//// Hollinger Corp. pH8.5 ^rp'^W^^''''^^ STATEMENT AND APPEAL IN BEHALF OF ^ n^vxAAon ^ovv^a'Qy, \i DECEMBER, 1881. STATEMENT AND APPEAL IN BEHALF OF Kenyon College The undersigned beg leave to submit the following statement and appeal in behalf of Kenyon College, situated at Gambler, Ohio, devoted to the 2)romotion of Christian Education, and under the control of Trustees elected from the Dioceses of Ohio, Southern Ohio, Pittsburg, AYest Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan, and from the Alumni of the College. For convenience sake we here speak of the College and connected Theological Seminary, (both of them at Gambler, and essentially united under the same Trus- tees and incorporation), under the one name of Kenyon College, because, although the corj)orate name is " Theoloo'ieal Seminarv of the Diocese of Ohio," the other is the name most familiar to the public. Kenyon Colleo-e was one of the first educational institutions established in the West. It has been in existence but little more than half a century, yet it has already ac- complished great things. The sons of Kenyon have reached and filled positions of the highest eminence and the laro-est usefulness in Church and State. [2] To-day Kenyon has a splendid foundation in its un- surpassed location, its superior buildings, its reputation for thorough work. JNTothing is needed but development that Kenyon may become the peer of any College in our country. A great College, however, cannot be made without large gifts of money. Colleges are like Hospitals in that they do not so much depend u^^on fees as upon Endowments. All our great Colleges are largely endowed. WHAT KENYON COLLEGE HAS. Kenyon College has now property and Endowments valued at nearlv fLYe hundred thousand dollars. In natural beauty its College Park is unexcelled in the United States. Its buildings are architecturally at- tractive, as well as permanent in structure. Bishop CoxE, (than whom in matters of taste no better judge could well be found), writes of "the massive dignity of Ascension Hall and the Church of the Holy Spirit, as not unworthy of Oxford or Cambridge." The following Professorships are already Endowed^ THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. MiLNOR AND Lewis, (Systematic Divinity) $25,000 00 Griswold, (Biblical Literature) 25,000 00 Bedell, (Pastoral Divinity) 28,436 24 Cooke, (Ecclesiastical History) 30,000 00 Total 1108,436 24 [3] KENYON COLLEGE. Spencer and Wolfe, (Mental and Moral Philosophy) S25,000 00 Peabody, (Mathematics) 25,000 00 Bowler, (Natural Philosophy and Chemistry) 25,000 00 McIlvaine, (English Literature and History) 13,900 00 Trustees 3,000 00 BOARDMAN 1,800 00 Alumni.... 1,300 00 Total $95,000 00 WHAT KENYON COLLEGE NEEDS. (1.) The Endowment of the above Professorships should be raised to a uniform sum of at least thirty thousand dollars. (2.) There is needed for the Endowment of the Presidency and Chaplaincy, - $50,000 Endowment of the Latin Professorship, - 30,000 Endowment of the Greek Professorship, 30,000 . Endowment of the Modern Languages Pro- fessorship, --------- 30,000 'Endowment of a new Professorship of Political Science, ------- 30,000 Endowment of a new Professorship of Mining and Engineering, - - - - 30,000 The Bowler Professor of JN'atural Philosophy and Chemistry, at present gives instruction in Botany, Geoloo'v, PhvsioloGTv, Phvsics and Chemistry. With [4] the growing desire for thorough training in the Natural Sciences, there is a strong demand for at least one new Professorship in this Department, - - - - f 30,000 (3.) Rosse Hall should be converted into a Fire- Proof Library and Reading Room. The cost of this much needed improvement would not exceed five thousand dollars. (4.) The interior of Ascension Hall should be com- pleted and old Kenyon put in thorough repair. (5.) Money is needed for a Library Fund. (6.) Money is needed for Scholarships. (7.) Money is needed for a Hotel and Commons Hall. There is thus required for the present development of Kenyon College, not less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Considering the great results to be attained and the great ability of our friends, it is earnestly hoped that this amount may speedily be given. The cause of Higher Education is of the very first importance. In a land like ours one moves the masses by moving the leaders. How necessary then that those who are to be leaders should be wisely guided and rightly trained, that so ''peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety may be established among us for all generations." In our Eastern States this is now widely felt and largely recognized, so that public spirited and liberal citizens of those States have of Late contributed millions of dollars to their leading Colleges. Increased facilities have thus been provided, and great advances have been [5] made. Has not the time come for a like movement in this portion of our pountry, which is now its centre of population, and which is already great in manufactur- ing establishments, in agricultural resources and mineral treasure, and also in accumulated capital ? This part of our country demands the very best educational training, and this demand will surely be met. The question rises, shall this training be merely secular, or shall it be moral and religious also ? The highest education is not that which develops the in- tellect alone, but that which rightly influences the feel- ings and shapes the will for glorious ends. Kenyon Colleo'e has always labored to combine thoroughness of mental training with nobleness of Christian character. Christian character is worth more than any measure of mental endowment — worth more, as a personal posses- sion — worth more, as an outward influence — worth more, even as mercantile capital. In these days of rich insolvencies, and respectable defalcations, and cultured embezzlements, real Christian character is to be more and more at a premium. In too many of our colleges Christianity is almost overlooked, and in too many others it is so presented that it does not attract the noblest natures, nor do the best work. When rightly apprehended, it is an adequate cause for the production of all that is strongest, and truest, and bravest, and noblest, in human character. It ought to be so pre- sented that it will be seen to be such a cause, and felt to be such a cause. We believe that it is so presented at Grambier. The foundations at Grambier w^ere laid in faith and prayer. Our fathers have built wisely thereuj^on. We are called to carry on their work. [6] Kenyon College to-clay oifers a splendid foundation for a great educational institution. ^ Let the superstruc- ture speedily rise for the good of man and the glory of God. All v/hich is respectfully submitted, G. T. BEDELL, Cleveland, 0. A. H. MOSS, Sandusky, 0. H. P. BALDWIN, Detroit, Mich. J. W. STEVENSON, Covington, Ky. RUFUS KINO, Cincinnati, 0. WM. B. BODINE, Gambier, 0. Committee of the Board of Trustees, [ 7] KENYON FINANCES. 1854—1881. The following statement exhibits the financial condi- tion of the Theolooical Seminary of Ohio, and of Kenvon College as it was on June 1st, 1881, and includes sta- tistics for the years 1854, 1867, and 1876. ASSETS CONTEOLLED BY THE BOAED OP TEUSTEES. Investments Land Unsold Build'gs & Grounds Bowler Fund Cooke Fund Cash 1854. 1867. 1876. 1881. S71,536.36'$148,877.50!^199,851.00S226,719.0u 39,000.00 120,000.00 36,625=00: 24.225.00 20.725.00 150,500.00 215,000.00 233,000.00 25.000.00 25.000.00 25,000.00! 7,428.00i 1,471.00 5,174.00 $230,536.36 8401,430.50 $465.017. 00:$4S6.6 18.00 After 1867 The Cooke Fund is included in '• invest- ments," and so is The Bowler Fund in 1881. TABLE OF INCOME. Interest 1854. 1867. 1876. 1881. 35,299 49 1,088.00 1,243.25 812,228.93 3,908.00 679.25 880.00 $14,961 00 2,324.00 537.31 $15,565.89 2,640.00 549.00 8,746.00 Students' Bills Bents Incidental Total $7,630.74 $16,816.18 $17,822.37 $27,500.00 Ordinary Income... $7,630.74 812,471.83 817,822.37 $18,754.00 "Incidental" means special gifts, collections, bequests and the like. [8] TABLE OF EXPENSES. Totals, 1854. 1867. 1876. 1881. $7,826.00 $18,692.19 $18,691.65 $22,385.48 The above includes only ordinary repairs. In the year ending June 1st, 1881, J5,674 54 was expended in extended improvements and repairs, in order to make the grammar school first class in its appointments. LIST OF ENDOWMENTS. In Bexley Hall. MiLNER AND Lewis, Professorship $25,000 00 Griswold, " 25,000 00 Bedell, " 28,436 24 Cooke, • '' •. 30,000 00 Total $108,436 24 Kenyon College. Spencer AND Wolfe, Professorship $25,000 00 .