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 Reprinted fro7n Scribner's Monthly for March, 1878. 
 
 FROM PRESS OF COTT & HANN. COLUMBUS, O. 
 
CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, KENYON COLLEGE CHAPEL. 
 
 The above cut will give some idea of the 
 new College Chapel, though; no picture 
 can give an adequate impression of all its 
 beauties. It is a poem in stone and mor- 
 tar, and both within and without, is surpass- 
 ingly attractive. Used as the Chapel is for 
 daily College prayers, it has a steady influ- 
 ence for good, A new clock and full chime 
 of bells have just been added, to make it 
 all complete. 
 
 We copy the following from the Cincin- 
 nati Gazette : 
 
 " Mr.- George A. Benedict, editor of the 
 Cleveland Herald, was one of the delegates 
 to the late Episcopal Convention held at 
 Gambler, the seat of Kenyon College, For 
 the first time Mr. Benedict saw the Col- 
 lege Chapel— the Church of the Holy Spirit 
 — and, like all who have eyes and taste, 
 went into raptures over it. He devoted 
 over a column of the Herald to a descrip- 
 tion, and lamented that none of the Cleve- 
 
 land churches were like the beautiful Chapel. 
 He calls it the " most beautiful church in the 
 country," and adds that " it is pronounced 
 by people much travelled abroad to be as 
 beautiful a church as there is in any country." 
 Mr. Benedict goes on to say that the Church 
 of the Holy Spirit is fine in its architecture 
 and perfect in its proportions. "But the 
 crowning glory of the Church of the Holy 
 Spirit is its teachings in every window, in 
 all its carvings, in its illuminated wall texts, 
 in its ceiling and in its everything. That 
 Church is a biblical study. It is cheerful ; 
 there is nothing the least gloomy about it, 
 and the most irreverent intuitively would 
 take off his hat when he entered it, for it is 
 the beauty of holiness. Its construction 
 was due to the liberality of the former par- 
 ishioners of Bishop Bedell, of the Church 
 of the Ascension, New York ; and those 
 munificent donors have planted a thing of 
 beauty, *a joy forever,' on as exquisite a site 
 as ever was graced by the house of God.'' 
 
KENYON COLLEGE. 
 
 KENYON COLLEGE. 
 
 ON THE KOKOSING, NEAR KENYON COLLEGE. 
 
 The traveler in central Ohio, journeying 
 by the new railroad from Columbus to 
 Cleveland by way of Mount Vernon, finds 
 himself, for several miles of his course, 
 skirting the banks of a sparkling stream to 
 which the old Indians gave the name " Ko- 
 kosing." The valley through which tliis 
 river flows is a charming one, and at one of 
 the sudden turns of this winding stream, a 
 few miles beyond Mount Vernon, upon a 
 finely situated hill, rises the village of Gam- 
 bier, the seat of Kenyon College. 
 
 Half a century ago there was probably 
 no institution of learning in our land more 
 talked about than Kenyon College, for it 
 was one of the first literary ventures of 
 the West, and its needs and expectations 
 were heralded far and near. Many there 
 are who prefer a rose-bud to the fully de- 
 veloped flower, and there is a certain charm 
 about infancy which we do not recognize 
 in manhood. This doubtless is one of the 
 reasons why Kenyon has recently occupied 
 a less prominent place before the public 
 than in her early days. Besides, her de- 
 velopment has not altogether been in the 
 line anticipated. She has failed where suc- 
 cess was dreamed of; she has won honor 
 in ways that were not contemplated. 
 
 The corner-stone of Kenyon College was 
 laid in the month of June, 1827, so that 
 
 Gambler is just beginning her second half- 
 century of earnest life. By a happy co- 
 incidence the fiftieth year marked the 
 elevation of one of Kenyon's sons to the 
 presidency of the United States. One of 
 the trustees of Kenyon College, Hon. Mor- 
 rison R. Waite, is now the highest judicial 
 ofiicer of the country. Kenyon's sons also 
 are to be found in the halls of Congress, so 
 that she has links binding her to every de- 
 partment of the government — legislative, 
 judicial, executive. 
 
 The list of the alumni of Kenyon has 
 already grown to fair proportions. From the 
 beginning her standard has been high, and 
 
 BISHOP CHASliU LOG HUT 
 
KENYON COLLEGE, 
 
 many of those who have studied in Gam- 
 bier have left before completing the course ; 
 but five hundred have been graduated. A 
 large number of Kenyon's sons have be- 
 come men of mark in church and state, and 
 five of them have attained to a wide na- 
 tional reputation. Henry Winter Davis, 
 that " prince of parliamentary orators," in his 
 early days practiced economy, and wrought 
 
 days. Stanley Matthews also, who has re- 
 cently won distinction by his arguments 
 before the Electoral Commission, now 
 United States Senator from Ohio, was at 
 Kenyon a friend and companion of Presi- 
 dent Haye^ Not unnaturally, Kenyon is 
 proud of five such sons. 
 
 The founder of Kenyon College was 
 Philander Chase, the first bishop of the 
 
 STANLEY MATTHEWS. 
 
 with brain and muscle at Kenyon. Edwin 
 M. Stanton, the great War Secretary, came 
 in the spring-time of his life to Gambler. 
 His college experience proved to be a 
 turning-point, so that afterward he was 
 accustomed to say, " If I am anything, 
 I owe it to Kenyon College." David 
 Davis, late Justice of the Supreme Court of 
 the United States, now Senator from Illi- 
 nois, was an associate of Stanton in college 
 
 Protestant Episcopal church in Ohio, the 
 uncle of Salmon P. Chase, and altogether a 
 very remarkable man. He is thus described : 
 " In height he was six feet and over ; the 
 span of his chest was nearly if not quite 
 equal to his height, and with that noble 
 trunk his limbs were in full and admirable 
 proportion. In a crowd his giant figure, in 
 front or back, excited, wherever he moved, 
 universal attention. Large and heavy in 
 
KENYON COLLEGE. 
 
 stature as he was, he was remarkably light 
 and graceful in his movements, and when 
 not ruffled with opposition or displeasure, 
 exceedingly agreeable, polished and finished 
 in his manner. Toward those who betrayed 
 hauteur in their deportment with him, or 
 whom he suspected as actuated by such a 
 spirit, or who positively dififered with him 
 as to his policy, and especially toward those 
 whom he looked upon as his enemies, he 
 was generally distant and overbearing, and 
 sometimes, when offended, perhaps morose. 
 In his bearing toward them his noble coun- 
 tenance was always heavy and lowering, and 
 his deportment frigid and unmistakably re- 
 pulsive; but in his general intercourse and 
 always with his particular and intimate 
 friends, his address and social qualities were 
 polished, delightful and captivating; his 
 countenance was sunlight, his manner warm 
 and genial as balmy May, and his deport- 
 ment winning to a degree rare among even 
 remarkably commanding and popular men." 
 
