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Show 19 Emmetsburg, after recuperating from the effects of the semi-centennial celebration by a summer at home. Harlow C. sang for me but was so scandalized by my worldly sermon there that he remained at home New Year's Day rather than by missing part of his vacation, to hear- what he did not. Let me take my remaining space to express what I have not before, from the lack of an opportunity, except to a few. Though the warmth of his reception made him forget, and though a thermic change reminded him, too late, that he was-only-one; yet never was an adopted child with no merits of its own, except that it counted one, received into the bosom of a family more graciously, than was a certain unclaimed graduate, into the midst of the class of 'g8,1. C, last spring. That kindness has been and can be only poorly repaid in words, yet even though "my acts my words belie," I feel for the class of '98, what I once thought impossible, a regard second to not even the class with which I "walked" and worked and played, during the five years in which I learned to love whatever and whoever bears the seal lowense Collegium. " T H E FIFTIETH." Chicago Theological Seminary, Jan. 19, 1899. Dear Classmates :- I came to Franklin in August to spend a few days with Emily Peck before she left for her work. Ever since the Academy opened on September sixth, I have been very busy, but the work is much more pleasant than public school teaching. There are more out- |
