July 2—l have made all my arrangements. lam almost ready to sail. A great peace has come to me, and I feel as though the Iyord Jehovah had bountifully blessed and strengthened me. Marion has not decided yet just when we shall be married. Dear girl, it means a lot to her, this leaving friends and native land, luxury and wealth, for heathen in a strange country and the hard ships of mission life. I sha’n’t mind it myself, for I shall have her with me, but it will be hard for her at first, doubtless. July 5 —May God guide my mind into right channels; may He give me wisdom and strength, for lam in sore trouble. Marion, my almost wife, has refused to leave this country, and her father offers me his influence to have the bishop appoint me to a good charge. lam stunned. Oh, Marion, my love, how can I leave you, and yet —and yet my path is before me. I know not what to do. lam as “ a child crying in the night, and with no lan guage but a cry. ” May God, who sweetened the waters of Marah, send Christ, His Son, who endured the agony in the garden to comfort and guide me. I have decided, but will I ever have the strength to carry out my decision. Thank heaven I have trampled the giant of self under foot, but oh the bitterness of it. Verily, I can say “ Dord, I have left all and followed Thee. ’ ’ FROM OTHER MICROCOSMS, The oldest college in the world, Mohammedan, at Cairo, was i,BOO years old when Oxford was founded. One of the requirements of a man seeking college honors at Amherst is that his college expenses during the past year shall not have exceeded $5OO. Statistics from sixty-seven colleges in thirty-seven States show that foot-ball men stand one-half per cent, higher in their studies than the average of the whole college. The number of students now in attendance at the leading Uni versities in the United States has been compiled and is given below: Harvard, 3,674. Pennsylvania, 2,752. Michigan, 2,706. The Free Lance, Brown, 910. Dartmouth, 60x. University of Vermont, 525 [March,
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