A POSTSCRIPT TO "AUBURN MEN IN OREGON.”

I omitted the name of Rev. R. J. Diven, '96, from the list of Auburn men in Oregon. Diven is a choice gift to this Synod. He was comfortably settled in a self-supporting church near New York city, at New Hamburg, when he heard the Home Mission call from Oregon. He resigned his pastorate and came out to Pendleton, then dependent on the Board. His church not only consented to his coming but paid his traveling expenses to the new field and gave the amount needed from the Board for its support until it came to self-support. He bought a parsonage, and then, feeling the need of the outlying regions, in Umatilla county, he resigned the pastorate of the Pendleton church and became an itinerant. He is the special missionary of the Men's League in one of the New Jersey churches which took up his proposition to develop a self-supporting circuit in ten years, on a sliding scale of help from the League. For two years he has been doing this arduous work. Already the proof of his wisdom is manifest. The Umatilla Circuit Church has been organized. It is some 125 miles in circumference and reaches not less than 1,000 people who, but for this move, would have been uncared for. It looks as though we must carve another field out of his circuit and put in another man. He has had some thrilling experiences. Once he barely escaped destruction in a cloud burst in a canyon of the Blue Mountains. In one place where he went to preach he was told frankly, "If you cannot preach better than the last man who was here you had better cut it short." Of course the "last man" was not a Presbyterian. After the service the one who had advised cutting it short, came to Diven and said, "You can come back here whenever you want to. You are all right." So

he is.

Then we have one more man, Rev. Edward F. Green, now with the Congregational Church at Corvallis. Green is doing well. The church is prospering and will soon come to self-support, so says the Congregational Superintendent for Oregon. It is barely possible that the Congregationalists will not keep Green always. He is a Presbyterian, as all Auburn men have to be.

CALLS.

W. S. HOLT.

Burns, William, '87, to Monroe, Mich.

Geddes, Daniel M., '01, Mayfield, N. Y., to Mansfield, Ohio, as assistant pastor.

Marsh, George H., '91, Lead, S. D., to Kilbourne, Wis.

INSTALLATIONS.

Gutelius, Stanley F., '04, Corning, Iowa, January 26, 1906.

McMaster, Edward A., '89, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., January 4, 1906. Pickard, Darwin F., '01, Albion, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1906.

RESIGNATIONS.

Sloat, Emmet, '97, Livingston Manor, N. Y.

Goss, Charles F., '76, of the Avondale church, Cincinnati, Ohio. Fraser, S. L., '01, Knox, N. Dakota to Stavely, Alberta, Canada.

DEATHS.

Burkhardt, John, '81, Brownville, N. Y., December 21, 1905.

CHANGES OF ADDRESS.

Holt, W. S., '73, from 350 14th St. to 782 Commercial St., Portland, Oregon.

Koons, S. E., '79, from Canton, S. D. to Bronson, Ia.

Mitchell, Wm. J., '00, from Rapid City, S. D. to Brighton, Wash. Pershing, O. B., '00, from Niagara Falls, N. Y. to Athens, Ohio. Quick, Calvin P., '64, from Concord, Mich. to 35 Sibley St., Detroit. Reed, Newton L., '83, address is Rio Pedras, San Juan, Porto Rico. Scott, Robert D., '75, from Joliet, Ill. to 167 Dearborn St., Chicago. Smead, Edgar M., '98, from Milford, Pa. to Montgomery, Pa.

'28. We are indebted to the Michigan Presbyterian for an interesting account of the life of Rev. George Hornell, one of Auburn's pioneer missionaries. The account is in the form of a paper read at the seventieth anniversary of the church at White Lake, Mich., over which Mr. Hornell was installed pastor in 1837, and near which he is buried.

'46. H. A. Nelson, D. D., Wooster, Ohio, has an article on "The Infinite Magnanimity of God" in a recent issue of the Herald and Presbyter.

'53. The Ellinwood Memorial Training School for Christian Workers at Manila has been named in honor of Frank F. Ellinwood. '63. D. Henry Palmer, D. D., after thirty years of service has resigned at Penn Yan, N. Y., the resignation to take effect in the spring. '67. The Interior of recent issue contained an article by Hermon D. Jenkins, D. D., on "A College for Girls Beyond the Equator.” '70. S. J. Fisher, D. D., in the February Assembly Herald has two articles: "Mr. Doubtful and Mr. Hopeful," and "A White Woman's Handshake."

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The Inward Light is the title of a new book by Rev. A. H. Bradford, D. D., of Montclair, N. J.

'71. John Gordon, D. D., has resigned the presidency of Howard University, Washington, D. C.

'75. "The Iroquois-After Many Days" is the title of an interesting article in a recent number of the Assembly Herald, by Morton F. Trippe, Salamanca, N. Y.

'76. Charles F. Goss, D. D., in the Westminster of January 20, 1906, has an article on Applause in Church." 'Just a Minute,' is the title of his new book. It is made up of brief daily readings, helpful and inspiring in their message.

'79. Charles T. Burnley of Hudson, Wisconsin, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of his church, with beautiful and interesting services on December 22.

Hiram F. White has an interesting article in the Assembly Herald, "After Ten Years," which is a review of the work done among the Spokane Indians, Washington.

'80. Westminster Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., Frederick Campbell, D. D., pastor, recently celebrated its semi-centennial, with very interesting services.

'81. Robert F. Coyle, D. D., of Denver, Colo., was in Philadelphia in January attending the General Assembly's Evangelistic Committee, of which he is a member.

