Emmanuel Missionary College
By William Covert
In harmony with plans laid by the Emmanuel Missionary College Board and the Lake Union Conference Executive Committee, May 26, 1904, a special committee and a quorum of the college board met at Berrien Springs in Study Hall, June 12, 13, to transact business and advise as to work to be done in the college during the current season. The advice given three and one-half years ago for the removal of the college from Battle Creek is a matter of denominational history well known to our people. The subsequent movement to Berrien Springs in response to this advice is also well known. Much counsel from the same source that advised the moving of the college, has been given concerning the school work at Berrien Springs. This advice has also been followed, and the work done has been indorsed by Testimonies concerning it. During the time of the biennial session of the Lake Union Conference, arrangements were made which were approved by Sister White for Professors Sutherland and Magan to go South and engage in the educational work there. They proceeded almost immediately to carry out their plans for work in the South. This procedure made it necessary for this special meeting to be called to provide for the work of Emmanuel Missionary College. At the meeting of May 26, Prof. H. A. Washburn, of Bethel Industrial Academy, of Bethel, Wis., was selected to take the place made vacant in Emmanuel Missionary College by the resignation of Professor Sutherland. At the meeting of June 13, 14, arrangements were made for Professor Sutherland’s official connection with the college to close with the close of the summer school for teachers, August 16, and for Professor Washburn’s formal connection with the college as president to begin at the same time. A local executive committee and financial class will have charge of the details of business of the school. Elder Allen Moon, president of the Lake Union Conference, was made treasurer of the institution. Elder Moon’s close relation to the finances of the school comes in the place of that which Professor Magan resigns on going South. Professor Washburn will prepare the calendar for the coming year, but the industrial and Christian features of education in the school will remain unchanged. We are sorry to see these brethren leave Berrien Springs, but they are going to a needy field where the Lord has an abundance of work for them to do. By this move, the Lord’s work will be extended, and we hope, too, without injury to the cause of education in the place which they are leaving.