The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-10-03
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~ President, OF COLLAGE Speaks.

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4 President, OF College Speaks.
Dr. BENJAMIN Longley, president
of Parker college, made an address
this morning, calling the attention of
, the ministers to the fact that Parker
|, is their college and should be sup
ported and assisted by them. Park.
er college takes students who aver
age in age from twelve years to six
teen years, during the years when
DR.. Longley believes people are the
i most in need of Christian influence.
'"Ehe opportunity for positive use
Il fulness has never been surpassed
Last fall we opened the school with
Ian enrolment of sixteen pupils, this
year we have forty already enrolled
besides a number of students In
4 music and elocution e&
4 "There has been some talk about
litigation of the Parker property in
Minneapolis, but Mr.. Parker's son
that no objection will be made to
our holding that property if We do
), a work that counts with the school.
4 Also we have sought the advice of
one Of the best corporation lawyers
4 in Minneapolis and he says that the
heirs of that estate cannot take the
nreperty from us ON any condition.
But We have buildings and grounds
to the value of $4,000 or more be
side soma endowment aside from the
Parker estate income which is ST.,
900 annually $780,
i Wants $4,000 Fund.
"ssE want this conference to take
some action toward raising $4,000
for the school, $4,000 of which is
to be used for the completion and
upkeep of the dormitory and the
rest for an endowment fund"
Rev. Peter Clare objected to hav
ing any indefinite plan decided upon
and expressed the apprehensions that
), the work of Parker college will in
terfere largely with the work OF
!, Hamiine college, and he is much OPP
posed to having that state of affairs
The matter was left until five
o'clock this afternoon, when joint
meeting of the ministers and laymen
( was called.
;, Take Out Life Insurance.
Bishop Quayle advised the young
men who were ordained as deacons in
the church this morning to take out
life insurance and to try to get q
little plot of ground on which to
live at the end of their ministry in
order that they would not be church
paupers. He also told them blanfly
that they should not think they were
holy because they did not use to-
bacco. that they are only clean, and
that they should not put forth their
energies persuading men to give up
tobacco. ~
The ten men whose names were
announced yesterday as having com
pleted the work which makes them
i eligible to become elders in the
Methodist church were ordained, and
the bishop gave a lecture dealing
largely with the doctrines OF the
church. In speaking of his own min
istry he said: From the time of my
ordination / have found the ministry
Il beautiful job. have never found
4 public speaking delight. ! have
never and do not now love to speak,
but / feel that God called me to
speak. We are meant for God. II
is q part of our humanhood which
leads US to pray. not a part Of our
babyhood. 2.ta'fs2 - ,s"E =
I'VE must have faith. 4.All things
which the world has achieved have
! been built by men who believed
I IN closing his talk ho said Chris
! tianity was never as hale and hearty
as it is today .e, -
The men ordained were: A. B.
Geddye, John Watkins, Benton b.
! Wood, Walter Pickering, Oswald
Sandbach, Eugene c. Hickman, Au-
gust Ronshausen, r. B. Culbertson,
Fred B. Smith and b. c. Reineke.
Winona District Report.
Z: Superintendent J. C.. Craig OF the
Winona district made his report this
morning, which showed a growth in
the work of the Methodist church in
4 that locality. He reported that about
sS,09e had been spent in the improve.
I ment OF church property during the
/ year, and spoke of the growing pop
ularity OF Hamline university with
I the young people of'the district. He
! regretted the fact that during Ills
four years as superintendent of that
district not one young man had ell.
tered the Methodist ministry =
Dir. Craig believes that the depopu-
lation of the rural districts by
| American people is because they
seek to educate their children in the
high schools and colleges and in or
der to do that the entire family
moves to town where such advan.
tages are, FL
Appreciation of Rev. Cowgirl.
Rev. r. b. Cowgirl, who has been
transferred from the Minnesota con.
ference to the California conference,
/ was honored this morning by the
passing of resolutions of appreciation
and Fellowship by the body. Dr. Cow
sill was called upon to speak and
did SO feelingly. He regretted the
! condition which made it seem wiser
/ for him to take his family to the
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