3 THE GENERAL COUNCIL LUTHER LEAGUE REVIEW DEPARTMENT It will be of advantage to examine the excellence of the method and matter, together with lowness of prices of this series, when Sunday School Literature is under consideration. Subscriptions may begin any time, but quarterly publications are not furnished for a less period than three months, but at same rate as by the year. Samples and descriptive circulars will cheerfully be sent upon application. Order should be accompanied by check, postal or express money order, or if in small amounts, unused postage stamps will be accepted in payment. General Council Publication House, 1522 Arch St., Philadelphia. CHAS, B. OPP, Manager. A BOOK that every LUTHERAN should have. Proceedings, Essays and Debates AT THE FIRST General Conference of Lutherans in America, HELD IN Philadelphia, Dec. 27-29, 1898. This volume consists of 339 pages printed on laid paper, from clear, legible type, with illustrations of the buildings in which the sessions were held. It is handsomely bound in cloth, with gilt side and back title, making an acceptable addition to the library of the pastor or layman. As the edition is limited, orders should be sent at once. Price $1.50 Net, Postpaid. When three or more copies are ordered at one time to be sent to one address a special discount of twenty per cent. will be allowed. The LUTHERAN MANUAL. The FIRST BOOK of the Luther League Reading Course. Bound in Handsome Cloth. Sent, postpaid, to any address on receipt of $1.00. Remittances by money order, check or draft should accompany all orders. Lutheran Publication Society, 1424 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Something Entirely new! A Daily Calendar of Memorable Events A Calendar giving 365 notable dates, which mark the founding of that many Lutheran enterprises and institutions, in Foreign Missions Home Missions, Inner Missions, Deconess Works, Schools of Learning, Homes of Mercy, etc., in all parts of the world. This was projected at the recent National Convention of the Luther League of America at St. Paul, and is issued for the year 1903. In the issuing of this Calendar, the League has the co-operation of the Women's Missionary Societies of the General Synod, the United Synod of the South, and of the New York and New England Synod (General Council). Price, Twenty-five Cents, postpaid The Calendar is printed in the shape of a neat and attractive wall chart, and can be suspended on the door of one's bedroom, where it will be a reminder at the beginning of each day of some memorable event in our Church's history, and hence of constant use in our daily devotions. 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Reached by the Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central and This is THE COLLEGE for our Lutheran THE COLLEGE DEPARTMENT Furnishes full Classical and Scientific courses of four THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT Meneely Bell Company, WITTENBERG COLLEGE TROY, N. Y., -AND 177 Broadway, NEW YORK, Manufacture Superior Church BELLS. T' Of the Church-By the Church-For the Church Luther League Greater Muhlenberg College BY REV. C. J. COOPER HIS institution of learning, located in Allentown, Pa., founded in 1867, owned and controlled by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, "the mother Synod" of the Lutheran Church in this country, having outgrown its present quarters, has recently purchased over 50 acres of land near Allentown on which it proposes to erect a new and modern college plant. The illustrations accompanying this article show the front elevations of the main building and the Its Work HAL NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 319145 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1907 For 35 years Muhlenberg College has steadily kept these aims in view and has faithfully sought to attain the same. Over 2500 young men principally, though not exclusively, Lutheran young men have here, to a greater or less extent, laid the foundation for their life work. Those who finished the full course of four years and were graduated with the degree of A. B. number 531. This building will occupy the highest part of the new college grounds, facing south. It is to be 196 feet long and 62 feet deep, with a basement, and three stories in height; built of red brick with stone trimmings, in the English Renaissance style of architecture. The façade shows a central tower, equipped with a large clock and bell. This tower is flanked with gables on each end, the intervening wall being topped off with dormer windows. dormitory, two of a dozen and more buildings that will eventually be erected on the new grounds. According to its charter, "the object at which the college shall aim and toward which it shall constantly reach, shall be the securing of the broadest literary and scientific education of the best collegiate institutions, so as to give a thorough general culture and the preparation for all the professions and occupations to which learning is useful. The doctrines of the Lutheran Church shall be regularly and fully taught, her worship and usages shall be carefully preserved, and her spirit faithfully cherished." Over 50 per cent. of these have entered the Brook schools a Muhlenberg College man. lyn has six English Lutheran pastors who graduated here. Institutions of learning like Cornell, Leland Stanford, Girard College, Bryn Mawr, Wagner College, Thiel College, Gustavus Adolphus, Wartburg, and a number of Normal Schools have enrolled her sons as members of their faculty, while three of her own sons are at present filling as many of her own professorial chairs. Repeatedly have Muhlenberg men been elected to State and national legislatures, while scores of her graduates have enriched our literature as authors. Courses of Studies Muhlenberg College at present offers two courses of studies, the classical and the scientific, while in its new plant it is making as to those abundantly able to pay for the same, so that the expenses at Muhlenberg College, including tuition, room, heat and boarding, need not exceed $200, and may be reduced to $177. Building Fund It is proposed to raise $200,000 to provide what is necessary in the way of buildings, &c., in order to enable the institution to move from its present to its new quarters. For this purpose the laymen of the different counties in Eastern Pennsylvania have been organized by appointing an Executive Committee in each county, and through these appointing subcommittees in the congregations, who are to canvass the same with subscription blanks and contribution books. The general scheme of the proposed dormitories is to place them around a rectangle, 120 feet by 208 feet, adopting a typical Oxford or Cambridge system. They will be divided into sections holding from 12 to 16 students each. The elevation shown in this illustration will face south, and will be about 185 feet long, three stories high. This whole front has been selected by the Lutherans of Berks County to be called Berks Hall," and they have resolved to raise $35,000 to pay for its erection. It will accommodate about 75 students. Additional sections will be needed on the other sides of the quadrangle. Single sections will cost about $6,000. liberal provision for additional courses. Being conservative it is also safe in the guidance and direction of its courses of studies. It does not offer short-cut courses for a liberal education, believing that nothing has been discovered superior to the old time classical course for an all round liberal training, so that its scientific course is practically the same as the classical, with the exception of Greek, for which some additional scientific studies have been provided, designed more particularly for those who wish to enter a medical school. Endowment and Expenses During the last 35 years the college has accumulated an endowment fund of $164,000, by means of gifts, legacies and bequests. In this amount are included $35,000 for free scholarships of $1000 each, so that the institution is annually educating at least 35 young men free of tuition, the income of $1000 furnishing the cost of tuition. It has always aimed to afford its advantages to the young men of moderate means as well Over 1500 canvassers will thus be in the field securing subscriptions and contributions. The Alumni Association of the college is also raising a special fund to erect an Alumni Hall on the grounds. The Lutherans of Berks County have resolved to raise $35,000 to erect the front of the dormitory, and to call it "Berks Hall." The year 1903 ought to see this work well advanced. It is proposed to break ground in the spring and to prosecute the work as speedily as possible. Muhlenberg College is the oldest Lutheran college east of the Susquehanna River. It is in the center of a strong Lutheran constituency, to whom it appeals in the new undertaking for help and assistance. While we have not many millionaires in the Lutheran Church, we do have many people who can give their hundreds and their thousands, and then we have hundreds of thousands of Lutherans who can give their dollars and their tens. Erecting this new modern college plant will mean much for the future development of the Lutheran Church in America. |