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Heroes of the Ca 
 
 The Records of a Few of Those 
 Knightly Souls Who, Burning Out 
 for God, Kindled Unqucnched Fires 
 in the Lives of Their Fellow Students 
 
 R. 
 
 JOSEPH W. COCHRAN 
 
 Philadelphia 
 
 The West77iinste7' Press 
 1917 
 
Copyright, 19 17, 
 By F. M. Braselmann 
 
To 
 MY MOTHER 
 
I want a hero — well, that wish is wise, 
 Who hath uo hero lives not near to God ; 
 
 For heroes are the steps by which \\t rise 
 To reach the hand that lifts us from the sod. 
 
 — James Blackie. 
 
 What are those lovely ones, yea, what are these ? 
 Lo, these are they who for pure love of Christ 
 Cast off the trammels of soft silken ease, 
 Beggaring themselves betimes, to be sufficed 
 Throughout heaven's one eternal day of peace : 
 By golden streets, thro' gates of pearl unpriced. 
 They entered on the joys that will not cease. 
 And found again all first fruits sacrificed. 
 And wherefore have you harps, and wherefore palms, 
 And wherefore crowns, O ye who walk in white? 
 Because our happy hearts are chanting psalms. 
 Endless Te Deum for the ended fight, 
 While thro' the everlasting lapse of calms 
 We cast our crowns before the Lamb our Might. 
 
 — Christina Bossetti. 
 
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Contents 
 
 PAGE 
 
 A Word at the Beginning . . ix 
 
 I. Horace Tracy Pitkin, of Yale . i 
 
 A Blood Witness of the Truth. 
 
 II. Pitt Gordon Knowlton, of Oi}erlin 17 
 
 The Poor Student Who Made Others Rich. 
 
 III. Kin Takahashi, of Marvville . . 27 
 
 A Japanese Battering-Rani for God. 
 
 IV. Arthur Frame Jackson, of Cam- 
 
 bridge 37 
 
 ** Whose Life Was in the Saving of the 
 World.'' 
 
 V. Hugh McAllister Beaver, of Penn- 
 sylvania State College . . 53 
 
 The Boy Who Could See the Master's Face. 
 
 VI. Isabella Marion Vosburgh, of 
 
 Mount Holyoke .... 69 
 How One Girl Became Human Radium. 
 
 VII. Forbes Robinson, of Cambridge . 81 
 
 Champion of the Average Man. 
 
 VIII. William Whiting Borden, of Yale 91 
 
 The Man with a Million for the Kingdom. 
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CONTENTS 
 
 IX. Ion Keith Falconer, of Cambridge ioi 
 A Burning and a Shining Light. 
 
 X. Samuel John Mills, of Williams . iii 
 
 Who Made a Haystack Famous. 
 
 XI. Elijah Kellogg, OF BowDOiN . .129 
 The College Man Who Was a Boy at Eighty. 
 
 XII. David Yonan, of Davidson . .143 
 ** Greater Love Hath No Man Than This." 
 
 XIII. Horace William Rose, of Beloit . 153 
 
 Winner of Men to Christ. 
 
 Bibliography 168 
 
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A Word at the Beginning 
 
 Doubtless lives as heroic as auy of those sketched 
 in this little volume could be fouud iu the college 
 world to-day, bringing fresh enthusiasms to bear iu 
 behalf of the Kingdom of God. There are warrior 
 souls now fighting their good fight in every i)art of 
 the world. But the average college student does not 
 realize how much of a good soldier he can become 
 before he leaves his Alma Mater. The ^* generation 
 of wings," as the French say, when speaking of the 
 new France, is begotten behind the first line of 
 attack. 
 
 It is in the hope that many a student will realize 
 the big opportunities of his campus life in terms of 
 service and sacrifice that these sketches of brief but 
 glorious lives are presented. That quality of pre- 
 paredness which alone can save our age from colossal 
 sjDiritual failure is the task of the modern college. 
 The tragedy of college life is the temptation to push 
 life ahead into the future and then — never to reach it. 
 
 The lives of Pitt Gordon Knowlton, Kin Taka- 
 hashi, Isabella Marion Vosburgh, and David Yonan 
 are here for the first time put into print. They are 
 worthy of fuller treatment. For those who desire 
 to read more widely, a partial bibliography of 
 "Heroes of the Campus" is found at the closi* of 
 
 this volume. 
 
 J. W. C. 
 
 February i, 1917. 
 
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I 
 
 Horace Tracy Pitkin, of Yale 
 A Blood Witness of the Truth 
 
Courage is but a word, and yet, of words, 
 The ouly sentinel of permanence ; 
 The ruddy watch fire of cold winter days, 
 We steal its comfort, lift our weary swords, 
 And on. For faith — without it — has no sense ; 
 And love to wind of doubt and tremor sways ; 
 And life for ever quaking marsh must tread. 
 
 Laws give it not, before it prayer will blush, 
 Hope has it not, nor pride of being true. 
 'Tis the mysterious soul which never yields. 
 But hales us on and on to breast the rush 
 Of all the fortunes we shall happen through. 
 And when Death calls across his shadowy fields — 
 Dying, it answers : " Here ! I am not dead ! " 
 
 — John Galsivorthy. 
 
HORACE TRACY PITKIN, OF YALE 
 
 A Blood Witness of the Truth 
 
 " Name oue man pushiug Christian work hard in 
 college, who has the undivided respect and admira- 
 tion of the fellows — an all-round leader in college 
 activities/' demanded a freshman of his father, 
 when the latter urged him to "get into the game" 
 and become a positive religious force in college. 
 Like many another man he was pushing life ahead 
 of him. " I tell you there are no such men," the 
 freshman declared with vehemence. 
 
 A sufficient answer to this not uncommon atti- 
 tude is the life and work of Horace Tracy Pitkin, 
 known throughout the world as one of the twenty- 
 six missionaries who gave up their lives and won 
 the martyr crown in the Boxer outrages at Pao- 
 tiug-fu, China, in 1900. His glorions death, fruit- 
 ful as it has been in scattering broadcast the seed of 
 the Church, has no deeper value than the task he 
 accomplished, while preparing for tlie work from 
 which he was so suddenly summoned by the Mas- 
 ter's call. Horace Pitkin had finished a man's job 
 before he ever set foot on the soil that received his 
 last glad offering. 
 
 George Sherwood Eddy says of Pitkin: "Even 
 
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 in freshinau year he did not postpone his life. He 
 lived then." Another Yale man said of him : "It 
 all comes as a revelation to me of what college 
 Christianity may be. Something of the unbounded 
 admiration and reverence that the average freshman 
 has for the caiDtaiu of the varsity football team, I 
 had for him ; something of the same pride at having 
 liim walk across the campus with me, or invite me 
 to his room." 
 
 As the track men say, Pitkin made *^ a good get- 
 away.'^ This fact is referred to by a classmate in 
 these words : " Not a few men make shipwreck of 
 their college Christian life, or at least make it null 
 and void of power just because they wait to see how 
 things go religiously in college, not realizing that 
 the position one takes the first few weeks will, in 
 the majority of cases, determine the religious trend 
 of one's whole life. Not so Pitkin. Through all 
 his course from first to last his fellow students 
 knew where he stood." 
 
 It is worth while knowing that good blood flowed 
 in the veins of this man. His paternal ancestry 
 ran back through distinguished American patriots. 
 One of these was governor of Connecticut, and 
 William Pitkin, the founder of the American fam- 
 ily, who came to New England from London in 
 1659, became attorney -general of the colony but five 
 years later. 
 
 On his mother's side Pitkin was a lineal descend- 
 ant of Elihu Yale. His grandfather was Rev. Cyrus 
 Yale, of New Hartford, Connecticut. In 1860 
 Horace W. Pitkin married Lucy Tracy Yale at the 
 
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HORACE TRACY PITKIN 
 
 old homestead iu New Hartford. The follow iug 
 year they settled iu Philadelphia, from which city 
 Mr. Pitkiu conducted a chaiu of merchaudiziug 
 houses which supplied soldiers' equipment along 
 the border between the North and the South. 
 
 The only son of the family was born in 1869. 
 When he was eleven years old, his mother died and 
 his father assumed charge of the training of young 
 Horace. Mr. Pitkin, who was of a strong religious 
 nature, gave much attention to his son's early edu- 
 cation, putting him in touch with the best influ- 
 ences. A constant stream of spleudid Christian 
 men passed through the Pitkin home. Everyone 
 who could strengthen the family ideals was made a 
 welcome guest. Mr. Pitkin was accustomed to spend 
 Sunday afternoon in visiting those who were sick 
 and iu prison, and otherwise magnified his duties as 
 a ruling elder of the Second Presbyterian Church 
 of Philadelphia. His open-hearted hospitality and 
 great liberality were conspicuous traits that freely 
 descended from father to son. 
 
 From early boyhood Horace spent his summer 
 vacations on the old Yale homestead in Connecticut 
 where his fresh and vigorous life is remembered 
 with great affection. Every day he used to with- 
 draw for an hour or two of Bible stiidy, sitting 
 under a great ash tree with the Scriptures on his 
 lap, looking off to the blue hills in deep meditation 
 upon the mighty things of God. His study com- 
 pleted, he would bound back with radiant face to 
 the groups of friends on the lawn and the tennis 
 court, ready for any manner of work or frolic. 
 
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 His academic work was taken at Phillips Acad- 
 emy, Exeter, New Hampshire. Upon entering 
 school away from home he sought the best influ- 
 ences. The worthy attractions of schoolboy life, 
 not its temptations, were his. He faced questions 
 of right and wrong with absolute fearlessness. Al- 
 though possessed of ample means he had no desire 
 to squander money on personal indulgences. Money 
 was to him a trust and, even as a boy, he contributed 
 to charities with better insight and judgment than 
 did many of his elders. 
 
 As a young Christian, there was nothing of the 
 prig or snob about Horace Pitkin. His artless 
 simplicity, boyish gayety, and love of clean sport 
 instantly disarmed the suspicion that he was posing 
 as a saint. He despised cant and had no use for 
 sanctimony. On the other hand he did not hesitate 
 to go in for everything that gave a religious tone to 
 student activities, taking a leading part in all the 
 Christian activities of the academy and the near-by 
 church. Skilled in music, playing both piano and 
 organ, and possessed of a fine tenor voice, ''Pitt," 
 as he was nicknamed, was in constant demaud for 
 meetiugs of all kinds. He was ready to do any- 
 thing helpful and put every thiug through with 
 astonishing thoroughness and rapidity. He early 
 developed a mastery of detail and was businesslike 
 in all his dealings. Referring to his efficiency 
 the boys used to say with a rough pun, ''If any- 
 body kin. Pit-kin." While at Phillips Academy, 
 he united with the Church, actively associating 
 himself with the Christian Endeavor Society and 
 
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 takiDg a lead iu its vital work. Que of the earliest 
 autisaloon moveiueuts in the viUage was started by 
 him. ^'No picture comes to me more vividly," 
 writes one, '^thau that of a great gather! ug filling 
 the large church, with Pitkin as chairman, presid- 
 ing with the dignity of a senator." 
 
 His scholarship and athletic records did not suffer 
 by reason of his intense application to the spiritual 
 side of student life. Even in the academy he had 
 become an all-round man. When he entered Yale 
 in the fall of 1888 he was an upstanding, clear-eyed, 
 energetic freshman, with a sensitive mouth and a 
 strong, lithe movement of the body which betokened 
 perfect physical and mental coordination. In col- 
 lege he found plenty of outlet for an intensely active 
 spiritual nature. He did not wait until some one 
 dropped work into his lap. ''Never have I known 
 anyone with such power of translating faith into 
 action. With him to believe was to do," said his 
 roommate. He began to speak in the class prayer 
 meetings and soon he was known as one of the best 
 speakers, for, added to natural oratorical ability, was 
 the flaming love of God burning in his heart. He 
 became organist of the class prayer meetings and 
 could always be counted on to lead in the singing. 
 
 For two years Horace Pitkin was superintendent 
 of the Bethany Sunday School. He improved the 
 organization of the school, bettered the discipline, 
 and put through a comprehensive canvass of the 
 neighborhood. Sunday afternoons he would be 
 found at Grand Avenue Mission where evangelistic 
 services were held. He liked to plead with lost 
 
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 men and his affection for them, despite rags and 
 filth, did more than anything else to make non- 
 Christian college men believ^e in him. Charles 
 Sumner once admitted that he was more interested 
 in the cause of abolition than in the particular fugi- 
 tive slave whose needs were presented to him. But 
 this college man felt that his interest in '* the cause " 
 must needs be tested by his love for the individual. 
 Writes a fellow student : " I recall one instance when 
 we had induced a poor fellow to brace up and let 
 liquor alone and try to be a man again. He came 
 on the campus and Horace put him in his room on 
 the window seat a few nights. Then he gave him 
 five dollars to buy some better clothes and try for a 
 job.'^ 
 
 But it was the cause of foreign missions that, aside 
 from his studies, occupied most of his time and 
 thought. During his first vacation he went with 
 the Yale delegation to the college conference at 
 Northfield. It was at this conference that his life 
 work was clearly presented to him and he joyfully 
 accepted the declaration of the Student Volunteer 
 Movement. In the official organ of the movement, 
 Pitkin told of his decision to become a missionary : 
 
 *'I had just finished my freshman year at Yale. 
 Of course I had no conception of the great advan- 
 tages of an early decision which confront the student 
 of to-day. . . . My ideas of mission work were 
 very vague and, which was quite worse, no organiza- 
 tion, such as now exists, stood ready with pamphlets, 
 books, and study classes, to guide and fortify me." 
 
 In the fall the new recruit returned to college, 
 
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HORACE TRACY PITKIN 
 
 fired with the purpose to make Yale a great mis- 
 sionary center. There was no vohinteer band at 
 tliat time, but with fiery zeal and fine organizing 
 ability Pitkin started a work that gathered mo- 
 mentum with every passing month. Mission study 
 classes were formed and student bands went out to 
 churches and societies to speak in behalf of for- 
 eign missions. Many counties were thus covered. 
 '^Thanks be to God," said the young enthusiast, 
 *' he did use the decision so that in my senior year 
 Yale had, instead of one volunteer besides myself, a 
 band of twenty-four," 
 
 At college Pitkin left a remarkable record of 
 achievement. Largely through his efforts Yale be- 
 came a missionary college, and her Yale Band of 
 foreign missionaries is known throughout Chris- 
 tendom. Christian Endeavor societies all over the 
 State of Connecticut were swung into line for mis- 
 sions and dozens of mission libraries were estab- 
 lished. Pitkin raised upwards of five thousand 
 dollars for the American Board of Foreign Mis- 
 sions, himself assuming one third of the support of 
 a missionary in China. 
 
 Upon entering upon his theological course at 
 Union Seminary in New York City, lie at once de- 
 veloped a plan of missionary propagandism. At 
 the end of his first term he wrote : 
 
 ''Have you heard of our mission revival of this 
 term? It was largely a work of God and to him 
 be all the praise and glory. It was simply the fact 
 of a volunteer's dying in our class that brought the 
 fellows together and broke the ice. The evening 
 
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 after his death we held a class prayer meetiug which 
 was led by Eddy, who had just signed. Of course 
 he led it iu the direction of missions and one after 
 another got up and stated his personal reasons for 
 and against. Every man in the class was ap- 
 proached and talked to as the Master led us, and 
 we had daily prayer meetings and a list of men to 
 pray for each day. At the end of the week we had 
 scratched off four and they were with us praying 
 for the rest." 
 
 Mr. Luce and Mr. Eddy were his colleagues in 
 this revival. The former says : 
 
 " The influence of Pitkin's example had its work, 
 but we always felt his prayers had a greater part. 
 We shall never know the part that his prayer 
 played in all this or the greatness of his joy when 
 these two old friends (Luce and Eddy) were led to 
 purpose, if God permit, to go to the foreign field. 
 From that day forth the prayer of the three men 
 was like that of one man." 
 
 Mr. Eddy adds this testimonial : 
 
 '^Pitkin's life was to me the unanswerable proof 
 that God could guide, and an example of the possi- 
 bilities of service oi^en to anyone who knew God's 
 will. I remember the night I went up to Pitkin's 
 room and told him I felt that I must know God's 
 will for my life. After prayer together, I went to 
 my own room and, without excitement or very much 
 emotion, I waited quietly and asked God to guide 
 me surely and unmistakably. He did. The simple 
 conviction came that it was his will to go. And 
 from that moment no shadow of a doubt ever came." 
 
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HORACE TRACY PITKIN 
 
 These three meu, like those in the fiery furnace 
 of Babylon, were feeling the power that comes 
 through "stringing one's life to one great pur- 
 pose." Even keeping the body fit and strong was 
 to them part of the great task and in gymnasium 
 practice their thought was this : " We must put on 
 muscle for Christ. This will carry the gospel many 
 a mile." 
 
 In 1894 the triumvirate of volunteers accepted the 
 call of the Student Volunteer Movement to travel 
 through the colleges of North America. Pitkin 
 was assigned to the Middle West and accomplished 
 a notable work. He organized a number of volun- 
 teer bands and unified the work with businesslike 
 ability. The sjDiritual side Wiis, however, upper- 
 most in all his plans. He had a prayer list of the 
 "back track" as he called it, that is, the institu- 
 tions and men he had already visited. His prac- 
 tical, common-sense methods, united with a burn- 
 ing zeal and an implicit faith, made him a master in 
 the field. D. Willard Lyon said of him, " He could 
 translate his visions into practical lines of action." 
 
 Pitkin graduated from the seminary in the spring 
 of 1896. The following October he was married to 
 Miss L. E. Thomas, of Troy, Ohio, a graduate of 
 Mount Holyoke College and leader of its glee club 
 in 1895. The two young missionaries started for 
 China the following month, under appointment 
 from the American Board of Foreign Missions, 
 spending six months visiting mission stations en 
 route. In the fall of 1897 they found themselves at 
 Pao-ting-fu, eighty-eight miles south of Peking. 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 For two years Pitkin wrestled with the laugiiage 
 and toured the surrounding districts with older mis- 
 sionaries, writing long and interesting accounts of his 
 work to the home church and to friends. In a let- 
 ter written early in 1900 he referred to the gather- 
 ing of the Boxer cloud which was soon to break 
 upon China and overwhelm the devoted little band 
 of missionaries at Pao-ting-fu : 
 
 " China is full of secret societies. . . . They 
 attack missionaries and converts, the result of the 
 hated ^foreign devil's' religion. Not dariug to at- 
 tack the missionary, perhaps, they wreak vengeance 
 on his converts. Such was the massacre of the Eng- 
 lish missionaries on or near the coast in the south 
 some years ago, such was the great revolution of 
 Yang Tse Kiaug before that time, and such is the 
 cause of the widespread troubles near here to-day. 
 . . . Societies are being formed within twenty- 
 five miles of us to the south, and encircling the city 
 the plague has spread to the north of us. . . . 
 Eeport had it that our compound and the Presby- 
 terian compound were to be wiped out the eighth 
 or eighteenth of this month. To-day is the ninth, 
 so I guess we shall survive the eighteenth as well." 
 
 In a letter to Yale men written April 27, 1900, he 
 told of sending Mrs. Pitkin and little Horace to 
 America : 
 
 ** Now the house is immense and I do not like it 
 one bit, but don't you care, think of the poor 
 * celebrates ' who do not have seven months hence to 
 look forward to. . . . Dr. Hodge of Philadel- 
 phia and Mrs. Hodge {iiee Sinclair) will be right next 
 
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HORACE TRACY PITKIN 
 
 door . . . SO we shall have a merry party." His 
 last letter to the Pilgrim Church of Clevelaud, which 
 had adopted the Pitkins as their reiiresentatives oij 
 the foreigu field, explained why Mrs. Pitkin re- 
 turned, and added : "Won't it make China seem 
 near to you ! and America to us ? There is only one 
 objection to it, it will take away from our heads the 
 halos that some of you have insisted upon placing 
 there, and you will be disappointed in finding us 
 just like common folks. 'Huh! Nothing par- 
 ticularly like martyrdom in this foreign work,' and 
 you are right ! We have been trying to tell you 
 that right along — because we do not believe in 
 martyrs either." 
 
 The storm increased in fury. In his last letter, 
 written June 2, 1900, to associates in Peking, and 
 carried by a Chinese runner, who succeeded in pass- 
 ing the Boxer lines, he described scenes of pillage 
 and massacre : 
 
 " It may be the beginning of the end. God rules 
 and somehow his Kingdom must be brought about 
 in China. . . . It is a grand cause to die in, 
 . . . Jesus shall reigu . . . but we do hope 
 a long life may be for us in this work. The moon 
 gets brighter every night and — what then"? God 
 leads, thank God he does ! We cannot go out to 
 figlit— we must sit still at our work and take quietly 
 whatever is sent us." 
 
 On the afternoon of June 30 a mob set fiie to the 
 American Presbyterian Mission, looted the hospital 
 and chapel, burned the houses of the missionaries, 
 and inaugurated a general massacre of the missiou- 
 
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 aries aud native Christians. Horace Pitkin wrote 
 bis final letters, prayed with a faithful manservant 
 and left him one parting word, " Tell the mother of 
 little Horace to tell Horace that his father's last 
 wish was that when he is twenty-five years of age, 
 he should come to China as a missionary." 
 
 Mr. Pitkin endeavored to save the lives of Miss 
 Morrell and Miss Gould, holding the crowd at bay 
 until his ammunition was exhausted. Then he and 
 the two missionary women suffered death by the 
 sword, the head of Mr. Pitkin being severed from 
 his body. 
 
 Lao-man, the old letter carrier and servant, tells 
 how Mr. Pitkin urged the aged man to escape over 
 the wall and seek a hiding place. He says : 
 
 '' I was a long time with Pastor Pitkin. He was 
 composed and calm. He told me of some things the 
 schoolboys had buried, hoping to save them, and 
 then took out a letter he had just written to Pi Tai 
 Tai, and his camera, and said : * You go with me 
 and we will bury these things in the ground under 
 the dovecote, so when all is over you will know 
 where to find them. Send or take them to the 
 soldiers from the west, or whoever comes with them, 
 so that my wife may be sure to receive them.' We 
 went out, dug quite a deep hole and put them care- 
 fully in, wrapped in waterproof covers. Then we 
 went back to the pastor's room and talked till after 
 midnight. We knew little of the fate of the 
 Presbyterian friends, but were sure that none were 
 living. At last, Mr. Pitkin said, '■ Do not risk your 
 life any longer, but get over the wall in some place 
 
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HORACE TRACY PITKIN 
 
 as retired as may be aud get iuto biding before 
 dawn. My letter may be found and destroyed. If 
 you learn that it is, send word to Pi Tui Tai that 
 God was with me and his peace was my consohi- 
 tion.' Then we knelt dowD aud prayed together 
 and he sent me away.'' 
 
 Between the ruins of the two mission compounds 
 a plot of ground was purchased aud there tweuty- 
 six coffins were lowered iuto the graves while a little 
 band of Christians sang in Chinese : 
 
 *' Light after darkness, gain after loss, 
 Strength after weakness, crown after cross." 
 
 Surely the greatest memorial of such a life is not 
 found in tablets, or biographies, or even in hospital 
 or mission buildings. It is in the lives of God's 
 children who catch the spirit of sacrifice and leap at 
 the call of Christ to engage in that service for which 
 Horace Pitkin and hundreds of others have laid 
 down their lives. 
 
 What is your answer to such a life ? Have you 
 accepted the challenge of this modern martyr ? 
 
 •* What is the issue to be ? What legacy, say, to your childreu 
 Will you bequeath? What increment added? What fur- 
 ther example 
 Yet of noble deeds, what self crucifixion in laying 
 All that you have, that you are, at the feet of a crucified 
 Saviour? " 
 
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II 
 
 Pitt Gordon Knowlton, of Oberlin 
 The Poor Student Who Made Others Rich 
 
I will stretch 
 My hands out once again. And, as the God 
 That made me is the Heart within my heart, 
 So shall my heart be to this dust and earth 
 A god and a creator. I will strive 
 With mountains, fires and seas, wrestle and strive, 
 Fashion and make, and that which I have made 
 In anguish I shall love as God loves me. 
 
 — Noyes, 
 
TI 
 
 PITT GORDON KNOWLTON, OF OBERLIN 
 
 The Poor Student Who Made Others Blch 
 
 A STRUGGLING coUege, situated educationally on 
 ''the far-flung battle line," was facing its darkest 
 hour. The trustees were contemplating closing its 
 doors on account of lack of funds. The teachers' 
 salaries had not been paid for months. Only the 
 bravest souls could endure such an ordeal. " The 
 irdths of glory lead but to the grave. " Yes, but this 
 was different. It was living — living without the 
 means of living, and without the glory. 
 
 It was then that Pitt Gordon Knowlton, who had 
 built up the departments of philosophy and educa- 
 tion at Fargo College, an A. B. of Oberlin, A. M. 
 of Harvard, and Ph. D. of Leipsig, saw his way out 
 of a situation fraught, for himself and for his family, 
 with such distressing features. He received a ctiU 
 to return to his Alma Mater where, as a student, he 
 had so distinguished himself. Was not all the past, 
 with its heavy drainage of life forces in overcoming 
 an untoward environment, a fit preparation for the 
 reward now placed in his hands? Why tempt 
 Providence by a sentimental refusal of the larger 
 and more comfortable place? Let a younger man 
 take his post and endure hardness as he had done. 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 Is there uot a liuiit to sacrifice, a i)oiut where it 
 becomes foolhardiness "? 
 
