irwin w. gernert, a.b.

the problem of a college education confronts many young people. we have many colleges, but how to obtain a college education is a vital question to many high school graduates and others who have not the money. here are the colleges and the teachers, but many do not have the funds on which to go. this is the decisive hour, as here it is that one decides to climb the hill or remain at the foot.

my experience in working my way through college is not peculiar, but tallies with the experience of hundreds who have undertaken the same task. if a person is determined to get an education he will succeed, and herein lies the keynote to the problem.

it was my fortune to attend a college situated in a small town, as such locations are always best for the one who has to make his way. work was easily secured, and as my desire was to get an education by my labor, i seized every opportunity for making a dime. serving as janitor, making fires in the early morning hours, raking snow and ice from the college walks in the winter, raking leaves on the 48 campus in the fall and spring, serving as clerk on saturdays and other work of this kind paid my way. but that which gave me the inspiration for all this, and made the task easy, was the one great purpose of preparing for the gospel ministry.

i have finished the a.b. course in wittenberg college, springfield, ohio, and was better off financially the day of my graduation than the day on which i entered. there is work for him who desires it. there is always a place in life which we should fill, and the finding of that place is an epoch in our lives, and the preparation for it is what makes the event memorable and life-lasting.

louisville, ky.