The Penn's Grove record., 1909-03-26
Golden Age for Pennington Seminary

Rev. j. Morgan Read, who has been
Superintendent of Camden District for
nearly two years entered upon his duties
as President of Pennington Seminary
last week, at the close of the New Jer-
sey M. E. Conference. DR.. J. M. Buck
ley predicts in the Christian Advocate
that DR.. Reeds administration will be
the golden age Of that educational in
stitution.
The golden age Of Israel was during
the reign of Solomon when he built the
temple noted for its great golden SPLEEN
dor.
When Dr.. Buckley attended Penning-
ton Seminary over fifty years ago it was
the age of utility. When the President
accosted the then fanciful Buckley for
wearing spectacles which afforded anus
ment, by asking whether he wore them
for utility Or for fancy, he replied that
it was because he needed them. If for
show, he would wear gold ones like the
President.
Those were the days when the boys
had to carry in the wood for the tin
plate stoves to heat their rooms, and
they were heated none too well. A
blunt Salem county parent who visited
his son told the President that he could
keep as warm in his barn with his feet
under the fan mill as with those wood
stove in the north corner ON a cold day.
When DR.. Reed was a student there
thirty years ago the old stoves had
been s%upplanted with hot air heating.
Hot air was not always so plentiful,
but those young dominies who dwelt
on the south side, or Oh celestial hall got
deeper and hotter inspirations and high
er aspirations than some of us who
dwelt on the lower hall ON tile north
side. Attic it was not manifested
thirty years ago, yet we presume that
1t was at Pennington that Dr.. Read
learned to be the biggest jollier in New
jersey.
DR.. Read will not have to build the
palatiaihalls They have been there
several years, but it may be his golden
honor to pay the debt incurred in build
ing them. When Dr.. Read is let loose
On an audience his jolly good humor
makes the pocket books fly open as never |
before. 1t has been our great pleasure
to see him draw hundreds OF dollars to
pay a debt where nc other power had
ever been able to draw hundreds of
cents for necessary expenses.
AL may expect to see in a few years
the debt OF $4,000 on the Seminary
and the 500, 900 endowment fund rails
ed. He is a"good enough Morgan''f for |
such a great campaign all over New |
Jersey. With SO much money will
surely come the golden age Wien all
the pillars, doors and sun parlors will
be gilded and the old beltry and fiagpole
will shine, while from the pole, where
bifurcated underwear waved in the
breeze at the commencement thirty
years ago, may be a white and yellow
flag to proclaim the golden age, the in.
%fallibility OF the Solomon in charge and
The learning and wisdom taught.
The golden star of the Callilogeans
will twinkle in the first magnitude
while they sing the songs of Solomon
nus 1--WE are the roses of Sharon the
lilies Of the valley, the lilies among
thorns." The Alpha Omegans will
proclaim "We were the First and will
be here to the End, y and the Philoma.
theans will sing their favorite Psalm.
"HOw sweet and how pleasant it is TO,
brethren, [also sisters to dwell together
in unity. 1t is like The precious oint-
ment on Aaron's beard''-not on that
beard which was cut off while MI.
Brown was blindfolded, to make sport
IL rainy day thirty ye rs ago.
Some may think that the fanciful es
capades i'll the school days of DR.. Buck
ley and Dr. Read have passed away.and
that only wisdom is now sought, be.
cause Solomon said: Better get wisdom
than gold," but in this age of gold
standard political economy, gold and a
jolly life are sought as much as wisdom. F,
A higher salary makes a preached
heart glad than all the wisdom
gained by reading Solomon's wisest
sayings.
DR.. Buckley must have known the
jolly drawing power in extracting gold
from other pockets or he would not
have predicted the golden age for Pen.
nlngt0n Seminary under DR.. Reads
Presidency. That 1T may come true is
The hope of one of the class OF 80. !