 We may imagine a tall, spare man, big-boned 
 but stoop-sliouldered, with a kindly eye, broad fore- 
 head, and mobile mouth half hidden beneath a 
 heavy black beard, wearily resting his head on his 
 hand as he sits at his desk thinking out this prac- 
 tical problem in ethics. Memory must have re- 
 verted to the days when he, a motherless, neglected 
 farmer's boy, grubbed out the stumps and rocks on 
 a little farm in northeastern Ohio, in return for 
 lodging, shirt, and overalls. He must have thought 
 of all the years of uphill climbing from the day 
 Kew Lyme Institute opened its doors until the great 
 German university invested him with the insignia 
 of the doctorate of philosophy. Finally, he could 
 not forbear the reflection that the effort to put the 
 small Christian college on its feet, academically and 
 financially, had cost him much of physical vigor and 
 intellectual toil. Had he not paid the full price of 
 his ideals ? 
 
 JSTo ! A thousand times, no ! Watch those black 
 eyes snap and the jaw set as though the tempter of 
 souls were whispering in his ear. He will not de- 
 sert Fargo College. He will lay down his life, if 
 need be, rather than see it close its doors. 
 
 The next mail bore a courteous reply to Oberlin 
 declining the honor of an appointment to its faculty. 
 That quiet renunciation meant new life to hundreds 
 of the rising generation of students, but it took life 
 also. Knowlton paid the price. 
 
 Pitt Gordon Knowlton was born at Eock Creek, 
 
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PITT GORDON KNOWLTON 
 
 Ohio, November 30, 1859. His father worked a 
 small farm iu oue of the townships of northeastern 
 Ohio, wresting a meager living from the poor soil 
 of that regioD. When Pitt was still a small boy, 
 his mother died, and after that home life was what 
 a hard-working farmer and his two boys could 
 bring into it. Poverty and hardship were Pitt's 
 bedfellows ; the finer things of life were unknown. 
 But he was destined to give a course to college 
 seniors on ''Life as a Practical Problem" and it 
 was here that, as a sad-hearted little farm drudge, 
 he was unconsciously collecting material. 
 
 From a home bereft of the ministries of woman- 
 hood, and granting only the barest necessities for 
 the sternest kind of labor, came this ungainly youth 
 of eighteen seeking admittance to the institute at 
 South New Lyme. He was an unlikely specimen 
 of former's boy, but Jacob Tuckerman saw beneath 
 the rough exterior a rare nature. This old fash- 
 ioned educator was seeking, not to mold character 
 as though it were plaster, but to hew it like granite 
 from the elemental quarries of life. He found in 
 Knowlton the right stuff and he chiseled ratlier 
 than polished. Soon the boy became known as tlie 
 finest scholar in the academy. His opinions in the 
 classroom were sound and original and he was 
 listened to with respectful attention. His lofty 
 moral and religious standards produced a marked 
 influence upon the school. 
 
 When the time came for graduation, Dr. Tucker- 
 man persuaded Knowlton that a college education 
 was possible without ready money. Realizing the 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 odds against him, the young man matriculated at 
 Oberliu in 1886, and began his fight. He would 
 take every sort of odd job he could find, working 
 on farms during the summer, coaching poor stu- 
 dents, tending furnaces, and the like, until Peters 
 Hall was opened. He was there installed as head 
 janitor, a post which he filled until graduation. 
 One of his fellow students writes : 
 
 " Pitt Knowlton won his laurels at the end of a 
 broom. He came to Oberlin a homeless lad, alone 
 in the world, his hands hardened and his shoulders 
 bowed with toil, but with the love of God and his 
 fellow men in his heart, and hungry for learning, 
 for friends, and for his Master's work — and he 
 found them all. Indomitable grit brought him to 
 the doors of the college and carried him through to 
 graduation in 1890, working his way not by the 
 wiles of the book agent but by the long hours of 
 labor and the sweat of his brow. Every man and 
 woman in college admired his enterprise and tenac- 
 ity of purpose. He enlarged and glorified the work 
 of janitor and teacher alike. We were all glad to 
 be his friends, forgetful, as he, of his threadbare 
 coat, his cotton umbrella, his uncouth manner, and 
 strident voice, for behind all there was a loyal soul 
 radiating cheer, a veritable fountain of good will." 
 
 The temptation to a student thus forced to make 
 his way is to draw within himself and indulge in 
 self-pity. But Knowlton betrayed no tinge of 
 bitterness, jealousy, or suspicion. He was not only 
 unashamed of manual work but gloi'ied in it and 
 rose above its supposed handicaps. He was almost 
 
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PITT GORDON KNOWLTON 
 
 aggressive iu his fiieudsliips, by reason of his sense 
 of humor aud his frauk and hearty interest iu his 
 fellows. They declare him to have been the best- 
 known and best-loved man in college, with a circle 
 of lasting friendships unsurpassed for their depth 
 aud permanence. 
 
 President Henry Churchill King has testified to 
 his '^ admiration for the essential fiueness and ten- 
 derness of his strong nature. He exerted steadily 
 a strong influence in the college, was always out- 
 spoken for the best things, and could be absolutely 
 counted on for loyalty to the best in college life." 
 
 After winning the Walker fellowship for work at 
 Harvard, Knowltou spent two years in graduate 
 work, receiving his master's degree iu 1892. For 
 one year thereafter he taught at the Ohio State 
 University, then went abroad for a year's work at 
 Berlin, completing his thesis on the " Origin and 
 i^ature of Conscience " for the doctor's degree at the 
 University of Leipsig in 1896. 
 
 Oberlin was a sort of big mother of Fargo. Both 
 Congregational in their religious affiliations, the two 
 colleges have always enjoyed a close interchange of 
 ideas. Thus, when Fargo was looking for a dean, 
 what more natural than that Oberlin should suggest 
 the man of all men who had laid the impress of his 
 mind aud soul on his Alma Mater during the later 
 eighties'? Only seveu years from janitor to dean ! 
 Think of that, you who imagine it takes money that 
 some one else has earned to establish yourselves iu 
 life and attain a position of recognized standing ! 
 
 There are no dramatic incidents to record of his 
 
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 sixteen years as teacher iu Fargo College, except as 
 that life is most trulj^ dramatic which most truly 
 lives. Character is essentially romantic, but the 
 world wants excitement and noise and passion, 
 mistakenly associating these with the dramatic and 
 romantic. 
 
 Dr. Knowltou was not a "swashbuckler" in 
 education. He never sought notoriety or courted 
 the press. Let other professors make startling state- 
 ments to their classes for the sake of attracting the 
 public attention, let them write for the magazines 
 and give Chautauqua lectures, and attend conven- 
 tions as they would ; he had little time for all this. 
 He was busy in the laboratory of life. He was a 
 handler of precious ore. He kei3t the temperature 
 just right for the refining. He could not afford 
 to let his classes '^cool'^ while he ran away for a 
 few days on some little commercial aside. He 
 stayed with the stuff and made something out of it. 
 Often he was known to absent himself from some 
 social function only to be found walking with a 
 student along the roadside or in the fields. He was 
 always seeking light, and he was as happy in find- 
 ing a gleam in the mind of a pupil as a searchlight 
 in the works of a master. 
 
 This is the reason there is little to tell of those 
 sixteen years, for the things he said and did were 
 done in quiet places. Tlie surgical operation by 
 which the infusion of blood is accomplished, the 
 stronger giving his life to the weaker, is a noiseless 
 process. Dr. Knowlton, as some one said, ''gave 
 away more learning than most of us acquire." Yes, 
 
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PITT GORDON KNOWLTON 
 
 but tlie siguificant words are these : He gave away 
 the learuiDg — he did not sell it — and it was sound to 
 the core and up-to-date. He was en rapport with 
 Bergson and Eucken. His pedagogy was abreast of 
 the minute. His bibliography contained the latest 
 books on the subject. His classes in philosophy 
 were always crowded. It was no unusual sight to 
 witness his desk surrounded by a group of interested 
 students discussing the question of the hour long 
 after the signal for dismissal had been given. Fre- / 
 quently his lectures were punctuated with ajiplause 
 as he made some telling point or illuminated some 
 abstruse question with penetrating comment. 
 
 His hope had been to complete a certain manu- 
 script on which he had worked for years. But the 
 unfinished work is a mute though eloquent monu- 
 ment to his self-effacing spirit. While other teach- 
 ers have written libraries in ink and paper his list of 
 works is incarnated in living epistles known and 
 read of all men. In an address before the students 
 of the University of North Dakota on ''Freedom 
 and Independence," Dean Knowlton said, *'No 
 man can be strong who is not in accord with his 
 fellow men and who does not serve them." 
 
 On May 5, 1913, this great soul lay down life's 
 burden and entered into rest. '' This rough horse- 
 play of life," as Stevenson puts it, had so weakened 
 his constitution that he fell an easy prey to pneu- 
 monia within a few days. 
 
 " He believed in the largest possible self in order 
 that he might give the greatest possible service," 
 was the keynote of the tribute paid him by Dr. C. C. 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 Creegan, the president of Fargo College, on the day 
 of the funeral. While others may seek, in the 
 teaching profession and elsewhere, the mastery of 
 others for the sake of self, Pitt Gordon Knowlton 
 sought the mastery of self for the sake of others. 
 Such a man can never die. 
 
 " It is certainly worth while to live," he once de- 
 clared in a remarkable address on ''Immortality,'' 
 "as though our souls were an immortal trust. To 
 him who asserts the reality of the best and noblest, 
 death comes simply as one more great adventure he 
 must make, and to that end he sings with Stevenson : 
 
 " ' This be the verse you grave for me, 
 Here he lies where he lonjred to be. 
 Home is the sailor, home from the sea, 
 And the hunter home from the hill.' " 
 
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Ill 
 
 Kin Takahashi, of Maryville 
 A Japajiese Battering- Ram for God 
 
Of wounds and sore defeat 
 
 I made my battle stay ; 
 
 Winged sandals for my feet 
 
 I wove of my delay ; 
 
 Of weariness and fear 
 
 I made my shouting spear ; 
 
 Of loss, and doubt, and dread, 
 
 And swift oncoming doom 
 
 I made a helmet for my head 
 
 And a floating plume. 
 
 From the shutting mist of death. 
 
 From the failure of the breath, 
 
 I made a battle horn to blow 
 
 Across the vales of overthrow. 
 
 O hearken, love, the battle horn ! 
 
 The triumph clear, the silver scorn ! 
 
 O hearken where the echoes bring, 
 
 Down the gra}" disastrous morn. 
 
 Laughter and rallying ! 
 
 — William Vaughn Mooily. 
 
Ill 
 
 KIN TAKAHASHl, OF MARYVILLE 
 
 A Japanese Battering -Bam for God 
 
 A SMALL, Dervous Japanese in a college dormi- 
 tory bends over bis study table at uiiduiglit, his 
 black eyes snapping and his whole being intensely 
 concentrated upon the task of moving twenty-two 
 grains of corn into various positions. Those grains 
 of corn represent two football teams and to-morrow 
 *' Kentucky Hossie," as the boys have dubbed him, 
 will be coaching the mountain boys of Maryville 
 College in a new gridiron formation. 
 
 Twenty-five years ago Takahashi introduced foot- 
 ball into Maryville College. How the undersized 
 Japanese taught those surprising and elusive tricks 
 merely by the aid of a football manual and his per- 
 sonal practice plays with corn grains is still told 
 with pride by the loyal sons of Maryville. His 
 lightninglike dashes around the ends, puzzling the 
 opposing team with liis catlike agility, are part of 
 the athletic annals of Tennessee. 
 
 Kin Takahashi was born in Yamaguchi in 1872. 
 At the age of fourteen he was sent by his father to 
 America, in order to learn English and then retuin 
 to his native laud for a commercial career. Two 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 years in the schools of San Francisco whetted his 
 appetite for the kind of learning not to be measured 
 by commercial standards, for the young Shintoist 
 had, meanwhile, found the Way. The burning 
 question before him was whether he was to be cut 
 off from the help and consideration of his family. 
 He sat down and wrote a letter to his parents an- 
 nouncing his conversion. The result was a complete 
 separation from his family. Both his father and 
 mother indignantly denounced him and cut off his 
 generous allowance. 
 
 Nothing daunted. Kin sought the counsel of his 
 Christian friends. He wanted to know where he 
 might go to school and, through his own efforts, 
 secure a Christian college education. Mary ville was 
 suggested and the lonely Japanese found his way 
 into the heart of the Tennessee hills where he was 
 warmly received by the president of Mary ville. He 
 entered the preparatory course in 1888. He re- 
 mained at Mary ville for seven years, graduating 
 with the degree of A. B. in 1895. 
 
 The career of Takahashi ought to be an encour- 
 agement to any poor boy who is fighting to get an 
 education, and arouse in many others the desire to 
 struggle through with no funds but such as can be 
 earned during the course. Every penny of expense 
 during those seven years was earned by this young 
 man. His capacity for work was almost limitless. 
 Whether cooking, waiting on tables, sweeping, 
 working on the campus, lecturing, or canvassing, 
 Kin Takahashi labored cheerfully and always with 
 profit. His courtesy, earnestness, and industry 
 
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KIN TAKAHASHI 
 
 won biiii a place amoug the people of a strange 
 couutry, significantly proving that alien birth is no 
 inherent haudicaj) in this land of tlie free. 
 
 As a leader among his fellows he developed re- 
 markable qualities almost from the first. President 
 Samuel T. Wilson says, '' He soon stei^ped into the 
 position of acknowledged and unenvied leader- 
 ship." All forms of student activity — scholastic, 
 social, literar^^, athletic, religious — felt the impetus 
 of his intense personality and the drive of his 
 genius. *^ He was the center and heart of all the 
 college life,^^ writes a friend. Eefusing to specialize 
 or narrow his college activities he threw himself 
 into every worthy and needy cause with eager 
 enthusiasm. Foreigner though he w^as he dedicated 
 his talents and powers to the building up of the 
 American college and the improving of the campus 
 spirit. He was the soul of loyalty and an incur- 
 able '' rooter '' for his Alma Mater. 
 
 Kin Takahashi's own problems, prominent 
 among which was the insatiable bread and butter 
 question, were incidental to the larger issues of 
 life. Indeed his personal interests served only to 
 show him the way out for other students situated as 
 he was. For example, he found that a number of 
 students were comj)elled to leave school every year 
 on account of lack of funds. He thereupon or- 
 ganized a self-help system and secured a huge 
 garden plat in an unused portion of the campus 
 where he set groups of impoverished students at 
 work. Out of this has grown Maryville's admi- 
 rable plan of working scliolarships wherein a large 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 percentage of the students earn their college ex- 
 penses in whole or in part. 
 
 Takahashi would have become a great captain of 
 industry had he lived and entered ux)on a business 
 career. He worked out the plans for the first field 
 day at Mary ville, put athletics to the fore in college 
 life, founded and edited a magazine called " College 
 Days," and, without pretense of leadership, became 
 the very soul of the student body. 
 
 But the greatest service he rendered to Mary ville, 
 indeed the greatest service ever rendered by any 
 student to this institution, was the religious service 
 which gave to Maryville such distinction in Chris- 
 tian student initiative. 
 
 The story of how this poor Japanese pushed 
 through his project for building the Maryville 
 Young Men's Christian Association building and 
 gymnasium reads like a romance. Toward the end 
 of his course he became convinced that God wanted 
 him to promote a building enterprise. According 
 to his usual method he prayed earnestly over the 
 matter and then began to "talk it up " among the 
 students and faculty. Soon sufficient interest was 
 aroused to warrant the organization of the move- 
 ment. Subscriptions of money and work, principally 
 the latter, began to pour in. Kin Takahashi heaped 
 more fuel on the fire and through his senior year 
 continued the agitation. On graduating he did not 
 leave the institution but stayed on the ground dur- 
 ing the summer, building a brick mill and kilns 
 and, with the help of other students, burning three 
 hundred thousand bricks during the vacation. In 
 
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KIN TAKAHASHI 
 
 addition he organized a campaign of publicity, en- 
 listing the active support of newspapers throughout 
 the state, and contributing further by lectures and 
 entertainments at which he was an adept. 
 
 But the work had only begun. Much money was 
 yet to be raised. What would the average college 
 man think of spending two years of his life, those 
 precious years immediately succeeding graduation, 
 in raising funds for the housing of the religious in- 
 terests of his college? This Oriental, this "alien " 
 did it, for his was an enthusiasm for college life that 
 did Dot exhaust itself in cheers and yells and *' Now- 
 boys-the-good-old-song ! " Without a cent of com- 
 pensation he devoted himself to pushing the enter- 
 prise upon which he had set his heart. Journeying 
 from city to city in the North he pleaded in burning 
 words for help for his " boys." At the close of the 
 campaign he had secured sufficient funds to build 
 Bartlett Hall which stands to-day a monument to 
 the zeal of this fiery heart, the little brown man of 
 Nippon whose banzai was "For Christ." 
 
 "The college has done so much for me and the 
 Christian Church in America has done so much for 
 my country, that I, a Japanese, want to do some- 
 thing to show my gratitude," he used to say. It 
 was a happy day for Kin when the corner stone of 
 the Association Building was laid. He chose the 
 motto graven thereon : " Christ Our Corner Stone." 
 On that mai'ble slab eight hundred of his fellow 
 countrymen in American colleges can, if th<.*y will, 
 read the only hope of Nippon's rebirth as a nation, 
 according to the faith of Kin Takahashi. 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 As a member of the Student Voliiuteer Baud Kin 
 bad brought the missionary spirit to a high stand- 
 ard and had been the means of turning many faces 
 toward the great adventure for Christ in foreign 
 hinds. He had been an ardent personal worker in 
 the annual evangelistic meeting, and his faith, his 
 perseverance, and his contagious enthusiasm had 
 marked him as one signally equipped for conspicu- 
 ous service in his homeland. 
 
 His work in America had been accomplished. 
 Followed by the love and prayers of a host of 
 friends he returned to Japan in the fall of 1897 to 
 take up his life work. Entering the Association 
 field at Tokio he was winning out in the same re- 
 markable way as at Mary ville when suddenly a fatal 
 disease struck him and he retired to Hirao, a village 
 of some seven thousand people, where the work was 
 less strenuous. 
 
 His serious decline in health did not prevent his 
 entering heartily into the Christian work. Gather- 
 ing a class of boys he began to teach them English. 
 Later he organized a literary society *' after the dear 
 old Mary ville style," with the intention of forming 
 a nucleus for Christian work. 
 
 Though urged by his physician to abandon the 
 task which under his hands was developing so 
 rapidly, he continued to plan even larger things. 
 *'The work,'^ he said, *' was too interesting for me 
 to follow the advice of the doctor and consequently 
 I planned and organized the society into a school." 
 
 A staff of nine teachers was secured, not one of 
 whom had a fixed salary. The school was opened 
 
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KIN TAKAHASHI 
 
 with au eiirollmeut of thirty-four pupils and soon 
 was moved into larger quarters with au atlcudauce 
 of one hundred and twenty. 
 
 This bold venture of a young man on the verge 
 of the grave attracted the attention of educators and 
 olhcials throughout the empire. The governor of 
 the prefecture and the Commissioner of Education 
 lent their presence to several public occasions where 
 the excellence of Takahashi's school was cordially 
 recognized. 
 
 Although he had many bitter adversaries, Kin 
 Takahashi never allowed the missionary motive to 
 be obscured. The inhabitants of Hirao thought the 
 sickness of the Christian teacher was the i^unish- 
 ment of heaven for his haviug abjured the faith of 
 his ancestors. The ingratitude of his fellow towns- 
 men bore heavily upon his heart and, as his suifer- 
 ings became excruciating and he was able only to 
 crawl about, he was tempted at times to doubt the 
 love of his heavenly Father. But, as the end drew 
 near, the clouds were dispelled and his faith shone 
 out clear and triumphant. In a letter to a friend 
 in America he requested prayers for the success of 
 his work. '* Pray for us, my friends, that this par- 
 ticular plan may be successfully carried out and 
 many souls may be saved through our Lord Jesus 
 Christ." At the time of his death he was planning 
 a new school building. An eligible site had been 
 given and he had colh^cted considerable money. 
 
 On the morning of May 7, 1902, Kin Takahashi's 
 spirit was released from his torn body. Rev. F. S. 
 Curtis, of Tokio, a close friend, was summoned to 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 coDduct the services. He says: ''The house aud 
 grounds were crowded to overflowing. I supj)ose 
 two hundred and fifty or three hundred persons 
 were present, including the leading citizens of the 
 town, who had been imjiressed by the earnest life 
 of this young Christian. The streets were literally 
 lined with hundreds, and when we reached the hill- 
 side where his body was to be interred, we found 
 nearly a thousand people gathered." 
 
 Thus one of Japan's most vital Christian men was 
 cut off in the midst of his days, when the most bril- 
 liant prospects of usefulness appeared to be opening 
 before his glowing vision. But why "cut off"? 
 Takahashi would be the first to repudiate such an 
 interpretation of his life. At the very end, while 
 in great suffering, he spoke to a friend of how " all 
 things work together for good," finding great con- 
 solation in the words of the apostle. 
 
 He longed greatly to see his parents become 
 Christians but died without having that prayer ful- 
 filled. He saw his work in Hirao decline by reason 
 of his illness aud many of his cherished plans 
 thwarted. But the light of his faith burned the 
 brighter as his earthly projects failed, and he died 
 with these words comforting his last hours, "My 
 earnest expectation and my hope is that Christ shall 
 be magnified in my body ; whether by life or by 
 death." " For to me to live is Christ ; and to die 
 is gain." 
 
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IV 
 
 Arthur Frame Jackson, of Cambridge 
 " Whose Life Was in the Saving of the World'' 
 
In Memoriam* A* F» ]* 
 
 Hail, Christian soldier ! bravely hasfc thou doue ! 
 We who remember give God thanks for thee, 
 Thy martyr spirit life through death has won, 
 Life in eternity. 
 
 Thy grave lies heaped with mound of alien earth, 
 Far from the home where love and care were thine ; 
 Yet on the home and land that saw thy birth 
 Light from that grave shall shine. 
 
 Brief was thy service ; but for thee need fall 
 No tear, nor pass the semblance of a sigh ; 
 Thou hast found kindred meet in heaven's bright hall, 
 God's heroes, crowned on high ! 
 
 For thou dost know the glory and the song 
 AVhich fill with wonder all that holy place. 
 And thou art crowned amidst the mart3'r throng 
 Who look upon God's face, 
 
 — A^elson Biiton. 
 
IV 
 
 ARTHUR FRAME JACKSON, OF CAM- 
 BRIDGE 
 
 " Whose Life Was in the Saving of the W^orld " 
 
 Alfred Costain, author of "The Life of Dr. 
 Arthur Jacksou of Mauchuria," quotes that saying 
 of the early church father : " The glory of God is a 
 living man, and the life of man is the vision of 
 God. " It was this sentence that came to the surface 
 as Jackson strode away from Costain 's door in the 
 glow of the autumn evening, and his friend saw him 
 no more on earth. 
 
 Arthur Jackson would have been the last man 
 in the world to acknowledge himself a hero. All 
 his life he had responded to the call of duty in 
 the daily round. One day he was called to perform 
 his duty uuder circumstances of unusual interest 
 and danger. He played his part as manfully in the 
 one instance as in the other. And when the call 
 came to play his part with his life in his hand, he 
 faced the challenge unflinchingly. Is there any- 
 thing more in being a hero than that? 
 
 The goodly fellowship of martyrs is enriched by 
 the life of Arthur Jackson. He was little known 
 when he started from Scotland for distant ]Man- 
 churia, but to-day the name of Jackson is a chal- 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 leuge to college men throughout the world, and 
 iiiauy a medical student has beeu made to think 
 more deeply of the sacredness of his profession as 
 he pauses to consider the magnificent enthusiasm 
 of a man like Jackson and the ready outpour of his 
 life for others. 
 
 '^ There must be something in religion," said one 
 of them, ''when a man like Jackson is so unmis- 
 takably religious." 
 
 The largest asset of Arthur Jackson's early life 
 was an ideal Christian home. His father, Eobert 
 Jackson, was a merchant of Liverpool, who, amid his 
 busy life, found time to make his children his boon 
 companions. He was an elder of the church and 
 Sunday-school superintendent. He, with his strong 
 and beautiful wife, made the Sabbath a delight for 
 the children of their home. Eagerly did they look 
 forward to the Bible stories, the songs, the special 
 picture books and toys, and the long walks in the 
 lengthening shadows of summer afternoons. 
 
