Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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OR a College generation the students of Oberlin have not been able to meet for chapel services in their own chapel building. The present Senior class entered College after the old building was destroyed. During the interim chapel services have been held in the First Church and for a time during the present year in XVarner Concert Hall and in Sturges Hallj After a four years' exile the College is soon to occupy its new chapel home, the Finney Memorial Chapel. A This beautiful building occupies the site of the former Finney House, well known to Oberlin Alumni for many years as the home of President Finney, and was built as a memorial to him by his son, Frederick Norton Finney. There are perhaps no recollections of Oberlin College life that come oftener to the memory of her students after they have gone out into the world, and no associations dearer than those that are connected with the chapel. Here is the real heart of the College. Here all the students of all departments meet with the Faculties as a Christian College, recognizing each day the Christian principles and Christian leadership for which the College stands. The com- mon interests of -the entire College are voiced here, and here for four years the student meets his classmates and learns to know the stu- dent body. The new student lirst feels he is a member of a College when he takes his place in his first chapel service. The stranger in Oberlin gets his first idea of the College as something distinct from buildings and grounds when he sees the long lines pouring out across the Campus at close of chapel. The influence of the service for four years and the memories connected with it become for a majority of the students, one of the most precious possessions of student days. The new chapel gives us an opportunity to make this feature of our College life count for even more in the future than it has in the past history of the College. l D jfinmzp emurial Qlbapel ftEhtna1riJ Q. Miller

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,,,,k!,,,li,i P and up over the mountains five hundred miles If-15. A west of Peking, and down into the western plain mhz Ma FEES Q . . liibl' mimi 5 of Shansi plod the patient mules while the cara- . ',- v 7 . van makes its way slowly. Suddenly a head is thrust from the litter and a man's voice is heard, LQMKa'mvMi'n7 See! yonder walled city with its white pagoda. iipbid illlth HYCSQ' his Companion says, Yes, that is Taiku-Taiku toward ZlBahi5 which we have ever had our faces turned since that day in the class- room in Qberlin when Doctor Judson Smith inspired us with spirit for this journey and this far-away province of Shansi. Here we are at last. The voices were those of Dr. Atwood and Mr. Stimson, and the year was I882. They entered the great gate in the wall and jostled against the long-queued crowd as they made their way down the narrow street to the inn. They were really in Taiku, that great Chinese city where they were to live and work and found an Eastern Ober- linf' - Pk Dk Pk Pk Eighteenyears pass. Cn the great street of Taiku the doors of a shop stand open, but the sounds within are not those of trade 5 in- stead are the words of prayer and a hymn. It is communion Sunday, and one hundred and twenty men and women bow the knee to drink f'His cup.', The man speaking is a strong, stalwart Chinese, stand- ing over six feet in height. Eighteen years ago he was ia wealthy man, havinghis caravans of camels going back and forth. He, Mr. Liu, was at home near Taiku, smoking opium day and night, and gambling. All his property was being lost, and his children were running loose on the streets. Suddenly he came to himself one day, resolved that he would go to the hospital established by these Ober- lin men, and break away from his awful habit. Pacing back and forth, up and down the brick floor of his room, one night in the hospital, he was all but beside himself with the craze 24