- 25,000 00 25,000 00 Peabody, Bowler, McIlvaine, Trustees, Boardman, Alumni, 13,900 00 3,000 00 1,800 00 1,300 00 Total $95,000 00 Special. Vaughan, Library Fund $ 500 00 Hoffman, Betts, St. George's Hall, Library Fund 3,182 50 Hannah More, Scholarship 1,205 55 Clarke, " 1,071 00 Bedell, Lecture Fund 5,000 00 " 5,000 00 " " 1,000 00 $16,959 05 [^ ] TABLE OF INVESTMENTS. Int. State of Ohio Bonds $36,000 00 6 Muskingum County Bonds 9,000 00 7tV Zanesville City Bonds 16,000 00 8&7/^ Warren & Franklin R. R. Bonds 30,000 00 7 Columbus & Toledo '' " 16,000 00 7 Columbus & Hocking Valley R. R. Bonds 6,000 00 7 Scioto Valley " '' 1,000 00 7 New York Central " " 1.000 00 6 Dayton & Michigan " •' 1,000 00 7 St. Louis & Vandalia " " 1,000 00 7 Cleveland, Tuscarawas & Wheeling" " 1,000 00 7 United States Bonds 1,000 00 4 Lake View Cemetery Bonds 7,000 00 7 Corn Exchange Bank Stock 3,000 00 10 Milnor Fund, St. George's Church, N. Y.. 10,000 00 5 Bowler Fund, Cincinnati Trustees '. 25,000 00 Bills Receivable, Mortgages 56,719 00 7 Betts Library Fund 1,000 00 Bedell Lecture " 5,000 00 Total $226,719 00 Interest due for Hurd Estate 500 00 Cash on hand 5.174 00 Total $232,393 00 MISCELLANEOUS. The Hurd interest has been paid since June 1st. Note part of donation, Hobbs $ 1,000 00 C, Mt. V. & C. R. R. Stock $5,000, not valued. Unsold land appraised at $ 20,725 00 Buildings and Grounds 233,000 00 On June 1, 1881, the Bowler, Betts and Bedell Funds, were in the hands of Trustees designated by the donors, not Trustees of the Seminary or College. Since that date a little more than $25,000 of the Bowler Fund has been turned over to the Board. Debts owing by the Board, none. [ 10] Besides the Funds included in the table; after June 1st, The Curtis Scholarship Fund of $15,000 was donated by the Hon. H. B. Curtis, of Mt. Yernon, and invested by the donor accordino- to his own terms. Also the Hon. Columbus Delano has donated $1,000 to form a fund, the income of which shall be used in the purchase of apparatus for the chair occupied by the Peabody Professor. And the Hon. J. W. Andrews has conveyed to the Board certain lots in Columbus, Ohio, for scholar- ships. The Board in conjunction with Hon. C. Delano and the Regents of Milnor Hall has, since June 1st, con- tinued the w^ork of completing Delano Hall. And the Board undertook to expend about $3,000 for that purpose, and to loan to the Regents. a like sum to be expended by them on said Hall. It is expected* that the Bowler Fund will produce from $6,000 to $12,000 more than the $25,000 included in the table. A. H. MOSS, MOSES M. GRAJSTGER, Committee. By action of the Board of Trustees, I have been re- lieved from all administrative duties at Grambier, until July 1st, 1882, that I may devote my whole time and energy to the furtherance of the object referred to in the foregoing statement and appeal. The great need of Kenyon College to-day is money. There are some men who wish to recognize their stewardship of wealth. I beg all such to come to Gambler, that they may see what there is to be found at this lovely spot, namely, a great opportunity to do good in education with their money, and to identify their names and memories for generations with that good. [ 11 ] For those who cannot well come and see for them- selves, I append the following testimony, which in one way and another, at one time and another, has come to me as an almost spontaneous expression of opinion. Such testimony mio-ht be o:reatly increased. The general judgment of intelligent men, who are familiar with the history, and know the present condition of Kenyon College, points only in the one direction. WM. B. BODIXE, President of Kenyon College. Froni President Hayes. Executive Mansion, Washington, April 21st 1880. Kenyon College is now out of debt. Its property and endowments amount to about a half a million dollars. Its location is central and accessible, and in a region of unusual bealthfulness aud beauty. It is upon such a basis that all who contribute to its endowment fund may confidently expect tliat their donations will essentially advance the cause of thorough moral and intellectual training in our country. From Chief Justice Waite. Washington, D.C, April 13th, 1881. I congratulate you on the improved condition of things at Gambler. I felt sure last summer that you would be successful in your efforts to get more students, and you know it was my prophecy that money would come if you got the boys. There is no reason why Kenyon should not become the leading Episcopal College in the United States, and I cannot but believe that, if your health and strength are spared, you will make it so. Trinity is overshadowed by Yale and Harvard, while Kenyon stands comparatively by itself in an open field. The objections once made to its type of Churchmanship no longer exist, and there is no reason in the world