our school this has been a red letter year in the history of the academy we had more students regis tered the first week than ever be fore and the percentage remaining until the end of the school year is equally high the student body has been united in and pushed to success everything undertaken and all feel satisfied with the year's work the constant increase of students each year for sometime back has made it necessary for more room to be supplied steps will be taken in this direction immediately the girls are looking forward with pleasure to the domestic science dep't and the boys to the manual training but both will be benefited by the modern gymnasium to be fitted out we all have a mind picture of another building in the lot south of us and have great hopes that the board will during the summer make this picture a reality our paper although a few unfavorable criticisms have been given by our ex change papers many favorable com ments have been made by a large number of our out side readers we also notice that some of our sister they are beginning to use some of papers are reading our acorn for our locals for their exchanges we have endeavored this vear to publish a souvenir number the first in the short life of our paper we will leave it to our patrons to say how well we have succeeded we trust that they will not be disappointed but be spurr ed on to give the students next year even more support than they have given us before leaving the acorn staff unite in thanking the student body for the support given them both in contributing material for their paper and in using their influence to assist the business managers in reaching the mer chants let us continue no matter where we may be in the future to con tribute to thesuccess of the acorn theological department baptism baptism is the third principle and first ordinance of the gospel of christ after a person has repented of his sins the first thing that he will want is a remission for those sins and for this purpose the lord has made baptism a symbol representing his acceptance of the man's repentance when a person is baptized he manifests to his heavenly father that he is earnest in his pre tenses baptism is the most fib symbol that could be chosen to represent a cleansing new birth baptism is for two purposes first it is a door into the fold of christ second it is for the remission of sin we do not believe as many of the world do that to be baptized is all we need to do in order to gain an exaltation in the kingdom of god but that baptism just admits us into the kingdom of god this only puts us in a position to exalt ourselves so by doing the will of the father keeping his commandments we gain a higher d.egree of glory if a person is baptized without fully repenting he brings condemnation upon himself the words of peter are very good upon tbis point when he says repent and be baptized every one of you for the remission of your sins thus showing plainly that we must repent before being baptized for it is making light of the teachings of our savior if we do not again when john was baptizing he rebuked the people who came uuto him for baptism before they had repented he said 0 generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come this shows that they they had not prepared themselves for the holy ordinance