'82. Stanley B. Roberts, D. D., celebrated his sixth anniversary as pastor of Bethlehem church, Minneapolis. Three hundred sixty have been added to the church in that time. A chapel costing $12,000 has been built and besides this $30,000 have been contributed for benevolences and current expenses. The membership of the church is now 478.

'84. Arthur W. Spooner, D. D., assisted in the Chapman evangelistic campaign, Syracuse, N. Y.

'86. John Calvin Mead, D. D., of Philadelphia has been designated by the General Assembly's Evangelistic Committee to do work in S. Dakota. He has already held meetings with excellent results at Bridgewater, at Dell Rapids and at Scotland.

Daniel J. Many, jr., during the five years' pastorate of the Westminster Church, Manchester, N. H., has removed the heavy debt of over $7,000.

'87. The First Church, Niagara Falls, N. Y., is hoping to welcome A. S. Bacon back to his work the first of March. He has been in ill health and unable to fulfill his duties for almost a year.

'88. E. H. Jenks, D. D., sailed from New York February 8 on the steamer Arabic for Palestine and on his return will visit in Europe. '89. George A. Blair of South Butte, Mont., has just concluded a series of two weeks' meetings. He has been doing excellent work on this difficult field.

'90. C. H. Fenn, D. D., Pekin, China, has contributed to the Assembly Herald an entertaining and helpful article on "The Root that Cleaves the Rock."

'94. C. C. McGinley is closing his fifth year of a successful pastorate of the Independence Church, Mo.

George H. Feltus has an article in the Presbyterian of January 17 entitled "The Well Within."

'96. H. F. Ellinwood of Medina, N. Y., is much in demand at different evangelistic meetings. He has helped at Lockport, Carlton and Holley.

'98. H. H. Barstow recently contributed to the Westminster "A Daily Prayer."

Herbert R. Burgess, pastor of the Mutchmore Memorial Church, Philadelphia, received twenty persons at the last communion.

'99. J. Elmer Russell has an article in The Interior of January 18 on "The Village Minister as an Institutional Worker."

F. A. Heizer of Lineville, Iowa, recently received five members into his church and organized a Y. P. S. C. E. of forty members.

J. VanKirk Wells, jr., organized a church at Pike, N. H., so says the United Opinion. The new church began with a membership of fifty.

'00. Murray S. Howland, Syracuse, N. Y., contributed an article to the Westminster for January entitled," Our Church's Opportunity." Leon Arpee, Richwood, Ohio, will have in the next issue of The American Journal of Theology an article on "Armenian Paulicianism and the Key of Truth." Later he will publish a book on the same

subject.

'02. Henry Nelson Bullard contributed "God Cares for His Own" to the Westminster of February 10.

The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Portland, Oregon, has unanimously called John R. Welch from his Home Mission work to become their pastor. He has decided to accept. He will come to the new work March first.

TO THE FACULTY AND BOARD OF MANAGERS OF AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY:

We, the alumni of Auburn Seminary in the Synod of Missouri, assembled at Synod in Brookfield, Missouri, send filial greetings to the Seminary.

We have a growing appreciation of the splendid character and work of our beloved alma mater and rejoice with you in her enlarging usefulness. We wish to assure you of our continued loyalty and affection for the Seminary which has done so much for us in preparing us for the service of the Master.

We have the pleasure of inscribing ourselves

Yours most sincerely,

SAM'L L. MCAFEE, '71,
L. C. GRAY, '75,

C. C. MCGINLEY, '94,

J. N. MCGINLEY, '94,

J. H. ALEXANDER, '97,

HENRY NELSON Bullard, '02.

CALENDAR.

Jan. 8. Opening of Seminary with Evening Worship.
Dr. Hoyt, The Strength and Weakness of Young Men.

Jan. 15. Dr. Miller, The Background, of God.

Jan. 16. Mr. Burt of Chicago at Silliman Club House, "Boys' Clubs."

Jan. 22.

Prof. Reed, The Thorn in the Flesh.

Jan. 24. Dr. A. F. Schauffler, The Minister in Relation to his Sunday-school.

Dr. Schauffler, The Stereopticon in Church Service.

Feb. 5. Dr. Stewart, Memorial service for Dr. Darling.

Feb. 8-9.

Church.

Mid-winter Conference, Some Present Problems of the

Feb. 12. Rev. W. C. Spicer, Missionary Methods in the Home Church.

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Feb. 19. Dr. Beecher, Memorial service for Mr. Putnam.

The Mid-winter Conference was a "great" success. The "Problems of the Church" which were discussed, brought new and old lights to bear in a way that made many perplexing questions a thing of the past. One striking feature was the emphasis put upon the word problem." This was made to mean opportunity." When we find problems we have a chance to show our strength and ingenuity. The topics which are year by year discussed at these conferences make the meetings of vital importance. The subject given for consideration this year, "Some Problems of our Church," was by no means less important than those heretofore. But when these problems came to be presented in a way such as only master-minds can do, we feel that the judgment is well attested by all who were present that this year's conference was one of the most inspiring we have had. To all there came the impetus and determination which makes mountains dwindle to mole-hills and the mole-hills fade into insignificance. Some of the subjects which have been treated at the Mid-winter Conference are :

1900 The Minister a Man to Win Men.

1901 The Church and the New Century.

1902 The Spiritual Life and Evangelistic Work.

1903 The Home Church and the Missionary Problems. 1904 The Sunday-school.