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Volume 6 Relation of U.B/EUB Virginia Conferences to Shenandoah University Dec. 26, 2013
And are we bringing the cause of education before the laity, enlisting their sympathy in this great and
necessary work of the Church? The fire of enthusiasm for any cause of Church must first begin in the
heart of the pastor; then, it will spread to the people. And what our Church wants and needs today is the
true sympathy and hearty cooperation of all our members in this great educational work of the Church.
She needs our sympathy, our prayers, our means, and it is our duty as ministers to bring about a more
vital interest in this most important department of the Church.
Therefore, be it Resolved, (1) That in accordance with the requirement of our Discipline, we, the
Ministers of this Conference preach, at least once a year, a special sermon on Christian Education, and
faithfully the subject before our people and make a powerful effort to collect all assessments. (2) That
we heartily support the Educational Beneficiary Aid Fund, for the aid of worthy poor young men and
women in receiving educational training for more efficient work in the ministry and the cause of the
Master; and that we make an especially earnest endeavor to bring up the assessment in full for this fund.
(3) That Union Biblical Seminary as a general institution of our Church, is doing nobly in training our
young men in the true doctrines of theology and the church for wider usefulness in the ministry, and
merits our powerful and substantial support in every way. (4) That we heartily co-operate with and hold
up the hands of the trustees and faculty of Lebanon Valley College in their progressive work of
improving the buildings, liquidating the college indebtedness, and raising its curriculum of study to a
higher standard, and recommend that a certain percent of the collections of this Conference be
appropriated to this institution. (5) That we manifest and enlist more enthusiastic and substantial
support for our own conference school, Shenandoah Institute, in collecting more money to sustain it, and
in using our influence in securing young men and women in our Conference to take a course there rather
than elsewhere; and that we heartily cooperate with the plan to make an earnest effort to secure on every
charge, an average of one dollar per member for a permanent endowment fund. Signed, L. Walter Lutz.
Report of Shenandoah Institute (p. 19). Again we stand at the closing of a year. Its record is
in the eternities. Yet the memory of much that it brought still lingers with us. But out of all the varied
experiences or strife and peace, comes no lesson more important for us to learn than that the world needs
knowledge. To educate has ever been, is now, and must continue to be the chief business of the leaders
of thought in any reform. To educate is to save man. As a means to the accomplishment of this end
churches are organized, the common school system provided for, and higher institutions of learning
established. The best education is Christian education—that which deals with the whole man—that
which gives the individual larger views of life and strong impulses to seek after and attain noble results.
Years ago, the Virginia Conference recognized this fact, and the result of sober deliberation was the
establishment of Shenandoah Institute at Dayton, Va., which most certainly has been a force for good
among the people of our church, and others as well. The character of the work of the present student
body of your School excels that of any previous year of the supervision of the present management. The
general character of our students is such as not only to gratify the faculty, but also to elicit
commendation from the people of our town as high ideals are ever held before our students, which,
without coercive measures, many seek to attain unto.
Again, it has been recognized that continued effort must be made to provide for the physical
comforts of those who make their home with us. The beds in the Ladies’ Building have been supplied
with good mattresses, [and] springs also have been given to a number of beds.
Early in the Autumn of 1898, Prof. J. F. Yothers resigned his place in the faculty to accept the
chair of Mathematics in Western College. After some effort to fill the vacancy thus made, it was
decided to give additional work to the remaining members of the faculty. This plan met with hearty
Reports 1899 149
And are we bringing the cause of education before the laity, enlisting their sympathy in this great and
necessary work of the Church? The fire of enthusiasm for any cause of Church must first begin in the
heart of the pastor; then, it will spread to the people. And what our Church wants and needs today is the
true sympathy and hearty cooperation of all our members in this great educational work of the Church.
She needs our sympathy, our prayers, our means, and it is our duty as ministers to bring about a more
vital interest in this most important department of the Church.
Therefore, be it Resolved, (1) That in accordance with the requirement of our Discipline, we, the
Ministers of this Conference preach, at least once a year, a special sermon on Christian Education, and
faithfully the subject before our people and make a powerful effort to collect all assessments. (2) That
we heartily support the Educational Beneficiary Aid Fund, for the aid of worthy poor young men and
women in receiving educational training for more efficient work in the ministry and the cause of the
Master; and that we make an especially earnest endeavor to bring up the assessment in full for this fund.
(3) That Union Biblical Seminary as a general institution of our Church, is doing nobly in training our
young men in the true doctrines of theology and the church for wider usefulness in the ministry, and
merits our powerful and substantial support in every way. (4) That we heartily co-operate with and hold
up the hands of the trustees and faculty of Lebanon Valley College in their progressive work of
improving the buildings, liquidating the college indebtedness, and raising its curriculum of study to a
higher standard, and recommend that a certain percent of the collections of this Conference be
appropriated to this institution. (5) That we manifest and enlist more enthusiastic and substantial
support for our own conference school, Shenandoah Institute, in collecting more money to sustain it, and
in using our influence in securing young men and women in our Conference to take a course there rather
than elsewhere; and that we heartily cooperate with the plan to make an earnest effort to secure on every
charge, an average of one dollar per member for a permanent endowment fund. Signed, L. Walter Lutz.
Report of Shenandoah Institute (p. 19). Again we stand at the closing of a year. Its record is
in the eternities. Yet the memory of much that it brought still lingers with us. But out of all the varied
experiences or strife and peace, comes no lesson more important for us to learn than that the world needs
knowledge. To educate has ever been, is now, and must continue to be the chief business of the leaders
of thought in any reform. To educate is to save man. As a means to the accomplishment of this end
churches are organized, the common school system provided for, and higher institutions of learning
established. The best education is Christian education—that which deals with the whole man—that
which gives the individual larger views of life and strong impulses to seek after and attain noble results.
Years ago, the Virginia Conference recognized this fact, and the result of sober deliberation was the
establishment of Shenandoah Institute at Dayton, Va., which most certainly has been a force for good
among the people of our church, and others as well. The character of the work of the present student
body of your School excels that of any previous year of the supervision of the present management. The
general character of our students is such as not only to gratify the faculty, but also to elicit
commendation from the people of our town as high ideals are ever held before our students, which,
without coercive measures, many seek to attain unto.
Again, it has been recognized that continued effort must be made to provide for the physical
comforts of those who make their home with us. The beds in the Ladies’ Building have been supplied
with good mattresses, [and] springs also have been given to a number of beds.
Early in the Autumn of 1898, Prof. J. F. Yothers resigned his place in the faculty to accept the
chair of Mathematics in Western College. After some effort to fill the vacancy thus made, it was
decided to give additional work to the remaining members of the faculty. This plan met with hearty
Reports 1899 149
