[Dbdom-devel] Ecial interest. About five thousand delegates

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 in battle, but their record in camp at Mobile has been true to

their promises. They have shown to everyone the advantage of
education. Their officers prize them highly, and the rough, ignorant
men who are their comrades, have felt their influence, so that the
governor has publicly
commended their behavior. After losing so many of the best students,
it seemed hard to go on in the ordinary routine of the school, but
those who were left did their best to fill two places at once, and
the exercises were quite up to the average in excellence. The written
examinations were successfully passed by large classes. The public
examinations, as usual, attracted much attention. A minister who
attended Dr. Andrews' examination
in Homiletics, says: "Thorough instruction had led the students to
such a grasp of the subject as to make them
independent thinkers. If these young ministers will
use the knowledge they have acquired by this
study, their sermons will be well prepared, well delivered, and they
will be faithful pastors as well as good preachers." The class in
church history showed satisfactory knowledge of what God has been
doing in His church
in this country since its history began. The class in prophecy