The Life of Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church
The Life of Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church
George R George Richard Crooks
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Two teachers were employed in in- structing some forty or fifty boys. The outlook was not very promising, and yet in a new country and in a state A SMALL BEGINNING. 147 THE OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE FIRST USED BY THE ASBURY UNIVERSITY. which had a large and fertile territory and a growing popu- lation there was room for work and hope. The university had been projected by the Indiana Conference, which con- tained a number of wise and active men, because there was no other where the sons of Methodist pare...nts could be prop- erly educated without detriment to their faith or morals. " The board of trustees was composed of members of the Conference and of citizens of Greencastle, with a few from other places who had been selected by the Conference ; the preparatory school had been begun the year before I ar- rived. At the opening of the summer session our number enrolled amounted to between seventy and eighty. I took possession of the upper room of the academy with some of the higher classes, and we endeavored to lay a foundation for the future.
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