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5'g3fg,f1gr r filllinois College--Tlferoic emo Tlfistoric -M5 . A band of young students at Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut, i during the school year of 1898, conceived tl1e plan of establishing in the west a college of liberal arts and Christian culture and volunteered to carry it into effect. There were seven of them --a perfect and sacred number. Do not for- get their names, or fail to remember what they planned and l1ow through those early yea1's they struggled heroically to make real their vision of a col- ' lege of Christian learning, in the formative period of the industrial and political history of the great commonwealth of Illinois. Here are their names: Mason Grosvenor, Theron Baldwin, John F. Brooks. Elisha Jenney, William Kirby, AsaTurner, and Julian M. Sturtevant. They were students in the Theological department of Yale College, and planned to come west as home missionaries. Their foundation for success and permanency was laid thus J early in the establishment of the Christian college Previous to that time, Rev. John M. Ellis, a Presbyterian minister, came west under the direction of the American Home Missionary Society,-came to Illinois-a. messenger inspired and sent of God to cry throughout the land Prepare ye the way for the incoming population, that will flood these ricl1 prairies by building churches, schools and colleges. For two years, 1826-28, amid otl1er duties, he was maturing a plan fora seminary of learning and was exploring tl1e counties of Randolph, Bond, Madison, Greene and other counties for the best location. Tl11'Ol1,9,'l1l'l16 press, in tl1e pulpit, at the fireside, with un- flagging zeal he pressed tl1e question, How shall the means of education be furnished to meet the wants of this growing stale? In Bond County, where tl1e first Presbyterian church organized in tl1e state, was located, he found sympathy and awakened interest, and efforts were made to locate the seminary tl1ere. He had a co-laborer in the person of T. Lippincott, who, one day dining with Judge Lockwood of Edwards- ville, afterwards of Jacksonville, and Dr. Todd of Springlield, was advised to suggest to Mr. Ellis the wisdom of inspecting the new counties of Morgan and Sangamon before tl1e location should be decided upon. The
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