meeting of Synod at Newport, Oct. 11-14, 1906, send their greetings to you and through you to the faculty, students and governing board of the Seminary. We assure you all of our continued interest in and loyalty to Auburn, and of our prayers for her welfare and continued success. Only six of the Auburn men in Oregon were able to attend the meeting of Synod. Wm. M. Robinson, '59; W. S. Holt, '73; Tracy B. Griswold, '98; J. R. Welch, '02; H. T. Babcock, '05 and George T. Pratt, '05. These with Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Griswold, enjoyed a reunion dinner in honor of Auburn at the Hotel Irving at Rye Creek Beach, where we could hear the pounding surf of the old Pacific. Mr. Robinson entertained the party with accounts of student life in Auburn 'before the war.' Our enthusiasm for Auburn has not waned because we are over three thousand miles away. It is the purpose to have next year, an Auburn dinner in Portland, as Synod meets there, at which every Auburn man in Oregon shall be present. We hope there will be some with numerals later than, '05.'' The Auburn alumni resident in Detroit and vicinity, entertained President Stewart on December 17, at luncheon at Griswold House, Detroit. There were present William S. Jerome, '83; C. D. Jacobs, '85; A. H. Cameron, '86; D. I. Sutherland, '95; John Kennedy, '96; E. G. Hildner, '01; H. L. Crain, '05. There was plenty of good cheer and delightful fellowship and a full allowance of enthusiastic interest in Alma Mater. The President gave an account of the items of present interest in the life of the Seminary and of plans for the future. Every man present pledged anew his loyalty to the Seminary, which all deeply love. This meeting was made the occasion for the organization of the Auburn Alumni Association for Detroit and vicinity. Rev. A. H. Cameron, '86, was elected president of the Association and Rev. Harry L. Crain, '05, was elected secretary and treasurer. This is the fourth of the Auburn Alumni Associations to be organized and it will not be long before others will be formed in various parts of the country. Let the good work go on. The newest organization in the ministerial circles of Syracuse is a quartet composed of Alexander Wouters, ‘97, Syracuse; Edward J. Humeston, '03, Skaneateles; Wm. Sawtelle, '98, Fulton and J. M. Richardson, Syracuse. A number of graduates of Auburn Theological Seminary of Auburn, N. Y., enjoyed luncheon at the Parker House last Wednesday after noon, during which time the New England Alumni Association of Auburn Seminary was formed, with the Rev. William H. Allbright, D. D., as president, and the Rev. D. A. MacPhie, secretary. The luncheon was presided over by the Rev. G. B. Stewart, president of the Seminary. Among those present were the Rev. William H. Allbright of Dorchester, the Rev. H. A. Manchester of East Boston, the Rev. M. L. MacPhail of Boston, the Rev. D. A. MacPhie of the Evangelistic Association of Boston, the Rev. E. F. Bell of the American Congregational board, and the Rev. J. P. MacPhie of Lynn. There are over forty graduates of Auburn Seminary in New England. SEMINARY ANNALS. CALENDAR Nov. 5. Prof. Miller: "The Limits of Individualism." Nov. 12. Rev. R. C. Anderson of Robert College: "The Manliness of Missions." Nov. 14. Reception at Silliman Club to Mr. Brewer and quartet, by the ladies of the Faculty. Nov. 14. Mr. John Hyatt Brewer: "The Music of Worship,'' assisted by the quartet of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn. Nov. 19. Pres. Stewart : 'A Christianized Epicureanism.” Nov. 26. Dr. Beecher: "Thy Will be Done." Dec. 3. Dr. Riggs: "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." Dec. 4. Dr. J. Zimmerman, D. D., LL. D.: "The Religious, Moral and Social Conditions in India." Dec. 5. Rev. W. S. Dodd, M. D.: Mohammedans in Turkey." Dec. 6-9. Dayton Convention. Dec. 7. 66 "Christian Work Among Reception at Silliman Club by ladies of the Faculty. Dec. 10. Prof. Hoyt: Sustained Enthusiasm-the Power of an Ideal." Dec. 17. Reports from delegates to Dayton Convention, and Christmas Music. Dec. 21. Christmas vacation. Notice is hereby given that the Midwinter Conference announced for Feb. 7-8, 1907, will not be held. This change is made in view of the Convention of the Religious Education Association which will be held in Rochester on Feb. 5, 6, 7. It is obvious that the Conference and the Convention will appeal to the same local constituency and in order to avoid any conflict of interest it has been thought wise to omit the Conference. As the Conference has been held in observance of the Day of Prayer for Colleges, we will observe the day this year by meetings for prayer and informal addresses, designed particularly for the students. Association football has given place to hockey and basket-ball. Examinations are over, and the steady work of the second term has begun. Prof. William Adams Brown of Union Theological Seminary whose course in theology at Auburn was noticed in the last