 Arthur and his brothers became active members 
 in a boys' organization called *'The Knights of the 
 Cross." A winsome lad he was as, in 1897, he en- 
 tered the Merchant Tailors' School at Crosby. 
 Who could help liking the fair-haired boy with the 
 radiant smile and friendly ways? He had a bent 
 toward the sciences and won the Foundation Prize 
 for mathematics. But it is in athletics that Cros- 
 beians remember him most vividly. He was their 
 leader on the gridiron and won for them the Eugby 
 Football Challenge Shield which they had coveted 
 for ten losing years. At the end of a stiff game 
 
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ARTHUR FRAME JACKSON 
 
 with Liverpool College, Jacksou rallied his meu aud 
 snatched victory out of the grasp, of their stronger 
 rivals. 
 
 One summer the Jacksons were staying at a hotel 
 in Argyleshire. News came one afternoon that two 
 men were drowning in a loch up in the hills over a 
 mile distant. Arthur outstripped the other res- 
 cuers, and, plunging into the water clad in his foot- 
 ball togs, fastened a rope around one man, who was 
 still clinging to an overturned boat. Then, with the 
 aid of men on the bank, who had been helplessly 
 looking on, he brought the drowning man to shore. 
 The other man had already succumbed. 
 
 Jackson won two scholarships at Crosby and en- 
 tered Cambridge in his eighteenth year. Choosing 
 Peterhouse, one of the smaller colleges, he at once 
 identified himself with the full life of the university. 
 He was able to made a just balance between his 
 studies and his "extra-academic" activities, a very 
 difficult achievement during the first year or two of 
 college life, especially with students entering at an 
 early age. He did not allow "the side shows to 
 swallow up the circus." Winning "Firsts" in his 
 yearly examinations, he came to his final science 
 tests fully prepared to achieve his greatest academic 
 honor. First in the Tripos. 
 
 But the big- boned, hard-muscled youth could not 
 long remain at the university without being called 
 upon to contribute to its athletic glory. He was 
 the best oar in the Peterhouse boat and the college 
 magazine commented upon him thus : " A tower of 
 strength and honest to the core. Heavy with his 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 hands, but races maguificeutly." Even in his last 
 term, with the Tripos to win, he kept his place in 
 the crew, "showing the best example of hard work 
 and racing with coolness and power." 
 
 Football was, however, more congenial to Jack- 
 son. He soon rose to be a captain in the college 
 Eugby and, according to the college reporter, was 
 noted for being a "glutton for work." He inspired 
 the team with enthusiastic energy and set an ex- 
 ample of hard work and activity. "His low, hard 
 tackling was displayed to spectacular advantage." 
 
 As in the wider circles of life so in college there 
 are men who are social, athletic, and political 
 "climbers." They go in to win glory for them- 
 selves. They seek leadership for personal satisfac- 
 tion. The game is worth the candle only as the 
 candle sheds its beams on them. 
 
 But Jackson was not a "spot-light man." His 
 modestv was in the wood, and not a thin veneer. 
 On the eve of his departure for China a friend 
 wished for him a long and busy career. "Thank 
 you very much," he said simply, "I am eager to 
 serve." The main chance for him was a chance to 
 help others, especially the unfortunate. Strong as 
 he was, suffering and need took heavy toll of his 
 heart. He who asked not pity of any man pos- 
 sessed a soul flooded with pity for lost men. He 
 craved the privilege of healing the world's open 
 sores. There was for him but one way and that was 
 to bring in the Great Physician. 
 
 This was the secret of Jackson's absorbing inter- 
 est in the religious life of Cambridge. His splendid 
 
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ARTHUR FRAME JACKSON 
 
 records ou the field or in the debating society were 
 ouly the physical and intellectual background for a 
 soul flaming with the holy passion of sei'vice under 
 the banner of Christ. "I can do nothing without 
 him." He went into the Christian Union of Cam- 
 bridge with an unaffected simplicity of religious 
 fervor that brought him into prominence as a 
 Christian leader. In his third year he became 
 president of the Christian Union. Noting certain 
 tendencies toward cant and sanctimony, he set 
 himself the task of making faith a reality among his 
 fellow students. He abhorred set phrases and the 
 patois of religiosity. His sane and wholesome 
 interpretation of the Way, his passion for truth at 
 any cost, his refusal to invade the personalities of 
 his associates, won for him a unique place in their 
 confidence and esteem. He respected the convic- 
 tions of others, making his own life the final argu- 
 ment for his faith. ''I like Jackson," said one, 
 "because he has convictions and lives them, but 
 does not try to ram them down other fellows' 
 throats. " 
 
 Jackson was a wonderful friend of younger boys. 
 He taught a Sunday-school class during his univer- 
 sity days. From Scotland he wrote home : ''Please 
 send my Sunday-school register. It has the address 
 of a boy I promised to send a picture post card to. 
 I am sorry to bother you so through my forgetful- 
 ness.'' He remembered the big thing, however — 
 being kind to " the kiddies." 
 
 Two years after he left Cambridge we find him 
 at one of the free Churcli camps for sclioolboys 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 during a vacation from arduous work at the Eoyal 
 lufirmary where he had become a resident medical 
 officer. It was there that the buoyant qualities of the 
 '* eternal boy " were iu finest exercise. He threw 
 himself with gay abandon into the unconventional 
 life of the camp, and many a lad learned to love the 
 great, laughing athlete not only for his prowess as a 
 leader of the sports and songs of the field and fire- 
 side but also for the talks he gave on manliness, the 
 clean life, and the realness of religion. '^I would 
 remember him most often," one wrote, '^as the 
 jolly doctor who was equally at home iu his comic 
 song and in the tent meeting where he spoke for his 
 Lord." His biographer tells why boys liked him : 
 *'His gayety was genuine, not a smiling mask as- 
 sumed to beguile and trap unwary youth. He did 
 not laugh or sing humorous songs that they might 
 count him ' a good fellow ' but because he could not 
 help laughing and because he enjoyed a comic song. 
 And when the talk turned on matters more serious, 
 on duty and courage and trust in the Hero Saviour, 
 he was still the same, transparently honest." 
 
 Never through the years of scientific research and 
 intellectual inquiry did his faith falter. His in- 
 tense eagerness to get beneath the aj^pearance of 
 things to the ultimate realit^^ had the effect of 
 strengthening his belief in the unseen. While 
 others were wrestling with intellectual doubts and 
 suffering an eclipse of faith, Arthur Jackson was 
 making his beliefs issue in action. Eeligiou was 
 for him an experimental thing. If it would not 
 work he would have none of it. With Henry 
 
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ARTHUR FRAME JACKSON 
 
 Druinmoud one might say his working motto was : 
 " Life and religion are one thing or neither is any- 
 thing." 
 
 Prayer was to him not so much a means of grace 
 as the deep and regular breathing of the soul. It 
 was on his knees that he wrought out his life 
 problems, and always he was asking his friends to 
 pray for him. He seemed hungry for larger views 
 of God's way with the world. He had no smug 
 satisfaction with his spiritual attainment but was 
 ever reaching out for the things that "eye hath not 
 seen, nor ear heard." "I wish people would not 
 talk so glibly about the simplicity of all these 
 things, for I am sure they are not really so simple. 
 We will never get to the bottom of them here j we 
 will always have more to learn." 
 
 Jackson liked to talk with ministers of deep 
 learning and vital piety. Among his dearest friends 
 he counted some of the eminent men in noncon- 
 formist pulpits. Among them was Rev. G. A. 
 Johnston Ross, then of the Cambridge pulpit, who 
 says, "He came closer to me than any student 
 during the years of my ministry." 
 
 In 1910 Arthur Jackson had completed his course 
 as a medical missionary, and put himself at the dis- 
 posal of the Foreign Committee of the Presbyterian 
 Church of England, of which he was a member. 
 He imposed no conditions as to the post to which 
 he sliould be assigned. He was promised the first 
 vacancy, but as a period of waiting was distasteful 
 to him, he offered himself to the United Free 
 Church of Scotland. " I am just going up to Ediu- 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 burgh to have a shot at the Frees," he said to a 
 frieud. 
 
 At that time Dr. Dugald Christie, a veteran of 
 twenty years of honored service in the Manchu 
 cax)ital, had returned to Scotland and was soliciting 
 funds for the extension of his work. Jackson met 
 hiui, and was fired with the great opportunity of- 
 fered in the chief city of Manchuria. He was given 
 a place on the staff of the medical college as an 
 assistant to Dr. Christie, and sailed in the latter 
 part of September for Moukden. 
 
 Dr. Christie, in his book, '' Thirty Years in the 
 Manchu Capital," tells how ^Mie won the hearts of 
 all with whom he came in contact. We have known 
 many new missionaries, but none who became popu- 
 lar with the Chinese so rapidly. He seemed just 
 the man for college work and was looking forward 
 enthusiastically to a life among our Moukden stu- 
 dents in that new college building whose planning 
 so keenly interested him." 
 
 During the first few weeks Dr. Jackson threw 
 himself into the study of the difiicult language with 
 characteristic energy. He broke the monotony of 
 his studies by teaching his beloved football game to 
 the college students, and found an occasional hour 
 for his favorite pastime of skating. But his heart 
 was bleeding as he saw the victims of disease and 
 superstition going down to death all about him. 
 " I certainly feel the need of a fuller life in accord 
 ance with Christ's ideals. How impotent we are in 
 the face of all this mass of contented heathendom 
 unless we really have power from on high ! I know 
 
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ARTHUR FRAME JACKSON 
 
 you are piayiug for me, and will you thiuk about 
 this specially, that I may be more tilled with the 
 Spirit and be so helped that nothing in me may 
 prevent the Holy Spirit's work?" Surely the 
 fruitage of his rare, strong nature was being gar- 
 nered for a harvest that lay in '' the light that never 
 was on sea or land." 
 
 The black death was bearing down upon them 
 out of the north. Daily that terrible destroyer, the 
 pneumonic plague, stalked nearer. It is the dead- 
 liest of all known diseases, for there has never been 
 an authenticated case of recovery. The Moukden- 
 Peking Eailway was about to be closed, and on the 
 morning of Saturday, January 14, 1910, there came 
 into Moukden the last special train of coolies. Dr. 
 Jackson and his colleagues inspected the trainload 
 and sent them on, but two deaths occurred after 
 leaving Moukden and the train was sent back to 
 the city Sunday afternoon. The weather tempera- 
 ture was twenty-five degrees below zero, and the 
 railroad authorities proposed to keep the shivering 
 Chinese in the cars until the next morning. Many 
 would certainly have perished of cold. But Dr. 
 Jackson interposed. ^'We must do our best for 
 the poor beggars, " he said. He arranged to house 
 them under guard, in several large but filthy Chi- 
 nese inns, overnight, and then began an eight-day 
 tight, the supreme struggle of his twenty-six happy 
 years. 
 
 It was a heartbreaking agony, ending only in de- 
 feat as Jackson saw his helpless wards dropping 
 dead by scores every day. But he did save Mouk- 
 
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 den from the ravages of this, the most frightful of 
 all scourges. Writing to his sister in the midst of 
 it, he said : "I am goiug to examine passengers on 
 the Chinese Imperial Railway to try to prevent the 
 plague getting south. However, the risk is not 
 great for me. . . . You need not mention this 
 job I have got to mother, as it would make her un- 
 necessarily anxious." 
 
 Day after day, in mask, hood, and white smock, 
 breathing through an antiseptic pad, he took tlie 
 temperatures of the plague-stricken coolies, sup- 
 ported them on his strong arm as they stumbled 
 into the hospital, or bent over the dying to alleviate 
 their last sufferings. 
 
 For his assistants Dr. Jackson was most tenderly 
 solicitous. *' Stand back, Elder," ''Don't come 
 too near, Coppin," were his constant warnings. 
 He saved others, himself he could not save. 
 
 Od the morning of January 25, Jackson awoke 
 with a feeling of stupor and heaviness. At seven 
 o'clock that night, the unmistakable sigu, the red 
 froth, appeared on his lips and Jackson called, 
 "Look out, Young, the spit has come. " Within a 
 few hours this splendid man who, only the day be- 
 fore, had remarked in high spirits, ''Not many fel- 
 lows get such a chance as this," passed as a victor 
 into the great glory. 
 
 Dr. Jackson's nearest friends were unprepared for 
 the tremendous impression made by the death of 
 this foreign physician upon the Chinese officials of 
 the province and the city. The Chinese papers 
 rang with praise of his self-sacrificing work. Re- 
 
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ARTHUR FRAME JACKSON 
 
 gard this coinmeut fioiii a non-Cliristiuu daily, 
 '^ llis death in laboriDg for our coin i try was actu- 
 ally carrying out the Christian iDriuciple of giving 
 up one's own life to save the world." Another 
 paper paid this tribute, "Now that he has given 
 his only life for the lives of others, we see that he 
 was a true Christian, who has done what Jesus did 
 thousands of years ago." 
 
 Hsi Liang, the viceroy of the province, arranged 
 a memorial service in Moukden with the British 
 consul general, and read a remarkable address, the 
 significance of which can be appreciated only by 
 those who understand the traditional antagonism 
 entertained by the Chinese to foreigners. 
 
 The following extracts will convey an idea : 
 
 "Dr. Jackson, moved by his Sovereign's spirit, 
 and with the heart of the Saviour who gave his life 
 to deliver the world, responded nobly when we 
 asked him to help our country in the time of its 
 need. He went forth to help us in our fight daily, 
 where the pest lay thickest ; amidst the groans of 
 the dying, he struggled to cure the stricken, to find 
 medicine to stay the evil. AYorn by his efforts, the 
 pestilence seized upon him, and took him from us 
 long ere his time. Our sorrow is beyond all meas- 
 ure ; our grief too deep for words. . . . The 
 Presbyterian Mission has lost a recruit of great 
 promise, the Chinese Government a man who gave 
 his life in his desire to help them." 
 
 " O Spirit of Dr. Jackson, we pray you intercede 
 for the twenty million people of Manchuria, and 
 ask the Lord of heaven to take away this pesti- 
 
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 leuce, so that we may ouce more lay our heads in 
 X)eace upon our pillows." 
 
 " In life you were brave, uow you are an exalted 
 Spirit. Noble Spirit, who sacriticed your life for 
 us, help us still, and look down in kindness upon 
 us all!" 
 
 Hsi Liang sent the bereaved mother a letter of 
 sympathy enclosing ten thousand dollars (Mexican) 
 for the use of the family. This money was returned 
 by Mrs. Jackson to the medical college, to be used 
 as a memorial for her son. The viceroy on hearing 
 this was moved with deep emotion. "What a 
 mother, and what a son !" he exclaimed. This 
 high official added further large sums to the com- 
 pletion of the memorial portion of the hospital and 
 toward the endowment of the Jackson Memorial 
 Chair of Medicine in the college. 
 
 In the new hall has been placed a tablet of beaten 
 copper, with this inscription : 
 
 In Memory of 
 Arthur Frame Jackson, 
 
 B. A., M. B., B. C, D. T. M. 
 
 Who came to teach iu this College, 
 
 Beheving that by serving China he might best serve God, 
 
 And who laid down his life in that service 
 
 On January 25, 1911, Aged 26, 
 
 While striving to stay the advance of pneumonic plague, 
 The Western Half of This Building Is Erected by 
 
 Mrs. Jackson, His Mother, and 
 His Excellency, Hsi Liang, 
 
 Viceroy of Manchuria. 
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ARTHUR FRAME JACKSON 
 
 A friend, writiug to Dr. Jackson's mother, gave 
 comfort to a wounded heart in these words : 
 "Arthur is living! . . . Your hopes for him 
 are not to be deceived j you have him where you 
 would have him — serving God free. . . . The 
 best man I knew in my seven years at Cambridge 
 was Arthur Jackson, and, now he is gone, life leans 
 more toward the 'i^lenished Heaven.' " 
 
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V 
 
 Hugh McAllister Beaver, of Pennsyl- 
 vania State College 
 
 The Boy Who Could See the Master's Face 
 
This is the word that year by year, 
 While in her place the school is set, 
 Every one of her sons must hear, 
 And none that hears it dare forget. 
 
 This they all with a joyful mind, 
 
 Bear thro' life like a torch in flame, 
 
 And falling fling to the host behind, 
 
 ** Play up — play up — and play the game." 
 
 — Henry Newholdt, 
 
 Whenever yon conversed with him alone, he made 
 you feel that there was a third Being there, in whose 
 presence he distinctly felt himself to be, 
 
 —F. a Shairp. 
 
V 
 
 HUGH McAllister beaver, of Penn- 
 sylvania STATE COLLEGE 
 
 The Boy Who Could See the Master'' s Face 
 
 One of the most engagiug ijersoualities that ever 
 trod the campus of au Americau college was Hugh 
 McAllister Beaver. Intense and impulsive hy na- 
 ture, his was a life perfectly controlled by the spirit 
 of God. ^' Give me a man with a passion," said a 
 college professor. "When that jjassiou is under 
 God's control he can do more than a thousand tepid 
 souls. '^ Hugh Beaver was one of the most loved 
 boys in his home town, his college, and the wider 
 circles of life. Beneath that ardent personality was 
 a foundation of sterling character easily discerned 
 by those used to estimating values. In a memorial 
 service one of the leading lawyers of Bellefonte 
 spoke of young Beaver as * ' our most distinguished 
 citizen." 
 
 Born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1873, 
 Hugh Beaver began life under favorable conditions. 
 Good blood was in his veins. His fother, the 
 Honorable James A. Beaver, was of Huguenot de- 
 scent, while his mother, Mary McAllister Beaver, 
 came of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Hugh's great-grand- 
 father on his mother's side. Major Hugh McAllister, 
 fought through the Indian wars and was tlie first 
 man in Lancaster County to form a company to 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 reeuforce General Washington in the darkest period 
 of the American Ke volution. 
 
 Descending thus from generations of fightiug men 
 — the old Pennsylvania stock of thoroughgoing pa- 
 triots — Hugh Beaver was endowed by nature with 
 liigh aud noble impulses. 
 
 The atmosphere of the Beaver home was uncom- 
 promisingly Christian. The Bible and the Shorter 
 Catechism were honored. General Beaver believed 
 in the efficacy of the catechism and offered an air 
 gun to Hugh as an inducement to its memorizing. 
 The offer was immediately accepted and the one 
 hundred and seven questions and answers soon 
 mastered. 
 
 As a boy Hugh was always a ringleader in the 
 sports of the town, exhibiting a wonderful spirit of 
 bravery. He outdid his companions in athletic 
 sports, and at the age of fourteen he was the best 
 pitcher of his age in the town. Hugh's curves were 
 famous and his club styled itself, " The Little Pota- 
 toes Hard to Peel." 
 
 Hugh's father served through the Civil War aud 
 lost his right leg in battle. Though peace-loving 
 and kindly, he believed in developing the spirit of 
 patriotism in the hearts of American youth and en- 
 couraged the formation of the National Guard. In 
 1886 General Beaver was elected Governor of 
 Pennsylvania and the family moved to Harrisburg. 
 Hugh's Bellefonte Military Company, a well-drilled 
 organization, still continued, and he begged his 
 father to provide tents for camping in the moun- 
 tains. For two years Hugh was the head of the 
 
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HUGH McAllister beaver 
 
 camp life of his comptiDy uutil the boys parted for 
 various colleges. 
 
 After going to Harrisburg, Hugh Beaver began a 
 course of physical training in the hope of increas- 
 ing his strength which was below the normal. He 
 was given a full set of gymnastic apparatus and 
 exercised conscientiously until he developed a fine 
 symmetrical lihysique. It was about this time 
 that President Harrison, who had met Hugh in 
 camp with the Pennsylvania National Guard at 
 Mt. Gretna, would have appointed him to West 
 Point, and his father wrote asking whether he de- 
 sired to consider it. In reply he wrote to his fa- 
 ther, "I have no desire to spend the greater part 
 of my life in keeping Indians on their reservations, 
 or in loafing about Fort Monroe or some other swell 
 fort. '■ Both his father and mother concurred in his 
 decision. 
 
 In the spring of 1891 he completed his prepara- 
 tion for college at Bellefonte Academy where he left 
 a record of radiant, happy activity. "Such sunny 
 lives are rare and with difficulty to be replaced," 
 wrote a teacher in the academy later on. 
 
 At this time Hugh was passing through a period 
 of great temptations. He was accustomed to regard 
 his academy experience as critical and referred very 
 often to it as "going just to the edge." To his 
 mother's prayers he attributed many an escape from 
 the perils besetting young men at this age. 
 
 Pennsylvania State College, about fifteen miles 
 from Bellefonte, an institution founded by Hugh's 
 grandfather, was the pride of the Beaver family. 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 General Beaver was for many years chairman of the 
 Board of Trustees and at one time acting president. 
 None of the members of the family ever thought of 
 going elsewhere than to State College. At this 
 time Hugh was a professing Christian but not 
 deeply interested in Christian activities. His life 
 did not differ from that of the majority of students. 
 A letter from Eobert E. Speer, a close friend of the 
 family, was most opportune. It was received a few 
 days before Hugh entered Slate College. 
 
 ''I believe," said Mr. Speer, ''that with the ma- 
 jority of fellows the first few months determine 
 their whole course and often their whole life. You 
 understand, of course, what I am driving at, Hugh, 
 that a fellow wants to be a first- class Christian from 
 the first day to the last, that he ought to run up his 
 flag at the first opportunity, never strike it, though 
 sometimes he feels he is flying the colors by himself. 
 I have met plenty of college men whose great regret 
 for their college course was that they had not been 
 better Christians. I never met a man who wished 
 he had been a worse one. I shall pray that God 
 will give you a useful and happy year and that you 
 may be one of his own men all the time you are in 
 college and forever." 
 
 Young Beaver entered the Beta Theta Pi Fra- 
 ternity and from the time of his initiation resolved 
 that the chapter should have a house of its own. 
 The chapter had been chartered only six years but 
 Beaver was proud of the society and immediately 
 began planning for the construction of the new 
 building. He su^jervised all the work, planned the 
 
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HUGH McAllister beaver 
 
 financial campaign, and bandied the smallest de- 
 tails until in 1895 a tine home for the chapter wad 
 completed. 
 
 One of the great experiences of his life was meet- 
 ing Mr. Moody during the summer following his 
 sophomore year, while the evangelist was conduct- 
 ing meetings at the World's Fair in Chicago. He 
 went to one of Mr. Moody's Sunday meetings rather 
 from curiosity and a sense of duty but came away 
 deeply impressed, and w^as the more ready to attend 
 the Geneva Conference of college students that sum- 
 mer. It was here that Hugh Beaver found the new 
 life in all its great reality. His whole being seemed 
 to have been transformed, and thenceforth was ra- 
 diant with the light of the companionship of Christ. 
 His junior year at college was marked by a deeper 
 sense of responsibility and a joyous acceptance of 
 the new opportunities afforded for Christian work. 
 It was then, as a friend writes, that he awakened 
 to " a new sense of the deeper meanings of life with 
 a growing passion for the souls of men." He be- 
 came more gentle and winsome, exhibiting a poise 
 and peaceful ness not shown before. He seemed to 
 have heard the challenge of the poet : 
 
 " O 5'oung mariner, 
 Down to the haven, 
 Call your companions. 
 Launch your vessel 
 And crowd your canvas, 
 And. ere it vanishes 
 Over the margin. 
 After it, follow ifc, 
 Follow the gleam." 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 Dr. Johu K. Mott attended the Peunsylvauia Cou- 
 fereuce of College Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion Presidents at that time and writes as follows : 
 
 " Largely as a result of Hugh's i)ersonal influence 
 and efforts the large room where the meeting was 
 held was crowded with college men. The Spirit of 
 God worked mightily in the meeting. The interest 
 nninifested was so great that we had a second meet- 
 ing on the night of the same day. In both of these 
 meetings I was impressed by Hugh's intense prayer- 
 fulness and also by his tremendous earnestness and 
 loving tact in personal work. He forgot all for- 
 mality, sitting down by the side of classmates, put- 
 ting his arm around them, and urging them to take 
 a decided stand for Christ. Not less than three men 
 were led, under the influence of his burning personal 
 appeals, to decide for Christ." 
 
 It was Hugh's great friend, John H. McCou- 
 key, the well-known lay evangelist, who witnessed 
 Hugh Beaver's complete surrender to God. He 
 tells of the day when '' with great joy we knelt to- 
 gether while he laid his life at the feet of the Mas- 
 ter. Very humble, tender, and beautiful was his 
 low-voiced prayer of committal. His will had 
 for sometime before been trembling in the bal- 
 ance. . . . Little did he know how brief was 
 the span of earthly existence allotted to him. 
 . . . Had Hugh Beaver failed to yield his young 
 life to God's service, had he postponed his decision 
 three or four short years, it would have been too 
 late." 
 
 In the senior year at State College Hugh was the 
 
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HUGH McAllister beaver 
 
 same buoyaut, radiant persouality as in earlier 
 years, but depths bad been opened up in his nature 
 through which could be seen a flaming soul. Be- 
 fore graduation a call had come to accept the 
 position as secretary of the college Young Men's 
 Christian Associations of the State of Pennsyl- 
 vania. Then ensued a struggle between his pros- 
 pects and intentions of entering a business career 
 and a life devoted exclusively to Christian work. 
 " I am afraid if I ever get into this kind of work I 
 never can get out," he said. After a period of un- 
 certainty he wrote, "I have been calling for hymn 
 No. 107 in about all the meetings I have attended, 
 'My Jesus, as thou wilt,' and it seemed that the 
 spirit of the hymn should be a guide to me in this 
 the first call that has cost me very much to obey." 
 