why all should not unite to keep you in the work [ 12] you have so well begun. It gave me very great pleasure to hear of the donations you had received from Mr. Delano, Mrs. Bliss, and others, and you may rest assured they are but the forerunners of more that are to come. You deserve success, and ought not to be permitted to fail for want of money. From General Sherman. Headquarters Army of the United States. Washington, D C , April 15th, 1881. * * * Surely it is time for Ohio to take a prominent part in University Education, as prominent as she has fairly earned in the highest branches of Political and Military Government, and no place in the State is more appropriately located, or is surrounded by more beauti- ful rural scenery than Gambler; therefore, although I have no claims on Kenyon College, or she on me, I wish her all honor, glory and success. From Mr. Justice Swayne. Washington, June 16th, 1881. I know no institution more deserving, and none where money can be applied with more beneficial results. Nothing is wanting, but pecuniary means to enable it at once to take a commanding position, and to exercise a very large influence for good throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and the North Western States of the Union. The foundation well laid, already exists; only the superstructure is wanting. Those who give may rest assured, that the money will be wisely and well applied, and faithfully according to the direction of the Donors. From Hon. John Sherman. Washington, April 30th, 1881. Your letter of yesterday, calling my attention to the efforts about to be made to advance the growth and to increase the endowment of Kenyon College, has been received. I heartily sympathize with this movement. I consider the location, surroundings, buildings and condition of Kenyon College as among the most favorable in Ohio. It would in my opinion have been wiser to have had fewer Colleges in our State, and to have con- [13] ceatrated our efforts to the fouDciation and support of one or two Univer- sities. With the growing wealth and population of Ohio, we may yet hope that from our present Colleges one or two such Universities may spring, where students may gather in greater numbers than the founding of our Colleges will allow, and where they will have the advantages of the highest culture, and the assistance of the ablest Professors. Kenyon College has many advantages. Besides its unsurpassed location, it has a history of which we may all be proud. It has furnished from among its Presi- dents, Professors and graduates some of the most distinguished citizens of our State and Country. While it is the chief institution of the Episcopal Church of Ohio, it has always been conducted with a spirit of just and generous toleration for all forms of religious belief. I there- fore will heartily second your efforts for its further endowment. From Hon. George H. Pendleton. CiJ^ciNNATi, November 17th, 1881. I am rejoiced to hear of the increasing prosperity of Kenyon College. I am told by my good friends, in the Board, that in the number of stu- dents, as well as in responses to appeals for aid the awakening interest of the people of our State is very manifest. The history of the foundation of Kenyon College endears it to all Episcopalians. Its graduates, eminent in the State and in the Nation, have made its honored name familiar at many firesides. Its exceptional advantages of location, combining so much of beauty of scenery and healthfulness of climate, commend it as the home of studious aspiring youth. The broad and liberal spirit in which its theological doctrines have been taught has disarmed all sectarian opposition. I congratulate you most sincerely that your assiduous labor and self- denying devotion have been already so successful. I am sure that this is but the beginning of the full measure of success which will eventually, I trust very soon, crown your efforts. From Hon. Wm. Windom. Treasury Department, Washington, April 30th, 1881. "Kenyon College is well known to me, inasmuch as my youth was spent in Knox County, and so I grew up under the shadow of the College. Your College park is one of the loveliest spots on earth, and there are [14] few things that would give me more pleasure than to revisit the place, with which is associated so many happy memories. You have every advantage at Gambier for the upbuilding of a grent educational institution. Your location, your buildings, your record are all of the best. I hope