Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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father to the man. At Bedford, at Massillon, at Cleveland, in the midst of a busy life he found time to superintend the Sunday School. And he was no figure head, he superintended : for always, whatever he did he did with his might. With the rise of the Foreign Christian Missionary Society and the increase of his own resources, Dr. Gerould's sympathies began to How in missionary chan- nels. He became a constant and generous giver. He gave time and thought and strength as well as money. As missionary clerk of the Euclid Avenue Church he doubled and quadrupled the annual offerings. He was the first among the Disciples to support a missionary in the foreign field. But that was only a fraction of his giving. He gave freely for all missionary enterprises, home as well as foreign. lt was an unrealized wish of his heart to build a home for missionaries in the Himalayas, where they could find rest and health during the fierce heats of an Indian summer. One of the finest manifestations of his large sympathy took the direction of Christian education. In a single season Mr. and Mrs. Gerould were bereft of their three little ones. But their sore hearts, instead of closing selfishly upon their own sorrow, opened wide to the world of children and young people. More than one did they help through school or college. Gne young woman on be- coming a Christian was disowned by her people. Dr. Gerould sent her to Bethany College and now she is a missionary in Africa. He gave liberally to the endowment of l-liram College. But the fairest fruitage of his beneiicence is the Missionary Cottage at Hiram. He spared no needful expense upon it. Nothing was too good for the young women who were to live there while gain- ing their education. But he wished its lJCl'lCl'-1Cl2lI'l6S to know that it was not for their sake alone, but for the Masters sake and for the world's sake. Freely they are receiving opportunities of Christian culture, freely they are to give back to a needy world. In harmony with this spirit of service several have already gone from the Gerould Cottage to various fieldsg Dr. Rose Oxer and Misses Mildred Franklin and Susie Rawson to India, and Jennie Britton and Blanche Beck to work among the negroes of the south. The last was hrst to fall at her post, the first to win the victors crown. Such is the story of a noble life. Dr. Gerould was not a rich man measured by the standard of those around him. He might easily have expended all his resources upon his own family and not have been thought extravagant. But he had learned at the feet of Him who came not to be ministered unto but to minis- ter. His was the joy of service in the thorn-paths of earthg his the Come ye blessed amid the unfading glories of heaven. B. S. DEAN. 24

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faculty. ELY VAUGHAN ZOLLARS, A. M., LL.D., Pzvsideaif, And Professor of Ethics and Bible Literature. GEORGE HENRY COLTON, M. S., Ph. D., Kerr Professor of Natural Science. GEORGE ALFRED PECKHAM, A. M., Ph. D., Professor of Biblical Languages. COLM.-.N BANCROFT, M. S., Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. BAILEY SUTTON DEAN, A. M., Professor of History. 26