established by his brother Milton with Giles Kellogg, Secretary of the Union Oil Company, as trustee. The fund was to be used in Christian endeavor, and it was Stewart’s opinion that his brother should in struct Kellogg to use some of the fund in the financing of the Bible Institute. To this appeal, Milton Stewart replied by telegram: “As to Bible Institute, will say, as heretofore, will help, but cannot say ‘havers’ until I see how matters pan out.” Later, after the construction of the buildings at Sixth and Hope Streets were under way, Stewart, due to financial reverses, was forced to appeal for additional help to carry on the building. In his appeal to his brother he stated: “Work on our Bible Institute building is pretty nearly at a stand-still owing to lack of funds for pushing it. To have the work stop means a great waste because it would not only break up our organization, but it would delay the time for utilizing the property in the active work of the Institute. This in itself means a great loss. I have wondered whether, if you had some funds that are lying dormant, you would not like to have them go into the work of construction so as to have the classrooms available for the opening of the school in Septem ber. If we could get the work pushed
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to this point we could work then more leisurely, and complete the buildings as money becomes avail able for the purpose.” Construction on the Institute buildings came to a complete stand still in 1913 due to financial re verses which necessitated the sus pension of July dividends of the stocks held by the Stewarts and
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