 Bishop Chase came of a sturdy New 
 England stock, and was born in Cornish, 
 New Hampshire, where he spent the days 
 of his youth. When manhood came, how- 
 ever, he could not content himself with such 
 quiet and settled surroundings, for, of him, 
 as afterward of his nephew, the Secretary, 
 ambition was a most marked characteristic. 
 He was first a missionary in western New 
 York, and then he was stationed in Pough- 
 keepsie, but soon afterward he removed to 
 New Orleans. He was the first Protestant 
 minister in the state of Louisiana. After 
 five years of hard and successful labor, he 
 removed again to the north, and for six 
 years was a minister in Hartford, Conn. 
 But Philander Chase was a man too restless, 
 too ambitious, too great to remain long con- 
 tented in any quiet and peaceful nook. He 
 craved the contests and the storms of life. 
 So, early in the spring of the year 1817, 
 resolved " not to build upon another man's 
 foundations," he started for what was then 
 the far West, — the newly admitted state of 
 Ohio. He was consecrated bishop in Feb- 
 ruary, 1819. 
 
 He soon became convinced that he must 
 have assistance in his work. In four years 
 his list of three clergymen had grown to six, 
 but what could six men do in so vast a 
 field ? Moreover, he became convinced that 
 for western work, the best laborers were 
 western men, more accustomed than others 
 to the hardships of the new civilization, 
 and more likely to be contented with the 
 labor and its returns. So his mind began 
 
 to be filled with a dream of a " school of 
 the prophets," which, before long, took 
 definite shape in his mind. Happily, the 
 bishop's son suggested that favorable men- 
 tion had been made in a prominent English 
 journal of the new missionary work in far- 
 off Ohio. The bishop immediately deter- 
 mined that the ocean must be crossed, and 
 the mother church asked to help. He first 
 appointed his son for this service ; but his 
 son's failing health required a journey to a 
 southern clime, so the resolute bishop deter- 
 mined to go himself 
 
 In England, Bishop Chase became a great 
 favorite. One noble lady was so much 
 interested that she begged him to superin- 
 tend the erection of a " log-cabin " upon 
 her spacious grounds. Wealthy friends were 
 gathered, and the pioneer bishop was the 
 hero of the hour, delighting all with his 
 thrilling sketches of frontier hardships, and 
 with his glowing prophecies of magnificent 
 triumphs sure to be achieved. Lord Gam- 
 bier helped him greatly. Lord Kenyon also 
 and Sir Thomas Ackland, and Lady Rosse, 
 and Hannah More. The total result of 
 this first appeal was more than five thou- 
 sand pounds. In Ohio, the returning bishop 
 was looked upon as a man of vast resources. 
 Moreover, he felt himself to be even richer 
 than he was, for his ideas were always larger 
 than his cash in hand. So, very naturally, 
 his thought of ministerial education expand- 
 ed and became a scheme of Christian educa- 
 tion. He determined to found not only a 
 theological seminary, but a college also, while 
 through his mind there floated visions of a 
 grand educational center. He was strongly 
 urged to confine himself to his original'plan, 
 and to establish merely a school for the 
 training of clergymen. Mr. Charles Ham- 
 mond, a distinguished and influential citizen 
 of Cincinnati, was especially strenuous on 
 this point, and indeed went so far as to pre- 
 pare and carry through the legislature a bill 
 for the incorporation of " The Theological 
 Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
 in the state of Ohio," and so fixed the legal 
 title of the new institution. But Bishop 
 Chase was equally strenuous the other way. 
 He readily won over his English friends to 
 his view of the case, and soon after secured 
 an additional legislative act which gave to 
 the president and professors of the Seminary 
 the power of conferring degrees in the arts 
 and sciences under the name and style of 
 the President and Professors of Kenyon 
 College in the state of Ohio. 
 The next important question to be settled 
 
KENYON COLLEGE. 
 
 BISHOP AND MRS. CHASE. — FRO.M AN OLD TAINTING. 
 
 was the location of the college. This proved 
 to be a bone of contention, and gave rise to 
 much discussion, and to not a little acri- 
 monious feeling. More than " seven cities " 
 contended for the honor, and not one of 
 them carried off the prize, for Bishop Chase 
 resolutely set himself to find a location in 
 the country, and as usual was successful. A 
 tract of eight thousand acres in Knox 
 County Avas purchased at the price of two 
 dollars and a quarter per acre; the corner- 
 stone of Kenyon College was laid and the 
 little village of Gambier sprang into being. 
 This choice of a location amid well-nigh 
 untrodden forests involved as a matter of 
 course, heavy sacrifices and large outlays of 
 labor. It was necessary to begin with the 
 very elements of civilization. Workmen 
 had to be gathered, lands made ready for 
 tilling, crops raised and harvested, and cab- 
 ins built for shelter. In fact, for some years, 
 farming, milling and merchandising were 
 carried on in the name of the college, and 
 
 the institution became possessed of a store, 
 a hotel, a printing-office, a saw-mill, a grist- 
 mill, a carpenter's and shoe-maker's shop, 
 with houses for the miller, the dairy-men 
 and the workmen. No wonder that the 
 funds contributed by English friends were 
 soon altogether spent, and the resources of 
 the bishop quite exhausted. 
 
 It was needful therefore to make addi- 
 tional appeals for aid, and very naturally, the 
 " public crib " was thought of as a ready 
 source of succor. So in December, A. D. 
 1827, Bishop Chase went to Columbus, ad- 
 dressed the legislature, and received from that 
 body an indorsement of an appeal to Con- 
 gress for a donation from the public lands. 
 Soon after, a bill was introduced into the 
 U. S. Senate making a grant of a township 
 of land. The bill was advocated by prom- 
 inent senators and was passed, but in the 
 House of Representatives party spirit was 
 roaring like a flood, and the voice of the 
 infant college was drowned. The bill failed 
 
KENYON COLLEGE. 
 
 in committee, and amid the rushof otherbus- 
 iness was pushed aside. The good bishop 
 was keenly disappointed but was not in de- 
 spair. Immediately he issued what was then 
 
 EXLEY HALL. 
 
 a novel form of statement and appeal, "earn- 
 estly entreating of every friend of every 
 name and class one dollar in aid of the 
 present struggles of Kenyon College." The 
 dollars, it is said, came to Gambier as the 
 leaves fall in autumn. I^arger subscriptions 
 were also added, John Quincy Adams, 
 then President of the United States, gave 
 a hundred dollars. In all some twenty-five 
 thousand dollars was 
 received through this 
 appeal. 
 