 President Atherton, of State College, writing of 
 this episode in Hugh's life says : '' All his enthusi- 
 asms were now becoming blended in one great over- 
 mastering enthusiasm. But with it all was the same 
 cool, skillful, and practical judgment which he had 
 always shown in the transaction of business. 
 There was an utter absence of self-consciousness or 
 conceit, coupled with absolute confidence in his 
 power to accomplish his objects." After attending 
 the Northfield Conference in the summer of 1895 he 
 began gathering material for his addresses among 
 the students of the Pennsylvania colleges. In his 
 notebook of this time were found such sentences as 
 these : *' Take care to whom you give the night key 
 of your heart." "Do not wait for a feeling of 
 power." ''If we can't pray we can't preach." 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 ''He wants the goats' hair too ; there are mauy in 
 fiue purple but, bless you, the goats' hairs are more 
 pleuty." "Personal life of students in college is 
 the great cause of success or failure. Make us 
 pure." 
 
 During the following winter Hugh visited Blooms- 
 burg Normal School, Washington & Jefferson Col- 
 lege, Mercersburg Academy, Dickiuson College, 
 West Chester Normal, University of Pennsylvania, 
 and his own Alma Mater. From the start his work 
 was successful and he grij^ped students wherever he 
 went. The importance of Bible study and prayer 
 were driven home on every occasion and he began to 
 see the need of honest speech in the matter of per- 
 sonal purity. He managed, however, to speak of 
 the vices of students in such a way as to keep his 
 own Imagination and that of others clean and pure. 
 About this time he signed a White Cross pledge 
 and wore its pin. He was constantly writing letters 
 to students he had met, urging them to make a strong- 
 stand for Christ and to build up the spiritual life of 
 the school. 
 
 November 16, 1895, was another epochal day with 
 Hugh Beaver. He tells in a lett/cr to his mother of 
 a great yearning in his life that had not until then 
 been satisfied. '' At Kutztown," he wrote, '' it be- 
 came so manifest that I slept poorly. So, early in 
 the morning I rose and asked God what was the 
 matter, then wrote out a deed." This deed of con- 
 secration was written on the back of his White 
 Cross pledge and is as follows : 
 
 '' This sixteenth day of November, 1895, I, Hugh 
 
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HUGH McAllister beaver 
 
 McA. Beaver, do of my owu free will, give myself, 
 all that I am and have, entirely, unreservedly and 
 unqualifiedly to Him, whom having not seen I 
 love, on whom, though now I see him not, I believe. 
 Bought with a price, I give myself to him who at 
 the cost of his own blood purchased me. Now com- 
 mitting myself to him who is able to guard me from 
 stumbling and to set me before the presence of his 
 glory without blemish in exceeding joy, I trust my- 
 self to him, for all things, to be used as he shall see 
 fit, where he shall see fit. Sealed by the Holy 
 Spirit, filled with the peace of God that passeth un- 
 derstanding, to him be all glory, world without end. 
 Amen." 
 
 In January he visited Philadelphia, spending a 
 week at the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford 
 College, the College of Pharmacy, Hahnemann 
 Medical College, and the Medico-Chirurgical Col- 
 lege. "Medical students," he wrote, "are a hard 
 lot but the power of God can reach them as well as 
 others." 
 
 Once again were presented to him the splendid 
 opportunities before him if he would follow the 
 work of his distinguished father. It was pointed 
 out also that if he entered mercantile business his 
 remarkable qualities would net him large financial 
 returns. His answer to the man who proposed it 
 was this, " Old man, I am not laying up my treasures 
 here. ' ' 
 
 In June at the Northfield Conference the results of 
 the year spent in the Pennsylvania colleges were seen 
 when one hundred and twelve men, representing 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 twenty-eight institutions in Pennsylvania, con- 
 stituted tlie delogaiion from the Keystone State. 
 On returning home Beaver was full of the thought of 
 starting summer conferences on the Northfield plan in 
 " old Pennsylvania." The conferences now held at 
 Eaglesmere and Pocono Pines are the fulfillment of 
 Hugh Beaver's dream. In July of that year he had 
 charge of the Young Men's Christian Association 
 work in the encampment of the National Guard at 
 Mt. Gretna. He spoke every evening and was ' ' very 
 much moved to see the hard old cases touched by 
 the old, old story." 
 
 He was not one of the cocksure, spiritually con- 
 fident kind but was constantly leaning on the ever- 
 lasting arms for help. " You know," he wrote to a 
 friend that summer, " I am very weak, very wicked, 
 and I am sure your prayers will be answered some 
 day." Then, as though having a premonition of the 
 shortness of his life, he observed, '' Perhaps I am not 
 going to stay very long, that soon T shall be like him 
 for I ' shall see him as he is.' " 
 
 He told how Mr. Moody asked him to go to the 
 Mt. Hermon School and teach the English Bible. 
 Later on he wrote to Mr. Moody, ^' I earnestly feel 
 that I can make my life count for more for the 
 Master in the field in which I am working." 
 
 In the fall of 1896 he spoke at the University of 
 Pennsylvania in Houston Hall, saying, "If the big 
 guns are all used up and you think it for the best we 
 will trust God to use even the very weakest things." 
 It was said at a time when there were men at the 
 university who would go to hear Hugh speak who 
 
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HUGH McAllister beaver 
 
 never weut iuside a religious meeting of any otiier 
 kind. 
 
 The following March he went through the Penn- 
 sylvania colleges with Charles T. Studd, of Englaud, 
 the noted Cambridge athlete. Studd became ill and 
 had to relinquish the task. In a letter written to 
 Beaver afterwards he says : *' I can never thank you 
 enough for all your love and kindness to me. Let 
 us ask Him to make us shine for him." Studd's 
 friendship was a great inspiration to the younger 
 man. After Beaver's death Studd, writing from 
 England, said: "He was so ripe — God could not 
 spare him longer. He seemed to twine himself 
 around one's heart ; he was indeed to me a brother, 
 a brother beloved. . . . How nice it will be to 
 see his beaming face at the portal to welcome us in 
 by and by ! " 
 
 Hugh won the hearts of high-school boys. This 
 characteristic outburst from one of them, in a letter 
 written after a convention, is worth quoting: "If 
 I am only a high-school boy, and if this boy can be 
 of any assistance to you when he is through his edu- 
 cation in bringing souls to Christ, I will be at your 
 service. In fact you are my model." 
 
 Again at Northfield in July, 1897, Hugh was full 
 of overflowing joyousness in Christ. In one of his 
 addresses at Northfield he said: "Men, I tell you 
 Jesus Christ can and does keep a fellow from sin. 
 I tell you he is a real Saviour." Mr. Mott recalls 
 Hugh's presence on Eound Top, the liill where the 
 conferences at Northfield reach high-water mark. 
 "I shall always associate him with that sacred 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 spot," writes Mr. Mott. "I do not recall a student 
 whom I have met in my ten years' work among col- 
 lege men, who exemplified in his personality more 
 completely the unselfish, loyal, loving, joyous, in- 
 tense spirit which was associated with the meetings 
 on Eound Top.'^ 
 
 One of his best friends recalls Hugh's prayer life 
 and how Hugh insisted upon praying over the small 
 things of life. He tells how he prayed while tlie 
 State College football team was playing the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania. '^It was the only time we 
 ever scored on the University and I knew we 
 would," he said with a beaming face. When a 
 friend was in training for an athletic meet he would 
 say, "It will help Perce in his Christian work if 
 he takes first place, and we must pray for him." 
 When the athlete had won the long jump, Hugh 
 slapped his friend on the shoulder, crying, "Well, 
 didn't I tell you he would win*?" Few young 
 people have the vivid consciousness of Christ that 
 was Hugh Beaver's. "Sometimes," he said, "my 
 prayers seem formal but at other times Christ is so 
 real that I open my eyes and really expect to see 
 him, and I should not wonder if I shall some 
 day." 
 
 His last work was at the Women's Conference at 
 Northfield. At that conference he was the means 
 of bringing hundreds of young women into closer 
 touch with Christ and a more zealous desire to en- 
 ter his service. His daily morning Bible readings 
 were attended by more than a hundred and fifty 
 girls. On Monday, July 19, his last public words 
 
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HUGH McAllister beaver 
 
 ou earth were uttered. This farewell message is 
 considered to be "the most loviug aud most fruit- 
 ful service of his short life." His closing woids 
 were : 
 
 "Oh, may we not make it necessary that some 
 great cloud should come over our lives before we 
 go apart aud rest with Him a little while. Some 
 of us are very weary to-night, physically, aud feel 
 that above all things we need rest. Some may be 
 dissatisfied with their own lives. Oh, come apart 
 and rest with him a little while alone, for never, 
 never can we be transformed iuto his image by look- 
 ing into our own lives. You remember how Paul 
 j)uts it, ' But we all with unveiled faces reflecting 
 as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are trans- 
 formed into the same image from glory to glory.' 
 If we are to be like Christ it must be by just coming 
 apart to rest with him. May we learn that lesson 
 now and not wait until the clouds have come ! In 
 the sunshine of his own love let us learn to keep 
 very close to him ! May he help us ! " 
 
 The radiance of another world was breaking 
 through and Hugh's eyes looked afar toward the 
 plains of peace. Driving out one day with a friend, 
 after his return to Bellefonte, he looked up and with 
 a joyous countenance said, " I do not know why it 
 is, whether because I am tired and worn out or not, 
 but sometimes I feel that it will not be very long 
 before I am with my Master," and then he repeated 
 the lines he loved so well, beginning : 
 
 " It may be in the eveuiiifjj when the work of the day is 
 done." 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 A few days later appendicitis developed, a disease 
 which had given its warnings but which he had not 
 heeded, and on August 2 Hugh Beaver met the 
 King in his beauty. 
 
 At the memorial service which was held at 
 Northfield, Mr. Moody said that no other visitors 
 to Northfield had left such deep impressions as had 
 Professor Drummond and Hugh Beaver. ^' I can- 
 not understand it," said this great man of God, 
 '' except that the Lord had another place of higher 
 service for him and so called him. May his mantle 
 fall on thousands ! '' 
 
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VI 
 
 Isabella Marion Vosburgh, of Mount 
 Holyoke 
 
 Hoiv One Girl Became Human Radium 
 
Oh ! yet a few short years of useful life 
 
 And all will be complete . . . 
 
 . . . what we have loved 
 
 Others will love and we will teach thera how ; 
 
 Instruct them how the mind of man becomes 
 
 A thousand times more beautiful than the earth 
 
 On which he dwells. 
 
 — Wordmoorth. 
 
VI 
 
 ISABELLA MARION VOSBURGH, OF 
 MOUNT HOLYOKE 
 
 How One Girl Became Human Radium 
 
 Mount Holyoke College embodies in a pecul- 
 iar degree the ideals of oue woman. The dream of 
 Mary Lyon was the higher education of women in 
 skilled learning and culture expressed in terms of 
 service. Her educational platform was this: *'To 
 hoi)e and to desire and to love and to do as well as 
 to think." That women should be *' strong- bodied, 
 big-brained, great- souled," was the effort of her life. 
 
 Mary Lyon did not produce a somber religious 
 atmosphere but an atmosphere pulsating with joy- 
 ousness and a radiant simplicit^^ The ascetic type 
 had no place in her scheme of life. "God wants 
 you to be happy ; he made you to be happy," she 
 would often say. She had an intensely i)ractical 
 and serviceable kind of faith. " Eeal holiness 
 tends to make the character energetic," was the 
 teach iug often on her lips. 
 
 Had Mary Lyon lived to know Isabella Vosburgh, 
 she would have discovered in this sunny, clear-eytd, 
 quick-minded, athletic little freshman one of the 
 truest exponents of her teachings. A love of Mary 
 Lyon's ideals and purposes had been instilled into 
 the mind of this young girl from her earliest years. 
 Mount Holyoke was her mother's Alma Mater. 
 
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 Isabella Marion Vosburgh was born at Kocbester, 
 New York, October 14, 1888. She was brought up 
 amid comfort aud refiuemeot aud granted every 
 opportunity for enlargement of life. Her family 
 bestowed a wealth of affection upon the only 
 daughter and sister. The greatest asset of a young 
 life is a happy Christian home and Isabella enjoyed 
 this privilege to the full. When in college she 
 wrote to her mother, "I realized as I never did 
 before what my love for you really is, and what it 
 is to be your daughter." The time came when in 
 her choice of a life work that filial appreciation was 
 to be put to the severest test. 
 
 The family moved to Oak Park, Illinois, a 
 suburb of Chicago, where Isabella passed through 
 the public schools and graduated with honor from 
 the Oak Park High School in 1906. She entered 
 Mount Holyoke College in the fall of that year and 
 was graduated in the class of 1910. The following 
 year was spent at Bryn Mawr College where she 
 held a graduate scholarship in chemistry. From 
 1911 to 1913 she was pursuing work in the same 
 branch at the University of Chicago under fellow- 
 ships won through her brilliant work. On the 
 completion of her postgraduate course she took the 
 chair of chemistry in Lake Erie College, Paines- 
 ville, Ohio, accepting a year later a position as in- 
 structor in her chosen science at Mount Holj^oke. 
 Had she lived until the following June her doctor's 
 degree would have been awarded her. In Decem- 
 ber, 1914, she was fatally injured in an automobile 
 accident at South Hadley and died in a few hours. 
 
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ISABELLA MARION VOSBURGH 
 
 When she came home for the holidays iu her 
 fresh mau year she was strickeu with scarlet fever 
 and was kept out of college for nine weeks. It 
 was a bitter disappointment, " but," writes her 
 mother, ''a very few little tears when the doctor 
 said it was scarlet fever and a few at the end of six 
 weeks when a neighbor, who came down after she 
 did, was allowed to go out, were the only signs of 
 what must have been a tragedy to her. She went 
 back to college and made up her work ; in fact, 
 she kept up her Latin while we were shut up in 
 quarantine by reading the Cicero while I managed 
 the ' pony.' " 
 
 Her teachers and fellow students were made 
 aware from the moment of her entrance into col- 
 lege of the presence of a remarkably vital person- 
 ality. She possessed verve and enthusiasm that 
 brought her at once into a position of leadership. 
 Her marvelous buoyancy of spirits carried her with 
 flying leap over every obstacle. With all her in- 
 tellectual keenness she enjoyed athletic sports and 
 went into the games of the "gym" and field with 
 greatest enthusiasm. As the intrepid little figure 
 in red made basket after basket for her team in the 
 games the spectators would break into admiring ap- 
 plause. " Izzy carries everything before her," they 
 would cry. "Her inability to think defeat " was 
 one of her outstanding qualities. Her dauntless 
 courage inspired many a weary and downhearted 
 girl with fresh determination and her sunny faith 
 started many a doubter on the life that overcomes. 
 
 It was not sheer strength of will that won her 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 high distiuctiou. She possessed a nature that fairly 
 radiated life, love, and happiness. Said one of her 
 classmates, "Isabella was always smiling and I 
 often begged her to let me know if she was ever 
 blue and discouraged for she was ever helping 
 others and never asking help or comfort for her- 
 self." Whether leading the "stunts" in the in- 
 nocent night revels or working out an abstruse 
 formula in chemistry, she maintained that un- 
 chilled ardor and spontaneous joy ousness that won 
 for her the nickname of " Sunny." 
 
 One might fancy that this superb quality came 
 merely from a natural lightness of temperament. 
 But added to her inheritance of disposition was an 
 underlying purpose to consecrate her gift to the joy 
 of the Lord. She cai^italized her popularity by 
 giving it a spiritual content and expression. Miss 
 Mary E. Ely, Secretary of the Mount Holyoke Col- 
 lege Young Women's Christian Association, writes: 
 "The secret of her genius for friendship was ever 
 the spiritual motive underlying it all. She put her 
 own life constantly into the lives of others, with this 
 main motive : to make more real to others the Christ 
 who was supreme in her life." 
 
 Isabella Vosburgh carried into her classroom work 
 this same abounding vitality. When she was in high 
 school one of her teachers remarked, "She studies 
 geometry just as she plays basket ball." Her pas- 
 sionate eagerness to get to the bottom of a subject, 
 and to see its reactions upon the large life of the 
 world gave her a commanding place in the serious 
 side of college life. She majored in chemistry to 
 
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ISABELLA MARION VOSBURGH 
 
 which she gave intense application. Miss Mary E. 
 Holmes has written the following : " The beauly of 
 the laws of nature as revealed to her in the study of 
 science aroused in her the ambition to become her- 
 self a first-hand seeker for truth. In her senior 
 year she, like many other chemists of far greater 
 experience, believed herself for one brief, happy 
 moment to be the discoverer of a * new element. ' ' ' 
 
 One of the outstanding characteristics of Miss 
 Vosburgh was her remarkable power of mental con- 
 centration. Her mother used to tell her that she 
 read like Theodore Eoosevelt, a page at a time. 
 She was able to learn her lessons in a room full of 
 conversing people and so successfully could she 
 isolate herself from her surroundings that she would 
 not know whether there was anyone in the room or 
 not. 
 
 At the close of her year of teaching at Lake 
 Erie College, Miss Vosburgh wrote to her beloved 
 "Emma," Dr. Emma Carr, Head of the Depart- 
 ment of Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College : 
 " You cannot realize what a large part you have 
 had in influencing me, personally because you are 
 such a woudeiful Emma, and chemically when you 
 made chemistry a living and wonderful science. I 
 shall never forget my first comprehension and reali- 
 zation of the periodic table, which connected 
 chemistry with God in my mind. Oh, I only hope 
 I can make at least a few people love it as I do ! " 
 
 In a letter to Isabella's mother after her daughter's 
 death. Professor Carr said : "You know what Isa- 
 bella meant to me personally, but I wonder if you 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 realize at all what she meaut to me professioually 
 and to the departmeut aud to the college ever siuce 
 I had her in sophomore chemistry and realized the 
 eagerness of her interest in the work itself aud her 
 enthusiasm even then to make it live for other peo- 
 ple. I have never known anyone interested in 
 chemistry who combined the qualities of student, 
 teacher, and woman as Isabella did." 
 
 The last year of her student days at the Univer- 
 sity of Chicago was memorable. She had become 
 an authority in her line of scientific research and 
 was at work upon her thesis for the doctorate, a 
 remarkable contribution to chemical knowledge, 
 entitled, ''The Beckmau Rearrangement of Tri- 
 pheuyl Methyl Halogen Amines." President Jad- 
 son wrote to the family, ' ' Your daughter has won 
 an honorable place in the University and has a 
 bright future of useful achievement before her." 
 
 Three years before this Isabella had passed 
 through the valley of decision in the matter of her 
 life work. The tragedy of the non- Christian world 
 had pierced her soul aud the poignancy of the call 
 to volunteers had struck home to her heart. So it 
 was that in her senior year she faced the great ques- 
 tion. Always she had " felt it in her bones," as she 
 expressed it, that she would be a missionary. Dur- 
 ing the summer between her junior and senior years 
 she thought seriously of speaking to her parents 
 about it. Bat she was almost afraid to broach the 
 question and "pondered it in her heart," arriving 
 at length at the decision alone with God. The 
 question would not down, fight it as she would. 
 
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ISABELLA MARION VOSBURGH 
 
 ^' I have talked with nobody, have been urged by 
 nobody. God meant that I should make a definite 
 decision and only when I let mj^self say, ' If that is 
 God's will then I am willing to go,' did that awful 
 feeliug leave me." 
 
 How often have we found it harder to reveal our 
 deepest longings and experiences to those we love 
 than to comparative strangers ! This was true of 
 Isabella Vosburgh in her crisis hour. In a letter to 
 her mother betray iug alike the eagerness to help 
 win a lost world and tender consideration for the 
 family sacrifice that must ensue upon such a deci- 
 sion, Isabella poured out her heart. ''I just can't 
 tell you what in the last year Christ has come to 
 mean for me. I only wish we had discussed such 
 things a little more for then it would not be so hard 
 to write all this. I find that Christ is the working 
 force in my life, and were it not for his love and for 
 the knowledge of him life would not be worth liv- 
 ing. What could I do that would make me happier 
 than to go to a foreign country where he is unknown 
 and tell those people about him ? I see how every- 
 thing has been working toward this end. My 
 
 friendship with Eebecca N , those wonderful 
 
 ten days at Silver Bay, and various other things, 
 have all been in God's definite plan for me. If 
 only I could make you realize the happiness and 
 peace of mind that has come to me this last week, 
 it wonld be much easier for you to get my point of 
 view." 
 
 The next letter home contained these words : '' As 
 long as you want me and need me I shall not bring 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 up the qiiestiou again. Although I do not promise 
 to give up the idea, I do promise to take uo defiuite 
 step until you are willing." 
 
 In the spriug of 1913 came several offers of posi- 
 tions. She accepted the chair at Lake Erie College 
 and threw herself with characteristic energy into the 
 life of that institution. '' Oh, I love it all, the 
 teaching, the contact with the girls, the life, the op- 
 portunities ! " It pleased her to realize that her 
 position as teacher did not prevent her mingling in 
 hearty and familiar contact with students. ''It 
 certainly is a joy to realize that the girls think one 
 human and approachable, aud I love it but it is 
 mighty hard, too. 1916 is all upset to-uight with 
 D's aud E's on term jDapers and it is not easy to see 
 the student's side aud be a 'faculty.' I suppose 
 there's a lot I've got to learn about saving myself 
 and not letting the girls bother me too much. But 
 I want them to and in spite of the good times I have 
 with them they are never the least bit free or over- 
 step. They certainly are a nice bunch of girls." 
 
 The crowning missionary event of Isabella's life 
 was the Student Volunteer Convention in Kansas 
 City in 1914. She, with two student delegates, 
 represented Lake Erie College, and the three on 
 their return were able to arouse a missionary inter- 
 est the like of which had never been seen at the 
 school. At chapel exercises and at other gatherings 
 she reported the convention and then began a re- 
 markable propaganda for missions. The work 
 spread to the local church. " What do you sup- 
 pose?" she wrote. "This coming Sunday evening I 
 
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ISABELLA MARION VOSBURGH 
 
 occupy the pulpit of the Cougregatioual Church. 
 Maybe I am uot petrified ! " Up to this time there 
 had uot beeu a siugle voiuuteer for missious iu the 
 college. Withiu teu days after her returu fiom 
 Kausas City two girls had voluuteered. The move- 
 meut was spreading and she, the soul of it, was 
 speakiug, planuiug, holding committee meetings and 
 interviews. A campaign for recruiting for mission 
 study classes was begun. The young teacher de- 
 vised a clever plan by which each girl on the Mem- 
 bership Committee of twelve appeared one morn- 
 ing wearing a colored badge which bore the name 
 of a month. The January girl was to get all her 
 days enrolled, and so with the others. The scheme 
 worked admirably in connection with a great clock 
 poster reporting the progress of the campaign. 
 Within two weeks ninety-five per cent of the college 
 was enrolled. 
 
 Through this season of high spiritual tension when 
 her name was upon everyone's lips, she was enjoy- 
 ing the exhilaration of unique and successful leader- 
 ship. But there was no trace of self-confidence or 
 complacency. Her inability to solve all the per- 
 I)lexing questions brought to her was a matter of 
 concern. ^'I fear I have always felt things and 
 taken them for granted. I am trying to read and 
 think more. My ! I certainly have it brought to 
 my mind continually how worthless I am, for the 
 girls come to talk with me and I know I do not meet 
 their needs." 
 
 The faculty of quick and thorough adjustment, 
 the ability to see and feel instinctively the point of 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 COD tact, is a gift of untold value. But behind this 
 must be the motive that seeks to awaken aud stimu- 
 late the best in a life. Isabella Vosburgh possessed 
 both the gift and the motive. Added to this was a 
 wide circle of interests, broad outlook on life, sanity 
 and poise in judgments, love of nature, art, poetry, 
 and music, abounding health of body and vigor of 
 mind, and, permeating all, the outstanding quality 
 of joyousuess. What radium is in the family of 
 metals she was to those who knew and loved her. 
 *'So full of life and song,'' exclaimed one who 
 played on the basket ball team with her. ^'That 
 song was never tuned to a minor key. Her glorious 
 nature, brimming with love for folks, passion for 
 the service of Christ, tenderness for the smallest 
 aud weakest of God's children, was never checked 
 in its overflow of life's loving cup. She weut out 
 not at the ebb of tide but at its highest flood. There 
 was no * moaning of the bar.^ " 
 
 With a touch of mysticism her classmates some- 
 how felt that she was present at their five-year re- 
 union in June, 1915. Was she not there? Cer- 
 tainly she was in the hearts of the girls as they 
 assembled, as smiles and tears mingled as they paid 
 tribute to her memory. ''We can spare Izzy's 
 bodily presence, '^ said the class president, ''more 
 easily than most others because her spirit, that 
 wonderful, joyful, imperishable spirit of hers, lives 
 on so warmly in our midst. She is not with us, 
 yet she will always be with us." 
 
 If this were all of immortality, would it not be 
 abundantly worth while? 
 
