Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-06
BELLEVUE COLLEGE LEAGUE
Organization of an Auxiliary 70
support the school Effected
Last Night.

The Organization OF the Bellevue College
league of Nebraska was effected Tuesday
evening at the Commercial club by the
election of Rev. Edwin Hart jerks OF
Omaha as president; H. L. Maxwell of
Omaha, vice president, and Miss NJ A.
Covert of Bellevue, secretary ard treas
urcr.
The organization Is the result of a
largely attended banquet at the CONNER
cial club rooms given by the board Of
trustees Of Bellevue college to the Pres
byterian friends of the college in Omaha
and vicinity. The 200 guests of the evening
included many of the leading citizens Of
Omaha. -alaaei
President Guy w. Wadsworth of Belize
vue college presided and lat his right sat
Rev. ]. Stuart Dickson Of New York, Sec
rotary of the general Presbyterian college
board. the principal speaker of the even
| ing. During the serving of the courses
the college octet sang, after the invoca-
ton by DR.. Dickson, a. ndfnber OF college
songs. .sifr
At $50 President WguSyqrth in brief
address introduced c.. M.1Wilhelm, presi-
ent of the board Of trustees, who cx-
tended the formal welcome to DR.. Dick
son, who said in part; t-
There are fewer consecrated Christian
| leaders in the world now than ever be-
fore. This world is to be saved by the
work of the church of the living q God
| Fewer men are offering themselves for the
| ministry than ever before. 1t is a popular
| misconceptions that the ministerial life is
| one of sacrifice. On the contrary, men en-.
| tering the ministry better themselves by
4 II. Only thirty young men out of the /, 20
graduated from Harvard, Yale, Coiumbli
and Princeton during the past year gave
any intimation of going into the work OF
not look to our state universities for re.
| cruits TO the ministry. In the Minnesota
state university only five men have within
the past tWenty-seven years offered them.
selves for the ministry. ~"
| We must have institutions consecra ted
to the work of Jesus Christ under Christian
influences. Our chapel services must be-
| the central figure of our smaller theolog.
ical schools. Out OF these small Christian
colleges come men most strongly educated
| twenty OF the Twenty-Five Presbyterian
| ministers of Philadelphia are graduates OF
the small Christian colleges, and twenty.
four of the twenty-five Presbyterian MIN
| lsters Of Pittsburg are graduates of tht
small Christian colleges. OF the 2s1 mel
ana women now at work in the foreign
Presbyterian mission field zo5 are gradu
s8 per cent OF our home missionaries ar,
likewise graduated from these colleges.
DR.. Dickson closed his, address with {
strong plea for the support of Bellevu,
college and asked, What will you do
The Lord helps those who help themselves
Get at this spirit Of Bellevue college; maxi
II what il can be made and do It now"
Rev. e. II. jerks followed DR.. Dickson
In similar strain and dwelt particular,
upon the opportunities that lay befor
Bellevue, particularly with regard to 81
location near this great city Of Omaha
DR.. Wordsworth made an appeal for Belle
vue college and urged that its friends ap
portion part of their means monthly q
small amounts for its support. Calls wer
then made for monthly subscriptions fron
50 cents up to IS, The result was that tn
equivalent of an endowment fund approx
mating $4,000 was orally pledged Card
were then distributed among the visitor
guaranteeing monthly subscriptions whic
brought the endowment fund up to abou
$4,000 The subscriptions all date from tn
first of the current month.
The organization of the Bellevue COLES
league was then effected. The purpose Z
the league is to stimulate an interest
the college and create for It an esprit d
corps"