 Meanwhile a goodly 
 number of students had 
 assembled at Gambier, 
 and the work of the 
 college went bravely 
 on. Bishop Chase 
 nominally occupied the 
 office of president. He 
 really filled most effici- 
 ently the post of gen- 
 eral manager and su- 
 perintendent. Every 
 morning the " head 
 men " had to be direct- 
 ed by him as to their 
 daily work; every 
 evening they were 
 gathered to give ac- 
 counts of labor. There was the tilling of 
 the thousands of broad acres to be looked 
 after, the quarrying of stone, the erection of 
 buildings, the industries of the village, and 
 
 all this in addition to the wants, bodily, 
 mental and spiritual, of the student com- 
 munity. Besides, there was the keeping of 
 detailed accounts and the maintenance of a 
 most extensive correspond- 
 ence. The burden was 
 altogether a very heavy one ; 
 but Bishop Chase's broad 
 shoulders were well fitted to 
 bear it, particularly as he had 
 a most efficient helpmate 
 in his noble wife. " Mrs. 
 Chase entered Avith her 
 whole soul into her hus- 
 band's plans. She was a 
 lady perfectly at home in 
 all the arts and minutiae of 
 housewifery, as happy in 
 darning stockings for the 
 boys as in entertaining her 
 visitors in the parlor, * * * 
 and in keeping the multi- 
 farious accounts of her in- 
 creasing household as in 
 presiding at her dinner-tkble 
 and dispensing courtesy in her drawing- 
 room." 
 
 Through her efficiency and wisdom, and her 
 husband's untiring and marvelous activity, 
 Kenyon 's aftairs were for a time prosperous. 
 A corps of able professors was gathered ; there 
 were more students than could be well ac- 
 commodated, while the building known as 
 Old Kenyon, with walls four feet in thickness, 
 
 OLD KENYON. 
 
 rose solidly as though it were intended to 
 stand forever. Difficulties, however, at length 
 appeared, and grew to great proportions. 
 " Kenyon College," said Bishop Chase at the 
 
KEN YON COLLEGE. 
 
 ASCENSION HALL. 
 
 time, " is like other colleges in some respects, 
 and unlike all in many other respects. The 
 fundamental principle in which it differs 
 from all others is that the whole institution 
 is patriarchal. Like Abraham on the plains 
 
 ROSSE HALL. 
 
 of Mamre, it hath pitched its tent under 
 the trees of Gambier hill, it hath its flocks 
 and "its herds, and its different families of 
 teachers, scholars, mechanics and laborers, 
 all united under one head, pursuing one 
 common interest and receiving their main- 
 tenance and food from one common source, 
 the funds and farms of the College." The 
 picture, it must be confessed, is not without 
 its beauties, though the coloring is certainly- 
 
 more Occidental than 
 Oriental. Accurately 
 drawn, it would have 
 shown Western work- 
 men ready to cry " in- 
 dependence," a West- 
 ern faculty to question 
 the hmits of authority, 
 and Western Young 
 America to cheer 
 them on. Pecuniary 
 troubles added to the 
 embarrassments of the 
 situation. So on the 
 ninth of September, 
 1 83 1, Bishop Chase 
 resigned the presi- 
 dency of the college 
 and the episcopate 
 of Ohio. The next 
 day he mounted " Cincinnatus," and rode 
 sorrowfully away, and Gambier saw his face 
 no more. He was afterward elected bishop 
 of Illinois, and died at " Robin's Nest," 
 where he founded Jubilee College. 
 
 Kenyon's second president was Charles 
 Pettit Mcllvaine, D. D., D. C. L. (Oxon.), 
 who came to Gambier at the early age of 
 thirty-three. He was then already widely 
 and most favorably known, particularly in the 
 great centers of Washington and New York, 
 and has since been recognized as one of the 
 great men of his generation. In appear- 
 ance Bishop Mcllvaine was a king among 
 men. He was great also as a thinker and 
 an orator. He found the institution heavily 
 in debt, but almost at once raised the needed- 
 thirty thousand dollars and the debt was paid. 
 Ten years later when burdens had again 
 accumulated, he came to the rescue again. 
 
 WINDOW IN COLLEGE CHAPEL. 
 
KENYON COLLEGE. 
 
 During the whole sixteen years of his resi- 
 dence in Gambier, and indeed until he 
 died in a foreign land, Bishop Mcllvaine 
 was always the same true, stanch^ faithful 
 servant of Kenyon College. 
 
 ship, taking a particularly high stand in 
 mathematics and logic, and was graduated 
 with the honors of his class. His com- 
 mencement address, " College Life," with 
 the valedictory, is still spoken of in terms 
 
 KUTHEKFOKD B. HAVES 
 
 President Hayes entered Kenyon as a 
 student in the fall of the year 1838 and was 
 graduated in 1842. A classmate writes 
 that for the first two years of his course he 
 did not really lead his class, but had a repu- 
 tation as a reader of newspapers and as a 
 person well informed in politics. He after- 
 ward came rapidly to the front in scholar- 
 
 of the highest commendation. Th& uni- 
 form suit of the class, worn at graduation, 
 would now look somewhat strange. It 
 consisted of a coat of blue Kentucky jeans 
 with black velvet collar, a white waistcoat, 
 and white linen trowsers. 
 
 A college friend of President Hayes has 
 written : " I recollect him as one of the purest 
 
KEN YON COLLEGE. 
 
 boys I ever knew. I have always recol- 
 lected of him that in our most intimate, 
 unreserved, private intercourse, I never 
 knew him to entertain for a moment an un- 
 manly, dishonest or demoralizing thought. 
 And when we met in after life in scenes 
 which called for the highest manhood and 
 patriotism, I found the man to be exactly 
 what his boyhood had promised." 
 