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VII 
 
 Forbes Robinson, of Cambridge 
 
 Charnpion of the Ave7'age Man 
 
Scarce had he need to cast his pride or slough the dross of earth. 
 E'en as he trod that day to God, so walked he from his birth — 
 In simpleness and gentleness and honor and clean mirth. 
 
 So cup to lip in fellowship, they gave him welcome high, 
 
 And made him place at the banquet board, the Strong Men 
 
 ranged thereby, 
 Who had done his work and held his peace and had no fear 
 
 to die. 
 
 Beyond the loom of the last lone star through outer darkness 
 
 hurled, 
 Further than rebel comet dared or hiving star-swarm swirled. 
 Sits he with such as praise our God, for that they served his 
 
 world. 
 
 — Kipling. 
 
VII 
 
 FORBES ROBINSON, OF CAMBRIDGE 
 
 Champion of the A verage Man 
 
 "Think of the weak cliiips, those who are *out 
 of the way/ those who are not naturally attractive, 
 those who positively repel you. They often most 
 need your sympathies, your prayers." It was this 
 thinking of the "weak chaps" that made Forbes 
 Kobinson a power in Cambridge. The following 
 quotation is from a letter to a friend who had told 
 him of his intention to take up school work until he 
 was old enough to become ordained : 
 
 "Do remember," he wrote, "how marvelously 
 sacred a schoolmaster's work is. It is not enough 
 to be able to play games — how I sometimes wish I 
 could ! It is not enough to be able to teach Latin 
 and Greek : a schoolmaster should be so much more. 
 He represents the authority of God. He could be 
 so much, he may be so little to boys. We can never 
 enter a boy's life, into his deepest thoughts, his 
 long, long thoughts, unless we, too, become little 
 children, unless we become young and fresh and 
 simple. Do not become a schoolmaster simply to 
 fill up time, to have something to do." 
 
 May these words catch the eye of some young 
 school-teacher who has taken up teaching as one 
 
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 clutches the branches of a tree to lift himself over a 
 wall! 
 
 There was little in the life of Forbes Eobiusou to 
 challeuge the imagiDation of the average college 
 student. His career was lacking in the dramatic 
 element. To the crowd that loves its heroes of the 
 gridiron, the mat, or the cinder track, this quiet, un- 
 athletic figure would find no place in the pantheon 
 of the quadrangle. 
 
 But to the glory of Cambridge be it said that 
 Forbes Robinson came into his own. It is doubtful 
 whether the average institution of learning could 
 have appreciated such a man. But one enjoj-iug 
 the rootage of centuries of genuine scholarship and 
 the finer things of life was able to bring to full 
 fruitage such a rare product as this friend of the 
 undergraduate. 
 
 Robinson was the son of an Anglican minister, 
 the eleventh child in a family of thirteen. He was 
 born in Keynsham, England, in November, 1867, 
 and died in February, 1904. 
 
 As a preparatory-school boy Forbes was reserved 
 and retiring. He appears to have made little im- 
 pression upon the life at Rossall where he was pre- 
 pared for Cambridge. He did show at this time, 
 however, a remarkable sense of humor which saved 
 him from morbid tendencies. 
 
 On entering upon his course at Christ's College his 
 shrinking disposition rapidly gave way to a quiet, 
 intense desire to get into close touch with men who 
 were neglected by their fellows. His social powers 
 quickly developed until his little attic room soon 
 
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FORBES ROBINSON 
 
 became the center for the men of his class. As he 
 settled into the life of the college he became recog- 
 nized as a sort of human viaduct spanning the chasm 
 between the lower and the higher classmen. Those 
 who believe that nothing is of much value in college 
 life except social opportunities, athletic triumj^hs, 
 and the prestige of a cultural course, might well 
 ponder this example of a simple, devoted man whose 
 growing powers were almost wholly directed toward 
 the strengthening of Christian influences in his own 
 college. The deep and enduring impress left by 
 Forbes Eobinson upon the life of Cambridge Uni- 
 versity is too remarkable a record to be missed by 
 students of our time. 
 
 The idea of getting men together for the purpose 
 of bringing out the best in them seems to have been 
 the constant aim of Forbes Eobinson. College men 
 are not in the habit of showing their most serious 
 side to one another, but Eobinson had "an ex- 
 haustive power of making friends with all sorts and 
 conditions of men and an insatiable interest in all 
 sides of college life." 
 
 One might imagine that a man as serious-minded 
 as Eobinson would be a damper uj^on the spontane- 
 ous life of the college. But Forbes was a great fun 
 lover and this made it possible for him to brighten 
 what would have been a somber discussion. The 
 tone of conversation in his room was never strained 
 or confined to purely religious discussion. It had, 
 however, a quality that was absolutely bare of that 
 which was flippant, unkind, or vulgar. 
 
 "I can see that little room under the roof,'^ 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 writes a frieud; "the picture on the wall of the 
 dead saint floating on the dark water ; the well- 
 filled bookcase j the table piled with volumes ; him- 
 self flinging everything aside to greet one. It was 
 almost with a feeling of awe that I sometimes 
 climbed those stairs and entered into his presence." 
 
 Eobiuson's interest in young men was as intense 
 as it was remarkable. The arrogant indifference of 
 upper classmen toward men in the lower classes 
 was extremely distasteful to him. That which was 
 to others a mere mass of uninteresting material was 
 to him of the highest value. If a man was not good 
 at games and very poor as a scholar, Forbes was 
 sure to seek him out and make friends with him ; 
 the man's lack constituted a challenge. If, on the 
 other hand, a great athlete was winning plaudits, 
 Forbes felt it an opportunity to win a strong man 
 for Christ. 
 
 He was a great student of the Apostle Paul and 
 he took seriously Paul's idea of ambassadorship : 
 ^ ' The more I think of what the words seem to 
 mean, the more I am startled at the awful responsi- 
 bility we have laid upon us." He liked the idea of 
 being an attache of an embassy and arranging terms 
 with men in order to bring them into touch with 
 God. He believed that he had, working in him, 
 the same power that Paul had, and that everyone 
 may succeed in so far as he loves those whom God 
 has committed to his servants. He felt that the 
 man passed by was the man God honored. His 
 creed was, "There is no average man." 
 
 This belief was the secret of the amazing fund of 
 
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 friendship which he built up through the years at 
 Cambridge; the love he bestowed upon men inspired 
 even the most unpromising with the thought of the 
 sacred, wonderful, and helpful possibilities of their 
 own lives. It is probable that Robinson was able 
 to touch more men's lives in Cambridge than did 
 any other graduate of the college. 
 
 It must not be supposed that Robinson was mak- 
 ing a laboratory experiment. This was no philo- 
 sophic study of friendship for a thesis : he was not 
 exploiting the art of comradeship as the means for 
 securing a degree. Nor was he cultivating friends 
 for the sake of social and economic advantage in 
 later life. 
 
 Prayer was to Robinson the most natural and 
 potent spiritual relationship. He prayed for men 
 for hours at a time. His entire thought about cer- 
 tain men was turned into praying. He felt that 
 through prayer he could do more for most men than 
 by direct personal appeal. He was not the kind 
 of man to force himself into a man's inner life ; 
 he declined to invade the sacred precincts of 
 personality. ^'As I grow older," Forbes said, ''I 
 grow more diffident, and now often, when I desire 
 to see the truth come home to any man, I say to 
 myself, * If I have him here he will spend half an 
 hour with me. Instead I will spend half an hour 
 in prayer for him.' " In writing to a friend in 1893 
 he gave this advice ; " Now is the time to learn, to 
 force yourself to learn, to pray — to pray not for a 
 few minutes at a time, but to pray for an hour at a 
 time, to get alone with yourself, to get alone with 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 your Maker. We shall not have to talk so much to 
 others if we pray more for them." Aud to his 
 brother, a doctor in South Africa, he wrote, ^'I 
 cannot conceive this world without prayer." 
 
 A scene that will never be forgotten by those who 
 were present was his welcome after a long absence 
 and his return to college, a broken and dying man. 
 It was Sunday evening and the room was crowded. 
 Forbes was moving about among the various groups, 
 full of brightness and cheer, but it was evident that 
 he was suffering all the time. 
 
 Soon after that memorable Sunday evening, Jan- 
 uary 17, 1904, he rapidly failed. His pain became 
 constant and he was removed with great difficulty 
 to London. There, on Sunday morning, February 
 7, he passed away soon after saying to his nurse, 
 ^'If I am asleep in the morning, do not wake me." 
 Loug after the end had come a wonderful smile still 
 lingered on his face. 
 
 The letters of Forbes Eobiuson form one of the 
 most remarkable human documents in things spirit- 
 ual that have been produced within a generation. 
 They have been gathered into book form by his 
 brother and the proceeds are being used for the sup- 
 port of the boys' home in Cambridge which Forbes 
 Eobinson helped to start. No student interested in 
 personal work for Christ and the development of the 
 life of the spirit ought to be without this volume. 
 
 Perhaps these words to a friend may be consid- 
 ered as being addressed to every college student in 
 all the world : 
 
 *' I want you to be one of the best men that ever 
 
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FORBES ROBINSON 
 
 lived — to see God and to reveal bim to men. This 
 is the bardeu of my prayers. My whole beiug goes 
 out iu j)assionate entreaty to God that he will give 
 me what I ask. I am sure he will, for the request 
 is after his own heart. I do not pray that you may 
 ^ succeed in life ' or * get on ' in the world. I seldom 
 even pray that you may love me better, or that I 
 may see you oftener in this or aiiy other world — 
 much as I crave for this. But I ask, I implore, 
 that Christ may be formed in you, that you may be 
 made not in a likeness suggested by my imagina- 
 tion, but in the image of God — that you may realize, 
 not mine, but his ideal, however much that ideal 
 may bewilder me, however little I may fail to recog- 
 nize it when it is created. I hate the thought that 
 out of love for me you should accept my presenta- 
 tion, my feeble idea, of the Christ. I want God to 
 reveal his Son in you independently of me — to give 
 you a first-hand knowledge of him whom I am only 
 beginning to see. Sometimes more selfish thoughts 
 will intrude, but this represents the main current 
 of my prayers ; and if the ideal is to be won from 
 heaven by importunity, by ceaseless begging, I 
 think I shall get it for you." 
 
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VIII 
 
 William Whiting Borden, of Yale 
 The Man with a Million for the Kingdom 
 
Look forth and tell rae what they do 
 
 On Life's broad field. Ob, still they fight, 
 
 The False forever with the True, 
 
 The Wrong forever w ith the Right. 
 
 And still God's faithful ones, as men 
 
 Who hold a fortress strong and high, 
 
 Cry out in confidence again, 
 
 And find a comfort in the cry : 
 
 " Hammer away, ye hostile bauds. 
 
 Your hammers break, God's anvil stands." 
 
 — Samuel Valentine Cole. 
 
 *• I am God's steward of my life 
 My life is lived a day at a time 
 Therefore I am God's steward of each day." 
 
VIII 
 
 WILLIAM WHITING BORDEN, OF YALE 
 
 The Man with a Million for the Kingdom 
 
 Eev. Henry W. Frost, America's representative 
 of the China lulaud Mission, once asked a dis- 
 tinguished Englishman, *^Of all that you have 
 seen in America what has im^Dressed you most?" 
 Mr. Frost was expecting him to refer to the monu- 
 ments of American ingenuity and enterprise, but he 
 received this answer : " The sight of William Borden 
 on his knees in the Yale Hope Mission of Kew 
 Haven with his arm around a bum." 
 
 On July 9, 1913, when word was received of the 
 death of William Borden, in Cairo, Egyi^t, a Yale 
 classmate wrote to a friend : '''• The unbelievable has 
 a]3parently happened and I feel overwhelmed with 
 a sense of the smalluess of life, but there is one 
 thing I know : If ever a man was guided by God's 
 will in his life, that man was Bill. His life and his 
 firm purpose to be a missionary have been an in- 
 spiration to me for more than six years and I know 
 his influence will never depart from me." 
 
 Faced from earliest youth with the temptations 
 incident to great wealth, this young man passed 
 through the varying experiences of preparatory- 
 school, college, and seminary life unscathed by the 
 fires of impurity and unsullied by any form of selfish- 
 
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 Dess. Early iu life lie bad been impressed with the 
 saying of Mr. Moody, '*The world has yet to see 
 what God can do with a fully surrendered man.'' 
 It was Borden's desire to let God have his absolute 
 way with him, and not one deliberate act of his from 
 the time he arrived at years of discretion until his 
 death at the age of twenty-five, was foreign to the 
 attempt to live the completely surrendered and vic- 
 torious life. In 1905, before entering Yale, he 
 spent a year in foreign travel with Eev. Walter 
 0. Erdman, of Korea. On his way home, he stopped 
 in England and attended a meeting in London ad- 
 dressed by Eev. E. A. Torrey. He took careful 
 notes of the speaker's points and at that time 
 registered a determination to dedicate his life. 
 ''Much helped and surrendered all," was the brief 
 entry in his diary. 
 
 Borden was born in Chicago, November 1, 1887, 
 his parents being the late William B. and Mary 
 deGarmo Whiting Borden. The influences of boy- 
 hood tended toward a rapid development of re- 
 ligious convictions and habits of daily Bible study 
 and prayer. That the will of God might be 
 wrought out in daily living was the constant ob- 
 jective of his mother who devoted herself to the 
 development of her son's character as few mothers 
 have the opportunity or inclination to do. 
 
 The year of foreign travel produced in the lad, 
 who had just graduated from the Hill School of 
 Pottstown, Pennsylvania, a passion to devote him- 
 self to Christian work in the mission field. The re- 
 volting rites of heathenism, the degraded social 
 
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 state, the misery, cruelty, aud destitution following 
 in the wake of heathen superstition, roused the in- 
 nermost impulses of his being, and he decided, dar- 
 ing that year, to devote his energies and his wealth 
 to the missionary cause. After eight weeks on the 
 mission field he wrote to his mother that he had 
 decided to become a foreign missionary. On one 
 occasion, when asked by a quizzical friend why he 
 was wasting his life in such a cause, he replied 
 with a piercing look, ^'You have never seen hea- 
 thenism." 
 
 Borden was not of the pietistic type ; he had none 
 of the look of an ascetic. Square-shouldered, with 
 a rugged face, deep-set eyes, over-hanging eye- 
 brows, and a shock of black hair, he was an ideal 
 exponent of muscular and virile Christianity. He 
 was a devotee of the pure and wholesome pleasures 
 of life, fond of every kind of healthful recreation, 
 an enthusiastic yachtsman and mountain climber. 
 Football, baseball, tennis, and golf, had their at- 
 tractions for him. When asked what form of exer- 
 cise he enjoyed most, he answered, '^Wrestling." 
 There was not the slightest tinge of cant or sancti- 
 mony in his speech or actions. When leading in 
 prayer or addressing a religious gathering, he was 
 as simple as a child in his direct, forcible, and boy- 
 ish way. He could be as serious as anyone when 
 considering the great issues of life but at the same 
 time there was an exuberance of spirits, a marvelous 
 fund of joy that seemed to radiate from him. The 
 contagion of his Christian optimism was manifest 
 on all occasions. 
 
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 EuteriDg Yale University in 1905, he immediately 
 took rank as a scholar and athlete. He was a well- 
 known figure in the college gymnasium and on the 
 athletic field. On the river he rowed number four 
 in his class crew. His scholarship was so high that 
 he became president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
 and, in addition, received other academic honors. 
 
 Borden was not one of those who believed that in 
 order to be popular and '' a good mixer" he would 
 have to forego deep interest in religion while in col- 
 lege. He immediately went into the Christian As- 
 sociation and the Student Volunteer Baud, throwing 
 all his energies into various forms of definite Chris- 
 tian work in which he soon became an acknowl- 
 edged leader. For several years he was president 
 of the Connecticut Valley Missionary Union and 
 assisted by generous contributions of time and 
 money in the building up of the great Yale Mission 
 in Central China. He devoted much of his spare 
 time to the formation of Bible study and mission 
 classes and prayer groups. 
 
 Discerning the needs of a certain section of New 
 Haven practically unreached by the churches, he 
 gathered a little prayer group in D wight Hall for 
 the purpose of opening up the way for a gospel 
 mission for the outcast men of the city. The result 
 was the founding of the Yale Hope Mission which, 
 for a number of years, has been reaching hundreds 
 of the "down and out," and has perhaps done 
 more to convince the men of Yale of the value of 
 Christianity in individual regeneration than any 
 other influence outside the campus. The Yale Hope 
 
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 Mission is perhaps the greatest earthly monument 
 to Bill Borden's faith in men and in God. At the 
 memorial service held in New Haven, manj^ re- 
 deemed men from the mission testified to Borden's 
 wonderful personal help in bringing them to a 
 knowledge of Jesus Christ. 
 
 During vacations Borden took sufficient time for 
 the recruiting of his physical powers but his heart 
 was in the work of saving men, and, on some of the 
 hottest days in midsummer, he could be found 
 working with the men of the National Bible In- 
 stitute, of New York City, preaching to the throngs 
 in the city streets, and dealing personally with those 
 who were thus reached. 
 
 William Borden denied himself many personal 
 indulgences in order that he might keep in line with 
 the simplicities of the Christ life. He refused to be 
 elected to positions in fraternities, clubs, and class 
 organizations, for the sake of devoting himself more 
 largely to Christian work. With a si)lendid for- 
 tune at his command he never made a show of his 
 wealth but in a thousand quiet ways used his money 
 for the upbuilding of the Kingdom. He recognized 
 his stewardship by keeping careful accounts of all 
 his expenditures. He lived on a moderate allow- 
 ance in college and his large gifts were made pos- 
 sible by his economy. A missionary in his own 
 name, he consecrated all that he had to God. He 
 did not feel that if he gave one tenth he had a right 
 to use the rest as he pleased. Ten tenths were the 
 Lord's and he held every cent as a trust. This con- 
 strained him to give practically all his income and 
 
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 sometimes part of his priucipal. Ad extra dividend 
 of two thousand dollars he distributed to various 
 charities, keeping nothing for himself. 
 
 A munificent giver, he never allowed anyone to 
 feel that he was conferring a favor upon the 
 recipient. The spirit of patronage was farthest 
 from his thought. He was a director of a number 
 of Christian enterprises and sat on the Boards of 
 Management as the youngest of the directors. He 
 joined in discussions freely but without appearance 
 of self-conceit. What he had to say was thought 
 out carefully and his judgments were broad and 
 sane. 
 
 Of course it was to be expected that Borden 
 would be a leader in the student activities of the 
 theological seminary which he entered in the fall of 
 1909. Princeton soon felt the force of his strong 
 personality. His mother moved to Princeton and 
 opened a spacious home where the most generous 
 hospitality was extended to the professors and 
 students of the institution. The first year of 
 Borden's life at Princeton he was made a delegate to 
 the World's Missionary Conference at Edinburgh, 
 representing the China Inland Mission. It was in 
 Princeton that he entered into closer missionary 
 relations, visiting schools and colleges and extend- 
 ing his influence throughout the churches. 
 
 About this time he became a member of the 
 American Committee of the Nile Press of Cairo and 
 came into contact with the opportunities of the work 
 in Egypt. After his graduation in 1912 he was 
 engaged in evangelistic work in New York City, 
 
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 preaching upon the streets and cloiug office work in 
 connection with the National Bible Institute. In 
 the fall he was ordained to the gospel ministry in 
 the Moody Church, Chicago, where he was a mem- 
 ber, and for three months thereafter traveled as a 
 representative of the Student Volunteer Movement, 
 
 His deepest sympathies went out to those por- 
 tions of the non-Christian world which were prac- 
 tically unreached by any of the mission forces. 
 He saw ten million Chinese Moslems for whom no 
 provision had been made in the allotment of mis- 
 sionary responsibility among the missionary so- 
 cieties. He therefore determined to apply for serv- 
 ice under the China Inland Mission and was 
 assigned to work in Kau-su in western China. In 
 December he sailed for Cairo in order to perfect 
 himself in Arabic and study the Moslem literature. 
 For three months he wrought and studied, dis- 
 tributing thousands of tracts among the Moslems 
 around Cairo and assisting with his money in the 
 better equipment of the Nile Mission Press. Dur- 
 ing the three months of his stay in Cairo he per- 
 sonally superintended a house-to-house canvass with 
 Christian literature. 
 
 Suddenly he was attacked by spinal meningitis 
 and died April 9, 1913. His body was laid to rest 
 in the American Mission Cemetery at Cairo. 
 
 Among the many great bequests left under his 
 carefully drawn will was a quarter of a million dol- 
 lars to the China Inland Mission. This fund will 
 perpetuate the memory of his brief but wonder- 
 ful career but will not make up for the loss of so 
 
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 vital a personality. The reinembrauce of his life, 
 however, as that of a burolDg and shiuing light, 
 will be an iuspiration to mauy a life and will bring 
 scores to an espousal of the missionary cause. 
 
 It was not William Borden's money that gave him 
 standing. His simple and consecrated life, unspoiled 
 by wealth, was a miracle in itself, and had William 
 Borden been a poor boy God's way with him would 
 have been as wonderful. The Church needs con- 
 secrated money, but more than this it needs conse- 
 crated men and women who live the life of Jesus as 
 William Borden lived it. 
 
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IX 
 
 Ion Keith Falconer, of Cambridge 
 A Burning and a Shining Light 
 
Christ has his soldiers now. Though years have rolled 
 
 Away, the warriors of the cross are strong 
 
 To fight his battles, as the saints of old, 
 
 Against oppression, tyranny, and wrong. 
 
 And still amid the conflict, they can trace 
 
 The Saviour's influence. Not the Holy Grail 
 
 Which once as his remembrance was adored, 
 
 But Christ himself is with them. For a veil 
 
 Is lifted from their eyes, and face to face 
 
 They meet the presence of the risen Lord. 
 
 — W. H. Leathern. 
 
 Give thanks for heroes that have stirred 
 Earth with the wonder of a word. 
 But all thanksgiving for the breed 
 Who have bent destiny with deed — 
 Souls of the high heroic birth, 
 Souls sent to poise the shaken earth. 
 And then called back to God again 
 To make heaven possible for men. 
 
 — Edwin Markham. 
 
IX 
 
 ION KEITH FALCONER, OF CAMBRIDGE 
 A Burning and a Shini7ig Light 
 
 Ion Keith Falconer, ''son of a belted Earl," a 
 member of the privileged class, with wealth, noble 
 ancestors, and generations of culture behind him, 
 was, according to the standards of the world, des- 
 tined to a life of ease and luxurious indolence. In- 
 stead of yielding, he turned his back upon every- 
 thing that money and position could purchase for 
 self. 
 
 The third son of the Earl of Kintore, he was born 
 in Edinburgh, July 5, 1856. As a boy, he was a 
 devotee of outdoor sports. At the age of nineteen, 
 he stood six feet three in his stockings and was an 
 astonishing sight on one of the old-fashioned high 
 bicycles, a monster wheel seven feet in diameter. 
 At twenty years of age, he was president of the 
 London Bicycle Club, winning against Oxford two 
 new world's amateur records, the two-mile and the 
 ten-mile races. At twenty-two, he was the cham- 
 pion racer of Great Britain, defeating John Keen, 
 the world's professional champion, in a five-mile 
 race. His greatest race was for the amateur fifty- 
 mile championship, which he won in two hours, 
 forty-three minutes, and fifty-eight and three-fifth 
 seconds, breaking all previous records by seven 
 
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 minutes. Probably the greatest feat ever pev- 
 formed ou a liigh-wlieel bicycle was his riding 
 one hundred and fifty miles, from Cambridge to 
 Bournemouth, in one day. 
 
 In thirteen days he rode from the northeastern 
 peninsula of Scotland to the southwestern point of 
 England. He was the first man to ride from end 
 to end of the island, and his progress was marked 
 by a series of little red flags on a large map in the 
 Harrow School, of which he was a graduate and its 
 greatest hero. 
 
 With his splendid intellect, his remarkable pow- 
 ers of concentration, and his talent for hard plug- 
 ging, he was able to master anything to which he 
 set his mind. One of his hobbies was shorthand, 
 which he learned while at Harrow, without the aid 
 of a teacher. For years he kept up a correspond- 
 ence with Isaac Pitman, the inventor of one of 
 the methods of stenography. All of these letters 
 were in shorthand. When twenty-eight years of 
 age he was asked to write the article on shorthand 
 for the ^'Encyclopedia Britannica." This article 
 is still regarded as standard. 
 
 To his other accomplishments he added great 
 linguistic achievements. His knowledge of Hebrew 
 was remarkable. He enjoyed writing post cards to 
 his professor in this language, translating ''Lead, 
 Kindly Light," as a recreation. At the close of his 
 course, the highest honor in the gift of Cambridge 
 University in Hebrew was conferred upon him. 
 He was also an authority on the Septuagint, the 
 oldest Greek translation of the Old Testament, and 
 
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 he enjoyed the exercise of cleariug up difficult 
 points. " Seud me," he wrote to a frieud, "some 
 Septuagint nuts to crack." While at Cambridge 
 he took uj) the study of Arabic, with no j)ariicuhir 
 objective, except that he liked hard languages. 
 After his final examinations at Cambridge, his 
 whole attention was turned to Arabic and he took a 
 special course at Leipzig in order to perfect himself. 
 
