yN- ' 1 Y o ,"' C \ j aa ,, , R. W. PATTlE RSON , eJE NUS RY1BULRN, 'd itor-in-Cief. Liteary Editor. JOHN H. SCOTT, Local Editor. Vol. X. NOVMER, 18 79. No. 2. I CONTENTS. PAGE. History of the Class of 1874 in the I. W. U,.....25 Prof. Kate B. Ross. The Bible in the Public School.-Geo. D. King,..27 \ Edmund Burke-Robert Van Pelt.................... 32 Ourselves-David H. Gillan ........................... .:35 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT : Editorial,............37 Ode to Miu'ralogyClass 46 o. Locals, ................. 44 Personals................ 46 ° Exchanges ............ 45 Book Reviews......48 L OOIiffA 4 T 7 fvLL.dll P!I /-7/?FS C~iadBi6PJWIKGI.NIliI; C~dQ icri Rev. WV.H. R. ADAMS, D. B.. President, Rev. G. W. GRAY, A. M., D.D., and Professor of Ethics and Metaphysics. Professor-elect, and Financial Secretary for Illinois tconterence. H. C. BEMOTTE, Ph. D., Vice-President, Rev. R D. PRUSSELL, A. M., and Stamper Professor of Mathematics. Professor-elect. and Financial Secretary of G. R. CROW, A. M., Cent rat IllinoisConference. Professor of Latin Language and Literature. R. M. BENJAMIN, A. M., Dean of Law College, Elementary Law. J. B. TAYLOR, A. M., Professor of Natural Science and German. OWEN T. REEVES A. M., SUE M. B. FRY, A. M., Torts and Equity. Professor of Belles Lettres. ORLANDO W. ALDRICH, Ph. D., H. H. BROWN, A. M , Contracts and Real Property. Professor of Natural History and Physics. LAWRENCE WELDON, Rev. S. VAN PELT, A. B., Pleading.. Professor of Elocution. A. G. KARR, LL.B., Evidence and Criminal Law. CHARLES M. MOSS, A. M., Rimber Professor of Greek and Hebrew. J. F. FARGO, Voice Culture and Musical Elocution. G. REYMOND, FLORA M. HUNTER, Professor of German. Piano Forte and Harmony. B. P. MARSH, A. M., M. B., MRS. LAURA B. HIUMPHREYS, Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology. Voice Culture. 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In the fall of '75 except that of '79 ; being unable to re- he joined the Illinois Conference, and turn to his Alma Mater at this time, he was sent to Downs, where he remained was compelled to resign his position as two years. He then obtained a supernu- alumni orator. He reports being a Re- merary relation to the conference and publican, and as having attended the went to Madison, N. J., where he entered Centennial Exposition. He still remains Drew Theological Seminary; writing unmarried, and thinks it will be some from there, (May 14, 1879,) he says: time before the class historian will have "A few moments ago I closed my second that event to chronicle. His address for scholastic year." While attending Drew, one year will be Madison, N. J. "And he has had a charge near the Seminary; then," says he, "the universe. God thus, all the while since leaving college, only knows where. I expect to preach he has been preaching the Word of Life. so long as He permits me." He desires In answer to a question regarding the to be remembered kindly to all the stu- success of his labors, he says: "Perhaps dents of the Wesleyan, "and especially it does not become me to speak of suc- to the members of the dear old class cess in this work. Suffice it to say that of '74." -4 26 history of the Class of 1874, in the I. TV. U [N ov., And now comes from the classic centre Reformed Episcopal Church. My desire of the East a communication from one, was to get into a liberal orthodox church, styled by some in college days, "the lit- because I was convinced that I could not tle bishop." The record it brings is only preach the plain out-and-out, so-called, what might have been predicted by the evangelical doctrines. I found, howev- keen observer, who had studied the radi- er, that the leaders in the Church of the cal little Englishman found in the Wesley- Good Shepherd, and I, had very differ- an halls in '74. We cannot but express ent ideas of what " reform" meant, so I pleasure at the positiveness of character accepted a call to Emanuel Reformed which enables one to step boldly out of Episcopal Church, Louisville, Ky. Here old paths, however beaten, when to walk I found that my idea of "reform" was therein would be to sacrifice one's honest radically different from that of the Re- convictions of truth. formed Episcopal Church. They wished " CAMBRIDGE, MASs., May 20, 1879. to reform a few ceremonies for which I "Miss R-: did not care at all, whereas I wished a "Your letter requesting from me some radical reform in doctrines,-so radical, account of my life since graduation, is at indeed, in their eyes, that they held up hand. I graduated as A. B. from the their hands in holy horror, and doubted Wesleyan University, in June, 1874. the possibility of my becoming a R. E. That fall I took charge of the "Mosqui- C. minister. As I had doubts of a sim- to Grove University," commonly called ilar character myself, I quietly laid aside "school." The university, or "school," my priestly robes, and stepped down and as the vulgar will persist in calling it, is out of the R. E. C. pulpit. This brings about six miles west of Bloomington. I us up to the close of the year 1876, and was president, and professor of every- the only marked event other than what I thing from the A, B, C,'s, up to dear have mentioned, is the fact that I visited knows what. The experience of six the Centennial Exposition. The impres- months in the country forever cured me sion made on me was very broad but not of any poetical fancies I may have had very deep. On Easter of the year 1878, in regard to it-its green fields and sing- I joined the Fourth Unitarian Church of ing birds. If I were to write a poem Chicago. I was asked to preach in Yank- about it, it would be upon its mud and ton, Dakota, and Marshalltown, Iowa. mosquitos. These I refused, and came East to Har- "On the 22nd of October of the same vard; for I wished to see Unitarianism year, I was married to Miss Addie at its home. Shortly after coming East, Schmutz, of Bloomington. Having em- I was called to the Unitarian Church, igrated into this state, (the state of mat- Malden. This is a suburb of Boston. rimony,) I have only to say it is the best Here I found myself at home in thought state of union in which I have yet been, and work. Our church is a small but though I have been in no less than ten promising one. Last Easter I was called or twelve other states of the Union. to the Unitarian Church, of Keene, N.