ganic whole, complete knowledge of any part sweeps into its scope a knowledge of the whole, and demands of the student of every branch, his allegiance to every other. So the great scholar and the broad-minded man is he who "leads a universal life with the truth he sees," and brings his special work into harmony with the world of truth outside. In this broad view, all professions and trades and walks in life, no longer isolated by the cold and selfish barriers of independence, are brought into a wondrous unity, when each can feel the thrill of the power it derives from all.

It is folly therefore to imagine, that a college course might without loss be dispensed with in taking up the pursuit of professional life. With a noble and ambitious nature, yearning to realize all the possibilities of being, there can be no divorce between general and special training. True eminence in any field of labor will tax to the uttermost the energies of even trained minds, and he will strive in vain, who seeks to supply the great wants of his being through the narrow avenues of a one-sided nature.

We came not here to-day to construct with argument and logic a defense of college training. Far be it from us to defend the right of existence of our alma mater! There needs no defense; nor do we seek to justify again to ourselves and before the world the toil, and struggle and self-sacrifice of fifty years. We have but to point to the glorious record and every hostile tongue will remain silent. It is for us only to give testimony to the untold value of a college course in giving breadth and depth and power to the pursuits of after life. It is for us rather, to consecrate ourselves anew to the spirit which multiplies temples of learning in every land and in every clime. And looking backward to-day across the years to our college days, we declare again and again that we made no mistake when we took up the duties, burdens and struggles of college life. No, by all that we value most in life; by the hopes that were

wakened within us, and by the blessings already received; by the lessons of patience and toil, of purpose and manhood which the years have taught; by all these and more do we declare that these years, whatever may have been our subsequent lot, we did not spend in vain, but they will ever be hallowed, will ever be consecrated far beyond the power of human speech to exalt or depreciate. There may be a discount on time spent in other ways, but there can never be a discount on the time spent here.

But not only is a college course of value in expanding the intellect and fitting it for a broader scope of action in every field of labor; not only does it develop character, awaken lofty ambitions, and teach lessons of true manhood, but its very memory becomes a living spirit to mould and to shape one's life, and to "breathe upon it perpetual benedictions." Happy he whose life is filled with sacred memories! Happy we who can look back upon the hallowed recollections of college days! Who shall say that their influence shall ever cease? Have they not become a part of our very being, giving color, and form and vitality to all the activities of life? Has not memory kept alive our friendships and united us all into one harmonious brotherhood? Have we not been humming to ourselves from year to year the familiar strains of our college songs, while without a voice to join us, we have pursued our lonely paths?

"Time but the impression deeper makes

As streams their channels deeper wear."

In happiness and prosperity we have looked back to college days, and been aware of their significance and been thankful for their influence. And in those days of suffering and toil, of adversity and calamity which are the common inheritance of man, we have learned to cast our eyes hitherward toward the days which are now ended and have tried to quit us like men and to calm our restless spirits in the thoughts of other years.

And so having made to-day this pilgrimage, to the altars of our early hopes and ambitions, and having laid a silent offering upon the shrine of bye-gone days, let us depart with renewed determination that the altar fires kindled fifty years ago, shall never grow dim and that the smoke of their incense shall rise forever toward heaven's eternal blue.

It is a matter of much regret that the address of President J. W. Strong, of Carleton College, the next speaker, who brought "Greetings from Daughter Colleges, cannot be reproduced, Dr. Strong having been obliged to speak without manuscript.

THE COLLEGE AND MISSIONS.

REV. JOHN P. HALE, D. D., CLASS OF 1871.

CHICAGO.

It would be strange indeed if a college, founded in the spirit and fed by the traditions of Beloit, should close its first half century without having made some worthy mark on the Missionary record of the time. Professor Emerson has told us that the college is the child as well as the mother of missionaries, both home and foreign: and that "Beloit is in the heart of our country, which is the heart of the world that is to be; and all the world is in her heart."

Among the founders and early friends of the College were J. D. Stevens, Jeremiah Porter, O. F. Curtis, L. H. Wheeler, S. R. Riggs, and the Caswell, the Montgomery and the Richardson families, all of whom had been in the missionary work at home and abroad. Their sons are among the missionary sons of the College.

The third class which was graduated furnished the first of our missionaries, and he preached to the Indians. This was Asher W. Curtis, of '53, who labored among the aboriginees in New York state, where his father had nobly stood before him. He is now a doctor of divinity at the head of a large institution for negroes in North Carolina. One of his brothers, Charles B. Curtis, of the class of '70, is engaged in a similar work in Alabama; another, William W. Curtis, of '70, is a missionary in Japan; their cousin, Willis Curtis Dewey, D. D., of '73, is at the head of the missionary work centered at Mardin, Turkey, while two other cousins, Alfred

C. Wright, of '80, and Otis C. Olds, of '86, are engaged in the work of the Mexican mission.

The first name of a foreign missionary upon our catalogue is that of Spencer R. Wells, of '59, who served in India until his health demanded his return, and then came back to toil a little longer and to die. He was not, however, the first upon the foreign field, for on the outbreak of the war he offered himself to his country. He left an arm at Vicksburg, and it was in that service and sacrifice for his country that he was led to the missionary service of his later life.

The name of Francis H. Caswell, of '63, ought not to be ommitted from this honorable roll, though he never reached his chosen field of Siam, to which he had consecrated himself, and where his father before him had labored. But his country called him as he finished his college course, and he fell in her service. His place in Siam was afterward filled by John H. Freeman, of '86, as that of Wells in India was filled for a period, all too brief, by Frederick H. Northrop, of '85, who died at his post in 1891.

It is interesting to observe that the flame of patriotism and sacrifice kindled by the war just preceded the heroic years in the College missionary history. Some of our noblest representatives abroad, like Wells, Davis and Christie, were soldiers before they were missionaries. Before the soldiers had returned from the army, those who hoped to be foreign missionaries in the College had formed a circle of prayer, which resulted in the student's daily prayer-meeting, which was influential for many years in the college life. From 1866 to 1873 there was but one class that did not send its representative to the missionary field. The class of '66 gave Col. Davis to Japan; '67 gave Henry D. Porter, D. D., and Arthur H. Smith D. D., to China; and E. A. Wanless for a term of years to Bulgaria;- Mr. Wanless was one of the founders of the prayer circle and the first Beloit man to reach the foreign field, not waiting in this country for the