 As a boy, Keith Falconer felt the stirrings of 
 missionary zeal. At seventeen years of age, he was 
 given by his friend, Mr. F. N. Charrington, a book 
 called "Following Fully." In a letter to his home 
 people the boy said : " It is about a man who works 
 among the cholera people in London so hard that 
 he at last succumbs and dies. But every page is 
 full of Jesus Christ, so that I like it ... I 
 must go and do the same soon : how, I don't know." 
 
 He entered heartily into evangelistic work while 
 yet in Cambridge, and was associated with Mr. 
 Charrington at Barnwell and Mile End Road. Here 
 he wrought earnestly, reaching hundreds of poor 
 and outcast. It was here that he caught the vision 
 of world need. In a letter dated June 12, 1881, he 
 wrote : 
 
 "It is overwhelming to think of the vastness of 
 the harvest field when compared with the indolence, 
 indifference, and unwillingness on the part of most 
 so-called Christians, to become, even in a moderate 
 degree, laborers in the same. I take the rebuke to 
 myself. ... To enjoy the blessings and happi- 
 ness God gives, and never to stretch out a helping 
 hand to the poor and the wicked, is a most horrible 
 
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 tbiDg. When we come to die, it will be awful for 
 us, if we have to look back ou a life speot purely 
 on self, but, believe me, if we are to speud our life 
 otherwise, we must make up our minds to be thought 
 'odd' and 'eccentric' and 'unsocial,' and to be 
 sneered at and avoided. . . . The usual center 
 is self, the proper center is God. If, therefore, one 
 lives for God, one is out of center or eccentric, with 
 regard to the people who do not." 
 
 It was shortly after this that he met General 
 (Chinese) Gordon who offered him various posi- 
 tions, such as that of attache to Lord Dufferin, then 
 Minister to Turkey, or Secretary of Legation at 
 St. Petersburg. General Gordon was undoubtedly 
 testing the spirit of Falconer, for he added, "If 
 you will not, then come to me in Syria to the Her- 
 mitage. ' ' 
 
 Keith Falconer had attracted the attention of 
 Oriental scholars and was consequentlj^ in a jiosi- 
 tion to secure a post of dignity and honor in the 
 intellectual world. At twenty-nine he was elected 
 professor of Arabic at Cambridge, to succeed Eob- 
 ertson Smith. He had spent a few months in Egypt 
 and the lure of the desert was in his blood. The 
 study of Arabic was engrossing his thought. He 
 wrote, "I expect to peg away at the Arabic dic- 
 tionary till my last day." 
 
 His marriage to Miss Gwendolen Bevan, in March, 
 1884, was followed by a journey to Italy. The 
 Falconers then settled at Cambridge where Keith 
 studied and lectured until the spring of lvS85, when 
 he definitely decided to apply for a commission to 
 
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 the Foreign Missiou Committee of the Free Church 
 of Scotland. 
 
 He had been very much imi^ressed by a paper on 
 Arabia by General Haig. It was then that his soul 
 flamed up, and in that light he saw his Saviour 
 beckoniug him to rise up and go. He had been 
 seeking the hardest task on earth and he realized 
 now that the evangelization of the Moslem was the 
 most difficult work of all. Feeling that a medical 
 course would be desirable, he entered with zeal 
 upon the study of medicine, and on completion of 
 the course, went to Arabia on a visit of investiga- 
 tion. 
 
 Within a few mouths he and his wife returned to 
 England with a full report upon the situation. In 
 May, 1886, he attended the meeting of the General 
 Assembly of the Free Church and delivered an ad- 
 dress on Mohammedanism. It stirred the Assembly 
 to the depths. He asked for a second missionary, a 
 medical man, and offered to pay his salary in addi- 
 tion to paying the expenses of himself and wife. He 
 also agreed to defray the entire cost of the erection 
 of the mission house, laying on the altar not only 
 his wealth of learning but his entire fortune. He 
 addressed large gatherings in the cities of Scotland, 
 arousing the greatest missionary enthusiasm by his 
 burning appeals. The following is an illustration 
 of his direct approach to an audience : 
 
 ''Perhaps you are content with giving annual 
 subscriptions and occasional donations and taking 
 a weekly class? Why not give yourselves, money, 
 time, and all, to the foreign field ? Our own couu- 
 
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 try is bad enough, but comparatively mauy must, 
 and do, remain to work at home, while very few are 
 in a position to go abroad. Yet how vast is the 
 foreign mission field ! ' The field is the world. ' 
 Ought you not to consider seriously what your duty 
 is? The heathen are in darkness and we are asleep. 
 Perhaps you try to think that you are meant to re- 
 main at home and induce others to go ; by sub- 
 scribing money, sitting on committees, speaking at 
 meetings, and praying for missions, you will be do- 
 ing the most you can to spread the gospel abroad. 
 Not so. By going yourself you will produce a ten- 
 fold more powerful effect. You can give and pray 
 for missions wherever you are ; you can send de- 
 scriptive letters to the missionary meetings, which 
 will be more effective than secondhand anecdotes 
 gathered by you from others, and you will help the 
 committees finely by sending them the results of 
 your experience. Then, in addition, you will have 
 added your own personal example and taken your 
 share of the real work. We have a great and im- 
 posing war office, but a very small army. You have 
 wealth snugly vested in the funds ; you are strong 
 and healthy ; you are at liberty to live where you 
 like and occupy yourself as you like. While vast 
 continents are shrouded in almost utter darkness, 
 and hundreds of millions suffer the horrors of 
 heathenism or of Islam, the burden of proof lies 
 upon you to show that the circumstances in which 
 God has placed you were meant by him to keep you 
 out of the foreign mission field. '^ 
 
 On November 8 of that year. Ion Keith Falconer 
 
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 aud his wife sailed with Dr. Cowen, the surgeon, on 
 the Austrian steamship, ''Berenice." A suitable 
 site in Aden was out of the question, and it had 
 been decided to put up a mission house in Sheikh 
 Othmau, eight miles from Aden. It had been Keith 
 Falconer's hope to gather the large numbers of cast- 
 away Somali children into an industrial orphanage 
 and bring them up in the faith of Christ, teach them 
 to work with their hands, and eventually to train up 
 a staff of native evangelists and teachers. He was 
 also influenced in the selection of this town by 
 reason of its closer contact with the Bedouin, re- 
 moved as it was from the influence of the non-Chris- 
 tian Europeans living in the larger city. The new 
 missionaries failed to secure a suitable dwelling, 
 but they obtained a large native hut which they 
 remodeled in the emergency. Work was begun on 
 the mission house, and evangelistic tours were made 
 into the interior. 
 
 On January 11, 1887, Keith Falconer wrote, 
 " Our temporary quarters are very comfortable and 
 the books look very nice." Just a month from that 
 time, Keith Falconer staggered into the hut after a 
 long horseback journey aud threw himself upon the 
 bed. The high fever, which continued for three 
 days, was the first attack. Seven others followed in 
 quick succession. In May he wrote to his mother : 
 "This rather miserable shanty in which we are 
 compelled to live is largely the cause of our fevers. 
 We expect to begin living in the new house about 
 June 1." This letter did not reach her until after 
 the cable flashed the news that her son was dead. 
 
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 Od the morniug of May 11 they came to wake 
 him. "One glance told all. He was lying on his 
 back with his eyes half open. The whole attitude 
 and expression indicated a sudden and painless end, 
 as if it had taken place during sleep, there being no 
 indication whatever of his having tried to move or 
 speak." 
 
 The work went on, though the leader fell. A 
 school for rescued slaves was begun. More mis- 
 sionaries were sent out, and the Keith Falconer 
 Mission is a living monument to his work. 
 
 Memorial services were held throughout Great 
 Britain and many calls for the strong and brave to 
 take the place of the fallen soldier were uttered. 
 These appeals were effective. Eleven divinity stu- 
 dents of the New College, Edinburgh, offered them- 
 selves that year for foreign mission work. 
 
 " The Son of God goes forth to war, 
 A kingly crown to gain ; 
 His blood-red banner streams afar ; 
 Who follows in his train ? " 
 
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Samuel John Mills, of Williams 
 Who Made a Haystack Famous 
 
" My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in 
 my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that 
 can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me to be 
 a witness for me, and I have fought His battles, who 
 now will be myrewarder. " ... So he passed over 
 and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other 
 side. — Bunyan. 
 
 I served in a great cause : 
 
 I served without heroism, without virtue, and with no 
 promises of success, with no near destination of 
 treasure ; 
 
 I was on the march, I contained that which persevered 
 me to ends unseen, no footsore night relaxed my 
 pace ; 
 
 There was only the press of invisible hands, only gray- 
 brown eyes of invitation. 
 
 Only my franchised heart to fuel the fires to suns. 
 
 — Traubel. 
 
SAMUEL JOHN MILLS, OF WILLIAMS 
 
 Who Made a Haystack Famous 
 
 Samuel John Mills, father of the still more fii- 
 mous Samuel Johu Mills, Jr., was a graduate of 
 Yale in the class of 1764. His was a race of miuis- 
 ters.. Three of his uucles were clergymeu, two of his 
 sisters married ministers, and his younger brother, 
 Edmund, followed in his footsteps. Until his death 
 in his ninetieth year, he was the first and only pas- 
 tor of the Congregational Church at Torringford, 
 Connecticut, and was known throughout the coun- 
 tryside as ''Father Mills. '^ He was a man of 
 gigantic physical proportions and dignified bear- 
 ing. Throughout the State of Connecticut he was 
 known as an eloquent and persuasive preacher. 
 
 To such a father young Mills owed his keen orig- 
 inality, analytical faculty, administrative ability, 
 power of initiative, breadth of spirit, serious pur- 
 pose, and dei)th of sympathy. Father Mills im- 
 planted in the heart of his son those impulses which 
 soon bore remarkable fruitage. When the son an- 
 nounced to his father his decision to become a mis- 
 sionary the latter asked in surprise, ''Why, my 
 son, where did you learn to be a missionary'?" "I 
 learned it," replied the boy, "of my father." 
 
 The psychology of young Mills's religious devel- 
 
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 opment is an interesting study. Notliiug was 
 known in those dajs of the natural methods of 
 Christian nurture, and it was supposed that every 
 life must pass through a soul-racking jjeriod of spir- 
 itual agony with strong crying and conviction of 
 sin. Mills's nature was sensitive and impression- 
 able, and when in 1798 the religious interest among 
 the young people of Torringford was deeply stirred, 
 he suffered keenly in spirit, but was allowed to be- 
 lieve that the divine favor had passed him by. 
 While other members of the family were rejoicing 
 in new-found peace poor Samuel remained in the 
 darkness of spiritual anguish. 
 
 It appears that this mood passed away after he 
 had taken charge of a farm left him by a relative. 
 He became one of the master spirits in the country 
 sports of the young people and was ambitious and 
 light-hearted. Tradition asserts that at a party 
 around a farmhouse fireplace one evening a com- 
 pany of young people were cracking nuts and eat- 
 ing apples, when some one decided to tease Samuel, 
 and suggested that the company sing, 
 
 " Hark from the tombs a doleful sound." 
 
 This threw young Mills into a state of melancholy 
 which could not be shaken off. The account of his 
 leaving home for Morris Academy, in the autumn 
 of 1801, when he told his mother that he wished he 
 had never been born, is familiar to students of his 
 life. ''I have seen to the very bottom of hell," he 
 assured her. 
 
 His heavy-heartedness again passed away and he 
 
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 seems to have had a vision of the glory of God and 
 realizations of his choice as one of the elect. *' Oh, 
 glorious Sovereignty," he cried as the light broke 
 upon his soul. Three mouths later he voiced the 
 belief that he was saved, although he was often 
 troubled in after life over the imperfect evidences of 
 his acceptance. In his nineteenth year he quaintly 
 told his father that he '^ could not conceive of any 
 course in which to pass the rest of his days that 
 would prove so pleasant as to communicate the gos- 
 pel of salvation to the poor heathen." One of his 
 closest friends declares that, "like Elisha, the Spirit 
 of tlie Lord fell upon Samuel Mills while he was in 
 the field at the plough," and that if that field could 
 be located it would be appropriate to cut this in- 
 scription on one of the rough bowlders, "The Birth- 
 place of American Foreign Missions. " 
 
 Not alone to his father must we look for those in- 
 fluences leading him to consecrate his life to the 
 program of Christ for a redeemed world. He was 
 always close to his mother in all his hopes and 
 aspirations, bringing her his difficulties and doubts, 
 and learning from her lips the great missionary 
 stories of Eliot, Brainerd, and other heroes of the 
 cross. Once he overheard her say, " I have conse- 
 crated this child to the service of God as a mission- 
 ary. " After he announced his decision to go to the 
 foreign field his mother took his letter to a friend 
 and with tears streaming down her cheeks ex- 
 claimed, " Little did I know when I dedicated this 
 child to God what it was going to cost and where- 
 unto it would end." 
 
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 CoDtrary to precedent in the Mills family, Samuel 
 entered Williams College rather than Yale the Alma 
 Mater of many of his kinsfolk. Both colleges suf- 
 fered from the destructive influences at work in the 
 intellectual, moral, and religious life of Europe and 
 America. The skepticism and moral bankruptcy 
 of the French Kevolution had eaten into the life 
 of these institutions. Atheistic clubs flourished. 
 Students who became interested in Christianity 
 were ridiculed and abused. Williams was at lowest 
 ebb spiritually. Mnety-three men were graduated 
 in the first six classes and there had been only seven 
 professing Christians in them all. In three of the 
 classes not a single Christian could be found. 
 
 But in 1798 and 1799 God's Spirit wrought 
 mightily throughout New England and revivals 
 spread through churches and colleges. In the 
 spring of 1801 four young men who had been 
 recently converted entered Williams. They held 
 prayer meetings and did all in their power to deepen 
 the religious life of the college. The spiritual 
 awakening of 1805 and 1806 was the result. 
 
 Young Mills entered Williams as a freshman 
 in April, 1806, at the age of twenty-three. His ap- 
 pearance was not prepossessing. His voice was 
 husky, his eye dull, and his complexion sallow. 
 He did not seem to have that magnetic personality 
 which enhances so largely the possibilities of 
 leadership. But he did possess the dynamic of an 
 inner enthusiasm and he threw himself with the ut- 
 most joy and fervor into the religious life of the in- 
 stitution. The practice of religion in college in 
 
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 those days was a militant oue. A studeut must 
 ueeds fight for his faith. One of Mills's associates, 
 Algeruoii S. Bailey, was so aggressive iu his efforts 
 to reach the unconverted that the students nearly 
 mobbed him. Mills's own experience was uot 
 pleasant. ''I hope," he wrote in his diary, under 
 date of June 25, 1806, '^ I shall have an opportunity 
 to deliver an address to the throne of grace to-day 
 without molestation. ' ' 
 
 Prayer meetings were the marked feature of the 
 revival and were continued throughout the summer 
 of 1806. On Wednesday afternoons certain students 
 gathered for prayer under a clump of willow trees 
 south of the West College. On Saturday afternoons 
 these students met in a thick grove of maples iu 
 Sloan's Meadow north of the college buildings. 
 One hot day in August two sophomores and three 
 freshmen met in the maple grove. Their names 
 were Samuel J. Mills, James Eichards, Francis L. 
 Bobbins, Harvey Loomis, and Byram Green. For 
 a while they held their meeting under the maples. 
 But a storm threatened in the west and they retired 
 amidst the flashing of the lightning to a neighbor- 
 ing haystack. Sheltered thus from the storm they 
 continued their devotions and the conversation 
 turned on the pitiful condition of the peoples of 
 Asia, which had been brought to their attention 
 through the regular course in geography. The East 
 India Company had been opening up this continent 
 and much had been read in letters and in the public 
 prints concerning the frightful degradation, poverty, 
 and suffering in these lands of darkness. Then 
 
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 came the great moment, the luminous hour from 
 which has radiated such powerful influences into 
 ev^ery corner of the world. 
 
 A mission band of boys was once questioned as to 
 their knowledge of Samuel J. Mills. The leader 
 asked, "Where was he born?" "Under a hay- 
 stack," replied the boy. Some one has pertinently 
 remarked that it was not Mills but the American 
 Board of Foreign Missions that was born under that 
 haystack. But a greater enterprise than any one 
 mission board came into being that rainy afternoon 
 — the whole enterprise of American Foreign Mis- 
 sions, the real beginning of vital American Chris- 
 tianity. 
 
 There was one "conscientious objector" in that 
 company. Mills proposed sending the gospel to 
 the heathen and as he waxed enthusiastic he said, 
 "We can do it if we will." One of the sophomores 
 declared that the time was not ripe, that the mis- 
 sionaries would be murdered, that a new crusade 
 must be inaugurated before the gospel could be sent 
 to such miserable creatures as Turks and Arabs. 
 Then Mills asked that they might all kneel in 
 prayer, and, one by one, the young Christians of- 
 fered up fervent appeals to God for the non-Chris- 
 tian world. Mills cried, "Oh, God, strike down 
 the arm with the red artillery of heaven that shall 
 be raised against the herald of the cross ! " 
 
 These outdoor prayer meetings were kept up un- 
 til the cold weather when an old lady invited the 
 boys to come to her kitchen for their gatherings. 
 With the same zest that college students to day dis- 
 
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 CUSS wiuuing teiims Mills imd his colleagues were 
 coustautly couferriug on the question of taking the 
 gospel to foreign lauds. 
 
 Mills's devotion to religious work was so keen 
 that his scholarship suffered, and he was deeply dis- 
 ai^poioted when in 1809 he failed to receive an 
 assignment for graduation. The conscientious ob- 
 jector to missions delivered an oration on "The 
 Disadvantages of Continuing Too Long on the 
 Stage," while poor Mills passed from the room and 
 was heard to say in a low voice, "Well, if God be 
 for me it makes no matter who is against me." 
 
 The "Society of Brethren," organized in the 
 northwest room of the lower story of "Old East," 
 is too well known to require details in this brief 
 sketch. Its object, according to its constitution, was 
 "to effect in the persons of its members a mission 
 or missions to the heathen," and each member was 
 expected to "hold himself in readiness to go on a 
 mission when and where duty may call." The 
 "Brethren" entered zealously into plans for arous- 
 ing missionary interest. They published mission- 
 ary sermons, they visited ministers, sought their 
 cooperation, and, through public addresses and pri- 
 vate conversations, endeavored to develop a sense 
 of responsibility. Mills was especially successful in 
 enlisting men of commanding influence. Other col- 
 leges were visited and societies similar to the Society 
 of Brethren were formed. Efforts were made to in- 
 terest Dartmouth and Union colleges but without 
 success. During his junior year Mills made a trip 
 to Yale and there formed a close friendship with 
 
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 Asaliel Neltleton, who afterwards became the great 
 evaugelist. 
 
 The movement started by Mills and his friends at 
 the haystack was an enterprise of promotion. It 
 was not organized to send missionaries but to arouse 
 among ministers, churches, and Christians generally, 
 a missionar^^ interest. It was a project started first 
 of all by college men rather than by those Christian 
 leaders in the churches who would naturally be 
 supposed to begin such a work. President Mark 
 Hopkins wrote :" That such a movement should 
 have originated with the undergraduates of a college 
 at a time when there was so much in the state of the 
 world to excite the youthful imagination and fire 
 ambition and distract the mind, when Eurox^e was 
 quaking under the tread of the man of destiny, and 
 this country was fearfully excited by political divi- 
 sions, can only be accounted for by the special 
 agency of the Spirit of God." 
 
 After graduation Mills went to Yale for a time, 
 earnestly desirous that the " divine ferment " should 
 permeate the college which, next to his own, was 
 dearest to his heart. He was unsuccessful in kin- 
 dling an enthusiasm but his meeting with the Ha- 
 waiian waif. Obookiah, was dramatic and provi- 
 dential. This poor foreigner was without a place 
 to eat or sleep. He had drifted across the water in 
 a sailing vessel and was sitting on the threshold of 
 one of the college buildings weeping because "no- 
 body gave him learning." Mills met him and took 
 him to his own home where his mother treated the 
 stranger as her own child and taught him the Cate- 
 
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SAMUEL JOHN MILLS 
 
 cliism. It was through Obookiah's love for his 
 hoiuelaud and his desire that it should be evangel- 
 ized that the missionaries, Bingham and Thurston, 
 were sent to the Sandwich Islands and the way was 
 wonderfully opened for them to bring the gospel to 
 the islanders. As Mills's biographer, T. C. Kich- 
 ards, says, ''The cry of the Hawaiian waif at the 
 door of Yale College had been answered." 
 
 It was Samuel J. Mills who made possible the 
 answering of that cry. Mr. Richards traces the line 
 of spiritual descent from Mills to Booker T. Wash- 
 ington in this way: " Through his protege, Oboo- 
 kiah. Mills set in motion the forces resulting in the 
 mission to the Sandwich Islands. One of the mis- 
 sionaries sent there was the father of Samuel C. 
 Armstrong, the founder of Hampton Institute, and 
 Booker Washington was 'the most remarkable 
 product of Hampton.' " Thus Tuskeegee Institute, 
 the monument to Booker Washington's efforts for 
 the uplift of the negro, runs lines far back in history 
 to the haystack of Williams College. "What hath 
 God wrought !" 
 
 In 1813 Mills had graduated from Audover Semi- 
 nary and was engaged, with John F. Schermerhorn, 
 in a long and difficult journey through the South- 
 west in the interests of the missionary societies of 
 Connecticut and Massachusetts. In the Connecticut 
 Evangelical Magazine of July, 1813, is found an in- 
 teresting letter from ]\Iills, telling of his missionary 
 labors in Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, 
 Louisiana, and South Carolina, also a paragraph from 
 a Charleston paper dated June 3, 1813, in which is 
 
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 this statement: "Since leaving New Orleaus Mr. 
 Mills has suffered much hardship and fatigue. On 
 account of disturbances near the coast he was obliged 
 to take a circuit of nearly three hundred miles 
 through the wilderness, exposed to numerous dan- 
 gers and severe privations. He is now on his return 
 to New England with much interesting information 
 for the missionary societies and much experience 
 of the divine goodness. During his tour Mr. Mills 
 has distributed seven hundred Bibles among the 
 destitute." 
 
 After a year's absence in which he traveled nearly 
 three thousand miles and endured unnumbered 
 hardships, Mr. Mills reached his home in Torriug- 
 ford. The following year New England listened to 
 his impassioned appeals that the great lands of the 
 West and the Southwest might be possessed for 
 Christ. After a second home missionary journey he 
 issued a fifty -page booklet entitled, "A Correct View 
 of That Part of the United States Which Lies West of 
 the Alleghany Mountains with Respect to Eeligion 
 and Morals." It was a revelation to the East of 
 the needs and opportunities of a practically un- 
 known territory. He and his colleague went 
 through the East delivering addresses and sound- 
 ing a bugle call to home missionary effort. The 
 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 
 thereui)on organized the Board of Home Missions 
 in 1816. It was Mills and his companions who 
 sowed the seed of home missions, calling the atten- 
 tion of the churches and the missionary societies to 
 the magnificent opportunities before them. "The 
 
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 Protestant invasiou and occupation of the Louisiana 
 Purchase was largely due to Samuel J. Mills. He 
 therefore deserves the title ' Home Missionary States- 
 man.' '' 
 
 At the end of his second home missionary journey 
 he announced that the immediate need of the new 
 country was seventy-six thousand Bibles, persuaded 
 friends to write essays upon the need of furnishing 
 Bibles to destitute communities, and as the result the 
 smaller Bible societies of the East met in New York 
 City on May 8, 1816, and organized The American 
 Bible Society. Historians are now agreed that the 
 influence of Samuel J. Mills was foremost in bring- 
 ing about the organization of this national society. 
 
 Think of this young man, only thirty-three years of 
 age, becoming a national figure in the Christian life 
 of America ! According to Lyman Beecher it was 
 Mills's ^'profound wisdom, indefatigable industrj^, 
 and unparalleled executive power that made him 
 the primary agent in this movement." 
 
 In June, 1815, Mills and five other candidates 
 were ordained at Newburyport. The sermon was 
 preached by Dr. Samuel Worcester, of Salem. At 
 the close of the fervent missionary appeal entitled 
 '^ Paul on Mars Hill, Or, A Christian Survey of the 
 Pagan World," the Lord's Supper was administered 
 and the six young missionaries were given the bene- 
 dictions of God's people. 
 
 On the twenty-third of October all except Mills 
 sailed for Ceylon. For two years he was traveling 
 through the cities of the East conferi'ing with prom- 
 inent men concerning his missionary projects. For 
 
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 some time Mills was the guest of Dr. E. D. Griffen, 
 former president of Bowdoin, who was then living 
 at Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Griffen declared 
 afterwards ; ^^ I have been in positions to know 
 that from the councils formed in that secret con- 
 clave (referring to Mills and his associates at Will- 
 iams), or from the mind of Mills himself, arose 
 the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 
 Missions, The American Bible Society, the United 
 Foreign Missionary Society, The African School 
 under the care of the Synod of New Jersey, besides 
 all the impetus given to domestic missions and the 
 Colonization Society and to the general cause of 
 benevolence in both hemispheres." 
 