 Hon. Stanley Matthews says of him : 
 " Hayes as a boy was notorious for having 
 on his shoulders not only the levelest but 
 the oldest head in college. He never got 
 caught in any scrapes, he never had any 
 boyish foolishness ; he never had any wild 
 oats to sow ; he was sensible, not as some 
 men are, at the last, but sensible from the 
 beginning. 
 
 The following incident of President 
 Hayes's college hfe may almost seem pro- 
 phetic. We give it in the words of his inti- 
 mate friend, Hon. Guy M. Bryan, of Texas, 
 the facts having been certified to us by the 
 President himself: 
 
 "There were in those days two rival literary 
 societies in the college — the Philomathesian and the 
 Nu Pi Kappa ; the last known as the Southern 
 Society, and the first as the Northern, because the 
 students of the slave states belonged to the one, 
 and those from the free states to the other. The 
 college for years had been largely patronized from 
 the Southern states, but this patronage gradually 
 waned until, in the winter of 1841, there were so 
 few Southern students in the college that the mem- 
 bers of the Nu Pi Kappa were apprehensive that 
 the society would cease to exist for want of new 
 members. This was a serious question with the 
 members of the society. I determined to open the 
 subject to my intimate friend Hayes to see if we 
 could not devise some mode to prevent the extinc- 
 tion of the society, which was chartered by the state 
 and had valuable property. We talked over the 
 subject with all the feeling and interest with which 
 we would now discuss the best means of bringing 
 about an era of good feeling between the two sec- 
 tions of the country. At last, Hayes said, " Well, I 
 will get ' Old Trow,' Comstock and some others 
 to join with me, and we will send over a delegation 
 from our society to yours, and then we can make 
 new arrangements so that both societies can live in 
 the old college.' He and I then went to work to 
 consummate our plan. Ten members of the Philo- 
 mathesian joined the Nu Pi Kappa. A joint com- 
 mittee was then appointed from the two societies, 
 that reported a plan by which students could enter 
 either society without reference to north or south. 
 Thus Hayes, by his magnanimity, perpetuated the 
 existence of the Nu Pi Kappa society, — and should 
 lie be elected president, I earnestly hope that he 
 may be equally successful in his best efforts in be- 
 "half of a civil policy which will wipe out forever 
 the distinction between north and south in the 
 government of our common country." 
 
 The following letter from President Hayes, 
 written after his last election as Governor, 
 Vol. XV.— 49. 
 
 may be taken as fairly representative of the 
 kindly feelings entertained by the graduates 
 of the college in general. 
 
 Fremont, O., October 13, 1875. 
 My Kenyon Friends : A host of congratulatory 
 dispatches are before me. I cannot acknowledge 
 with even a word of thanks, the most of them. But, 
 yours, first to be replied to, touches me particularly. 
 Accept my thanks for it. I hope you will all have 
 reason to remember old Kenyon with as much satis- 
 faction as I do. I have no more cherished recollec- 
 tions than those which are associated with college 
 life. Except the four years spent in the Union 
 army, no other period of my life is to be compared 
 with it. I hope you may all have equal reason 
 always to think of Kenyon as I do. 
 
 In the greatest haste, 
 
 I remain, sincerely, 
 
 R. B. Hayes. 
 
 The expenses of living in Gambler in early 
 days were very small. The annual charges 
 were — 
 
 For Instruction $30.00 
 
 For Board at the College table 40.00 
 
 Room rent in a room with a stove 4.00 
 
 " " " " " fire-place 6.00 
 
 For theological students and sons of clergy- 
 men the total charge was 50.00 
 
 Those were the days when the boys were 
 required " to sweep their own rooms, make 
 their own beds and fires, bring their own 
 water, black their own boots if they ever 
 were blacked, and take an occasional turn 
 at grubbing in the fields or working on the 
 roads." The discipline was somewhat strict, 
 and the toil perhaps severe, but the few 
 pleasures that were allowed were thoroughly 
 enjoyed. 
 
 During the President's school-days there 
 were two great men at Gambler, Bishop 
 Mcllvaine and Dr. William Sparrow. 
 There were other eminent men among the 
 instructors: Major Douglass was a man 
 of ability, and the traditions which still 
 linger in the place concerning Professor 
 Ross clearly show that he was possessed 
 of remarkable power; but Bishop Mcll- 
 vaine and Dr. Sparrow were pre-eminently 
 great men, — men whose greatness has been 
 felt as an educating influence on both sides 
 of the Alleghanies. Bishop Mcllvaine's 
 was a divided duty, for in addition to his 
 college labors he had the care of a large 
 and struggling diocese ; while Dr. Sparrow 
 gave to Kenyon his full and undivided 
 strength, and so had the stronger hold upon 
 the students. He led them not only wisely 
 and bravely, but faithfully and with a true 
 heart. President Hayes speaks of him as 
 "one of the giants"; Secretary Stanton 
 
KENYON COLLEGE. 
 
 also honored him through hfe, and sent for 
 him in his later days that he might be bap- 
 tized at his hands. 
 
 Until the year 1840 there was a joint 
 faculty of theology and arts in Gambier. At 
 that time separate faculties were consti- 
 tuted with separate heads, Bishop Mcllvaine 
 continuing at the head of the Theological 
 Seminary, while Major D. B. Douglass, 
 LL.D., w^as elected to the presidency of the 
 College. Major Douglass was an ac- 
 complished civil engineer, a soldier, and 
 "every inch a man." He began his work 
 earnestly in Gambier, and improvement was 
 the order of the day. But the time was not 
 ripe for him. He was succeeded within a 
 few years by Rev. Dr. S. A, Bronson. 
 
 The chief event accomplished during Dr. 
 Bronson's presidency was the sale of a large 
 portion of the college lands. Though of 
 very considerable value, these lands from 
 the first had brought to the institution only 
 the scantiest returns. One agent after an- 
 other had been employed to oversee them. 
 The raising of sheep proved disastrous ; the 
 culture of wheat could not be made to pay. 
 Many of the tenants turned out to be either 
 shiftless or dishonest. So, in the year 1850, 
 after much discussion, it was determined 
 that the form of the investment should be 
 changed, and the lands were ordered to be 
 sold. 
 
