Sheldon Jackson Correspondence 1895-1951/Box 1/Fd. 6

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have chapels and use them, but no Church organization, although sometimes they have a college pastor. The professors and students worship and have their membership in some church in the neighborhood, just as we wish to do. A College cannot need a church, but every college does need a Chapel. <br> You and Mr. Bailey seem to agree in thinking that we ought to take the $6,500 in hand and build the Chapel at once. But have you stopped to think that we could not use the Chapel now if we had it? If we had a beautiful and complete Chapel on the College ground at the present time, it would stand from month to month with closed doors, because the students who alone need it are 3 miles away. It seems to me that would be more objectionable to their heirs and to everybody else than a Chapel, inside the college building, which would be used everyday. <br> We don't need a chapel now and could not use it. But we do need a building in which to carry on our work, and which be a home for our