The main building contains the chapel and study hall, laboratories, art and music departments. The Ladies' Hall has reception rooms, dining room and suites for 30 students. The Gymnasium and Museum building contains the Hood museum, fitted with elegant moth and dust proof cases of the latest approved design, making the large and valuable collections now accessible to students; and the gymnasium, which occupies the entire upper floor of the edifice, and which, with its equipment of scientific apparatus, furnishes adequate facilities for athletic training. Daily classes in physical culture under competent instruction offer opportunity for that systematic exercise of the body which is so essential to the health of the student. The Library building is a real gem, handsomely finished in hardwood, fire proof, and with shelf room for 30,000 volumes. The books and reviews, which make up the best assorted collection in the State, are classified and arranged according to the Dewey system, and a complete index of authors, titles and subjects places their contents at the command of all in search of information on any subject. These four buildings are of brick and stone, have a pleasing architectural appearance, and, with one exception, are heated by steam from a central heating plant.

As early as 1837 an attempt was made to found a Presbyterian college at Marshall. The financial crash and the competition of the University made the attempt a failure. Not again till 1885 did the synod, acting on an overture from the Presbytery of Lansing, appoint a committee of nine to consider the establishing of a Presbyterian college in this State. On the recommendation of this committee, Oct. 14, 1886, in Westminster Church, Grand Rapids, synod "Resolved, That in view of all the facts brought before us, we will, with God's help, establish and endow a college within our bounds."

The college now has grounds, buildings and endowments to the value of over $200,000, and is wholly under synodical control. It surrounds young men with those moral and religious influences that point in the direction of the ministry for a life calling. All the students are under the personal watch-care of the president and faculty. The same opportunities of instruction are furnished to both sexes on the same conditions. It is happily located in the center of the State, in the flourishing village of Alma, 36 miles west of Saginaw, at the junction of the Ann Arbor and the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western railroads. The town has good sewerage, an excellent system of water works, and is exceedingly healthful. The moral tone of the community is high, its church privileges abundant and its public school system most efficient.

The future of the Presbyterian church in Michigan is bound up with this college. Upon the Presbyterians of Michigan depend the continued existence and wide. usefulness of the college. To them alone can it look for its needed endowment and the chief portion of its students. Let them pray for it unceasingly, that a truly consecrated learning may ever be found there.

L. B. B.

THE MICHIGAN PRESBYTERIAN.

On June 16, 1894, appeared Vol. 1, No. 1, of "The Detroit Presbyterian, the official organ of Detroit Presbyterian churches." The editorial committee in charge, appointed by the Presbyterian Ministers' Association of Detroit, were Revs. J. F. Dickie, W. D. Sexton, R. A. Carnahan, and Messrs. C. S. Pitkin and E. A. Fraser. July 9th the Presbyterian Alliance of Detroit adopted it as their organ. July 28th the following item appeared: "Pastors outside Detroit are invited to send in news from their fields of labor. We are sending The Presbyterian through the entire State. It is your paper, brethren. Use it freely." Only one result could follow this State distribution. Requests came in to make it a State paper. These requests were accompanied by subscription lists. The synod of 1894, at Alma, Oct. 11, on recommendation of its special committee on "The Detroit Presbyterian," adopted the following report:

1.

"We believe in the possibility and advisability of publishing a Presbyterian paper, which shall represent the synod of Michigan."

2. "That a committee be appointed, a member from each Presbytery, to consider propositions from the Wilton Smith Co. for the enlargement of the Detroit Presbyterian."

The issue of Oct. 27, No. 20, appeared as "The Michigan Presbyterian," paying most graceful compliments to the State. Nov. 22, Rev. William Bryant, of