Excerpt from Sermons and Addresses

At the first meeting of the committee Mr. S. K. Hostetter was elected Secretary and Business Manager. Since it had no funds at its disposal, the committee de cided upon a subscription volume to be sold at the bare cost of manufacture and advertising. It was decided that it would prove more acceptable to the friends of Dr. Gill who would purchase the volume if it were made a collection of some of his best writings, rather than a memorial work with tribute and resolutions. Professor Pattee was accordingly elected as editor.

The papers of Dr. Gill given over to the committee consist of the 148 sermons preached before the studentsof the college between the years 1899 and 19-11, a num ber of sermons preached elsewhere during the period, and various papers and addresses given before literary societies, at school commencements, and on other occa sions.

The sermons are in many ways remarkable. They were all of them written out in full with extreme care and dated and numbered. They were written always with a view to the needs and the attainments of the students for whom they were intended. How broad an area of subjects they covered one can see by consulting the appendix at the end of this book. They reflect in a remarkable way the spirit of the college life during the era they cover. They are colored often by some specific event in the college week which had just passed or by the season of the year or by some happening in the state or national life. Just before the great football game he preaches on The Ath letic Spirit at the time of the deplorable college strike he speaks on Come, Let us Reason Together; at the beginning of each year he gives always sound advice and holds up the highest standard, striking always what he hopes to be the key-note of the year. His illustrations, many of them, are taken from the life and the environ ment of the college. It is a series of sermons that is a part of the splendid history of the college and as such should be jealously guarded in its most sacred archives.

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