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Volume 6 Relation of U.B/EUB Virginia Conferences to Shenandoah University Dec. 26, 2013
our boys and girls in our own institutions of learning. Send our young people to our own schools and
they will come back to us to take their places, in a scholarly and churchly way, in the work to help make
this Church one of the great powers for good in the world. Fail to do this, and one of two things will
follow: either they will enter schools of other churches and thereby lose all interest in their own church,
or attend school nowhere and become devotees of the fashions and pleasures of the world, with the
ministries of their lives lost largely to the Church. In view of this fact, be it: Resolved, (1) That we
congratulate the Board of Trustees of Lebanon Valley College in the wise selection it made last June of
its present faculty and that we rejoice in the unprecedented prosperity that has attended its work since
that time, both in securing students and funds, and that we will ever give to that institution of learning
our hearty sympathy and support. (2) That in Union Biblical Seminary we have a school indispensable
to the growth of this church and efficiency of its ministry, and that we will do all we can to induce our
young ministers to take the full course of study in this School. (3) That we are highly pleased with the
present faculty and management of Shenandoah Institute; that we regard her as a center of power for
good in our work; that the standard of piety, churchliness, intelligence, and usefulness has been greatly
enhanced through her work, both in the laity and the ministry of this conference, and that we will pledge
ourselves to do all that we can to turn our young people to this our conference school, and that we also
will cheerfully accept the assessments for the Institute and endeavor to collect the same and that we
cordially invite the Principal or any member of the Faculty or the Agent to our fields of labor.
Respectfully submitted, S. K. Wine.
Visiting Committee to Shenandoah Institute (p. 24). We, your committee to visit Shenandoah
Institute, respectfully submit the following report: We were present during commencement week, were
kindly received and entertained by the Principal, E. U. Hoenshel; were shown through the building,
visited some of the classes in examination, and found everything in a good condition. May the work of
the Institute continue to grow. Let us as pastors hold up the hands of the worthy Principal in this great
work. W. L. Childress and A. J. Secrist. It was adopted.
Report of Shenandoah Institute (pp. 24, 28). Report from the Executive Committee. In the
unavoidable absence of the Principal of Shenandoah Institute, Prof. E. U. Hoenshel, the Executive
Committee beg leave to report that we believe the institution was never in a more prosperous condition
than now. The faculty is able and harmonious and winning universal praise for their efficient work in
the classroom. The buildings have been improved, and the students’ rooms beautified and made
attractive. Some 200 volumes have been added to the library. The number of students should be larger,
but the Spring term promises an attendance of 100. The atmosphere is inspiring to all who are brought
in contact with the workings of the School. Through the efforts of the agent, the debt has been
practically provided for, and two-thirds of it actually paid. Growth and progress are expected for the
future. We should at once accumulate a permanent fund, the interest of which will give increased and
necessary power in the future. Brother Hoenshel has made great sacrifices financially in his devotion to
the work. Our friends should rally to the support of the School and make it more and more a power of
life and light to our people. A. P. Funkhouser, Chairman, and George P. Hott, Secretary. The report
was discussed by J. W. Howe, W. R. Berry, and A. P. Funkhouser, and was adopted, and with it the
Educational report.
Reports 1897 146
our boys and girls in our own institutions of learning. Send our young people to our own schools and
they will come back to us to take their places, in a scholarly and churchly way, in the work to help make
this Church one of the great powers for good in the world. Fail to do this, and one of two things will
follow: either they will enter schools of other churches and thereby lose all interest in their own church,
or attend school nowhere and become devotees of the fashions and pleasures of the world, with the
ministries of their lives lost largely to the Church. In view of this fact, be it: Resolved, (1) That we
congratulate the Board of Trustees of Lebanon Valley College in the wise selection it made last June of
its present faculty and that we rejoice in the unprecedented prosperity that has attended its work since
that time, both in securing students and funds, and that we will ever give to that institution of learning
our hearty sympathy and support. (2) That in Union Biblical Seminary we have a school indispensable
to the growth of this church and efficiency of its ministry, and that we will do all we can to induce our
young ministers to take the full course of study in this School. (3) That we are highly pleased with the
present faculty and management of Shenandoah Institute; that we regard her as a center of power for
good in our work; that the standard of piety, churchliness, intelligence, and usefulness has been greatly
enhanced through her work, both in the laity and the ministry of this conference, and that we will pledge
ourselves to do all that we can to turn our young people to this our conference school, and that we also
will cheerfully accept the assessments for the Institute and endeavor to collect the same and that we
cordially invite the Principal or any member of the Faculty or the Agent to our fields of labor.
Respectfully submitted, S. K. Wine.
Visiting Committee to Shenandoah Institute (p. 24). We, your committee to visit Shenandoah
Institute, respectfully submit the following report: We were present during commencement week, were
kindly received and entertained by the Principal, E. U. Hoenshel; were shown through the building,
visited some of the classes in examination, and found everything in a good condition. May the work of
the Institute continue to grow. Let us as pastors hold up the hands of the worthy Principal in this great
work. W. L. Childress and A. J. Secrist. It was adopted.
Report of Shenandoah Institute (pp. 24, 28). Report from the Executive Committee. In the
unavoidable absence of the Principal of Shenandoah Institute, Prof. E. U. Hoenshel, the Executive
Committee beg leave to report that we believe the institution was never in a more prosperous condition
than now. The faculty is able and harmonious and winning universal praise for their efficient work in
the classroom. The buildings have been improved, and the students’ rooms beautified and made
attractive. Some 200 volumes have been added to the library. The number of students should be larger,
but the Spring term promises an attendance of 100. The atmosphere is inspiring to all who are brought
in contact with the workings of the School. Through the efforts of the agent, the debt has been
practically provided for, and two-thirds of it actually paid. Growth and progress are expected for the
future. We should at once accumulate a permanent fund, the interest of which will give increased and
necessary power in the future. Brother Hoenshel has made great sacrifices financially in his devotion to
the work. Our friends should rally to the support of the School and make it more and more a power of
life and light to our people. A. P. Funkhouser, Chairman, and George P. Hott, Secretary. The report
was discussed by J. W. Howe, W. R. Berry, and A. P. Funkhouser, and was adopted, and with it the
Educational report.
Reports 1897 146
