Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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was so until faith and duty placed their heavy weights in the scales. In Dart- mouth College a first-honor man, among the highest at Andover 3 at Thetford and Owego, and on great occasions, as when he preached the annual sermon before the American Board, pleading for a lost World 5 and especially when, as under Beecher's church, he plead the cause of Wabash College, and most especially when in the twenty baccalureates of his presidency he plead for the highest and best education of young men for the sake of country and the world, President White was a great preacher. He was heard with intense admiration in the churches of the East and the West. Robust in thought, Ciceronian in style, and profoundly emotional, he was regarded with peculiar partiality. Dr. White was amply worthy of the fine words with which his friend and associate, Prof. john L. Campbell, summed up his character, Dr. White was of the highest style a Christian scholar. These words state the blessings with which Wabash College was enriched until the translation of President White occurred. Between two golden mile-posts-the consecrating prayer in the forest, November 22, I832, and the translation of Dr. White, October 29, 1861- the space is occupied with grateful surprises, blessed repetitions of T he unex- pected, because ey' God. And it is certain the last for the College has not yet been reached. , -. ga., ,...- ' G S ul ' 'W 'Q'

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expect a favorable consideration! It is true that in this new country were noble men and women- the salt of the earth -a fact which greatly softened the hardships without entirely correcting them. Imagine the city pastor's surprise as he received this call, and the almost amused excitement with which he repeated to his wife the contents of the agent's communication? Who could have anticipated it? And yet the city pastor consented to go to the Wabash Valley, and the College l1ad found a President! This was a remark- able incident, and with it is to be associated another-that within a few months the agent and the President-elect collected in New York and its vicinity twenty- four thousand dollars-relatively the greatest cash-gift the institution has ever received. And again we resort to Victor Hugois philosophy of Waterloo z The unexpecfed, because of God. In the surprises of life, especially in dark periods, is found peculiarjoy. In this respect Wabash has had a singularly happy experience. Professor Hovey, the Treasurer, relates the fact that in more cases than one the College notes had been saved from protest by unlooked-for interpositions. In one instance a large note unexpectedly was paid by a new friend, whose kindness did not stop there. In another case the presentation of the wants of the College in a New Jersey church arrested the interest of a stranger casually present. It resulted in large and timely gifts. Quite similar have been the interpositions in several dangerous crises. It might seem invidious to name a few without naming all. Nor is it necessary. These noble friends poured out hundreds of thousands to help the institution. Their gifts have ranged, as appear on the books of the College Treasurer, from the smallest one of ten cents to the largest one of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The sum total is large, and the results in equipments and endowments large. And once more I venture to introduce Victor Hugo's philosophy of the fate at Waterloo, The unexpected, because of God. Dr. Baldwin's influence in the college was in all respects great and benign, but his death, October 15, 1840, after five years' service, was regarded as a calamity. But in methods very ex- traordinary the Rev. Charles White, D. D., of Owego, New York, was induced to accept the vacant Presidency. As in the former case, it was a matter of Surprise tl1at he should leave his beautiful home in the valley of the Susque- hanna. The correspondence shows that he did it under the constraint of duty. In his case, as in that of Dr. Baldwin, we still wonder at the choice. The balance of motives to eyes unannointed by faith seemed against it. And it

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