 Almost immediately there came increased 
 prosperity. Happily, too, at this juncture, 
 Lorin Andrews, LL.D., was elected presi- 
 dent. The friend and champion of popular 
 education in Ohio, he found helpers in every 
 county of the state. The list of students was 
 quickly swelled, so that in 1855 "room for 
 enlargement" w-as a thing of necessity. 
 President Andrews resigned in 1861 to 
 enter the Union army. He was the first 
 volunteer from Ohio, entering the service as 
 colonel of the Fourth Ohio Infantry, Very 
 soon, however, he contracted disease, from 
 the effects of which he died. His body 
 rests in a quiet nook of that college park 
 which so often echoed to his step. With 
 President Hayes, he was for a time a mem- 
 ber of the class of 1842. 
 
 This sketch has been written with special 
 reference to Kenyon in the past. A rapid 
 glance at the buildings of the institution 
 may help to give an idea of her develop- 
 ment and growth, and of her capacities for 
 present usefulness. 
 
 Bexley Hall stands upon a knoll at the 
 northern extremity of the village. It was 
 erected for the exclusive use of the Theo- 
 logical Seminary, after a design given by 
 the architect of the London Crystal Palace. 
 It contains the library of the Seminary, 
 about seven thousand volumes, — and fur- 
 nislied rooms, each with separate bedrooms, 
 for thirty-four students. 
 
 The College Park is about half a mile in 
 the opposite direction ; a broad and well- 
 shaded avenue leads the way thereto. Near 
 the southernmost point of this park, just 
 upon the brow of the hill, and overlooking 
 for miles the charming Kokosing valley, 
 stands the more massive and venerable edi- 
 fice of Kenyon College. This building 
 contains fifty rooms for students, also the 
 libraries of the two societies. 
 
 Rosse Hall, a substantial stone building 
 in Ionic architecture, is used for rhetorical 
 exercises, for lectures, and on commence- 
 ment occasions, and is capable of accom- 
 modating nearly a thousand persons. 
 
 Close by old Kenyon stands Ascension 
 Hall, an imposing structure, and one of the 
 finest college buildings in the land. It con- 
 tains two spacious and elaborately furnished 
 halls for the literary societies, the library 
 of Kenyon College with its museum, and 
 twenty-six rooms for students. The tower 
 is used for an observatory. 
 
 Directly north of Ascension, and about 
 fifty yards from the village street, stands the 
 beautiful Church of the Holy Spirit. Ivy, 
 transplanted from Melrose Abbey, has al- 
 ready begun to adorn its walls. Within, the 
 coloring and the carving are quite attractive. 
 The funds for the erection of this college 
 church were given by members of the Church 
 of the Ascension, New York, as a tribute of 
 appreciation for their former rector. Bishop 
 Bedell. 
 
 In her requisites for admission and in the 
 course of study, Kenyon does not materially 
 differ from the leading colleges of the eastern 
 states. She aims to give a thorough liberal 
 education, and believes in the value of hard 
 mental discipline. She beheves also in right 
 religious influences, and labors to afford 
 them, pursuing steadfastly " the true, the 
 beautiful, the good." In her view, " Chris- 
 tianity is the science of manhood," and all 
 truth, being God's truth, should lead finally 
 to Him. So her faith is liberal, conservative, 
 evangelical, catholic. 
 
KEN YON COLLEGE. 
 
 Rev. WILLIAM B. BODINE, D. D., 
 
 President. 
 
 Spencer and Wolfe Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. 
 
 LAWRENCE RUST, M. A., 
 
 Vice President. 
 
 Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. 
 
 Rev. EDWARD C. BENSON, A. M., 
 Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. 
 
 THEODORE STERLING, A. M., M. D., 
 Bowler Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. 
 
 Rev. GEORGE A. STRONG, A. M., 
 
 Mcllvaine Professor of English Literature and History. 
 
 Instructor in Rhetoric. 
 
 ELI T. TAPPAN, L.L. D., 
 Peabody Professor of Mathematics, Civil Engineering and Astronomy; 
 
 Instructor in Logic. 
 
 Rev. CYRUS S. BATES, A. M., . 
 Acting Professor of Constitutional Law. 
 Instructor in Christian Evidences. 
 
 WILLIAM T. COLVILLE, A. B., 
 Instructor in German and French. 
 
KEN YON COLLEGE. 
 
 KENYON BALL GROUNDS. 
 
 GENERAL INFORMATION. 
 
 LOCATION. 
 
 Gambier is distant by rail two hours 
 from Columbus, five hours from Cleve- 
 land, and six hours from Cincinnati. 
 The station of the Cleveland, Mt. Ver- 
 non and Columbus Railroad is immedi- 
 ately in the rear of the College grounds. 
 The buildings are among the best in the 
 United States. The halls of the Liter- 
 ary Societies are unsurpassed. The 
 College Park contains about a hundred 
 acres, well shaded with maples, and 
 with the grand old oaks of the native 
 forest. To the east, the west, and the 
 south, it slopes most beautifully toward 
 the valley of the Kokosing. 
 
 DEGREES. 
 
 The Degrees of Bachelor of Arts is 
 conferred upon all students in good 
 standing who are approved at the final 
 examinations of the Senior Class. 
 
 The Degree of Bachelor of Philoso- 
 phy is conferred upon those who have 
 successfully pursued the study of Mod- 
 ern Languages instead of Greek, and 
 who have sustained satisfactory exam- 
 
 inations upon all other studies of the 
 regular course. 
 
 LITERARY SOCIETIES. 
 
 The two Literary Societies, the PJiilo- 
 matJiesian and Nii Pi Kappa, have always 
 been fostered by the College. The 
 Society Halls are very commodious, and 
 have been fitted up at great expense, 
 occupying the whole of the second and 
 third stories of the central portion of 
 Ascension Hall. All the students are 
 active members. The meetings are held 
 every week, for practice in declamation, 
 essay, oratory and discussion. These 
 exercises, with the mutual criticism 
 which forms a part of the regular work, 
 and the generous rivalry maintained be- 
 tween the Societies, contribute very 
 much to the education of the students 
 as writers and speakers. 
 
 LIBRARIES. 
 
 The students have access to the Libra- 
 ries of the Theological Seminary, Ken- 
 yon College, the PJdloviatJiesian Society, 
 and the N21 Pi Kappa Society. The 
 aggregate number of volumes in these 
 Libraries is about 22,000. 
 
KEN YON COLLEGE. 
 
 HARCOURT PLACE ACADEMY. 
 
 READING ROOMS. 
 
 Two Reading Rooms have been fitted 
 up by the members of the PJiilomatJic- 
 sian and Nu Pi Kappa Societies, where 
 copies of the leading English and Amer- 
 ican periodicals and newspapers are kept 
 on file. 
 
 ASSISTANCE. 
 