 Mills was incessantly at work stimulating activity 
 along various lines, suggesting to men who were 
 making history, the fertile, germinal thoughts that 
 were to blossom in future ages and in distant lands. 
 He made what in our day would be called a survey 
 of conditions in New York City, calling from house 
 to house. Of fifty families whom he visited one day 
 in Orange Street, not one third were able to read a 
 Bible if they had one. He told of how a married 
 woman of thirty, on being asked whether she had 
 a Bible in the house, exclaimed in surprise: "A 
 Bible ! What do you do with a Bible ? " And tliis 
 was in the heart of New York in 1816 ! 
 
 The needs of sailors touched his heart, and he 
 consulted with men who in the following year or- 
 ganized a Marine Bible Society. 
 
 About this time a plan for a mission to South 
 America developed in his mind. He felt that the 
 
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 Presbyterian Church was not doing her share in 
 foreign missions. She had no Foreign Mission 
 Board of her own and he was determined that this 
 Cliurch with her great resources should be set at 
 work for foreign missions. In Philadelphia the 
 General Assembly of 1818 was addressed by Mills 
 and approved the plan of forming a foreign mis- 
 sionary society. Writing home to his father con- 
 cerning this good news Mills said, with character- 
 istic modesty : " I would not intimate that I have 
 been the prime mover in this business. If I have 
 been permitted with others to aid the object, it is 
 enough." 
 
 The busy brain and heart of this man soon be- 
 came interested in the condition of the slaves of 
 the South. He interested himself in the formation 
 of the Colonization Society, the object of which was 
 to send negroes from America to Africa for the 
 purpose of ameliorating their condition. Writing 
 to his father he said, "I never engaged in an ob- 
 ject which had laid me under so vast a responsi- 
 bility." Money was borrowed through generous 
 friends to pay the expenses of the expedition, and 
 Mills, with his colleague, Ebenezer Burgess, pre- 
 pared to visit England for information and assist- 
 ance, and go from there to Africa. In crossing they 
 encountered a severe storm in the English Channel 
 which nearly wrecked the vessel. The captain had 
 given up all for lost. A boat was launched which 
 was quickly overturned, and death for all seemed 
 inevitable. Burgess and Mills stood calm and col- 
 lected while the ship's company crowded around 
 
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 them for a prayer service. Suddeuly a stroDg cur- 
 rent caught their ship, carried it over the reef into 
 deep water, and to safety. 
 
 After meeting certain persons in England who 
 lent them every assistance, the missionaries pro- 
 ceeded to Africa and entered into many '' palavers " 
 with native kings and princes. Mills's fiery spirit 
 was compelled to exercise great control, and he 
 wrote, '' Patience may almost have her perfect work 
 on the dispositions and hearts of those who wait on 
 men so slothful in business." Weeks passed and he 
 then embarked for the United States by way of 
 England leaving the fever-laden air of the west coast 
 rivers for latitudes more stimulating. But the seeds 
 of death had already been sown in the constitution 
 of this missionary hero and tuberculosis suddenly 
 declared itself. The disease developed rapidly and 
 his fellow voyagers realized with a shock that his 
 end was approaching. 
 
 Before the voyage was half finished on June 15, 
 1818, without sigh or moan, he calmly folded his 
 hands as if in prayer and entered into the *'rest 
 that remains for the people of God.'' 
 
 :^ ^ ^ :^ ^ :^ 
 
 It is thirty- nine years later. A great throng is 
 standing in the maple grove near the site of the 
 old haystack. A ten-acre plot has been purchased, 
 dedicated to the memory of the founders of Amer- 
 ican missions, and named '' Mission Park." On 
 commencement day, as the rising sun mounts above 
 the encircling hills, gilding the leaves of the maples 
 in the valley of the Hoosac, the first of the annual 
 
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SAMUEL JOHN MILLS 
 
 missionary services is held on that sacred spot. 
 This sunrise meeting is still a feature of the com- 
 mencements at Williams College. 
 
 To that hallowed ground also came student vis- 
 itors from every country of the globe. In 1897 the 
 World's Christian Student Federation held its 
 second annual meeting around the granite shaft 
 which now commemorates the haystack prayer 
 meeting. Thirteen nations and five continents 
 were represented. After the story of the first meet- 
 ing had been graphically recited these men of many 
 nationalities made the mountains ring with their 
 shouts of '^ We can do it if we will ! " Germans 
 and French, Hollanders and Swiss, Chinese and 
 Japanese, forgot their differences, and each in his 
 native tongue sang out that militant sentiment, 
 *' We can do it if we will ! " 
 
 Though his body lies in an unmarked grave 
 within the depths of the restless sea, the soul of 
 Mills is living on in the work to which he had 
 dedicated his life. We, who are called to continue 
 that work, can hear him say, *' Though you and I 
 are very little beings, we must not rest satisfied 
 until our influence is felt in the remotest corner of 
 this ruined world." 
 
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XI 
 
 Elijah Kellogg, of Bowdoin 
 The College Man Who Was a Boy at Eighty 
 
There is do age : the swiftly passing hour 
 That measures out our days of pilgrimage 
 Aud breaks the heart of every summer flower, 
 Shall fiud again the child's soul in the sage. 
 
 There is no age, for youth is the divine ; 
 And the white radiance of the timeless soul 
 Bums like a silver lamp in that dark shrine 
 That is the tired pilgrim's ultimate goal. 
 
 — Eva Gore-Booth. 
 
XI 
 
 ELIJAH KELLOGG, OF BOWDOIN 
 
 The College Man Who Was a Boy at Eighty 
 
 One Suuday afteriioou in 1900 a little, wizened, 
 brouzed, old man with a vivid, mobile face and eyes 
 like live coals, stood before the students of Bowdoiu 
 College. The president, William De Witt Hyde, 
 in presenting him, said : ''It was a sad day for the 
 children of Israel when there arose a king in Egypt 
 that knew not Joseph. It will be a sad day for 
 Bowdoin College when there arises a generation of 
 students who know not Elijah Kellogg." 
 
 Elijah Kellogg lived his entire life under the 
 shadow of Bowdoin. He never held a college of- 
 fice, he received no material benefits from the in- 
 stitution, but from the day he came to Brunswick 
 in the fall of 1836 and presented himself, as he 
 put it, "a sedate and diffident youth, between the 
 two maple trees, which like friendship and mis- 
 fortune flung their shadows over tlie steps of Mas- 
 sachusetts Hall, and sued for admission to Bowdoin 
 College," to that winter's day in 1901 when his 
 body was laid to rest, there was not one moment 
 when Bowdoin was not lavishing its respect and 
 affection upon the little tense figure now known as 
 Bowdoin' s greatest campus hero. 
 
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 Elijali Kellogg's father was Eev. Elijah Kellogg, 
 pastor of the Second CoDgregational Church of Port- 
 land, Maine. His parents had said, " We must have 
 a prophet in the family," and the name of Elijah 
 befitted both father and son. On the outbreak of 
 the Ee volution, Elijah Kellogg, Sr., buckled on his 
 beh, snatched up his gun and x^owder horn, and 
 marched with the patriots to Bunker Hill. Behind 
 him in the line of descent were men who had borne 
 the banner of the cross with Richard the Lion- 
 Hearted and had fought in the Wars oftheEoses 
 for civil and religious rights. 
 
 The young Elijah had the hot blood of patriots 
 running in his veins. No wonder he could tell 
 thrilling stories of the men whose doughty exploits 
 have illuminated the pages of history. Kellogg was 
 a hero worshiper and when he grew up, it was little 
 wonder that he could write those declamations 
 familiar to every schoolboy, ^'Spartacus to the 
 Gladiators," "Virgiuius to the Eomau Army," 
 and other classical speeches. There was something 
 elemental about Elijah Kellogg, a quality that might 
 well be emulated by the young men of to-day. His 
 ideal hero was not a brawny habitue of gymnasiums 
 or a champion of the gridiron. He admired the 
 horny-handed, big-hearted pioneer who fought his 
 way through almost impenetrable obstacles, rising 
 superior to all difficulties and mastering all situa- 
 tions. As he often phrased it, he liked ''the man 
 who never got whipped, the white man who could 
 outwit an Indian, or outhug a bear, or outrun a 
 pack of wolves, the man who could fell a forest and 
 
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ELIJAH KELLOGG 
 
 clear a farm and sow his corn with hostile savages 
 behind every tree." He liked also the sailor who 
 could outi-ide the fiercest storm and bring his vessel 
 into port rudderless and with sails whipped to rib- 
 bons, water- logged but victorious. 
 
 An amusing story might be told of a certain Sun- 
 day morning. Young Elijah had a great faculty 
 for getting into serious scrapes and escaping from 
 them with great facility. On this particular Sun- 
 day he went swimming, and the fascination of the 
 water held him until after service. '' Where have 
 you been 1 ' ' asked his irate father. Without hesi- 
 tation the boy auswered that he had been to the 
 Methodist meeting. He was a little tired of his 
 father's sermons and wanted a change. ^'Give me 
 the text." The boy was ready with one. -'The 
 points of the sermon." The boy started in invent- 
 ing sermonic material. '' Elijah, stop right there. 
 Now I know you are lying. No Methodist preacher 
 ever talked like that. That's Calvinism. You never 
 went to that church. " 
 
 Before Elijah was thirteen the call of the sea cast 
 its spell upon him and he became a sailor for sev- 
 eral years, knocking about the world on the wings 
 of the wind. After returning from his buffetings 
 with old ocean, where he had learned stern lessons 
 of obedience and industry, he was indentured to a 
 farmer and became proficient in the use of the hoe, 
 the scythe, the ax, and the plow. 
 
 It was then that the stirrings of a new life were 
 felt within him and he longed for an education. 
 This was good news to his father and there was a 
 
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 day of ivjoiciDg iu the home when youDg Elijah en- 
 tered Gorham Academj^ This was one of the turn- 
 ing poiuts in his life, the awakening within him to 
 a consciousness of his intellectual powers. Shortly 
 after entering the academy he asked himself this 
 question, '^Is a life of mere scholarship the highest 
 and best of which I am capable? " Then began a 
 period of inner struggle in which young Kellogg 
 began to realize that it was not enough for him to 
 possess mental powers sharpened to a keen edge, as 
 he used to sharpen his ax and his scythe. He saw 
 that intellectual power should have a great objec- 
 tive, should be consecrated to a noble cause. 
 
 The second turning point in his life was when he 
 made the choice of Christ as his life companion. 
 Immediately he began to inquire how he could 
 exercise his spiritual life. He started a Sunday 
 school several miles from Gorham, in a locality 
 given over to debauchery and vice of various forms. 
 Elijah became convinced that this was the place 
 where God's grace was needed more than any other 
 in the countryside. He looked about for some one 
 to help him establish the school, appealing to his 
 friend, George L. Prentice, who became afterwards 
 an honored professor in Union Theological Seminary, 
 New York. Prentice answered: "No, Elijah, I do 
 not care to go down there. They will kill us if we 
 do." After a moment's thought he added : " I will 
 tell you what Pll do. If you go down there and 
 start a Sunday school and don't get killed, I will 
 come in later and help you." 
 
 Young Elijah made up his mind he would go 
 
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 down aloue and so he did. He gathered the vicious 
 element into the school and through his efforts the 
 entire community was transformed. To-day the 
 community is intelligent, God-fearing, and Sabbath- 
 keeping because of the efforts of Elijah Kellogg 
 three quarters of a century ago. 
 
 When young Kellogg came to college at twenty- 
 four years of age, in the fall of 1836, there were no 
 rational outlets for youthful spirits ; no gymnasiums 
 or athletic fields helped students to work off their 
 superabundant physical and nervous energy. Col- 
 lege pranks, in which the student was always sup- 
 posed to outwit the authorities of the institution and 
 "get a laugh" on president or professor, were the 
 accepted mode. 
 
 Elijah Kellogg was an adept in the invention of 
 practical jokes and various forms of mischief. Be- 
 cause of his native sense of humor and his irresist- 
 ible love of fun, in addition to his spirit of adven- 
 ture and his high courage, he was constantly 
 tempted to break the stern college discipline and 
 lead students into various questionable exploits 
 which were calculated to relieve the grind of the 
 classroom. One incident is historic. The presi- 
 dent of the college was a man of severe dignity and 
 wore a silk hat as an emblem of his high i^osition. 
 Certain students made way with it and great was 
 the glee of the boys as the president was compelled 
 to walk across the campus bareheaded. Kellogg, 
 although he was not in the original plot, offered to 
 put the hat upon the chapel spire. In the darkness 
 of night, accustomed as he was to the insecure foot- 
 
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 \ug of masts and yards, he climbed up the swinging 
 lightning rod along the high spire, and placed the 
 president's hat on the very summit where it greeted 
 the morning sun and received the hilarious salutes 
 of the students. 
 
 But beneath his light-hearted behavior and mis- 
 chievous inclinations was a brave and generous 
 heart with a burning hatred of everything false and 
 mean, and a desire to make the most of every high 
 and noble thought or act. 
 
 He was intensely loyal to his friends and enjoyed 
 the fellowship of his comrades. One who knew him 
 well speaks of him as being '^universally popular, 
 but he had his own chosen favorites, and one char- 
 acteristic of him was his strong personal affection 
 for them. His soul burned with love to those 
 whom he loved. This was one secret of his power 
 for good." 
 
 Much of young Kellogg's time had to be spent in 
 manual labor and he tells of the various ways in 
 which he managed to meet his expenses. Much of his 
 living he derived from work on neighboring farms, 
 but this did not prevent his taking a deep interest 
 in the literary activities of the college. Kellogg 
 entered into the rivalry between the two literary 
 societies, and added not a little to the reputation of 
 the Peucinean Society, where "a poem by Kellogg 
 was a very rare treat." The Bowdoin Portfolio, a 
 literary magazine, received his contributions which 
 were always in rime. His passion for the sea is 
 evidenced in some of these, as in the following 
 lines : 
 
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ELIJAH KELLOGG 
 
 O'er the thuuderiug chime of the breaking surge, 
 On the lightning's wing my pathway urge, 
 On thrones of foam right joyous ride, 
 'Mid the sullen dash of the angry tide. 
 
 Elijah Kellogg's biographer, Professor Wil mot B. 
 Mitchell, of Bowdoiu, says : '' So passed his college 
 days, iu the keeu enjoyment of generous comrade- 
 ship, iu the iustiuctive iudulgeuce of his fondness 
 for fun and frolic, iu the cheerful acceptance of the 
 burden of defraying his own expenses, in manly 
 fidelity to the appointed studies of the course, and 
 in the voluntary and congenial exercise of the 
 literary gifts with which he was endowed." 
 
 During college Kellogg gathered much material 
 for his stories and dramatic recitations. What 
 schoolboy is not familiar with the thrilling sentences 
 in his '' Spartacus to the Gladiators" : " Ye call me 
 chief, and ye do well to call him chief who, for 
 twelve long years, has met upon the arena every 
 shape of man or beast that the broad Empire of 
 Eome could furnish, and has never yet lowered his 
 arm. . . . O Rome ! Rome ! thou hast been a 
 tender nurse to me ! . . . O comrades ! warriors ! 
 Tbraciaus ! If we must die, let us die under the 
 open sky ! " 
 
 This and other recitations, such as the less famil- 
 iar *' Regul us," ''Hannibal," " Pericles," " Leon- 
 idas " and " Yirginius," were written after Mr. Kel- 
 logg had left college and was attending Andover 
 Theological Seminary. The students at Andover 
 still point out No. 20 Bartlett Hall as the room where 
 Kellogg wrote his famous "Spartacus." 
 
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 We must pass over the long years of his pastorate 
 of the old Harpswell Church, in a seaboard towu of 
 Maine ouly a few miles distant from the college, 
 where some of the best work of his life was done. 
 One trait, however, must be noted : his great love 
 for boys. He was constantly selecting boys care- 
 fully and sending them to Master Swallow's school in 
 Brunswick to fit them for college. Always he was 
 seeking their companionship and talking to them of 
 his own boyhood and college days. Many a time he 
 would gather a company of boys about him and tell 
 them of his life as a sailor. He liked to tell how 
 the frogs used to croak "K'logg, K'logg," summon- 
 ing him from his studies, and also of the time when 
 in class he solemnly assured his professor that Poly- 
 carp was one of the many daughters of Mr. Carp. 
 One of his stories was that he used to sail the waters 
 of Back Cove, Portland, in a sugar box, taking off 
 his shirt to make a sail. 
 
 He won boys by entering into their fun and work, 
 swimming, sailing, farming, and fishing with the 
 young fellows of his own parish, in order that, at 
 the proper time, he might kneel with them in the 
 boat, or by the side of a haycock in the field, for 
 committal of their lives to God. The broken-legged 
 boy on the small schooner rescued by Mr. Kellogg, 
 grew up to be a man, and years after in his pros- 
 perity, came to church and left a fifty-dollar bill in 
 the hands of the astonished little preacher. 
 
 For years Bowdoin College used to send to Pastor 
 Kello<::g certain students who, in the quaint parlance 
 of the day, had to be ''rusticated." College boys 
 
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 of this day would call it '^busted out." Mauy a 
 boy got his first glimpse of real life and his first 
 serious realization of responsibility from these 
 sequestered days in Mr. Kellogg's home. One day 
 a particularly rebellious boy, angry and resentful 
 from the discipline of the college and the stern re- 
 buke of his father, was sent to him. Within a week 
 or two the lad had been transformed into a tender 
 and repentant attitude. Some years before Mr. 
 Kellogg's death, the vice president of a large west- 
 ern railroad journeyed many miles to look into the 
 kindly face of his boyhood friend and to tell him 
 that those weeks of rare fellowship marked the 
 turning point in his career. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Kellogg accepted the invitation of 
 the Boston Seaman's Friend Society to become pas- 
 tor of the Mariners' Church and chaplain of the 
 Sailors' Home, where he accomplished a great work 
 for the men who ''go down to the sea in ships." 
 Seven hundred and twenty-five sailors confessed 
 Christ during Mr. Kellogg's ministry of eleven 
 years, and many hundreds of unrecorded lives were 
 redeemed from ways of sin. 
 
 Some years before he left the Mariners' Church, 
 Mr. Kellogg began writing stories for boys. His 
 first story was "Good Old Times" which became 
 popular with young people in the later sixties. 
 Following this came others : the Elm Island stories, 
 the Forest Glen, the Pleasant Cove, and the Whis- 
 pering Pine series, until there were twenty-nine in 
 all. These books were written with the avowed 
 purpose of creating in boys manly and generous 
 
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 qualities, giviug them a sense of sturdiness, courage, 
 aud straightforward dealing. Always there was the 
 Christian atmosphere to reckon with. We read that 
 ' ' so imbued was the author with this purpose that 
 he wrote his books, as he expressed it, ' while upon 
 his knees.' " 
 
 He emphasized constantly the value of hardship, 
 speaking of it as "a wholesome stimulant to strong 
 natures, quickening slumbering energies, compel- 
 ling effort, and by its salutary discipline reducing 
 refractory elements." He advised picking out 
 tough chunks to split and striking " right in the 
 middle of the knot." He believed that a boy should 
 learn to work with his hands as well as with his 
 wits, and that endurance, pluck, integrity, and self- 
 sacrifice were indispensable character- building ele- 
 ments. 
 
 Elijah Kellogg was more to Bowdoin after his 
 graduation than during his actual college days. 
 He spent much time at the college, feeling that his 
 visits to his Alma Mater could be considered as truly 
 pastoral as any of his work at Harpswell or Boston. 
 Says Mr. Mitchell : ''It did not take long for the 
 news to spread that Elijah Kellogg was in college ; 
 and then the hospitable room would be visited by 
 many callers, eager to greet the shy, weather-beaten 
 little man, whose heart was always warm for boys, 
 and even the mazy wrinkles of whose face seemed 
 to speak less of age than of kindness. And by the 
 evening lamp an interested circle of students forgot 
 the morrow's lessons as they listened to stories of 
 olden time, and to quaint words of counsel and com- 
 
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 iiient as tliey fell from the visitor's lips. When the 
 circle finally dissolved, and Mr. Kellogg aud his 
 entertainers were left alone, a psalm, which seemed 
 somehow to gain new meaning from his reading of 
 it, and a simple earnest prayer, brought the long 
 evening to a fitting aud memorable close.'' 
 
 When the one hundredth anniversary of the col- 
 lege was celebrated in 1894, one thousand graduates 
 sat down to the banquet in a great tent set up on 
 the campus. When Elijah Kellogg was called upon 
 to resi^ond to a toast, every graduate sprang to his 
 feet, cheering wildly for Bowdoin's Grand Old Man. 
 They tell us that "the flush of troubled happiness 
 that flitted across his bronzed and wrinkled face 
 was something long to be remembered, as was also 
 his glowing tribute of affection for the college." 
 
 Many a student standing there and cheering for 
 Mr. Kellogg remembered the old man's visit to his 
 room, where, after the stories, the jokes, and the 
 reminiscences of college life in earlier days, there 
 would be an appropriate reference to the deeper 
 things of life and a prayer in the closing moments 
 of the visit. If these informal calls were prolonged 
 far into the night, the boys would find a bed in the 
 dormitory for the man they called " the good genius 
 of the college." For many years the real dean and 
 disciplinary force of Bowdoin was Elijah Kellogg, 
 ''demonstrator of applied common sense" to col- 
 lege problems. 
 
 Elijah Kellogg died in harness March 19, 1901, 
 in the eighty-ninth year of his age. " I thank 
 God," he said in his last prayer, " for a Christian 
 
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 mother who consecrated me to CJirist and the Chris- 
 tian ministry." With a little sigh he exclaimed, 
 *' I am so thankful," and thus died the best friend 
 Bowdoin College ever knew. The members of the 
 Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, to which he belonged, 
 formed the choir at his funeral. 
 
 In one of his sermons to' Bowdoin students in 
 1889, he described the beauty of autumn and said : 
 " But a brighter glory illumines the autumn of life 
 that has been spent with God and for God. What 
 language shall describe, what figures worthily set 
 forth, the maturity of a soul that in these days of 
 secular knowledge and gospel privilege has gath- 
 ered to itself all that God has taught. . . . Per- 
 mit one united to you by the college tie to which 
 time only adds intensity and depth, who has trav- 
 eled over the path your feet are now pressing, who 
 has reached that period of life when the tissue of 
 the dream robe has fallen, to inquire if you are lay- 
 ing the foundations for such a maturity as has been 
 described. You are living in a day that affords 
 opportunity and likewise compels responsibility. 
 . . . May you resemble trees planted by living 
 waters. ' ' 
 
 It would be a great inspiration if every college in 
 the land could point to some Elijah Kellogg. Bow- 
 doin College cannot measure the value of this man. 
 It is not buildings and endowment that make a col- 
 lege. Elijah Kellogg is Bowdoin. ''Get the man 
 and all is got." 
 
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XII 
 
 David Yonan, of Davidson 
 " Greatei' Love Hath No Man Than This " 
 
Measure thy life by loss instead of gain ; 
 Not by the wine druuk, but the wine poured forth ; 
 For love's strength standeth in love's sacrifice ; 
 And who suffers most hath most to give. 
 
 — King. 
 
XII 
 
 DAVID YONAN, OF DAVIDSON 
 *' Greater Love Hath No Man Than This " 
 
 Tpie campus life of Davidsou, the great Presby- 
 terian college of North Carolina, is of such a high 
 order that a man of noble ideals does not stand out 
 against the background of Davidson as prominently 
 as he would stand out in some institutions. Never- 
 theless the record of the brilliant young Persian no- 
 bleman, David Yonan, whose sudden death resulted 
 from an unsuccessful attempt to rescue a fellow 
 student from drowning, is regarded by the men of 
 Davidson as the clearest example of the heroic life 
 as understood and practiced there. 
 
 David Yonan was born in Urumia, Persia, in 
 1880. His father was a member of the nobility 
 and a governor of three towns, two of them Mo- 
 hammedan and the third Christian. Leaving the 
 Nestorian Church, the ancient Christian communion 
 in Asia, Governor Yonan entered the Presbyterian 
 Church and became an ardent supporter of all its 
 mission work. Yonan' s forefathers were originally 
 Moslems but embraced Christianity, thereby losing 
 greatly in prestige among the Moslem court circles. 
 In time the financial standing of the family was also 
 lost and when young David, after a preparatory 
 course in the mission school at Urumia, wished to 
 
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 come to America for a college education, his parents 
 were uot able to support him in his desire, and, for 
 other reasons, did not approve of the plan. 
 
 But about this time the boy fell ill with a pro- 
 tracted fever and during his illness his thoughts 
 were directed toward the work of medical missions. 
 His distinguished uncle. Dr. Isaac Yonan, had re- 
 ceived an American education and influenced David 
 to think of America as the place where his powers 
 might best be develox)ed. 
 
