tional pastor in Seattle, after a term in Alaska; Rev. Horace M. Ramsey, '99, is an Episcopal minister at Faribault, Minnesota; Rev. Thomas Robinson, '04, is a Presbyterian minister at Wilson, Pennsylvania; Rev. A. B. Snider, '91, is a home missionary pastor at Jennings Lodge, Oregon; Rev. D. John Taylor, '12, is located at Dover Center, Ohio; Rev. J. Elkanah Walker, '67, is a missionary in Shaowu, China; Rev. Charles E. Ward, '12, is a Congregational minister at Toledo Ohio; Mrs. H. H. Atkinson, '99, is a missionary in Tur faith and devotion and sacrifice. This conviction is strengthened by the new emphasis on the need for Christian leadership-a need which Pacific University is well prepared to aid in supplying. The motto of the college, "For Christ and His Kingdom, represents the center and base of the work and ambition of the institution. High educational standards have always been maintained and strong Christian character has been uniformly a first consideration. The faculty has been made up of men and women of sterling character as well nell. The faculty have been making wonderful sacrifices and carrying great burdens. Up to this year the regular salary of a professor was $1,100; this year it was increased to $1,200. At the midwinter meeting the board decided that the salary must be increased to $1,800, and that several new men must be added to the faculty. The program for the next year, therefore, calls for an expenditure for salaries of about $20,000 more than this year. The alternative was closing the school, which was un thinkable. During the war the student body was greatly reduced. All the boys entered the service. The fall of 1918 opened with only two boys at Pacific. One of these had been rejected because of physical disabilities and the other was a Japanese. A wonderful spirit of loyalty and determination characterized students and faculty, who fought a winning battle through these trying times. Now the boys are back, and the enrollment in the col lege department is larger than ever before. It includes about forty-five ex-service men, to whom the college is giving free tuition. A few types in the student group may be mentioned to illustrate the character of the student body: Here is a Japanese boy, whose father publishes the largest Japanese paper on the Coast. He has been in the college for three years, and expects to graduate next year. He attended the Des Moines Convention and came back filled with enthusiasm for a unified Christian program in the Orient. Here are two sisters, one a senior and the other a freshman, fine, capable girls, as you would expect from the fact that their name is Brown and they belong to the "Grandma'’ Brown family. We have with us a young man whose father was for years president of Northland College and who is now making periodical visits from his home in Forest Grove to the lumber camps of the Northwest coast. Here, too, is a sturdy young freshman, a grandson of Prof. Joseph W. Marsh, who gave forty years of devoted, sacrificial service to Pacific University. Then there is a serious-minded sophomore, who spent some years as a forest ranger, and, in the quiet and isolation of that occupation, developed the habit of clear thinking in directions not always conventional but always moved by high ideals and with the greater brotherhood in mind. We have also in the university an ambitious freshman girl and her brother, a physical giant, who belong to the Walker family, another name significant in the history of the school. Then there is a senior who was with the engineers in France. He declined an offer of $250 a month as an engineer in order to come to Pacific and finish his college work. Among our students there is a Greek boy who came to this country shortly before we entered the war. When America joined the Allies he decided that, to be true to his new idea's as an American, he must enlist in his country's service. There is a minister studying here who is receiving aid from the Home Missionary Society. He has been doing great work among his own people -Finnish-in a neighboring town, to which he goes every week end in order to take care of his church services. services. His loval work with his people has won for him the active. hostility of an anarchistic group of his own nationality. But he "carries on" faithfully and courageously. The work of Pacific University is heartily endorsed by Congregationalists. The president was moderator at the last State Conference meeting, and the dean is assistant moderator for the next Conference, which meets at Forest Grove. The president and Dr. Bates are members of the State Conference board. The Congregational pastor, Rev. W. Walter Blair, has been giving in the college, with out remuneration, a thoroughgoing, inspiring course in biblical literature. The Young People's Committee, the Education Committee, and the Pacific University Committee of the State Conference have have expressed themselves enthusiastically with regard to the work and opportunity of the college. The college is in a critical condition financially. Unless aid comes speedily and in considerable amount the institution will be compelled to close. Some of the painful needs at the present moment are the following: Funds T to replace overdrafts amounting to $53,000; large additions to endowment, which should be more than double the present amount, and, in the meantime, contributions to current expenses-the deficit this year promises to be about $5,000; a men's dormitory; a central heating plant; a new science building. Pacific University urges all friends of Christian education in the Northwest to investigate thoroughly its work and field and needs, with the conviction that such an investigation will result in assuring the continuance of the school