pressing needs of this church is a house of worship. There has not
been, rain or shine, since I came here, a Sabbath congregation that
was not too large for our chapel. Growth is impossible. How it will
be during the college vacation, I cannot say; but during this college
year it has always been uncomfortably crowded, and every Sabbath has
overflowed up on to the platform. This morning all seats were filled
and extra benches occupied. The Lord's table was spread for His
people, and after a sermon from the text, "How can this man give us
his flesh to eat?" forty were received into the fellowship of the
church and welcomed to the table. Of these, thirty were baptized by
sprinkling. To those acquainted with the ways and prejudices of these
people, the fact that we sprinkled thirty, while we immersed only
three (these three were mature men), will be full of significance.
None others asked to be immersed, or suggested it.

This addition to our church embraced about one-third of the number
professing conversion during our recent series of meetings, conducted
by Brother Field. Others will come to us, but many who are students
here will join the churches at their homes. The success of those
meetings, reaching as they did every student in the college
buildings, with a single exception, was so notable that a word as to
the manner in which they were conducted may be of interest.

The beginning of the extra meetings was providentially postponed more
than once. They did not begin with the coming of the new pastor in
the fall, nor with the week of prayer, nor with the day of prayer for
colleges. These occasions were all used, but our extra meetings did
not begin until the desire for them and the feeling of our great need
of the Divine blessing had grown strong in the church, nor until they
had been talked and prayed over, prepared and planned for.

The meetings were held for a special purpose. They were for the
salvation of the students of the College. Students and church
members, teachers, professors, president and pastor--we all felt this
truth. But when every member of the College who felt that he was not
a Christian, was asked to write his or her name on a slip of paper,
and put it into the contribution basket at the chapel door when
coming into the first meeting--and lest any should fail, from any
cause, to give us his own name, every student was asked to furnish
the name of any unsaved fellow-student of whom he knew--the re