Grinnell College - Cyclone Yearbook (Grinnell, IA)

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REV. IJAN FREEMAN BRADLEY, D. D. REV. EPHRAIM ADAMS, D. Il. . REV ALVAH L. FRISBIE, D. D. M. AUSTIN, LL. B. . HON.JAMES A SVIIFH GERSHOM H. HILL, A. H. H. ROBBINS, A. M. ALBERT SHAW, PH. D. E. W. CLARK, M. D. SAMUEL A. MERRHI., REV. JAMES L. HILL, D. D. . REV. EDMUND M. VITTUM, D. D. . RICHARD JONES. PH. D. xx . TIQTISTEE Grinnell Waterloo . . Des Moines Chicago Heights, Illinois . . . Osage . Des Moines . . Grinnell . New York City . Grinnell . . Des Moines Salem, Massachusetts . . Grinnell . Nashville, Tennessee REV. HENRY W. TUTTLE, D. D. . Manchester CHARLES MCKEEN DUREN . . . . Eldora NEWTON F. HAWLEY, A. M. . Minneapolis, Minnesota HENRY W. SPAULDING . . Q. Grinnell HON. JACOB P. LYMAN. LL. B. . . Grinnell STEPHEN H. HERRICK, A. M. Riverside, California ROGER LEAVITT . . Cedar Falls JAMES G. OLMSTED . . Des Moines Alumni Efruzfters HARLEY H. STIPP, PH. B., Class of 1896 . . Des Moines REV. JOHN P. CLYDE, PH. B, Class of 1894 . Watertown, S. D. H. H. KENNEDY. LL. B., Class of1883 . Chicago, Illinois -8..-

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and self-governing democracy. Only those who have lived outside of these blessings can realize what it is to come intotheir possession, making them a personal choice and basing the whole life henceforth upon them. j I think I am not wrong in saying that Dr. Steiner possesses two supreme devotions and that it is not unlikely his future career will grow out of these and be deeply concerned with them. He has a consuming desire to guide and to interpret the great Slavic immi- gration into this country. He has a great many times, as he tells in one of his lectures, sailed from Europe to America in the midst of the immigrants of that race. He has done so partly from the desire to understand as well as to instruct them, and partly from the desire to study the conditions under which they are admitted and to expose some of the terrific injustice from which they suffer, at the hands of corrupt officials, when they first touch American soil. His next book will probably deal with the Slavic race, and coming from him it ought to be one of absorbing interest and of the greatest value. The second subject with which the mind of our hero is continually concerned is the relation of the Gospel of Christ to the development of social life. Indeed, it is to this subject that he is committed, as occupant of the Chair of Applied Christianity in Iowa College. His students already know with what scholarly methods he lays bare to them the roots of all social progress in the religious life of man, and above all in the religion of revelation. It is his aim, I believe, to make these relations ever more clear to the eyes of his students. He knows sociology, but is free from the vaporing of some sociologists, he is an evangelist, but free from the ignorance of some evangelists, he is a scholar and knows how to adapt scholarship to the needs of his pupils, he is an enthusiastic American citizen with the heart of the cosmopolitan and reconciler of races. In Dr. Steiner's eagerness and intensity one reads the greatness of his gifts. He is a many sided man-as a teacher, able to inter- est and awaken the intellect of the young, as a writer, able to unfold his topic in the clearest of flowing language, as a lecturer, witty, convincing, and passionate. I have tried not to exaggerate but to say a few warm words of one whom I have come to regard very highly, and from whom I, with many others, expect much, alike in the private friendship and the public service which he will yet render to us in the years to come. W. D. NIACKENZIE, Harford Theological Seinmazgf. , -7- -

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