that you will be successful in your efforts to strengthen and enlarge the influence of the College, by adding to your endowment fund." The followino- from the editorial columns of the Cincinnati Gazette was written by Hon. Richard Smith, immediately upon his return from the Commencement Exercises of 1881. "Grambier is one of the best locations in the country for a first-class . educational institution, and rich men ought to rally to its support. If the latter who want to do something for the public while they live would visit G-ambier, we feel sure an income of $100,000 annually would be speedily assured; if it could be made double that .sum, us it ought to be, then the West could compete successfully with Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Gentlemen who have money they can spare ought to take this matter into serious consideration. The President of Kenyon is deeply in earnest, and if Mr. Bodine is properly sustained the institution is bound to flourish:" Extract from the remarks of Hon. Stanley Matthews at the Com- mencement Exercises June 24th, 1880. " I take great pleasure in embracing the opportunity now offered me for expressing in brief words the very great delight I have experienced in this visit to these old scenes. I rejoice especially in the power of the visible aspects of Kenyon as I now see her, for in addition to the build- ings which have been added, I think I have discovered here the presence of something worth more to Kenyon even than her buildings, and that is the spirit of a new life which will make buildings where forests only grow. I feel very proud that I am a graduate of Kenyon. I feel very proud of Ohio. I am a Buckeye, even of the second generation, and I am glad that all my education, academic and professional, was received from institutions of Ohio. Here, at Gambler, I received the best and most lasting impressions of my life. The formation of whatever character I have was laid in these Halls, and therefore it would rejoice me beyond [ 15] measure to see Kenyon not only living and prospering, but growing to be great and commanding — the institution of the center of the West. There is no reason why this should not be; there are many reasons why it ought to be; there are many reasons why I think it will be." At the commencement exercises of 1881 there where present Ex-Presi- dent Hayes, Hon. John Sherman, Hon. Columbus Delano, Murat Halstead, Editor Cincinnati Commercial, Richard Smith, Editor Cincin- nati Gazette, John King, Jr., of the B. & 0. R. R., Hon. Theodore Cook, and other distinguished visitors. All expressed themselves as greatly charmed with the inspiring views and pure bracing air of Gambler, and the beautiful and massive buildings of Kenyon College. Among other things President Hayes said: A TRUE AND EARNEST WORD TO CHURCHMEN. "The force, the aggressiveness, the influence of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this central region of the West is fast bound up with Kenyon College. This Church icill he a power for good in these States in proportion as Kenyon College is made strong and commanding ^ The following letter, written by the late Bishop Kerfoot, has received the cordial endorsement of the Bishops of the Dioceses adjacent to Ohio. Bishop's House, No. 11 Cliff Street, Pittsburgh, July 1st, 1879. Kenyon College is now renewing its vigor and enterprise. It has a long record of excellent work done, and it has now fresh agencies and facilities for thorough academic work. It has grounds surpassing any college grounds that I know in extent, beauty and cultivation, and its buildings are very ample and convenient. I believe that its religious teachings and influences are heartily in accord with the Gospel and Church of Christ, as our Prayer Book guides us. It therefore gratifies me to commend the college to parents in my Diocese, seeking a college home for their sons. [ 16 ] ON THE ENDOWMENT OF COLLEGES. Extracts from an article in the International Review^ Sept., 1881. The history of the financial beginning of the older colleges is very common place; the history of one is, in broad outlines, the history of all. It is a history of penury, of endeavors for an endowment, and of constant needs far outrunning the means of supply. Within the last score of years donations to the Colleges have been most numerous and munificent. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that since I860 they have received an amount fully equal to their entire valuation in that year. In 1 847, when Abbott Lawrence gave fifty thousand dollars to Harvard, it was said to be "the largest amount ever given at one time, during the lifetime of the donor to any public institution in this country." Several Colleges and Universities have within this period been founded with endowments sufficient from their very beginning to make them in- dependent of the whim of legislatures or the income of tuition fees. Cornell University received by a congressional land grant nearly a millioo acres, besides five hundred thousand dollars from Ezra Cornell, whose name it perpetuates. Vassar also began with a gift of more than four hundred thousand dollars from 3Iatthew Vassor. Smith received, before its doors were open, about half a million from Sophia Smith. Wellesley was at the outset well endowed by Henry F. Durant. The Johns Hopkins University possessed, before it had enrolled a single student, not less than three millions of dollars. The older colleges have added vastly to their resources within the last two decades. Harvard's properly has tripled in value; Yale's in the various departments has increased by not less than a million and a half; Princeton's by more than a million, and Darmouth's by a large amount. During President Stearnes administra- tion of twenty-two years, Amherst receive i more than eight hundred thousand dollars. Among the most munificent of the benefactors to colleges, in addition to several already named, are George Peabody, Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Maiden, Mass, Johns Hopkins, of Baltimore, Ario Pardee, of Hazelton, Pa., John C. Green, of New York, Henry W. Sage, of Brooklyn, Samuel Williston, of Easthampton, Mass., Joseph E. Sheffield, Amasa Stone, of Ohio, Nathan Matthews, and Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, and Alexander Agassiz of Cambridge. The roll might be lengthened to indefinite limits, but these names represent the larger gifts. The gifts of the younger Agassiz, in carrying on the Museum which his father [17] founded, already exceed three hundred thousand dollars. Nathan Matthews and Nathaniel Thaj'er, have each given more than a quarter of a million to Harvard University. Amasa Stone gave five hundred thousand dollars to Western Reserve College, on condition of its removal from Hudson to Cleveland. Samuel Williston gave one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Amherst College, and richly endowed the Seminary at East Hampton which bears his name. Joseph E. Sheffield gave to the Scientific School of Yale College nearly four hundred thousand dollars. The gifts of Henry W. Sage and Ezra Cornell to the Univer- sity at Ithaca, N. Y. aggregate more than a million. To Princeton the late John C. Green gave seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and to Lafayette, Ario Pardee has since 1864 given, at diff'erent intervals, more than half a million. The largest single bequest ever made, at least in this country if not in any country, to any educational institution is the three millions which Johns Hopkins, a Baltimore merchant, gave to found the University which transmits his name. Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, the wife of a Boston Merchant who retired from business in 1850, and who received some two millions from her husband, with the under- standing that it should be chiefly distributed "to educational, charitable or benevolent institutions, causes or objects," has thus far disbursed about twelve hundred thousand dollars. George Peabody gave about eight millions to benevolent objects, of which about one quarter forms the "Southern Educational Fund." To Yale and Harvard he gave each one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; to Washington College, Virginia, sixty thousand; to Kenyon, Ohio, twenty- five thousand; and to various scientific institutes about a million and a half, two-thirds of which endowed the institution at Baltimore. In re- spect to the geographical distribution of these benefactions it is evident that wherever the greatest wealth is combined with the highest degree of intelligence they are the largest. Of the usefulness of gifts and bequests made to colleges, there is no question. So long as the colleges are designed to promote learning, to ennoble character, and to foster righteousness, so long will the endow- ment of them prove beneficient. Even if the State should establish, as has been done in several commonwealths, a university for the training of its