abundant reason to expect that. Some friends farther East asked me,
"Well, what do you think? Can the people of Pella take care of the Synod
in good shape? Have they a lot of good homes in which to make the
delegates and visitors comfortable?" And I assured them that there need
be no doubt about that, that the people were very hospitable and that
when it came to fine homes, Pella had more of them to the block than a
lot of cities five or ten times as large. But even my most sanguine
expectations have been surpassed. I am astonished at the progress Pella
has made since my previous visit five years ago and the way the Synod
was entertained, with the very best of lodging, excellent meals,
wonderful music and every personal attention and kindness that could
make the guests feel thoroughly at home was a marvel to everybody. Of
course, it was not necessary to make me feel at home. I felt at home the
minute the train crossed the east limits of the City. My family and I
spent eight most happy years in Pella, the precious memories of which
will never fade away. And for the many renewed kindnesses bestowed upon
me during this brief visit I feel deeply grateful. -- W. J. Van Kersen.

When I think of Pella, I think of a city of refinement and culture, of
high ideals and progressive spirit, exhibiting as a community the two
splendid traits of courage and faith.

I saw Pella first in winter, and made indoor acquaintance with the
College and the Churches, I saw Pella again in the late summer, and
rejoiced in vast cornfields ripening to harvest and in the wider harvest
vision of the Zendingsfeest. I am seeing Pella now in June, at the
flood-tide of the year--the month of roses and weddings and graduations.
I shall carry away a glorious picture of feathery wild barley by the
roadside; of the varied greens of wheat and oats and rye preparing for
the rich gold of the harvest, of breezes laden with the scent of clover
fields all but ready for the mower; of cattle grazing on hillsides and
horses drawing cultivators across fields of growing corn that stretch
toward the far horizon; of a land that flows with milk and honey upon
which God smiles in sunshine by day and moonlight and starlight by
night.

More than this, I shall remember a people who love God and their
brethren, who open homes and hearts in generous hospitality, who have
welcomed a meeting of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in
America and have given to its business and social intercourse a
background of loving thoughtfulness, of whole-hearted hospitality, of
painstaking preparation that leave nothing to be desired. In my work for
the Reformed Church in America, Pella will be to me in larger and richer
measure what it has been since my first visit early in 1921, a source of
strength and comfort and inspiration as I add to precious memories of
the past the recollection of these golden June days spent with her
peoples.  -- John A. Ingham, General Secretary of the Progress Campaign
Committee, Reformed Ch., in America, 25 East 22nd Street, New York City.

THE GREATEST EVENT IN PELLA'S HISTORY

"Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath
said?" -- The greatest event in Pella' s history, the most far-reaching
in its scope, the most potent in its influence for material,
intellectual and spiritual good for Pella, for Central College, and for
the growth and development of the Reformed Church in the West. These are
only a few of the benefits growing out of the meeting of the General
Synod in Pella.

And we believe that the influence on the attending delegates has been no
less beneficial. It has surely given them a wider vision and a larger
conception