mrs. iMargaret T. Smith of Belle<br />
Centre, Obio.<br />
The younger members of tbe Sabbath<br />
Scbool assembled for fun on<br />
Hallowe'en. Many ol tbe old games<br />
were used in rather new ways and<br />
the walls resounded with merry,<br />
childish voices as from the witches<br />
caldron they drew tall pointed hats.<br />
The refreshments consisted of apples,<br />
pop-corn and bags of candy dressed<br />
in up-to-date costumes of crepe paper.<br />
Invitations were sent out for a<br />
Syrian Tea at tbe cburch on November<br />
14. Miss Edgar gave an interesting<br />
afternoon, having many curios<br />
and pictures to exhibit, also many<br />
beautiful pieces of Irish crochet made<br />
by the girls in tbe Mission School.<br />
Coffee and sweets were served in<br />
Syrian style by young ladies attired<br />
in native dress.<br />
Miss Jessie Patterson entertained<br />
in honor of Miss Edgar Friday evening,<br />
November 28. A Thanksgiving<br />
indoor football game caused much<br />
excitement and merriment. Refreshments<br />
were served at a late hour,<br />
the tables being artistically arranged<br />
with autumn leaves and baskets of<br />
fruit.<br />
The Sabbath School scholars are<br />
practising for the Christmas entertainment<br />
which will be given a lew<br />
evenings before Cbristmas.<br />
HE.THERTON, MICH.<br />
The young ipeople held a business<br />
meeting and social at Mr. Geo. Grey's<br />
some time ago. Then on November<br />
18th they met at Mr. A. A. Logan's<br />
and had a corn husking and so3lal<br />
time afterward. The weather was i-'<br />
pleasant that they enjoyed games in<br />
the open air. Still more recently<br />
they met at the home ol Mrs. M. L.<br />
Roby for a pleasant evening's enjoyment.<br />
Flora Mathews, who has had a very<br />
severe attack of tonsilitis, is some<br />
better at present writing.<br />
Loren Campbell, youngest son of<br />
Mr. and Mrs. R. c. Campbell, is very<br />
low with pneumonia.<br />
Rev. J. M. Faris preached -very acceptably<br />
to us for three Sabbaths,<br />
also on Thanksgiving Day, and<br />
though in very poor health, preached<br />
each Sabbatb, both morning and<br />
evening.<br />
Mr. Samuel Hagadorn arrived with<br />
a ear of stock and household goods<br />
from Eskridge, Kansas, on Tuesday,<br />
December 2, he previously- ha;ving<br />
bought a fine piece of land among<br />
115. The friends met him with their<br />
Hagadorn's parents at Sturgis, Mich.,<br />
till her husband got settled on the<br />
farm. She, with their son Edward,<br />
arrived on Thursday, the llth, and<br />
are now at home to their friends.<br />
We are glad to welcome them to our<br />
midst. Later iMr. Stewart, formerly<br />
of Billings, Okla., arrived, and is now<br />
at Mr. Hagadorn's.<br />
Mr. Calvin Jameson, formerly ol<br />
New Concord, Ohio, has bought a<br />
farm near the church and has returned<br />
to his old home to bring his household<br />
goods and take up his abode<br />
among us. We are certainly glad to<br />
welcome these new arrivals, which is<br />
adding to our numbers.<br />
have room for many more.<br />
We still<br />
A MAN FACTORY.<br />
Each college is likely to p-it foremost<br />
for its chief end, either the making<br />
of scholars, or the making of<br />
m.en. It seems to commend itself to<br />
the public either by tbe scholarship,<br />
or the 'Christian 'character, of its<br />
graduates. Our larger schools are<br />
aiming specially at scholarship, the<br />
smaller schools at character, though<br />
ir each case both factors are included.<br />
Northwestern College, at Naperville,<br />
Illinois, is one place where the<br />
administration makes much of character<br />
while holding a fair place<br />
among other colleges of its class in<br />
the work of the classroom, I had been<br />
somewhat impressed with the conduct<br />
of the students as I met them on the<br />
campus and sa-vf them about the town<br />