RECORD, will continue his course through a large part of the second term. Announcement of this arrangement was greeted with enthusiastic applause. Dr. Brown will be at Auburn every Friday, giving three lectures each week, so as to make another course as long as that which has been given this term. Of the talks given by the faculty, Dr. Stewart's is in a way the most thoroughly characteristic of the man. He gave us what we have all come to recognize as Dr. Stewart's own happy philosophy of life. He interpreted the book of Ecclesiastes as the book that, while frankly recognizing all the evil in the world, has as its keynote, "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth." After a lecture to the class in pastoral theology in which Dr. Stewart had shown the depths of evil and sin that the minister is likely to meet and have to cope with, even in his own congregation, this talk brought us back to the proper perspective with which to view life. "Don't be blind to the evil in the world, but yet enjoy life, and see the good in everything." The climax of the talk was reached, when Dr. Stewart told, according to his own storytelling art, the story of a Christmas poem he had just read. A mother was to give her small boy a Christmas party, but when the day came, he was sick in bed. The children were all allowed for a moment to come into his room, and silently and solemnly they filed past the bed. Then as he heard the playing in the next room and the opening of their Christmas presents, the sick boy piped up: "I do not care what you'se got On your big Christmas tree ; The lesson of optimism was complete. Dr. Beecher on his Monday night, conducted a service of song, or perhaps we might more properly say a sermon of song. Taking as his text the words of the Lord's prayer, “Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done," and as his divisions: (1) The will of God as the Supreme thing in the universe; (2) the will of God as making claims on us for moral obedience; (3) the will of God as covering the dark things of earth; and (4) the will of God as including the coming of his kingdom. He illustrated each division of the theme with some of the most beautiful of our familiar hymns. Dr. Riggs spoke on the petition, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one." The two temptations which he men tioned as especially insidious to us as seminary students were: (1) To substitute for personal communion with God the routine of study and work, spiritual truth as it is talked about instead of real fellowship, and (2) to talk of things that are not real to us as though they were real. Foreign missionary work has been presented to the Seminary from three different aspects. Professor Anderson of Robert College, Constantinople spoke of the "Manliness of Missions," from the point of view of a sympathetic outside observer on the field. After speaking of the various activities of the missionary, calling into play all the noblest qualities of the man, he closed in substance as follows: "It is not a rush of men that is wanted on the mission field,—it is the very best men that are wanted. The best in spirituality and deep faith, in common sense, in intellectual breadth, in culture, in sympathy, in patient energy. What is wanted are gentlemen in the broadest and highest sense. We want what you are getting here." Dr. Zimmerman of Syracuse who has traveled widely in the east as a student of conditions spoke of the moral and religious degradation of the people of India. The picture presented showed the naturalness, the cruelty and the indecency of the practices that are there carried on in the name of religion. Dr. Dodd, medical missionary from Cæsarea, Turkey, spoke of the beginning of direct work for the Mohammedans of Turkey. Hitherto evangelistic work among the Mohammedan Turks has been impossible for two reasons: first, the death penalty for apostasy, and second, the low spiritual and moral state of the American and Greek churches in Turkey. The character of these oriental churches has made Christianity a by-word in Turkey, and the argument, “By their fruits ye shall know them," has been a Moslem weapon rather than a Christian one. ་་ The first of these hindrances has not been abated, for though the usual penalty for apostasy is not legal execution, the same end is brought about by secret assassination or disappearance." The second hindrance is being done away by the growing realization among Moslems of the difference between Protestant and Oriental Christianity, and by the gradual reform that is being wrought through Protestant influence in the Oriental churches. The American Board has just made the decision to which they have been looking forward many years, that the time has come, in spite of the relentless opposition of the government, to begin direct and open work for the Mohammedans. One of the most effective ways of reaching Mohammedans in Turkey so far, has been through medical work. Dr. Dodd told of several |