An Iowa Baptist Minister Talks About Olney Hall

To the Editor. I have just read in your paper the article headed " Olcey Hall at Ann Arbor." I tan not in favor of discouraging the movement for an Olney professorship at Kilamaroo college. As a Baptist and a native of Michigan, 1 say " Amen" to that project. But not only as a Baptist, and a Michigan man, but also as an alumnus of U. of M., who feels the great need of a chriatian development of charaoter among students at a state institution, and of a reïgious week-day home for our Baptist students at Ann Arbor, I desire also to sound a hearty " Amen" to the idea of an Otear Hall. For the bible teacher, I should desire to see a man in the position, wUo is as intensely spiritual as a Moody, and who ehall teach, rather than cold theology, the living practical truths of the bible and the best methods of using them in ehristian work. There are among the alumni of Michigan University a great many successful Baptigts scattered all over America, and I am confident a cali for such a hall would meet a hearty response from them. The Bptits of the United States would join in this movement, because of their interest in the University, and because of the largo place the memory of our belove.d professor holds in their hearts. Let us have the chair at Kalamazoo and that first. It was the great desire of PkoC Olney to endow such a chair. But why not have the other as well ? It may be too early to move in the matter but it is not too early to think and talk about it. Sincerelv Yours. Peil, Iowa, Feb. 21, 1887.