The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-06-08

cepted by the committee and confirmed
by the conferences.
Thus at the beginning of the second
year Marvin Institute became Central
College, and the enterprise of few
earnest Christian workers IN Lexington
became the enterprise OF southern
Methodism in Missouri.
At the close of the term in June,
1872, Misses Singleton, Nettie Wallace.
Justie- Webster, Bette Winfield and
George Young were awarded the first
diplomas given by Central College,
and rs the eldest daughters of their
Alma Mater have gone forth to fill their
places.
1t would be interesting to trace year
by year the growth, popularity and
success of this institution under the
administration of the several presidents
with their corps of assistants, who
each IN turn, did mnch toward raising
the college to the high position she
occupies not only among the schools "f
thus, hut of other states.
| Succeeding DIR. Church in the presi-
dency were Prof. DavaulI, president
pro. tenn, Rev. ". 4. j. sullivan,
Rev. Marshall Mcllhany, Rev. NJ. G..
Williams, president pro. TEN. Dr. W.
G.. Miller, Prof. ". r. kerdoln and
Prof. \. 4. Jones. To each uf these
the church owes debt "f gratitude for
the efforts they have put forth for the
| upbulding of the school, aud for their
Zeal in securing The higher education uf
women.
But while We cannot speak Of III.
work of each in detail, perhaps il would
not he ia, idious to say, that under th,
direction of the last two presidents
with their able teachers, the gro Nih oi
the scho d in numbers and the progress
made in every department las been
,aust satisfactory To the conferences,
under whose auspices th. college j.
conducted, aud il is with no little hide
that the friends ana patrons refer io il
aud watch with loving interest its con-
tinued aud increasing prosperity.
| This, the tweniy-siNih year of lis
existence, and the SIKH of Prof Jones.
has been the must successful al any IN
ts history. The faculty is composed of
seventeen teachers, the boarding pupils
number one hundred and seventeen,
Instrumental music pupils about one
hundred, art class iwrnty-six, and
since the organization there have been
seveniy-tive graduates.
Such in brief is the record of Central
College, Lexington, Mo. What has
she done for those whom she has sent
out from her halls to take their places
in church, home aud family may not
all be seen or known in the lives of her
many daughters, Tor there Is an unseen
power that reaches the limits of all
human relations that their Alma Mater
still exerts on thos. who in past years
came under her influences, aud secured
for themselves the highest end of true
education.
That what she has done may be hui
the earnest of what she yet may do is
the ardent wish of all who have re-.
ccived good at her hands, and of al
who have watched and loved aud
labored for the welfare of this nobl,
institution.
That a grand future is before her is
certainly true; for when the .'doctrin,
of Christianity is taught 10 be funda'
mental in morals aud education, wher
it lives and grows in the very heart oI
school life, " ~ in the ease in Contra
College the future of the institution l.
well assured, and the effect of II,
teaching will tell upon generations YET
to come.