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those whose plain duty it was to remain at home, he said, "Stay and work, and gain higher planes of knowledge, and enter upon that conflict whose wea- pons are not carnal, but spiritual.'' During the dark days of the war he was truly the soldier's friend, encouraging liim in preparations for the battle-field, bidding him good-bye, and visiting him in camp. Many of our students, having gone to Fort Donelson, he went there to see them, taking with him many a father's and mother's blessing for their boys. Well do we remember the hearty applause given in the college chapel, when, on his return, he related hoAv he was received by the boys in blue and by the com- mander at Fort Henry, to whom he went, on his way South, and told him he Avas Dr. Wallace, on his way CoUcf/c W'orL'. to Fort Donelson to ''see liis boys." This com- mander ordered out a four-horse team and guard of cavah'y to escort the Doctor across the country to Donelson . With all this work resting upon him, he enters a new enterprise. The college was increasing in the number of students and in means to carry on its work of instruction to such an extent that the col- lege building was not large enough, and so it was determined to erect a new one. The liberality of two of his firmest friends greatly encouraged them

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