OCR Text |
Show 1 1 REV. ROBERT I STEVENSON I SPEAKS H -I The Rev. Br. Robert Stevonson, lR ? president of Westminster colloge, Salt JKj , Lake City, delivered the sermon at the jfe .' morning service yesterday In the First ift ) Preebyternan church. The speaker JB t 8ave ln detaJ1 the Plan of the educa- M 5 tinai "ork of the Presbyterian iff $ church In Utah. There are at present H four academics an academy for girls m F at Logan, and academies for bovs and W I girls at Ferron, Mt. Pleasant, Sprlng- K ;! vllle and at Salt Lake City. Two new H .1 academies are now contemplated. JV F These will give a complete chain of K primary schools, each giving lnstruc- 5 tlon ln all branches of" learning which M will enable graduates to enter any col-m col-m lege. But many do not desire, or are I not able, to go to a Jar-off college and J ; do not care to go to a state school. H i For such the Westminster college 1 has been planned. It Is only a mere J youth among the colleges, and vet ln i a few years over 5260,000 worth of property and Investments hnve been I j . secured. The campus of twenty-four 1 c acres at Eleventh and Thirteenth g, j I East, lies upon tho east bench over-lfl over-lfl r looking the city. Upon this aro situ-S situ-S ated the four new modern buildings. I The Converse Hall a 540,000 recitation PJ ; hall. Ferry Hall, a ?46,000 woman's l4l i dormitory. Gunton chapel, a $20,000 IU chapel hall and a $14,000 steam heat- I ing plant. To theso a 550,000 home and dormitory for men Is now planned for. The value of this college and j these academies wherein the classics i and complete sciences can be taught J, and yet the Bible and Christian influ- I ences bo maintained is deeply apprecl- ated by many and the number In at- tendance is largo . The greater part of the money given has thus far come from tho woman. At present there are v two women who have pledged to give ! the last 590,000 of a 5250,000 endow- . ment and It Is hoped that this endow. '. ment fund can be secured II A very large offering was given I yestorday morning at the Presbyterian I church and a deep Interest waB manl-t. manl-t. j fested ln tho entire educational work h ' of the church at large. Several of fl the children of Ogden homes are now ill attending these schools. JB1 Dr. Stevenson spoke In most prals- ?Wl hig terms of the Utah school system 3Mr and Utah people and the entire hour If wa one that bespoke a loyalty to Bjj Utah, and the best Interests of the jMf )oung people of Utah In tho future, Hji all of which promised better things. 1WJ Dr. Stevenson told or attending an r Ogdcn meotlng of the Montana, Idaho I ' and Utah Presbyterian churches over w 25 years ago when the Ogden church was situated at the corner of Twenty-J Twenty-J fourth and Lincoln avenue. Ogden was r the central point then and the church- ; es of the three states often mot here. Of those then attending only two are now within the three states ' Miss Lillian Scott furnished the ; music for the morning service. The ' church was very prettily decorated R f ' with carnations and roses. ft In the evening at S o'clock Rev IB Carver continued tho evening series 1Mb upon the mountain scenes ln the Life 1M of Christ, this being tho laBt ln that iWM series. The text was taken from the :Wt scene of the transfiguration scene ln 'ML the life of Christ and the lessons (Mr drawn were the lessons of the moun-Wf moun-Wf tQn no'8bts of communion with God VI' and the times when alone we face the iHl rca Problems and duties of life and Jli with courage and real faith prepare "w I mce them. Reference was made 'Ml to the Influence of tho mountains ' uPon the moral life, the development Ik of tne w'" and. upon the spiritual Bv life as revealed by a comparative "SjE study of the peoples' of the mountains MJP and plains. |