a.nd I began to look for reasons. One<br />
thing [ had marked among the two<br />
hundred boys was the absence of<br />
smoking as far as could be seen or<br />
smelt, another, the earnestness which<br />
seemed to prevail. I asked President<br />
Seager about the rules and he said<br />
that they had no special rules made<br />
by tbe Faculty. The students themselves<br />
had flxedthe standard and they<br />
brought the pressure on the new student<br />
to conform to tbe standard or<br />
find a more congenial piace elsewhere.<br />
President Seager said in the<br />
three years during which he had been<br />
President of Northwestern l-e had not<br />
seen a student smoking about the<br />
college premises, tho-ugh a High<br />
School beside the can.pus, appeared<br />
to be a smoker's club. I asked him<br />
a.bout dancing and was told that he<br />
had not known of any student of the<br />
college taking part in this kind of<br />
amusement since he came to Naperville.<br />
This seemed a little remarkable<br />
tu me since I had just come from<br />
Northwest University where the<br />
President was at issue with some of<br />
tbe students because of tbe kind of<br />
dancing tbat he bad seen at a college<br />
reception.<br />
But I understood the reason why<br />
they could be clear of tbe dancing<br />
habit, wben President Seager told<br />
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ent year seems to be an exception as<br />
there are two Seniors who have not<br />
been converted. Students say that<br />
there is so much pressure to take up<br />
with the Christian life that one is not<br />
comfortable who refuses. Northwestern<br />
does not stand alone in this respect<br />
among the colleges which 1<br />
have visited, but its class is not so<br />
large as we could wish. At Naperville<br />
I lectured in the College and also<br />
in the Seminary of the same churcb,<br />
tiie Evangelical, and found the religious<br />
influences working to my ends.<br />
In the Seminary I had the hours of<br />
an absent professor and in the Coliege,<br />
all the classes were excused i<br />
certain hours so that all could t<br />
present. To the Christian Amend<br />
ment and the argument leading up t<br />
it, no important objection was offe<br />
ed. In fact there is no place shoi<br />
of that for a Christian to stop an<br />
if he is a thorough Christian he doe<br />
not stop short of tbe demand for th<br />
social regeneration which must pn<br />
cede tbe Christian Amendment.<br />
J. -M. COLEMAN.<br />
RAYS PROM RAY, INDIANA.<br />
On Dec. 14 we observed the Lord'<br />
Supper, Evangelistic services wer<br />
held on each evening of the previou<br />
week. The pastor was assisted b<br />
Rev. John Yates, of Pittsburgh, whos<br />
services were highly appreciated b<br />
tte members of the congregation.<br />
Our congregation has adopted th<br />
individual cup, and everyone seem<br />
well satisfied with the change.<br />
Our church music has been great)<br />
improved of late under the ellicier<br />
leadership of Miss Ruth McNaughtoi<br />
a musical graduate of Geneva.<br />
The Missionary .Society held it<br />
annual business meeting in th<br />
me tbat scarcely a student passed<br />
through the college years without churcb, not without refreshment<br />
professing belief in Christ. The pres- •which are always served at tb<br />
monthly meetings. The treasurer reported<br />
$1C5 raised during the year.<br />
Money on hand was divided between<br />
the Chinese and Syrian missions.<br />
The W. C. T. U. of Ray now numbers<br />
sixty members. Mrs. Edith Mc<br />
Naughton and daughter Miriam, and<br />
Mrs, Lida Duguid, and daughter,<br />
Beulah, attended the world's convention<br />
at New York, and took in Washington<br />
and other cities on theit return.<br />
Their reports of the ccffivention<br />
and their travels were ve,^ flne and<br />
were received by a well-filled house.<br />
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