youth, and allow them to resort thither with the same freedom as to its other public schools, it is clear that in other commonwealths the best colleges are, and for generations will be, those endowed by individual citizens. It is also clear that a college cannot meet its barest expenses from its natural source of income — the tuition fees. Even [ 18] Harvard, with a fee double or triple that of most colleges, spent in a recent year twenty thousand dollars more than it received from students; and this cost was exclusive of the expense of the Library, and of the general administration. Endowment is essential to the continued exist- ence of a college. SCHOLARSHIPS. In some of our American Colleges Scholarships have been established by generous men and women, the income of which is given to deserving young men of limited means, who are struggling to obtain a liberal education. Such scholarships, endowed in amount from one to five thousand dollars each, should be open to competition, and should be awarded as prizes for success in study. Through the liberality of Hon. Henry B. Curtis, LL. D., and Hon. John W. Andrews, LL. D., some scholarships have already been endowed in Kenyon College. It is greatly to be desired that the number of these scholarships shall be increased. JN^o more fitting memorial gift could well be made, — Scholarships as well as Professorships, will be named as the donors may direct. BEQUESTS. Extract from a convention address by Bishop Bedell. If it be said that it is wiser to complete one's charities during life, whilst they can be properly guided and guarded, the answer is obvious. Certainly, let every possible provision of benevolence, or beneficience, be made whilst one's will and generosity can control it. But, unless a Christian can do some need of loving supererogation, I do not see how the meeting of all possible righteous or charitable claims on his income during life will compensate for a neglect to contribute a just share of his property to meet such claims on his estate, after he is dead. [ 19] It is well to trust one's heirs, that they will do their duty; but it is safer and wiser to do one's duty for oneself; and not to impose an obli- gation on others to which they may possibly be reluctant. In this peculiarly reckless and improvident age, when nothing is more noteworthy than the melting away and utter dissipation of great estates, after the death of an accumulator, it would seem as if no argument were needed to enforce this subject. The grand charities of the world, glori- ous intellectual treasures, libraries, schools, universities, are chiefly the result of legacies. Some few persons in our own day have set a noble example by such endowments while living. Great souls ! They ennoble their generation. But this is seldom possible. In the Provi- dence of Grod our age and our church must wait until its children pass from this stage before we shall see great charitable or educational founda- tions firmly and generously laid. It must result from bequests. FORMS OF BEOUEST. Persons desiring to make bequests to the Theologi- cal Seminary or the College, are advised to make use of the following forms. The laws of different States vary on the subject, and it is expedient, for those who desire to make valid bequests to the Institutions, to consult and conform to the laws of the States in which they live. I give and bequeath to the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, at Gambler, Ohio, the sum of dollars. I give and bequeath to the Theological Seminary of the Pro- testant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Ohio, at Gambler, Ohio, for the use of Kenyon College, the sum of dollars. Note.— By au Act of the Legislature of the State of Ohio, passed March 30th, 1874, all he- qnests for Benevolent, Religious, Educational, or Charitable purposes are invalid and void, unless made by a will duly executed according to law, at least twelve months prior to the decease of the testator or testatrix. [20] Since the foregoing was put into the printers hands, the following has been made public: "By the will of Charles H. Northam, of Hartford, Conn.. Trinity College has received a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars." Grod be praised ! How many will follow this noble example, and make generous provisions by will for Kenyon College ? • LlBRf^R'' OF O ONGRtSS |lgB498633_J Hollin pl LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 029 949 863 3 Hollinger Corp. fine?