 Tuition fees are remitted to the sons 
 of clergymen of the Protestant Episco- 
 pal Church. 
 
 The College fees of other students of 
 superior merit may be remitted in part 
 or in whole upon application to the 
 President. 
 
 BOARDING AND LODGING. 
 
 Dormitories are pro- 
 vided in the College 
 buildings in which all 
 students must lodge, 
 unless they obtain 
 permission from the 
 President to room 
 elsewhere. The Col- 
 lege makes no special 
 provision for board. 
 This can readily be 
 obtained in private 
 families, or, at times, 
 in clubs. 
 
 EXPENSES. 
 
 Each room is suf- 
 ficiently large and 
 convenient to accom- 
 
 modate two students. 
 The rooms are pro- 
 vided with stoves, 
 and are neatly paint- 
 ed and papered by the 
 College. Students 
 provide their own 
 beds, furniture, light, 
 books and stationery. 
 Furniture can often 
 be bought, as well as 
 sold, at second-hand, 
 and the expense in- 
 curred by its use need 
 not be great. 
 
 The College charg- 
 es are : For Tuition, 
 ;^io per term — for 
 Room Rent, $^ per term — and for Inci- 
 dentals, ^lo per annum. A Matricu- 
 lation fee of ^5 is charged to every 
 student at his entrance. There are also 
 some minor expenses, consisting of 
 taxes voluntarily imposed by the stu- 
 dents in their Classes and Literary So- 
 cieties, and the expenses of graduation. 
 Every Student on entering the College^ 
 must deposit ^5 with the Treasurer, as 
 security for damage. The charges on 
 this fund have averaged less than one 
 dollar per year to each student. The 
 balance is returned to the student on 
 leaving. 
 
 Students are not allowed to board 
 themselves in their rooms, as this prac- 
 
 THE president's HOUSE 
 
KEN YON COLLEGE. 
 
 tice has been found to be perilous to 
 good health. 
 
 The following estimate may be given 
 of the necessary annual expenses, not 
 including expenses in vacations : 
 
 Tuition ! Free $30 
 
 Room Rent Free 15 
 
 Incidentals $ 10 10 
 
 Fuel 1,5 30 
 
 Board 95 133 
 
 Washing 15 20 
 
 Lights 3 5 
 
 Total $138 S243 
 
 Other incidental expenses, such as 
 books and stationery, furniture, expen- 
 ses in societies, traveling expenses, etc. , 
 vary according to circumstances, and 
 the character and habits of the individual 
 student. 
 
 PROVISION FOR IRREGULAR STUDENTS. 
 
 Students who do not desire to gradu- 
 ate may enter at any time, and take any 
 studies which they are prepared to 
 prosecute to advantage. 
 
 PROVISION FOR INSTRUCTION PREPARA- 
 TORY TO ENTERING COLLEGE. 
 
 To meet the wants of older students 
 who have not yet completed their pre- 
 paratory studies, arrangements have 
 been made whereby they can take 
 rooms in the College building, board 
 in the village, and recite as day pupils 
 at Milnor Hall. Such students will be 
 responsible for good conduct to the Col- 
 lege Faculty, and will not be allowed 
 to remain should their behavior be at all 
 objectionable. The expenses to students 
 of this class for tuition, board, room 
 rent, fuel, lights, and washing, will be 
 less than ^200 per annum. 
 
 REQUISITES FOR ADMISSION. 
 
 Candidates for the Freshman Class 
 are examined in the following studies : 
 
 English. — Grammar ; Reading ; Spelling and 
 Composition. 
 
 Mathematics. — Arithmetic; Algebra, to Quad- 
 ratics ; Getunetry, to and including the Theory of 
 Circumference. 
 
 The candidate should be practiced in 
 mental exercises in arithmetic, and 
 should be acquainted with the decimal 
 system of weights and measures, and 
 also with circulating decimals and the 
 extraction of the square root. 
 
 There are two examinations in Arith- 
 metic. The first is on the primary 
 rules, factoring, greatest common meas- 
 ure and least common multiple of inte- 
 gers, compound numbers, fractions and 
 decimals. Until a student shows a good 
 knowledge of this primary matter, he is 
 not examined further. The second ex- 
 amination is on precentage and interest, 
 circulates, greatest common measure 
 and least common multiple of fractions, 
 square root and the metric system. In 
 Algebra much weight is given to the 
 statement of problems in equations. 
 
 Latin— Grammar, including Prosody : Arnold's 
 Prose Composition to Chapter X ; Caesar," Four Books; 
 (Mcero, Six Orations; Virgil, Four Books of the 
 jEneid. The English method of pronunciation is 
 preferred. 
 
 Greek— Grammar, including Prosody and Compo- 
 sition; Xenophon's Anabasis, Three Booke, ; Ho- 
 mer's Iliad, One Book. 
 
 Godwin's Grammar is used as a man- 
 ual. Some simple Reader, or Compan- 
 ion Book of Exercises, should be used 
 in connection with the Grammar. 
 
 Geography— Ancient and Modern. 
 
 Ancient History^ Smith's History of Greece, to 
 page 102; Liddell's History of Rome, Twenty-four 
 Chapters. 
 
 History and Geography should be 
 studied together. In reading Caesar and 
 Xenophon, there should be constant ref- 
 erence to the map. 
 
 MythoIjOGy— A Hand-Book, such as Baird's Classi- 
 cal Manual, should be studied in connection with 
 Virgil and Homer. A jrood Ulnssical Dictionary, and 
 a Dictionary of Antiquities are necessary to every 
 classical student. 
 
 Candidates for advanced standing are 
 examined in the above studies, and in 
 the studies that have been pursued by 
 the class. 
 
 Fair equivalents are received for any 
 of the above named books, or for parts 
 of them. The books named serve to 
 indicate the amount required. 
 
 If a student is further advanced in 
 some studies than in others, he may 
 pursue the studies for which he is pre- 
 pared. Opportunities are furnished such 
 irregular students to make up the defec- 
 tive study. 
 
 Candidates for admission must pre- 
 sent testimonials of good moral charac- 
 ter ; and if they come from other colleges. 
 
KEN YON COLLEGE. 
 
 certificates of dismis- 
 sion in good stand- 
 ing. 
 
