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mother in his Freshman year: "John, by being 

 faithful to your daily work as assigned you by the 

 Faculty, and by daily consecration of yourself as a 

 Christian, make the most of your college course, for 

 it ought to be the happiest period of your life. Your 

 daily work is planned by others, and you have only 

 to do your duty without care or anxiety. But after 

 graduation you will have to plan for yourself as well 

 as execute, and coming into contact with unreason- 

 able people, you will find life very different from 

 your present experience." Wise counsel this, show- 

 ing the home influences to which he had been sub- 

 jected in childhood, and giving a key to his character 

 and usefulness as afterwards developed. He had 

 indeed been faithful in the performance of every 

 allotted task, and he had daily sought the guidance 

 and blessing of Him to whom he had consecrated 

 his life. He had spent for his education just nine 

 hundred dollars, of which he had earned two thirds 

 by manual labor and teaching, borrowing from the 

 Education Society the remaining three hundred. 

 With this exception he had fulfilled the Apostle's 

 injunction, "Owe no man anything." While he was 

 planning for the future, President Wayland received 

 a letter from one Judge Warren, residing in a small 

 village in Southern Georgia, requesting him to send 

 them immediately a teacher who was both a gradu- 

 ate and a Christian. Knowing that Abolitionism 

 was an agitating subject in the land, the offer was 

 made to Jenks, who had spent a year in Virginia, 

 and was presumed to be more or less familiar with 



