A Handsome Endowment
The Weslcyan Guilrl association has ■oeeived no+ice of a magnificent enlowment for a lecture course, gJiven by Rev. Hanry M. "Laad, of Au Sable. He has piven $15,000, the inoorae froni which shall be forever devoted to the g-iving of lectures au the history, the evidences and the reasonableness of the Ohfist-ian religión at the University of Michigan. Pot the past six years lectures have been g.iven at the Methodist church .along these lines by eminent thinkers. but the course has not been on a permanent basis. So much good hiad been done by them t-hat severa] Individuáis have been .- int-omnlatlne the establishment of a fund to ensure it, but Mr. Ijoud hias been the first to put tluought into actton. He has left the selection O'f speakers entdrely with the Board of Trustees of the Wesleyïin G-uild, who are already correspondinig with speakers for three lectures this yoar. Bishop Warren, and Bishop Fowler will probably be able to accept. Mr. Loud has done a great amount of good and has already established mianuments for hiimself all over the state. No to Bay View but wtoat sees Loud Hall. the best building on the grounds, while no one soes near Albion college without iearulng of how Mt. Loud has given ít a professorship. These ïastitutions pro-mise to always live and beai' tlie name of theiT generous beneftictors, thus estíiblihiii'í au endtrring monument. Nfew he ha placed his broad philantihropy in another place where his ríame will be lianded down and lovod for good dotue. His four chlldren co-operate heartily with him, Bbo'wi'ng great intrerest in the Univenaïby and in the maintenance of Methodism at this stronprhold.
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