Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-09-12
THE COLLEGE OPENING
Students Commenced to Arrive
as Early as Saturday
Of Last Week.
LARGE ATTENDANCE PREDICTED
Opening Exercises This Morning Al
8:45-Address by Rev. A J. Fun
Mellon Force and Forces"

The prospects for Alma College were
never brighter than at the present time
The college opened this morning but
students commenced to arrive as early as
last Friday. The registration up to last
evening indicates the largest attendance
in the history Of the college. The open
ing address this morning was by Rev. A.
J. Funnel, pastor OF the college church,
and it gives us pleasure to furnish our
readers with the address in full Mr.
Funnell said.
TO me has fallen an honor and
pleasure which well might be coveted
by the angels Of God, that OF welcom-
ing ON behalf Of the citizens of this
beautiful city, the young men and
women who come from the four cor
ners OF this great state. seeking wis
dom within these classic walls.
May your stay with us be a bles-
sing to you and to us. May we feel
the power of your earnestness and
lifted nearer to God by your prayers.
We delight to welcome you for
what you are and for what you repre-
sent, you are a young, vigorous, en-
thusastc army led by the great Cap
tain Jesus Christ who is conquering
the world TO himself You are band
of workers in the vineyard of the
earth's Lord. You belong to an un-
dying aristocracy. Gods amounting
has made you Kings and Priests. You
represent two kinds of stuff" out of
which the greatest men and women
who make the world move, are made
The world needs you and you are here
to prepare yourselves to meet its
needs.
God speaks to the young through
the young. He uses you men in every
sphere and calling New generations
require new men and to them God
sends new men with old truths; you
believe in progress that you were
placed here to work for your own
generation. This is an age of new
ideas on all subjects, OF new condi-
tions and demands in every realm and
there is no place in it for men of an
tequated methods and means, modes
OF speech and thought
We welcome you because you pos
sess a glowing enthusiasm. Webster
tells US that enthusiasm is an intense
but reasonable feeling about great
things, fanaticism is an intense but
unreasonable feeling about little
things. No man ever wrote a great
book, ever carved a great statue. ever
apcllbound great and exactng aud
icncc with music or oration who did
not put his whole heart, or glowing
heart. in it,
Cold intellect never moves, you
cannot push ships across the ocean
with tepid water Every man who
has been power in directing ma
tion, in holding society, i'll shaping
souls, has had deep, divine en-
thusiasm.
Again VIC welcome you because YOU
are young. Mark Twain says, 81
would rather be young June bug
than an old bird of paradise" 1t has
we'll been said that here are, Forces
and force" in the world Any good
book, in Physics. says one, will in
form you OF those natural forces So
important in their nature and effects
Would you know the relation Of ma
tural phcnenomcn with the laws OF
mechanics, get book on natural
philosophy Would you understand
the forces of cohesion. the cffinity of
gases, the composition of natural sub
stances. go TO the laboratory of the
chemist. What are the forces that
has made the evolution Of our planctI
Ask the astronomer as he scars, or
the gcologist as he delves What
has caused the strange marks on the
boulders which are so numerous in
New England, Do not ask the far
mer for he cannot tell you, his only
wish is that the troublesome. inpene-
trablc, non-dcstructible nuisances
might suddenly turn to some sort OF
fertilizer, 10 make. his soil the richer,
and therefore the more productive
But ask T.ons Agasis and he will tell
you approximately fhc age that an
iceberg ploughed itsl'way southwark
and left its marks upon these silent
monuments, What arctic laws of
governmental, conditions. and intel
icctual lfci the economist aud psy-