The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-09-21
PRESIDENT CHARLES ELLW00D
NASH. OF LOMBARD.


week, has been hailed with rejoicing
in Galesburg and received with great
favor by all friends of the old institu-
ton throughout the country. The
movement to secure his services as
the head of the University originated
with the Alumni and was promptly
endorsed by the Trustees. After
several weeks of careful deliberation
and a visit to the University, with a
conference with the Executive Com
mittee and the Galesburg friends, DR..
Nash accepts the responsible position
and next month will assume his duties
as President.
The successful result of the nego-
tiations to secure DIR. Nash to the Uni
versity is not alone gratifying to the
Alumni and the Galesburg friends,
but is equally acceptable to theWest-
ern constituency of the Universalist
Church. 1t places at the head of our
oldest institution of learning one who
is trusted and beloved servant of
the church, whose abilities are widely
recognized, and whose influence over
the young men and women committed
to his charge, will be of the most
wholesome and inspiring character
DIR. Nash is a perpetual fountain of
enthusiasm in all that concerns the
best welfare of the youth of our
church; and as President of the Uni
versity, he will be in touch with their
every interest and unerringly point
the way to usefulness and honor
The parents of our Universalist youth
may confde in President Nash with
entire confidence. Every interest of
the home, the family, and the church
will be safe in his competent hands.
If the students of Lombard Univer-
sity are true to his teaching and
worthily avail themselves of the privi
lege of his advice and counsel, their
school years will rebound to the high
est and noblest success in their COM
ing future.
DIR. Nash's elevation to the Presi-
dents chair of the University is pc
culiarly significant in one particular
respect. He is an alumnus of the in
stitution and graduated in the class
of rs After twenty years absence
he returns to his Alma Mater to as
sumo the presidency. The interven-
ing years after his graduation from
Tufts Divinity School, have been
spent in the ministry of our church,
to which with rare conservation and
ever-abounding industry, he has de-
voted his powers. He has served the
churches at Stamford, Conn.,, New
tonville, Mass. Akron, o.. and Brook
lyn, with success beyond the aver
age of even successful pastors. On
the platform, in the pulpit and in the
convention counsels of the church,
he has made his mark as a man
thoroughly in earnest and Jealous
even to enthusiasm in all forms of
Christian work. Aggressive in behalf
of the church, and believing in her
possible future of commanding infu-
ence, he has been impatient of all
conservative policies and has bravely
stood for advance movements along
denominational lines. Every move
ment of the last twenty years in our
church that signified progress and
promised results, has found in DIR.
Nash a strong and loyal helper. Rad
ical in method, but conservative of
all that the past has embodied in our
Christian heritage, he has proven
himself an inspiring influence and
loyal helper. With such man, who
never rests in peace while there is
work to do, at the head of Lombard
University, we may confidently as
sumo that his administration will
mark new era in the prosperity of our
Western college and that his coming
will infuse a new and very desirable
activity into its affairs; while an aces
sion to its numbers will be the al
most immediate result.
DIR. Nash is as we'll aware as any
one of the great expectations that at
tend upon his accession to the Presi-
dency of Lombard and realizes to
the full the responsibilities of the
important trust. He will need to
preserve an equable and undisturbed
spirit when confronted with the many
things he will soon find thrust upon
his attention. The success of his
presidency is not to be determined
by his action or non action in the cur
rent schemes for the material enlarge
ment of the institution. 1t lies in a
broader, sounder and more compre-