The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-11-04
pLEDGINGTHEM MONEY
Drive For AdoIphus Col
Iege Is Progressing
100000 NOW SIGNED
FUND Drive Started Out With
Bang; Everything Quite
Favorable
rs,ao;., N The Free Press.

II Especial to The Free Press.l
ST. Peter. November Campaign
taeadouarters at Gustavus Adolphus
sollege announced this morning that
ne campaign began yesterday with
yer 100000 pledged. This means
nat over one fifth OF the goal has al
ssady been reached. Included in this
mount is the $26,S35 that the stu
ents and faculty of Gustayus Adolf
hus college have already pledged, al
the $4,000 that the business men
T this city have subscribed and $3o;
90 that the alumni Of Gustavus Adol-
lhus college, living in all parts OF the
United States and Canada, have
lodged to date. This does not include
catering reports that have come in
rom various parts of the conference,
Indicating that several thousand dol
ars have been pledged in various
hurches. The amount actually coum-
d in the 100000 is the total of pledge
ards that have been turned in to the
reasurer's office. 1t will be recalled
luson Of Carthage, S. Oak, has pledg-
ID $4,000 and that through the infiu-
snce Of President o. ]. Johnson and
rev. o. j. Arthur several thousand
lollar pledges have been made in
-arious cities of the conference, but
hese pledges win be included in re-
ports OF the individual churches when
hey begin to come In. One Of the
irst reports to come in was from the
:ity Of Duluth where the First Luth-
ran church has reported over 100000
subscribed by the committee incharge
II the canvass. This amount is the
quota Of that church, but neverthe-
ess the committee started the every
member canvass yesterday and hope
% double the quota. This report from
Duluth. one Of the industrial centers
which is reported to be so hard hit
Turing the present economic stringen-
~, is most encouraging to headquar-
eers. Another report from NioDe. N.
OAK, where the crop failure and farm
conditions are the worst, is to the er-
week and more coming. 1t is also
Known that the Bernadotte church has
over $500 pledged, and in Winthrop
2.750 has already been pledged. Mem
oers Of the local Lutheran churches
have contributed over $4,000 which Is
included In the business mems pledg-
rs and those Of the students and fac
atty. But the local churches are not
including those i'm their reports so
and actual sums reported However,
N the English Lutheran church yes
Eerday several 500 and $50 pledges
were made at the service which total
I'd $1,000 or one fifth of their qhota,
and in the First Lutheran church It
s known that an amount approaching
$4,000 was pledged even before the
campaign started, by members who
we're not included in other local
mat one OF the favorable elements in
he campaign was the excellent wea-
ther yesterday which meant that the
churches OF the conference would have
full attendance to listen to the spe-
2lal appeal that would be made from
All the pulpitS at the morning service.
The biggest impetus thus far given
70 the campaign was the pledges Of
students and faculty. The former
ranged from $25 to 5000 and. that Of
report, Of these pledges has gone
broadcast throughout the conference,
and 1t is believed that the example of
the students and faculty will add adj
dftional thousands to the Campaign
and give 1t the additional spur needed
to carry 1t over the top. Campaign
headquarters are very happy over the
showing that the city Of st. Peter has
made thus far. The local amount has
already gone over the $4,000, and It
Is believed that 1t will approach the
$4,000 mark.
DR.: A. w. .Edwins, dean of the China
missionaries OF the Lutheran Angus
fana synod, was the speaker at a un-
ION service in the college chapel Sun
DAY evening. Rev. DR.. Edwins is on
MS way to Vancouver, British Column
bfa, where he will san within the next
week or so on the Canadian Pacific
steamer, the Empress of Russia, for
Cnlna. II was the work of this mis-
sionary that opened the field for the
Augustana Synod in China in 1905
This field has, over 100000 Chinese
population and approximately thirty
workers. six OF whom have graduated
from Gustavrs Adolphis college. The
last one to go out was DR.. Arthur Col :
berg Of Scandian Grove who was com
at the college in September
by DR.. o. j. Johnson who IL, the presi
dent or the China Mission Board. DIR.
Coiberg has already reached China
and has begun his intern work in the
Rockefeller institute in Pekin,
The address by DR.. Edwins SUNDAY
evening dealt principally with the
conditions as they exist In China. He
pointed out the weakness in the gov
ernment or that country. saying thai
hordes Of robbers and brigands fire.
Guently roam over portions of that
country ana tnat on different occa-
sions the missionaries. were exhorted
by Chinese Officials to abandon their
held and seek places OF safety. But"
SAID Dr.s Edwins, quoting an editorial
in prominent Chinese paper. "the
stuck" This bolstered
IN the weak MAGISTRATES and has
the Chinese government
To an appreciable extent, and the mis-
sionaries have thus won the admfra
ton of the population generally. One
Of the interesting things Of DR.. Ed
wins address was his comment on the
work or, the American tobacco trust
He said that although the commercial
nen were limited to the So called
treaty ports. nevertheless. the tobacco
merchants have even entered into TIE
interior mission fields and have put
M their big signs and are doing a
big business much to the misfortune
Of the missionaries. because the lives
of these Americans have been any
thing but exemplary and the mer-
chants have. even tried to use the mis-
sionaries to add responsibility to their
comm ercial endeavors. In comment
ing upon the various phases of the
work, he said that one thing in favor
Of the missionary effort was the ra
cial solidarity in China and the uni
formity Of the language, thing that
is found in perhaps no other mission
airy field. IT was also pointed out that
there are MANY problems In China, not