College News and Other Items
By Editor
Our readers will miss the usual article on our first page from Mrs. E. G. White. We hope to have an article from her pen next week, but may not receive it in time. We learn from the Review and Herald that the winter term of the Battle Creek College opens December 11. Eternity alone will fully reveal the good which this institution has done for the cause of present truth. Many of the most valuable and efficient workers in different parts of the great harvest-field received their training in this institution. May it continue to prosper till the work is done. For further information see advertisement on another page. Not much dependence can be placed in wills when the fact is taken into consideration that even so eminent a lawyer as the late Samuel J. Tilden failed to make a will which would stand the test of the courts. One clause in his will specified that a certain part of his estate should be applied by the executors to such educational and charitable purposes as would, in their judgment, "render the widest and most substantial benefit to the interests of mankind." On account of the indefiniteness of this provision, virtually giving the executors the power of willing away his residuary estate, the court declared the clause to be of no effect, and the property will go to the legal heirs.