 The regular exam- 
 ination for admission 
 to College takes place 
 on Monday preceding 
 Commencement, be- 
 ginning at 8:30 A.M. 
 Another examination 
 is held on the day be- 
 fore the opening of 
 the Christmas Term, 
 at the same hour. 
 Students may be ex- 
 amined for an ad- 
 vanced standing at 
 any time before the 
 commencement of the 
 term of the Senior year. 
 
 The Annual Commencement is held 
 on the last Thursday in June. The 
 Christmas Term begins the first Thurs- 
 day in September. 
 
 For further information address the 
 Vice-President, Lawrence Rust, M. A., 
 Gambler, Knox county, Ohio. 
 
 MIT.NOR HALL. 
 
 MILNOR HALL, 
 
 GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF KENYON COLLEGE. 
 
 Docte et JPeHte Facere. 
 James P. Nelson, 
 
 Principal' 
 
 Wirt Minor, M. A., 
 Willis M. Townsend, Chas. D. Williams, 
 
 Assistants. 
 
 Mrs. M. W. M. Nelson, 
 
 Matron. 
 
 DESIGN. 
 
 The design of the College in estab- 
 lishing the Grammar School, was to 
 provide an institution where, under 
 Christian and home influences boys 
 might be thoroughly prepared to enter 
 College. The Principal will do his ut- 
 most to carry out this design: he will 
 have as his assistants men of peculiar 
 fitness for teaching. 
 
 The School is under the general 
 supervision of the Board of Trustees of 
 the College. The Principal was appoint- 
 
 ed by the President and Faculty of the 
 College, and thus there is afforded the 
 public a guaranteee of his fitness to 
 direct the details of the school. In these 
 details the principal has entire control. 
 
 THE HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Under the management of the Mat- 
 ron, the Household Department is so 
 regulated as to relieve the scholars of 
 all care as to their washing and mend- 
 ing. The rooms are neatly furnished 
 with single beds, and all other necessary 
 furniture. They are well ventilated and 
 lighted. A janitor attends to them 
 every morning and all the lamps are 
 filled by him. 
 
 COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 
 
 The course of instruction is specially 
 adapted to prepare boys for College. 
 At the same time no pains will be spared 
 to supply the wants of those who desire 
 to enter upon business life. Those who 
 are able to spend but a short time at 
 school can pursue the study of selected 
 branches. 
 
 EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS. 
 
 Examinations are held at the close of 
 each half-session; by these the pro- 
 gress of the scholar is determined. 
 
 Monthly reports will be sent to the 
 parents of each scholar, indicating his 
 standing in his classes, and his general 
 deportment. Parents are particularly 
 
KENYON COLLEGE. 
 
 requested to take notice of these reports 
 and to keep themselves informed thereby 
 of the progress and behavior of their sons. 
 
 PRIZES. 
 
 Medals and valuable books will be 
 given as prizes to those scholars who 
 reach a certain high grade of scholarship. 
 
 RELIGIOUS SERVICES. 
 
 The School is the Diocesan School of 
 the Protestant Episcopal Church for the 
 Dioceses of Ohio and Southern Ohio. 
 As a Church School it secures to its 
 patrons an education based on Christian 
 principles. 
 
 The scholars attend daily evening 
 pryer at the chapel of the College, and 
 also the public reli- 
 gious worship of the 
 Lord's day. 
 
 PHYSICAL EXERCISE. 
 
 Every effort is made ^B 
 to encourage physical 
 culture. The play 
 grounds are ample, 
 and the Principal pro- 
 vides means for en- 
 gaging in sports of a 
 healthy nature. 
 
 The gymnasium of 
 the College, which is 
 well provided with 
 apparatus, is open to 
 the pupils of the 
 Hall. The Kokosing 
 river, which is near at hand, affords 
 ample opportunities for bathing and 
 skating. 
 
 EXPENSES. 
 
 The charge for Tuition, Board, Fuel, 
 Lights, and Washing, is ;^300 for the 
 entire session. This is payable as fol- 
 lows: ;^I50 on entrance, the balance 
 the first day of February thereafter. 
 There are no extra charges. 
 
 Pupils who are a month late in enter- 
 ing will be charged at the rate of ^35 
 per month for the remainder of the 
 half-session. 
 
 The charge for the tuition alone will 
 be ;^30 per session, payable semi-annu- 
 ally in advance. 
 
 A deposit of ^5 will be required from 
 each pupil to cover damages done to 
 the property of the School. Whatever 
 is not required in payment of such 
 damages will be promptly returned. 
 
 fi@"Particular attention is called to 
 the home features of the School. The 
 family sitting room is open at all times 
 for the use of the scholars. 
 
 SESSION. 
 
 The Session begins the first Thursday 
 in September, and closes the last Thurs- 
 day in June. There are two vacations 
 of two weeks each, one at Christmas, 
 and one at Easter. 
 
 Books and stationery are furnished by 
 
 THE UISHOrs HOUSE. 
 
 the Principal. At least fifteen dollars 
 must be deposited to cover this ex- 
 pense. Pocket-money will be supplied 
 to scholars when a deposit for that pur- 
 pose has been made. Two dollars a 
 month is deemed to be an ample allow- 
 ance for a young boy. 
 
 It will be seen that the first payment, 
 including all deposits, will be |i8o. 
 
 '^^A deduction of 20 per cent, zvill be 
 allowed the sons of clergyjnen. 
 
 REQUISITES. 
 
 Each scholar must bring with him a 
 coverlid, two pair of sheets and blankets 
 (single), pillow cases, towels, napkins, 
 napkin ring, and clothes bag. Each 
 article of clothing, and everything else 
 
KEN YON COLLEGE. 
 
 brought by the pupil, should be plainly- 
 marked with his full name. No un- 
 marked clothing will be allowed in the 
 laundry. An umbrella and a pair of 
 overshoes are absolutely necessary. 
 
 UNIFORM, 
 
 For such a school as Milnor Hall 
 there are great advantages in uniformity 
 of dress, (i.) In the matter of expense. 
 (2.) As a great help in producing a 
 feeling of ''Esprit du corps" among 
 the scholars, leading them to be care- 
 ful lest they should discredit the organi- 
 zation, the badge of which they wear. 
 (3.) As a means of avoiding unpleas- 
 ant comparisons by placing all upon 
 the same footing in the matter of dress. 
 
 A uniform has been adopted for the 
 School, consisting of coat, pants and 
 vest, of the finest West Point Cadet 
 gray cloth, trimmed with neat brass 
 buttons and a small black stripe. The 
 uniform is such that, by removing the 
 trimmings, it will answer for wear when 
 the scholars are away from the School. 
 It is distintive, but not peculiar. 
 
