The Prescott daily news., 1914-03-24
DIR. KLINE AND SOO-CHOW U.

U" Ps'iI oi d mlSSloHdry pro gram in the M. E. Sunday school, Sunday March 21 1914)
 Mir. Kline was educated in the pub- lie schools of Arkansas during his childhood, and then entered Hender- son-Brown college at Philadelphia. He then graduated from Vanderbilt and commenced his career as a teacher. After several years of teaching he entered the ministry, from which such an intense interest in foreign missions was aroused that he decided to devote his life to this work.
 SOo-chOw University.
 By Mrs. Cline.
 Mir. Cline has spent practically all of his last sixteen years in China in educational work, first in Anglo Chin ese College in Shanghai, and later in Soo-chow University in Soo-chow. Since the character of the work done in the two institutions is very much the same, 1 shall speak briefly of the latter school
 Soo-chow University is the out growth of several educational efforts dating back for some forty years in in the history of our China Mission, but it was opened as a University in 1901 just after the terrible boxer up- rising and thus it was able to utilize for it's own strength and upbuilding some of that inevitable revulsion of feeling which followed that last and almost fatal struggle of Old China to force out and shut out forever that new life which was pulsing through the veins of her young manhood.
 The city of Soo-chow is the capital of one of the richest, most densely populated and most progressive prov inces of Central China
 Its history goes back to the time of Nebuchadnezzar, and for more than two thousand years it has been a pro minent city noted for its fine buildings great scholars, beautiful women, and it's contributions to the nations liter ature, as we'll as for it's manufactures in silk, linen and art goods Being one of the centers of the Nations life, it makes an admirable location for an institution which has for it's only aim the betterment of the life of the na- tion.. Its buildings are beautiful testimonial to the generosity and love of Southern Methodism for a people who sit in darkness.
 The main building represents the first investment-$30 ,000-of the great collection at New Orleans in 1900; the second one a magnificent new building just completed in 1912 at cost of $20,0O0, is the gift of one of our churches in the city of Lynch burg, Va. A simple brass plate, just inside the main entrance to this build ing marks it as the gift of Court Street Church in Lynchburg, as "a token of their love for the people of China" This in itself breaches a most eloquent sermon on Christian love and Christian brotherhood to every student and visitor who enters it's doors.
 In addition to these two large build ngs, there are dormintories built to accommodate something more than POO students, but into which were crowded this last term, 323 young men and boys, while many others had to be turned away because the elasticity of the walls and l might add the elasti- city of the students dispositions could no longer be imposed upon.
 Although these crowded conditions are unfriendly to the best physical and mental development of the stu dents they bring encouragement to the workers, because it shows hearty growth in the institution which au- gurs well for it's future.
 The student body is representative of the best young life of the nation. Tn it can be found youths from all classes and conditions of society-from the sons of our poorest circuit riders to the sons of the wealthy official. In this day, when the by-products of an industry receive so much attention. and contribute so much to the sum total of its value, it may be remarked that democratic principles from one of the by-products of an institution such as this one, and that they will ..,.l. no ;rya1uahla contribution to