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STONEWALL JACKSON INSTITUTE.
An Open Letter From the Principal to
the United Daughters of the Con
reaeracy, and a Letter Written
by General Robert E. Lee.
In view of th?- recent action in regard
to the withdrawal of your support
from the scholarship which you have
been sustaining at Columbia University.
New York. I wish to call you attention
to the merits of Stonewall Jackson Institute,
Abingdon, Virginia, and give you a
few facts in regard to same.
The Institute has a primary, preparatory
and college course and gives an A.
B. degree. It offers work in the departments
of art. music, physical culture.
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The property belonging to the
Institute is worth $60,000 and there is
no endowment. The past year a small
legacy was given the Institute, the income
from which is to be used for the library.
This income will not exceed $400
per annum and will not be exailable until
next session. In view of the fact that
some other small donations have been
made to the Institute, the board of trustees
has, in its wisdom, this year erected
an annex to the main building which
contains apartments for twenty-four additional
students. Besides the dormatory
accommodations, this annex contains
a gymnasium dining room, kitchen,
practice kitchen for the domestic science
department, girls' assembly room.
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for occupancy about December the 1st.
The board has recently purchased -a
house and a lot adjacent to the present
Institute premises, adding very much to
the comfort and convenience of all-connected
with the Institute, as our compus
has been very much circumscribed,
hardly allowing room enough for proper
exercise and the athletic sports of the
students.
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This school is under the care of the
Presbyterian church, being the property
of the Abingdon Presbytery. While this
is true, it is not in any sense sectarian.
as is shown by the fact that we have,
in cur present faculty members of the
Methodist and Episcopal churches and
also the Church of England, as well as
the Presbyterian teachers.
The students are required to wear as
their winter uniform, a Confederate gray
coat suit and a mortar board cap, trimmed
with Virginia state buttons; the
spring and fall uniform being the gray
mortar board caps with white shirt waist
suits.
I do not think the Daughters of the
Confederacy, among whose number I am
glad to say I belong, could And a more
worthy school to which they could give
their support. Can we not, dear Daughters,
endow a chair of English or Mathematics
to be known as "The Robert E.
l>ee Chair of English or Mathematics at
Z PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOI.
Stonewall Jackson Institute?" This
would levy only a small tax upon each of
us, and I am sure our illustrious generals
would feel that the money was given to
a noble cause and they would uphold us
in this, our work of love. The greatest
monument we can erect to our beloved
departed is one which will train young
women in mind, body and character to
be noble Christians, and 1 am positive I
am not mistaken in saying that Stonewall
Jackson Institute has done and is
doing such work.
It is our hope when the new building
is completed and ready for use to open
our doors to the public and have them
inspect our various departments. At this
time we hope we may have the encouragement
of a visit from Mrs. Stonewall
Jackson, and her grand-children. Do you
not think, Daughters of the Confederacy,
that this cause is worth investigating?
You have responded nobly at all times
to all calls made upon you. Do you not
think this cause a worthy one? The two
illustrious leaders who hold such a warm
place in all the loyal hearts of those who
live in the sunny south gave many years
of their lives to the training of the young
men of the south; is it not fitting that
we should further extend their loving
service by giving our young girls more
opportunity for Christian training?
Daughters, I lay the cause before you;
can not you find it in your generous
hearts to respond?
(Mrs.) Mary Moore Davis, Prin.,
Stonewall Jackson Institute,
Abingdon, Virginia.
Commendation from General Robert E.
Lee.
"Rev. S. D. Stewart: ?
Dear Sir?In renlv tn vnura of (hp
inst., in reference to the Stonewall Jackson
Institute, 1 assure you that any
scheme designed to perpetuate the recollection
of the virtue and pariotism of
General Jackson meets my approval. As
he was a friend of learning, I know of
no more effective and appropriate method
of accomplishing the praiseworthy
object in question, than the establishment
of an institution in which the
young women of our country may be
trained for the important and responsible
duties of life. I hope the institution
established by the people of Southwest
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D?uvuivu^u IU Liic memory
of General T. J. Jackson, may meet with
entire success and prove a blessing to
the state.
"Very respectfully,
"Your obedient servant,
"R. E. Lee."
The inconsistency of Christians is the
stronghold of unbelief. The lack of vital
joy in the Church is the chief cause of
Indifference in the world. The feeble
energy, the faltering and reluctant
spirit, the weariness in well doing with
which too many believers impoverish
and sadden their own hearts, make other
men question the reality and value of
religion, and turn away from It in cool
neglect.?Exchange.
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FTH. December 15, 1903.
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Religions of Mission Fields.?As viewed
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God's children are but children, and
understand and sneak as children. Did
we not need to be taught, we should
not need to be disciples. Christ's scholars
are sure to be well taught.?Matthew
Henry.
HABIT'S CHAIN
Certain Habita Unconsciously Formed
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An Ingenious philosopher estimates
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