p. 52 | OUR COLLEGE by Albert Stone

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 15, 1877

OUR COLLEGE.

By Albert Stone

The fair prospects of the school at the opening of the present term is a just occasion of gratitude to God and of encouragement to his people. That such an institution, freighted with blessings for the cause of truth, should receive strength, rise up, and walk, on so short notice, is little less than a marvel.

Our people not only have contributed of their means to this worthy object, but what is just as requisite, they are making a good contribution of their sons and daughters, to enable the institution to carry out its benevolent designs. This is, indeed, like transplanting choice flowers from the wilderness, where they are liable to be deformed, and even destroyed, by ruthless hands, to the choice garden carefully prepared for them, where they may be cultivated and trained by skillful hands.

This is as it should be. Still let them come; there is room for many more. May those sons be as plants grown up in their youth, and those daughters as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. Ps. 144:12.

As a matter of further encouragement, we are informed that many of these have an eye to the vineyard of the Lord as the field of their future labors. May God bless and prosper our college is the prayer of many hearts.

ALBERT STONE.