 In course of time Yonan, armed with letters of 
 introduction from his uncle, landed in this country 
 and applied for entrance to Pantops Academy, Vir- 
 ginia. For several years he struggled manfully to 
 master the English language and to su^jport himself. 
 His record in the academy reflected honor upon the 
 institution and the student alike. He applied him- 
 self to his studies with great intensity of purpose, 
 and, possessing a genial and hearty nature, won for 
 himself scores of friends who gave him every en- 
 couragement. At Pantops he took highest rank in 
 his studies although handicapped by the language. 
 He used to tell how he was compelled to translate 
 each sentence in English back into Persian and then 
 retranslate it into English before a recitation. 
 
 In the fall of 1896 he entered Davidson College 
 where he was introduced into the hospitable home 
 of Dr. William J. Martin, a professor of chemistry 
 who later became president of the institution. Im- 
 mediately a warm friendship sprang up between the 
 professor and the young foreigner. 
 
 Yonan, who was two or three years older than the 
 
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 average college student, was able to assume a posi- 
 tion of leadership. His roommate describes his win- 
 ning manner and noble bearing in these words : 
 "He had a peculiarly erect and impressive car- 
 riage. His face was strong and kind. His eyes 
 were his most eloquent feature. They were soft and 
 gentle in repose, but lighted up at times with humor 
 or flashed fire with strong emotion. " In the first 
 two years David had won for himself a unique place 
 in the hearts of students and faculty alike. Al- 
 though throughout his course he was handicapped 
 by poverty, being compelled to earn every penny of 
 expenditure, he was able to rise above this limita- 
 tion and to mingle ardently in all the college activi- 
 ties. He soon developed into a typical representa- 
 tive of his college, taking a prominent part in 
 athletic, literary, and social activities both within 
 and without the college walls. 
 
 One describes him as "one of the most innately 
 noble men I have ever met." He possessed an un- 
 limited capacity for strong, pure friendships, and 
 those who were admitted to the inner circle of his 
 heart realized how great and unselfish were its im- 
 pulses. He was clean in mind and it was said of 
 him that he had never been known to use an oath, 
 tell a vulgar story, or speak an indecent word. 
 Every day he read his Persian Bible and spent 
 much time in prayer. 
 
 The lightness and gayety of American college 
 men were not his by heredity or temperament. 
 Like many Orientals he had a certain wistful air 
 and, while genial, was never frivolous or light- 
 
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 hearted. Que always received the impression that 
 this foreigner, while at peace with the world aud 
 possessed of an inner joy, carried the burden of the 
 world's sin and was always thinking of the deep 
 things of life. His classmates were under the im- 
 pression that he found the separation from his 
 family and friends in Persia much harder to bear 
 tlian he would admit. 
 
 But it must not be supposed that Yonan was in 
 any sense a ''kill- joy." He was interested in all 
 manly sport and was delighted when in his sopho- 
 more year intercollegiate football was permitted at 
 Davidson for the first time in its history. The Per- 
 sian immediately went out day after day in the 
 " scrub '^ lines and succeeded at length in making 
 the team. He acquired great proficiency in an in- 
 credibly short time and was given the j)Osition of 
 tackle on the varsity team. He played for three 
 years, and football experts who studied his game de- 
 clared that he was probably the strongest tackle in 
 the South and, with proper coaching, would have 
 won national fame on a big team. 
 
 Eev. W. M. Walsh, an alumnus of Davidson, 
 now a pastor at Sherman, Texas, writes : '' He was 
 the terror of his opponents, always just a little bet- 
 ter than his man, not only because he was so strong 
 but by reason of his alertness aud catlike quickness. 
 On the college team he played right half back. I 
 played full back, and shall never forget the safe feel- 
 ing I had when I started with the ball through the 
 line following 'Sally,' as we called him. It nearly 
 always meant a good game because he would make 
 
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 a hole if there was noue there already. I often felt 
 that the cheers from the side lines should be for hiju 
 and not for the man carrying the ball. I feel sure, 
 however, that he did not covet honors given to other 
 players." 
 
 At that time wrestling had not been introduced 
 into the athletics of Davidson to any extent, but 
 Yonan had no match in this particular sport, hav- 
 ing brought with him from Persia certain remark- 
 able tricks on the order of jujutsu. '^I recall dis- 
 tinctly," says Mr. Walsh, "how, on one occasion, 
 soon after the beginning of the senior year, a certain 
 boastful but good-natured freshman dared Yonan to 
 a wrestling bout. The Persian played with him for 
 a short time then feigued a fall backward and, 
 quick as a flash, hurled the astonished freshman 
 over his shoulder, lauding him on the ground flat as 
 a flounder, much to the amusement of the by- 
 standers." 
 
 Throughout the four years of his course David 
 Yonan made high grades constantly and won houojs 
 at the end. In the spring of 1900 he received 
 the degree of A. B. He determined to remain in the 
 vicinity of Davidson that summer and to enter the 
 medical school of the college in the fall. Later he 
 was to return to Persia as a medical missionary 
 under the care of the Board of Foreign Missions of 
 the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. 
 
 During the summer Yonan who was working in 
 the neighborhood of the college was invited to at- 
 tend a picnic given by the Presbyterian Church of 
 the town of Davidson on the banks of the beautiful 
 
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 Catawba River. He entered into the many sports 
 offered and joined a bathing party in the afternoon. 
 He had never learned to swim and was standing on 
 the opposite bank from the large group of bathers, 
 talking with Eev. A. T. Graham. Suddenly a call 
 for help was heard and a medical student by the 
 name of Fred Hobbs was seen straggling in the 
 water. Yonan immediately sprang to the rescue. 
 His companion shouted to him not to go into deep 
 water, but the latter called back, '' Oh, Mr. Graham, 
 I must save Fred life," leaving off the possessive 
 of the boy's name according to his oriental idiom. 
 Heedless of his danger, and responding automat- 
 ically to the cry of need, Yonan dashed into water 
 thirty feet deep and went down like a log, sinking 
 after a brief struggle without a crj^ The i)resident 
 of the institution, Dr. Henry Lewis Smith, who 
 had started on his homeward way, heard the shout- 
 ing and running back threw off his clothes and 
 dived repeatedly into the deep water, but his ut- 
 most efforts were unavailing. The bodies of the 
 two students were subsequently recovered and 
 everything possible was attempted to resuscitate 
 them, but in vain. 
 
 ''Thus went out suddenly," writes Dr. Reed 
 Smith, classmate and roommate of Yonan, " a life 
 full to the utmost of promise for future service and 
 usefulness. To human eyes it seems strange indeed 
 that a career of such large possibilities for good 
 should be ended just at the time when it was ready 
 to bear fruit. The example that he left, however, 
 has been an inspiration to all who knew him. The 
 
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 influence of a strong soul upon others, though in- 
 tangible and invisible, is both powerful and im- 
 mortal. Many of Yonan's friends and fellow 
 students are to-day leading lives that are higher and 
 nobler because of the heroism and self-sacrifice of 
 one who came to a foreign land to fit himself for 
 service, and there, in the flower of his youthful 
 vigor, laid down his life at the call of what he nobly 
 esteemed his duty." 
 
 In spite of the tragedy, the men of Davidson now 
 have an added pride in their institution, for there 
 lived beneath its shadow for a time one of those 
 heroes whose shining deed no Carnegie medal can 
 ever hope to make the brighter. Davidson College 
 makes a better output of leadership now because 
 David Yonan lived and died. 
 
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XIII 
 
 Horace William Rose, of Beloit 
 
 Win7ter of Meji to Christ 
 
Who loved God and truth above all things. 
 
 A man of untarnished honor, 
 
 Loyal and chivalrous, gentle and strong, 
 
 Modest and humble, tender and true, 
 
 Pitiful to the weak, yearning after the erring, 
 
 Stern to all forms of wrong and oppression, 
 
 Yet most stern toward himself ; 
 
 Who being angry yet sinned not. 
 
 Whose highest virtues were known only 
 
 To his wife, his children, his servants, and the poor, 
 
 Who lived in the presence of God here, 
 
 And passing through the grave and gate of death 
 
 Now liveth unto God forevermore. 
 
 —Dedication of the Life of Charles Kingsley, by his wife. 
 
XIII 
 
 HORACE WILLIAM ROSE, OF BELOIT 
 
 Wi7me7' of Men to Christ 
 
 One of Horace Eose's favorite expressioDS was 
 that this or that worker might ''burn a path of 
 light through the colleges." If ever a mau burued 
 a path of light through the colleges of the Middle 
 West it was "Holly" Eose, graduate of Beloit iu 
 the class of 1896. 
 
 Duriug the year of his service with the Inter- 
 national Committee of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association, eighty colleges were visited, in sixty of 
 which men were converted during his stay. In that 
 one year he won over four hundred students to 
 Christ. Through his instrumentality over a score 
 of men were led to give their lives to foreign mis- 
 sions and a larger number to enter other forms of 
 Christian service. As a result of his efforts over 
 six hundred men were brought into Bible classes 
 and literally thousands were personally interviewed. 
 
 And all this service in his brief life of twenty- 
 seven" years ! David Brainerd and Henry Martyn 
 lived five years longer, Samuel Mills lived eight 
 years longer. Jesus Christ was only a little older 
 when his earthly life was finished. At the memo- 
 rial service held for Eose at the Lake Geneva 
 
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 Summer Confereuce in 1901, it was said that " lie 
 lived a fiuished life." 
 
 Although Horace Rose serv^ed for only one year 
 under the International Committee, he had given 
 eight years of active service to the college field of 
 the Young Men's Christian Association and he suc- 
 ceeded in influencing an entire generation of North 
 American college students. 
 
 Horace William Rose was a native of Rockford, 
 Illinois, and was born in 1874. His father, Rev. 
 William Wilber force Rose, was a Congregational 
 minister of marked ability. The home life of the 
 Rose family was ideal. The four sous and their 
 parents were like brothers and sister. Horace had 
 the deepest reverence for his father, whose nobility 
 of character had a marked influence upon him from 
 earliest boyhood. 
 
 Nothing remarkable can be said of Horace's 
 early years. He loved his home, spending much 
 time in the family circle. His evenings were given 
 to the life of the home. He was a great fun maker 
 and joined in all the sports of the community. He 
 developed splendid physical prowess and was at 
 home on the diamond and the gridiron. A brother 
 writes: ''The boys liked to hear Holly's merry, 
 loud laugh and wanted him on their side in the 
 different contests. He had a great desire for win- 
 ning and would strive the utmost to win but never 
 did so unless fairly." 
 
 Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, opened its 
 doors to Horace in the fall of 1892. He at once 
 entered into all the activities of the college but did 
 
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 not take high rank in his studies, deliberately 
 choosing an intermediate course between the 
 "grinds'^ and the "sports." As his biographer, 
 Harry Wade Hicks, says: "He realized that 
 never again would he be placed in an environment 
 where his Christian influence would count for so 
 much as in college. Therefore he regulated his 
 program with Christian work accorded a prominent 
 place in his daily schedule." He did, however, 
 qualify for a master's degree, entering enthusiastic- 
 ally into graduate studies as his time permitted. 
 
 His father was very proud of his progress in col- 
 lege and wrote to a friend in November, 1891, as 
 follows : " Holly is doing finely at Beloit. He is a 
 big fellow, very forceful and independent, very 
 conscientious. He is in his work with all his heart 
 and seems to be making an excellent beginning. 
 He seems to be a popular fellow with the boys. " 
 In another letter he remarked, "It is rather notice- 
 able how that boy makes everything go." 
 
 Eose took a place of leadership in Beloit at the 
 very start. In 1892 and 1893 he was made vice 
 president of his class and in 1895 he was elected 
 president. At that time he acted as business man- 
 ager of the college paper, and, in addition to his 
 journalistic work, entered oratorical contests and 
 secured first place in the interstate contest, with the 
 colleges of ten states competing for the prizes. 
 
 In athletics, also, Horace took a leading part. 
 He was a member of the college baseball team for 
 two years and developed into one of the best catch- 
 ers in the Middle West. Afterwards, at summer 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 couferences and other gatherings of college men, he 
 was elected captain and general manager and or- 
 ganized winning teams. In his sophomore year he 
 made the varsity football team. While serving as 
 Association secretary at Iowa and Michigan, he con- 
 tinued to play the game. 
 
 But it was as a religious leader that Eose took 
 commanding j^lace at Beloit between the years 1892 
 and 1906. During his senior year he was made 
 president of the Association. " Many a man," says 
 a classmate, " may date the beginning of his Chris- 
 tian life to the earnest appeal of Horace Eose made 
 to him in his room while he was a student of Beloit. 
 It was not an uncommon thing on the day of an im- 
 portant Association prayer meeting for him to go 
 through the dormitory and invite personally every 
 one of the sixty or seventy men in the hall to attend 
 the meeting, and frequently he had interviews with 
 a dozen or more men in a single day regarding the 
 duty of deciding for Christ." 
 
 The moral and religious atmosphere of the college 
 fraternity is often dominated by one or two men of 
 strong personality. No dogmatic statement can be 
 made as to the value of fraternities without taking 
 into account the men who direct their ideals from 
 time to time. The same fraternity may be entirely 
 different in different college generations. Eose 
 realized this and accepted the opportunity of mak- 
 ing fraternity life at Beloit tell for the best. He 
 therefore joined Beta Theta Pi and became a loyal 
 Greek. He believed that men would respond to re- 
 ligious appeals whether in or out of fraternities and 
 
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 this belief brought him into constant contact with 
 chapter houses in his visits to western colleges in 
 later years. In many an institution fraternities 
 were transformed through the influence of Eose. 
 When he became secretary at the University of 
 Michigan over a dozen houses agreed to organize 
 Bible classes. This is illustrative of the way in 
 which Rose used fraternity life in winning men to 
 Christ. 
 
 He realized, however, the danger of college ex- 
 clusiveness and made special efforts to show that 
 he was as much a friend of the man who was *' out 
 of things" as he was of his own fraternity brothers. 
 Says a classmate, ''Fear lest his fraternity con- 
 nection might 'queer' him with the rest of the 
 boys made him think more about them and give 
 more attention to the unpopular, green, unsought 
 and unknown ' preps' than he did to more popular 
 men." Almost his first question, however, in vis- 
 iting a college was, " What are the Beta boys doing 
 for Jesus Christ ? " 
 
 During vacations Horace accepted work under 
 the state Sunday-school association and traveled 
 throughout Wisconsin organizing Sunday schools. 
 A story is told of his applying at a farmhouse for 
 a night's lodging. The farmer answered gruffly, 
 " We don't want any Sunday school in these parts 
 and you can't find children enough to make a Sun- 
 day school, and you can't stay overnight." He 
 persuaded the farmer's wife to give him a bowl of 
 milk and bread and afterwards won the hearts of 
 the entire family so that he was not only invited to 
 
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 remain overuiglit but the children of the household 
 were promised for the uew Sunday school. 
 
 Daring liis junior and senior years Horace Eose 
 preached regularly every Sunday to two different 
 congregations, giving one the morning service and 
 the other the evening service. He organized gospel 
 teams and conducted evangelistic tours throughout 
 the rural districts. On one occasion he remarked 
 to one of his companions, ''Bill, the thing that 
 bothers me more than anything else is, are we giv- 
 ing to the people the real gospel ? " 
 
 Many a college man feels that he has no right to 
 take a prominent part in the religious life of his 
 college because of the glaring inconsistencies be- 
 tween his public expression and his private life. 
 Horace Eose had nothing like this to fear. With- 
 out ostentation or sanctimony he pushed the claims 
 of Christ fearlessly and made men feel a responsi- 
 bility for upholding the moral and religious tone of 
 the college. ''He did," as one remarked, "one of 
 the hardest things in the world ; to live a blameless 
 life in every particular before his fellows." 
 
 On graduating he was called to become general 
 secretary of the Christian Association at the State 
 University of Iowa. He had been thinking seri- 
 ously of entering the gospel ministry, but on seek- 
 ing advice of many friends, he turned toward the 
 secretaryship of the Christian Association because 
 he felt that this afforded him the best opportunities 
 for the exercise of his special gifts. During the 
 year which he spent at Iowa he had revolutionized 
 the Association and " came nearer touching the life 
 
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HORACE WILLIAM ROSE 
 
 of the student body than any man who has been 
 general secretary before or since that time." lie 
 sang in the glee club and in one of the choirs and 
 was manager of the track team. One who knew 
 him well declared that had he remained he would 
 have changed the Greek letter fraternities from their 
 attitude of opposing the Association to that of thor- 
 ough support and cooperation. 
 
 The following year Rose became secretary of the 
 newly organized Christian Association at the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, and here also remarkable re- 
 sults were attained from the start. The Association 
 was quickened in its spiritual life, its Bible study 
 department was stimulated, mission study was de- 
 veloped, personal workers' classes were organized, 
 and many students were led into the Christian life 
 as a result of the new spirit infused by this conse- 
 crated worker. He developed his system of per- 
 sonal work at Michigan, a system of grouping a few 
 men for prayer and the study of God's Word. The 
 administrative work of the Association did not seem 
 to chill his spiritual life or cool his ardor for soul- 
 winning. His rooms were constantly filled with 
 men who wished to talk with him concerning per- 
 sonal religious problems. A fellow secretary says : 
 "One day, being very tired, he left word at the 
 Association rooms that he would take a day off for 
 rest. Soon his doorbell rang and one after another 
 twenty-two men called. I asked him how he ac- 
 counted for this unusual occurrence. 'Oh,' he re- 
 plied, *the fellows know that I am interested in 
 them. I have called on all of them in their rooms 
 
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HEROES OF THE CAMPUS 
 
 aDd opened up the subject. Now when they are in 
 trouble they come to me.' He was the most con- 
 stant personal worker I have ever known. . . . 
 The next day I saw him in a secluded corner sing- 
 ing a lively song and dancing a jig." 
 
 During his first year at the University of Michi- 
 gan he married. His wife was one who could enter 
 most heartily into all his work, and, after his accept- 
 ance of the iDosition with the International Commit- 
 tee, she accompanied him on many of his trips to 
 the colleges. 
 
 He had attracted the attention of the leaders in 
 Association work as one of the most brilliant and 
 powerful secretaries, and was asked to take the sec- 
 retaryship of the colleges in the Middle West. Eose 
 was a humble man and the opportunity came almost 
 as a shock. In a letter to a friend he said : ' ' The 
 International Committee must be hard up for men. 
 It is a big comedown from Michener to common 
 clay like me." 
 
 From September, 1899, until his death in January, 
 1901, he did one of the most notable pieces of work 
 in Association history. It is impossible here to fol- 
 low his course through the colleges and universities 
 of the Middle West. But it is helpful to glance at 
 the list of institutions and a few of his comments 
 upon his work. 
 
 At the University of Kansas he *'got several men 
 to make a scientific fight to overcome.'^ At the 
 University of Illinois, " We had a marked blessing, 
 six or seven men owning Christ as Saviour and 
 Lord for the first time." At the Agricultural Col- 
 
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 lege, MichigaD, '^Helped to clean out some lives." 
 At his own Alma Mater, ''Stirred up a hornets' 
 nest in one of the fraternities, which is having the 
 effect of cleaning things out." At the University 
 of Wisconsin, " Two men accepted Christ and nearly 
 fifty enlisted for Bible study." At the University 
 of Missouri : " Have just come from the local chap- 
 ter of our fraternity. Good fellows, but without 
 much care for the will of God concerning their 
 lives." At the Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa: 
 " Fourteen men accepted Christ, many men dropped 
 something from their life and still others began to 
 fight. During Monday three men accepted Christ." 
 At Grinnell College: ''Two more men accepted 
 Christ. I was flooded with interviews. O for the 
 mind of Christ ! How his loving heart must loug 
 for these fellows who have been fighting losiug bat- 
 tles ! O for the energy of Paul, the fearlessness of 
 Isaiah, and the love of John ! " 
 
 At the Agricultural College, Brooking, South 
 Dakota, where ten men accepted Christ, he wrote, 
 " I always hate to report numbers for it gives me a 
 sense of satisfaction which I wish was not in my 
 life." At the Uuiversity of South Dakota : "Seven 
 conversions. Hope they will stick. Some were 
 football men. It was a manifestation of divine 
 power." At Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois: 
 " The members of Beta fraternity have knocked 
 down old traditions and come up higher. Lack of 
 concern for fellow students is a great hindrance." 
 From Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, he 
 wrote, "O for power to burn a path of light in 
 
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 these colleges for Christ ! " At the University of 
 ludiaua, BloomiDgton, Indiana : *' Perhaps ten or 
 twelve were converted. These men were anchored 
 in personal work after the meeting." At a certain 
 college he was invited to stay in rooms occupied by 
 students but was offended by certain indecent pic- 
 tures and quietly said that they would have to come 
 down if he was to stay there. The students asserted 
 that Rose would "have to take them down first." 
 The verbatim account follows : 
 
 ''At college Rose was a famous wrestler. He 
 immediately accepted their challenge, and one at a 
 time threw the four men in succession, although 
 two of them were much larger men. After the 
 wrestling bout, he saw a baseball on the table and 
 said, ' Do you men play ball ? ' And they replied, 
 ' Yes, a little.' Rose said, ' I used to do some of it 
 myself. Come out in the yard and I will play burn 
 with you.' And the old varsity catcher used his 
 strong arm for the glory of God, and soon retired 
 the group with puffed hands. When they came 
 back into the house, Rose said, ' Now you can see 
 that you are not the whole thing, what do you say 
 about those pictures?' Without any other words, 
 the men took the offensive decorations down, and 
 before the convention closed they were led into the 
 Kingdom." 
 
 At the end of the school year he decided to accept 
 the call of the Cornell Association largely on account 
 of the illness of his wife to whom the long separa- 
 tions were exceedingly prejudicial. ''It pulls my 
 heartstrings," he wrote, "to have to leave this 
 
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 traveling work. It is full of so many opportuni- 
 ties." In July he attended the Northfield Student 
 Conference which appears to have been a time of 
 great soul-searching and illumination. He wrote : 
 "The Northtield Conference is almost over. God 
 has spoken here. I have been on the mount of 
 vision, and I j)ledge God to be true to the vision. 
 But perhaps two things more than others are stirring 
 the very depths of my heart. I must win more 
 souls. I must be instrumental in starting some re- 
 vivals. With God's grace I will. The second is 
 this : I have heard, as never before, the cry of the 
 Indian student, of the students of Japan and China 
 and Australia." 
 
 Entering into the work at Cornell with his usual 
 abandon he endeavored to secure an endorsement of 
 his policies regarding evangelistic meetings, per- 
 sonal work, Bible and mission study, and other ad- 
 vance features, but met with considerable opposition. 
 "The Executive Committee," he wrote, "is opposed 
 to evangelistic meetings, but we will win them yet. 
 This is a sore disappointment to me for I thought 
 they were anxious to have the evangelistic effort 
 characterize their work." The heart of Horace 
 Rose would have leaped had he been able to mingle 
 in the great evangelistic meetings at Cornell in 
 March, 1916. 
 
 More and more he was driven to prayer and Bible 
 study, withdrawing to the tower of Barnes Hall for 
 his devotions. The former secretary found him 
 late in the morning with his coat off and his note- 
 book and Bible spread out on the bed. "I would 
 
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 uot think of enteriDg the day here," said Eose, 
 " without speudiug at least au hour over my Bible 
 and with Christ in prayer. It is hard to keep sweet 
 and yet do all that must be doue." 
 
 Bible study grew steadily and an enrollment of 
 nearly two hundred was secured. A personal work- 
 ers' class was also begun. Mr. Hicks says : ' ' Aside 
 from the administrative work of the Association his 
 chief service was pastoral in character. The old 
 custom of visiting men in their rooms had been re- 
 sumed and already his notebook in which he entered 
 dates for personal interviews was well filled with 
 engagements." 
 
 Then came the typhoid fever fastening itself inex- 
 orably upon a system already run down. In spite 
 of all that could be done, the fever developed until 
 on Thursday, January 10, 1901, Horace Eose, aged 
 twenty-six years, three months, and twenty- two 
 days, entered the life immortal. 
 
 Eose has been called '' Ambassador of Jesus Christ 
 to the Court of the Individual Heart." His dis- 
 tinction lies in the fact that he did the kind of work 
 from which most men shrink, the personal approach 
 in behalf of Christ. His prayer written at the close 
 of a busy day in college is a fitting ending to this 
 brief appreciation. 
 
 " The day has gone. In the quiet of the evening 
 hour sit a moment with thy better self and think. 
 I began the day early with Him. Since then have 
 passed fifteen golden hours. Each minute has been 
 fraught with privilege and responsibility. Oh, 
 what a day of privilege ! But now I pause as the 
 
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 uiglit comes od, and ask if what Moses and Aaron 
 could say is true of this day just passing out of my 
 grasp, 'The God of the Hebrews hath met us.' In 
 the busy ways, in the studies, in the laboratories, 
 on the campus, in the closet, is it true ? Has the 
 God of the Hebrews met me I 
 
 '* Thou God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, I sub- 
 mit to thee this day, its successes and failures. Use 
 both in thy glory. Give me forgiveness in Jesus 
 Christ ; and while I sleep to-night, O may my heart 
 be on the watch for new revelations of thee, and 
 when the morning dawns and the night winds and 
 dews are gone, O God of the Hebrews, meet me and 
 keep me near thee throughout each hour. May 
 this present minute be a Bethel for my soul, the 
 place where I meet the God of the Hebrews I " 
 
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