Letters by john Mason Peck - NIU Digital Projects

JOHN T. FLANAGAN 275
'p in a College- I shall look over College docuto
see if I can find a precedent- The salary of the last
was $3S0-but we could not think of less than $400.
there is any way by increase of scholars to get the
will raise it. The Institution opens again in seven
you consent, let me know at once. I told the trusyOU
come you would very likely occupy a room in
building with your son. 20
from St. Louis about 30 papers of last volume of
an, thinking you would want a file of such as
special editorials, descriptions of the changes in
&c. 21
your long absence, I suppose you are not' 'well
up" in Baptist progress in Missouri. The denominathat
state are so far ahead that they cannot be seen
.. crl"'\1">p from Illinois.
raised in two years, without one dollar agency
sixty thousand dollars to establish a Baptist College.
about the last of August give the Proceedings
tion held at Booneville to locate it. Liberty in
ty, is the site. The people are now raising $40,000
in buildings & apparatus. We have talents, inpiety
and wealth now in the Baptist denomination
'-and large views and liberality too. And then they
and have none of the petty rivalships & jealousies
small fellows in Illinois. I feel vexed, mortified, and
at the lagging course of things in Illinois. We have
of "York-State" baptist preachers in northern Illinois,
our folks gave up the lead some six or seven years
and all they have done is to monopolize the Home
funds, quarrel with each other, write letters prejuto
Southern Illinois, ( by which they mean all the counof
Peoria) and keep any thing from being done in
Association. When I came back from Phil athe'y
had 20 missionaries sustained by the Home
SOCIety north of the middle of the state, and four a
G. Russell, John Russell's son, was at this time a student at Shurtleff.
served as the Bluffdale postmaster.
newspaper, Watchman of the Prau ies, was published in Chicago from
earlier W estern Watchman may have been published in Rock Spring
19 Franklin W. Scott, in Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879
10),305, terms this improbable.