in the spirit of its consecrated founders and supporters down through its history. In the future, even more than in the past, home missionary churches must turn for their men to just such institutions as Pacific University, and therefore it would be a distinct calamity to allow such a school as this to close or to compel it to limp along on a crippled, inefficient basis. MAKERS OF AMERICA By Rev. Elwell O. Mead, Georgetown, Conn. (Concluded) HEREUPON they organized themselves into a church in which they could have freedom to express their convictions and thus came into existence the First Congregational Church of Chicago, not for the sake of having a Congregational church, but for the sake of having a church in which a crime against humanity could be fought openly. Besides settling and shaping the destiny of the original Northwest Territory, Congregationalists have made two other marked contribu tions to our country's expansion. Marcus Whitman, the missionary sent to the Pacific Northwest by Congregational money, saw with clearer eyes than Congress, as is often the case, the value and importance of the great Oregon country. When our national politicians turned a deaf ear to his plea, he went up to New England and led from there a colony of a thousand across the continent, and that company's influence triumphed over the purposes of the Hudson Bay Company and helped to win the region for the United States. A century ago, New England began sending Congregational missionaries to the Sandwich Islands. They and their children and their children's children made those islands an outpost of civilization, and it is owing to what they did that that group, rechristened "Hawaiian," is now a part of the territory of the United States. Of course a people animated by such a wide interest in human welfare were a missionary people. They organized the first home missionary society in the United States and the second, but they did not call them. Congregational. They organized the first foreign missionary society in the United States and called it the American Board because they wanted to send the Gospel to the heathen and not denominationalism. The Presbyterian church and the Dutch Reformed church at first were a part of this body, but afterward, on their own initiative, withdrew to form separate denominational missionary societies. Congregationalists sent the first medical missionary into the foreign field. Over a century ago the American Board organized its Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut. Here, for a decade, it tried out the plan of training in this country young people of other lands to be leaders in religion and education on their own soil. From this experiment it was decided that the better way was to train them in their own country, and recently a missionary official of another denomination said that we have the finest corps of native leaders on foreign soil. Let me now make the acid test of our knowledge of our own faith and works. Everybody knows and loves the Catholic saint, Father Damien. But how many know that seven years before Father Damien went to Molokai a Congregational church. was organized in that leper colony in the very year that it was established by the Hawaiian government? And from that day to this, we have had heroes and faithful leaders there, quiet and modest, but never flinching or faltering. One of our fundamental principles has always been that every human soul had the right to the best development of which it was capable, and so Congregationalists have been foremost in all matters of education. We established public schools at a time when Governor Berkeley of Virginia was thanking God that there were no common schools in his domain. Forty-two colleges in the United States owe their existence to Congregationalists, and when we add first-class academies and state uni versities organized by our leaders, the percentage of higher educational institutions given to this country by us is amazingly beyond that of any other denomination. The movement for the higher education of women had its birth in Congregationalism. Its historic landmarks are the female seminary established at Troy, New York, by Emma Willard in 1823, the opening of the academy at Bradford, Massachusetts, to girls in 1828, and the founding of Mount Holyoke Seminary at South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1837. The first school of college grade in the United States to admit young women to all its privileges, on an equal footing with young men, was Oberlin, and coeducation, begun in that Congregational school has continued as a movement until most of the colleges and universities of our land recog nize the right of girls to the same educational privileges as boys. We have always believed in an educated ministry, and so we have founded nine theological seminaries, and in the mountain range of theological leaders stand five lofty peaks: Jonathan Edwards dominated the ligious thinking of New England for 150 years, and "New England sits by every fireside of the land." Horace Bushnell enriched and sweetened and broadened Edwards' theology and his "Nature and the Supernatural" and "Christian Nurture" are still classics of religious thinking. Henry Ward Beecher vitalized religious truth with his tremendous personality, and the spontaneous overflow of his rich nature was felt in every hamlet and home. Washington Gladden made the whole country realize that Christian truth found its natural expression in sociology quite as much as in theology, and counted no doctrine sacred and no property worth while unless acquired by honest effort and used for the service of humanity. Henry Churchill King has made all who know his teachings appreciate that Jesus Christ reveals to us what God re |