 The cost of each suit will vary from 
 $20) to ;^25, depending upon the size of 
 the wearer. A sample of the cloth 
 will be sent upon applicatian. The 
 quality of the goods and the workman- 
 ship are guaranteed to be the very best. 
 
 Scholars who expect to stay but a 
 few months, will not be required to 
 wear the uniform. 
 
 Two suits a year will answer all ordi- 
 nary purposes. 
 
 For further information, address the 
 Principal. 
 
 Forty years ago Bishop Mcllvaine 
 wrote: " It should be recollected that 
 in the west a college can hardly be ex- 
 pected to sustain a dignified stand as to 
 the requisites for admission, to enforce 
 a vigorous system of internal discipline 
 
 and carry out such a course of study as 
 becomes its profession and its degrees, 
 without sacrificing for a long time num- 
 bers for attainments. It is the deter- 
 mination of those in the administration 
 of Kenyon College to endeavor to 
 attain an enlarged patronage without 
 compromise with any defective notions 
 of educations, or any humoring of popu- 
 lar caprice. A few young inen well edu- 
 cated are zi'orth a host superficially taught. 
 Such a determination in this country 
 requires much patience and firmness in 
 its prosecution, but I trust it will never 
 yield to any temptation to popularity or 
 pecuniary increase. Ultimately it must 
 have its reward." 
 
 The following bit of description will 
 be appreciated by old Kenyon students. 
 It is taken from a poem read by Rev. 
 A. F. Blake at the recent banquet of 
 the Kenyon Club of Cincinnati : 
 
 Never until that hour when the power of memory 
 
 fails, 
 Shall fade away the vision of those lovely vales ; 
 Which, line a belt of emerald, encircles the little 
 
 town, 
 With its College towers and spires quietly looking 
 
 down 
 Over patches of rusty corn, and wheat fields lying 
 
 still. 
 To the glistening stream which turns the old red 
 
 mill; 
 To the ancient dam, where the waters splash and 
 
 foam. 
 Past the hewn log walls of many a humble home, 
 Eastward to where the eye fell on "Zion's" wood- 
 ed crest, 
 Or, looking down the valley, stretching toward the 
 
 West. 
 Behold the little river comes rippling by that 
 
 gravel isle, 
 Where long ago, on summer afternoons we often 
 
 did beguile 
 Away the happy hours with merry games and 
 
 playful sport; 
 With ringing shouts of laughter, with quick and 
 
 bright retort. 
 Ah ! how many are the pictures which we might 
 
 unroll, 
 If time was ours to turn back Memory's cherished 
 
 scroll ! 
 
ADVAt(TAGES OFFE[(ED BY KEf(YON COLLEGE, 
 
 [From a leading article in Tlie Standard of the O'o.w.] 
 
 Kenyon can offer many strong claims 
 for our patronage. In her reputation 
 and her high standard of scholarship 
 she has a great advantage over most 
 Western colleges. In point of expense, 
 in nearness to our home, in close rela- 
 tion between professors and students, 
 she has an advantage over Eastern col- 
 leges ; and in moral tone and religious 
 influence she has, we think, a decided 
 advantage over nwst other colleges 
 whether East or West. 
 
 The greater cheapness of living at 
 Gambler is a great advantage over the 
 leading Eastern colleges. President 
 Eliot, of Harvard, in his recent annual 
 report, gives four scales of expenditure 
 for students at Harvard. He gives $61$ 
 as an '" economical," $830 as a "mod- 
 erate," ;^i,365 as an "ample" annual 
 expenditure. This statement was made 
 to show that the necessary cost at Har- 
 vard was not much greater than at other 
 leading Eastern colleges ; but it is two 
 or three times greater than at Gambler. 
 To very wealthy parents, a large scale of 
 expenditure may seem an advantage, 
 and yet, to those who see that nine are 
 ruined, morally or financially, by ex- 
 travagance, where one is harmed by 
 economy, it seems wise that during the 
 formative period of college life, the 
 tendency to extravagance should be re- 
 pressed rather than encouraged. 
 
 Kenyon has for us another advantage 
 over the Eastern colleges in its nearness 
 to our Ohio homes. One leaving Cleve- 
 land or Cincinnati in the morning, can 
 dine at noon at Gambler. The home 
 influence ought to be maintained at its 
 maximum, and its power is very apt to 
 be like that of attraction — "inversely 
 as the square of the distance." There 
 is also, doubtless, a much closer relation 
 between professors and students at Ken- 
 yon, than at the great Eastern colleges. 
 At Kenyon the professors come into 
 close personal relations with the stu- 
 dents. They know each man well, and 
 
 feel a personal interest in him ; and are 
 often able to exert a personal influence 
 over him, which is worth more than any 
 amount of mere instruction could be. 
 
 If intellectual culture were the only 
 object, it is believed that it would be 
 wise for our people to* send their sons 
 to Kenyon, But intellectual culture 
 ought not to be the only object. 
 Throughout Christian character is worth 
 more than any measure of mental en- 
 dowment — worth more as a personal 
 possession — worth more as an outward 
 influence — worth more, even as a mer- 
 cantile capital. In these days of rich 
 insolvencies, and respectable defalca- 
 tion, and pious embezzlements, real 
 Christian character is to be more and 
 more at a premium. For the building 
 up of such a character, Kenyon has 
 great advantages. In too many of our 
 colleges Christianity is almost overlooked 
 and in too many others it is so present- 
 ed that it does not attract the noblest 
 natures, nor do the best work. Christi- 
 anity is too often so presented to young 
 men that they think of it as a blind be- 
 lief in a system of doctrines which have 
 no logical relation to a good life, and as 
 tending to produce either the outgush- 
 ing of a feeble emotionalism, or the 
 timid unreasoning of a credulous faith. 
 It ought to be so presented that they 
 will think of it as an intelligent, loving 
 obedience to a system of truth which 
 has the closest logical relation to a good 
 life — a system of truth whose real ten- 
 dency is, not to make reason receive 
 trom faith the check of any timidity, 
 but rather, to make reason receive from 
 faith the stimulus of the grandest cour- 
 age — that courage which dares to trust 
 the eternal excellence and the eternal 
 safety of truth. Christianity is an ade- 
 quate cause for the production of all 
 that is strongest, and truest, and brave- 
 est, and noblest, in human character. 
 It ought to be so presented 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 Gambler. 
 
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