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REPORT OF THE CHAPLAIN.

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To the President of Wake Forest College:

SIR:- At the close of last summer, without any protracted meeting, ten were baptized into the Wake Forest Church. During the spring term we had a meeting of eleven days, during most of which time Dr. W.L. Pickard, of Savannah, Ga., preached with marked clearness and force and Love; twenty-seven were baptized at the close of this meeting.

There is now going on a steady toning up of the church life at Wake Forest. There is among us an holy dissatisfaction with our present attainments as a church. The work on our house of worship is already doing us good.

The work on the building has gone on so far without a break. The walls are up and the roof is on. The workmen are at work on the inside now. The structure as it nears completion takes on beautiful, impressive form.

It is our aim to have this building finished by the meeting of the Baptist State Convention in December, when we hope to dedicate it free of debt.

We are far enough on to see we shall be able to hold the cost of this structure close to our original estimate, $40,000. The Convention at Goldsboro asked the Baptist churches of North Carolina to raise $25,000 for this house, and the Wake Forest Church is raising $15,000. The Church at Wake Forest has already paid in about half of its part; the churches of the Convention have paid in nearly a third of what they are to raise. We are behind about $15,000 with what work has already been done on the building.

The chaplain has been absent from the college much of the time during the session just closing now. In his absence, the pulpit has been filled most of the time by Dr. Charles E. Taylor who has preached every time with the wisdom of an old man and with the virility of a young man.

We verily believe that after a while we shall see the significance of what is now taking place in the religious life of Wake Forest. The College is finding a new point of contact with the life of the Baptist Churches of North Carolina. This means a larger warmer