The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-24

do to heal the sick and alleviate suffer-
ing. Many are teachers, in college and
academy and high school, in town, in
village, in hamlet, in remote country
neighborhoods, using their mental
culture to elevate the standard of edu-
cation and morality in their native
State. Many are in the pulpit, filling
the prominent pastorates of the State
and growing daily in the affections of
the people, serving the country churches
and developing them in the graces
that go to make up ull-grown Chris
tians, occupying the hard mission
fields, on meagre salaries, working for
their Master, and making sacrifices
not surpassed by those of the foreign
missionary. And then there are hun
dreds who had received more or less
training at Wake Forest, in the more
quiet walks of life, exerting an inau-
ence in favor of education and moral
ity that does credit to the institution
from which they have gone forth
Besides those who are at work in
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graduates of Wake Forest in two
thirds of the States of the Union. From
certain sections of South Carolina
there have been many students at
Wake Forest, and these have gone
back to their native State and are
leaders of thought and work, besides
many who have been raised in North
Carolina, and after finishing their col
lege course, have gone across the line
into our sister State. Not in such
large numbers, but everywhere promi-
nent and influential, they are scattered
over many other States. Superinten-
dent of an asylum in Texas of an insti-
tuition for deaf-mutes in Colorado, pro-
fessor in a college in Missouri, presi-
dent of a college in Txas, editor of a
denominational paper in Tennessee,
teacher III Dakota, pastors in Connecti-
cut, Brooklyn, New York, Baltimore,
Virginia, in the Southwest, in the Mis-
sissippi valley, in Idaho in Montana,
in California, in Oregon, in Washing
ton, Wake Forest men are occupying
no mean place in the work of develop
ing tho wonderful resources cf our
| own and other States
Nor have the benefcent influences of
the College and the labor of it's Alumni
| been confined even to America. One
of its earliest students was Matthew T.
Yates. During his college course he
decided to give himself to the work of
foreign missions, and for more than 40
years he held up the light of the Cos
pei on the shores of China, during his
later years, pronounced, by compe-
tent judge, who had seen most of the
missionaries of the present century,
the greatest missionary he ever knew,
physically, mentally, and spiritually
the greatest man in China.
Emulating his noble example, others
in recent years have gone from these
walls to take up the work as he laid it
down, and five are now in China and
one in Africa, while others are expect
ing to go at an early day.
THE PRESENT SESSION
Has witnessed the enrolment of 200
students during the Fall Term They
are band of young men as earnest,
faithful, quiet, and studious as you
will find More than usual they are
devoting themselves to the work before
them, and large success is crowning
their labOrs.
Uhe Spring Term will open January
Is, when several others are expected
to enter.
THE OUTLOOK.
RS The past history of the College gives
it's friends reason for congratulation
and devout thankfulness. The future
is bright with promises. ALI the signs
point to advancement. The present
movement will add largely to the en-
dowment. Other needed buildings will
soon follow. Other schools will be
added to the course of study, other
professors added to the faculty The
number of students will steadily in
crease. The opening of the next ceHE
tury may see more than half q, dozen
buildings, twenty five professors pa the
faculty, half thousand students, en-
rolled, and half million dollars in the
endowment fund. Thus Wake Forett
College, the hope of its founders, THE
pride of its friends in later years, wilFS
go on blessing humanity and glorifying
God through the years and the cen
| turies till the end of time. G..
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