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Institute has been visited by nearly every well-known teacher and preacher who has been in America since its foundation.

CLASS OF STUDENTS

Graduates of colleges and high schools, ministers, evangelists, returned missionaries, and other Christian workers desirous of special study of the English Bible and methods; college students on vacation; men and women called of God into Christian work too late in life to take regular college and seminary courses; those called to special lines of Christian service who need a different training from that given to candidates for the regular ministry; men and women who do not intend to devote their entire time to gospel work, but who desire a larger acquaintance with the Bible and actual service that while pursuing their secular callings, they may also work intelligently and successfully in winning other to Christ.

Rev. Andrew Murray, of South Africa, has sent a son and four or five graduates of his training college to study at the Institute, at different times.

THE "WEST POINT" OF CHRISTIAN WORK

The Institute is unique in its Practical Work Course, the object of which is to test students, as well as train them. "Many do not know the gift that is in them until they are put on trial," Mr. Moody used to say.

Study and work go hand in hand. A portion of every day (except Monday) is spent in actual work in the needy parts of the city and the suburbs, the object being to teach the students not only the theory of the work, but also the work itself, and that by actually doing it.

As the Institute is in session the year round, all phases of Christian activity are undertaken, such as church and evangelistic services, mission and inquiry meetings, street-preaching and tent work, house-tohouse visitation, hospital, saloon and jail work.

ENDOWMENT AS A FACTOR IN EDUCATION

President Dwight of Yale University, in his "President's Report" for 1892, used the following words:

"We college graduates or under-graduate of all the colleges and universities of the country are, all of us, aided in the expenses of our education by the benefactions of past generations. We do not, any of us, pay more than one-half of what it costs to educate us."

MR. MOODY'S MONUMENT

As soon as D. L. Moody was called home, various memorial projects were put forward.

His family, and friends who knew him best, believed that the perpetuation of the institutions at Northfield, Mount Hermon and Chicago, which occupied so large a part of his later life and labors, would have pleased him moe tha any memorial shaft of marble or bronze.

Hitherto the sum annually required to maintain the work (about $125,000) has been raised largely by his own personal efforts and prayers. Steps have now been taken by the trustees of his Schools to raise a MOODY MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT, adequate to insure their continuation in all their present prosperity.

The world-wide appeal is therefore made to friends of good, Christian education, to all who would be glad to express their appreciation of Mr. Moody's life and work, and their gratitude to God for his helpful ministry, to contribute to this MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT.

WILL YOU HELP? MUCH OR LITTLE AS GOD LEADS YOU - AND THUS SHARE IN ERECTING AN ENDURING MONUMENT.

Form of Scholarship.

For the purpose of founding one scholarship, I hereby give to the Northfield Seminary, in the town of Northfield, Mass., or Mount Hermon Boys School, in the town of Gill, Mass., or Moody Bible Institute, in city of Chicago, Ill.,) the sum of four thousand (two thousand) dollars, to be held in trust, the income to be applied annually, subject to the rules of the School, by the Trustees for the education of some worthy student.

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Legal Form of Bequest I give to ( Northfield Seminary, in the town of Northfield, Mass., or Mount Hermon Boys School, in the town of Gill, Mass., or Moody Bible Institute, in city of Chicago, Ill.,) the sum of _____________________dollars, to be safely invested by the Trustees of said School and called the __________________________Fund, and the income forever applied to the uses of (Northfield Seminary or Mount Hermon Boys School or Moody Bible Institute). Write for particulars of a better plan than leaving money by will, by which you can be your own executor and retain the full income for life.

THE MOODY MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT _______________1901 _____________________HEREBY SUBSCRIBE in the sum of -------------Dollars ($-----------), to the Moody Memorial Endowment, to be used for the perpetual maintenance of The Mount Hermon Boys School, the Northfield Seminary, the Northfield Training School, and the Chicago Bible Institute, founded by DWIGHT L. MOODY, and agree to pay same to D. W. McWILLIAMS, Treas., in ________________payments as follows: ------------------(Give dates) ------- 1901 (Signed) ------------------(Address) ---------------Treasurer's Address 287, Fourth Avenue, New York City.

MOODY MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE

W. E. DODGE, New York. MORRIS K. JESUP, New York. JAMES TALCOTT, New York. D. W. McWILLIAMS, New York. ANSON PHELPS STOKES, JR., New York. JOHN H. CONVERSE, Philadelphia. JOHN WANAMAKER, Philadelphia. IRA. D. SANKEY, Brooklyn, N. Y. E. G. KEITH, Chicago, Ill. VICTOR F. LAWSON, Chicago, Ill. C. A. HOPKINS, Boston, Mass. H. M. MOORE, Boston, Mass. H. H. PROCTOR, Boston, Mass. FRANK WOOD, Boston, Mass. FRANCIS WHITE, Baltimore, Md. JAMES P. BAXTER, Portland, Me. GEORGE A. BAKER, St. Louis, Mo. W. R. MOODY, East Northfield, Mass.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

H. H. PROCTOR, Chairman H. M. MOORE C. A. HOPKINS

D. W. McWILLIAMS, Treasurer CURTIS M. THORPE, Secretary Executive Committee Office, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City

I heare [sic] inclose [sic] a stamp for reply of a poor unfortaion [sic] friend,

Yours Resp Mrs Henrietta Puckett

In Gods mane [sic] I'll thank you and wish you a Merry Cristians [sic] & a Happy New Year, from a poor woman

Claremont N.H. Dec. 15, 1901.

Mrs. J. L. Stanford Dear Madam

Doubtless you may be surprised at receiving a line from a stranger, but when we rec'd our Claremont paper & saw the princely gift you had bestowed upon "Leland Stanfford [sic] Jr University of California" my heart went out towards you & I was enbolden [sic] to say a few words in my heartfelt style to you of another place where a part of your retained wealth might work wonders for good & the uplifting of humanity even the New England Deaconess Hospital which is to be built by charity in Boston Mass, they have a small one