THE BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE by J. T. Richards; James Bartholf; O. A. Johnson; A. H. Wood; Augustus Sweedburg; Eli Miller; Wm. Gregory; Ira J. Hankins

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 9, 1876

THE BATTLE CREEK COLLEGE.

By J. T. Richards; James Bartholf; O. A. Johnson; A. H. Wood; Augustus Sweedburg; Eli Miller; Wm. Gregory; Ira J. Hankins

Realizing to some degree the importance of education, and appreciating the facilities and advantages over other institutions of learning in our land, afforded at the Battle Creek College, which we are now attending, we appeal to our people everywhere, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to send their children, that they too may enjoy the advantages of this excellent institution. We have here a large, commodious building, capable of seating at least four hundred students, situated in the most beautiful part of the city. There is no finer locality for a school in the State of Michigan.

Prof. S. Brownsberger, a graduate of Michigan University, is a teacher of several years’ experience. Prof. G. H. Bell is a teacher of nearly twenty-five years’ experience. The others are highly educated in their several departments. Such thoroughness in instruction and such clearness in imparting the same we have never found in other schools.

As the school is based upon Christian principles, and the faculty connected with it are all God-fearing men and women, parents need not fear to send their children. Here they will be free from the corrupting influences with which students are surrounded at other schools.

Few are too poor to come. The students’ boarding clubs are in active operation, and are proving a success; so that the expense for board necessary in attending this school is less than one-half that of any other in the land.

In view of these facts, we invite our young brethren and sisters to come and fill up our fine building. We promise you a hearty welcome. But especially we invite and urge our young brethren upon whom great responsibilities are resting in view of the shortness of time and the great work yet to be accomplished, to come and stay one term if they cannot stay longer, and prepare themselves to labor more successfully in the great harvest field.

Eld. Uriah Smith will begin his Biblical lectures about the first of January, and he can talk as well to the large hall full as to a few. Especially should those who contemplate entering the ministry, and those also who have been laboring with some degree of success, have the benefit of these lectures. It is unnecessary to say that as a lecturer and instructor Eld. Smith cannot be excelled even in the ranks of S. D. Adventists. As he is released from the duties of local editor of the REVIEW, he will have more time to devote to this important branch of the work.

This winter we hope to see no less than one hundred and fifty in this class. And why not? The work of the third angel’s message is fast advancing. The Lord is soon coming, and in what condition will he find us?

Shall we hoard up our riches, and neglect to secure such cultivation of the mind as will enable us to work acceptably for the Lord? In view of these great considerations, we would make an earnest appeal to our young brethren to make an especial effort to come to our college this coming winter, to attend the Biblical lectures.

J. T. Richards,           James Bartholf, O. A. Johnson,           A. H. Wood, Augustus Sweedburg,    Eli Miller, Wm. Gregory,           Ira J. Hankins, Niels Clansen,           W. B. Smith, E. H. Gates,             D. W. Reavis, Wm. Ellsworth,         Martin Olsen, Leroy Nicola,           Knud Brorsen, J. S. Shrock,             O. A. Olsen, Joseph Haughey,        George Gilbert.