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Mars Hill College Notes.
At this writing there is good
hope of rounding out the endow
ment fund of $25,000 before the
close of the year. Let every one
who expects to make a gift for
this object do so at once, and thus
help to reach the goal set. Five
thousand dollars of the Slayden
legacy is now idle, waiting for
the friends of the school to raise
the conditional J20.000. This will
be a good start toward the $100,-
000 endowment fund, for which
campaign naust be launched at
the end of the 75 million obliga
tions.
Only a few vacancies in our
dormitories will be open to new
students after Christmas, and it
behooves those who plan to enter
at the opening of the spring term
to send in room deposits ($5.00)
at once. And it is not too early
to make room reservations for
the session of 1922-23.
During the Spring term the
Bible class taught by Pastor Owen
will study First and Second Thes-
saionians and First and Second
Corinthians. The New Testa
ment will 1)6 the only text book
used, with sucli reference books
as may be found in the Library.
The fall study of the book of
Romans has been of great value
to those who took it.
One Chinese, David Yang, a
quiet studious fellow, was sent us
by Missionary Stephens, and Dr.
Hays of Canton, China, sends ns
his. son who has been for a year
or two in Shanghi Baptist Col
lege.
More scholarship funds are
needed. A thousand dollars will
establish a fund which will help
worthy boys and girls to the end
of tbe ages. Messrs, Johnson and
Riddick have set a fine example,
which it is believed others will
follow. The income from such a
gum will, by paying fee and tui
tion of some deserving student,
encourage some boy or girl each
year to keep on in school.
The William Hartson Woodall
prizes, given by Mrs. Inez J-
Woodall each yeay in memory of
her husband and his work as tlie
first Bible teacher here, are stim
ulating interest in Bible study.
Fifteen dollars cash is to be given
to the ministerial student who
presents a paper which shows
the best grasp of tlie purposes
and doctrines of the book of
Romans, and a like suna to tbe
non-ministerial student who
writes the best paper on '‘Christ
as presented in the Gospel of
Luke.”
many pupils are injured in
character or life usefnlsess by be"
ing suspenaed from school. The
shock of the thing has saved many
a fellow; if only his parents were
wise and sensible, became to him-'
self, went to work, changed
habits, and made good. Some of
the best friends Mars Hill has
are those who had to be sent away
because of downright triflingnes«,
wrong attitude or influence, or
serious transgression Tlie very
shock of expulsion woke them up,
and new Visions and determina
tion put them in the highway of
success. But how nainful the
necessity for such action, and
how much anguish for all con
cerned would be saved teachers
arfd parents, if only the pupils
would be thoughtful and heedful
of warning and pleading.
Friglitenin^ Children.
In the catalogue of parental
folly there is nothing more crim
inal than the frightening of a
child. This brutality has resulted
ia more distorted characters, more
stunted minds and more ruined
careers than all tne poverty in
the world. We are reminded of
it by an article in the Washing
ton Post under the signature of
Angelo Patri warning parents of
their duty not to let fear linger
in the childish mind and to ex
plain away all fright entirely to
the child’s satisfaction.
It is a gospel .truth that can
not be preached too often. There
are youngsters brave enough to
conceal their terror, but in the
long run they are by far the
greatest sufferers. Because they
can not realize tbe causes of their
fears, they go into later years
with the shadows of nameless
horrors suppressed into their
subconscious minds and . certain
to be hurt mentally by, the dark
cloud bursting into consciousness
in some inexplicable form. These
Infantile “scares” take innumer
able shapes in later life, ranging
all the way from vague “nervous
ness” to pronounced and definite
phobias. The child burned with
fears that it can not understand
will develop into the adult who
does things that the world does
not understand or tolerate.
There is nothing that the child
ish mind can not assimilate if it
is explained and presented in
simple terms. Tbe ch ’’s job,
so to speak, is to learn a nfinite
variety of things in a sb vhile,
and, unless be is impt pon
and bullpd, nature will it
that he handles the joi .mi-
petent manner. But upon
h i tn mystery, supers , and
disagreeable vaguenes d his
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