Untitled Page 18

[?] you make essential. Now my question is this: can education for the people be complete without provision for the [widest?] investigation of the inquiry as to whether the Bible is reliable as making such a claim? In other words does not your purposed provision for instruction on these doctrines make it necessary for you to provide for the study of evidence that the Bible, so far as these doctrines are concerned, is of divine origin and authority? Must not Apologetics as understood in its broad meaning be included in the curriculum? If you should declare this and so provide. I am convinced that your University wuold meet all reasonable wishes and as you desire would soon command universal patronage.
Please excuse so long a letter. Only my hope for you most complete success is my apology.
Yours very sincerely.
James [Eells?]

James Eells
[Lane?] Seminary
Cincinnati Ohio
Endorsing the endowment of the Leland Stanford Jr. University

Lane Seminary Cincinnati Ohio
December 11, 1885
Hon Leland Stanford
My dear Sir.
I have just read with pleasure which I cannot express, the plan and your address in explanation of it, so far as these have been published of the great University you have so marvelously endowed. My first impulse was in full sympathy with the expression of one of my friends who said "God continue to bless a man who knows how to use money wisely!" My second impulse was the occassion of very careful thought, and then of this letter which I believe you will not regard as an impertinence.
I am delighted as I confess I hardly expected to be with the general and thoroughly