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prise. At his death, sixteen years later, he left the
institution unencumbered, and fairly well equipped
with buildings and appliances.
In the midst of the commencement exercises, in
1887, President Cox died suddenly, from a stroke
of apoplexy.' The administration was organized
with Charles C. Cox as President, William S. Cox
as Manager, and the Misses Sallie and Alice Cox
as Directois of Music. These were the children of
I. F. Cox, to whom he bequeathed the College, and
who have successfully conducted it to the present
time.
In 1888, Charles Cox was manied to Miss Mamie
Paeon, the youngest daughter of Milton E. Bacon,
the second president, and in this union the descend
ants of the two men who had done most to estab
lish and promote the institution became identified
in its interests.
For eighteen years Charles C. Cox guided the
destiny of this institution, giving the best years
of his life, and finally his life itself, to the noble
work. How well he wrought the present splendid
equipment and high standing of the College at
test. Patient, kind and amiable; courteous, refined
and devout; scholarly, accurate and resourceful,
Dr. Cox was a very high type of teacher. The edu
cational life of Georgia, and the South, sustained
a great loss in the premature death of this good
man.
In 1895, during Dr. Cox’s administration, the
College was moved to College Park, a beautiful
suburb of Atlanta. The magnificent building, and
spacious campus were designed and laid off espe
cially to meet the needs of this growing institu
tion. The old name and charter were transferred
and confirmed, but after its removal, in order to dis
tinguish it, and in recognition of the noble work of
the Cox family, the public gave the school the
name of Cox College. This is a fitting and deserved
tribute to the name and labors of the family that
has made the College famous.
In the Summer of 1905, while the commencement
exercises were in progrss, President Cox was called
from his earthly labors to enter into his eternal re
ward. He died as he had lived, with his face to
ward higher things, and all over the Southland hun
dreds of noble women dropped tears of sorrow for
the loss of one who had uplifted and ennobled their
lives by his patient and skilful teaching. He rests
from toil, but his works do follow him. He had
wrought so well that the work went on after the
worker had ceased. If any imagined that the school
would perish, or even halt in its progress, they had
not rightly estimated the character of Charles Cox
and his predecessors, or their works. The institu
tion was too well established, and too widely and
favorably known to be dependent upon the labors
of any one man.
Although Dr. Cox’s death occurred too late in
the summer for a reorganization, and selection of
a successor, that year, yet the authorities decided
that the work of the College should go on, without
the loss of a day. The brilliant and accomplished
wife of the deceased president seized the helm and
guided the institution successfully through the next
session. The facts that there was scarcely any fall
ing off in the attendance, and that the usual thor
ough courses were pursued without confusion show
how well ordered the institution is.
Some months ago Rev. Adiel J. Moncrief, then
pastor of the First Baptist Church of Brunswick,
Ga., was offered the presidency, and accepted. He
assumed charge on June first, and under his able
management it is safe to assert that the future of
the noble institution will rival even its brilliant
past, in usefulness, scope and effective Christian
work.
Our present circumstances are to be looked upon
as advantages which the great Disposer has afforded
us, and not, as we are apt to think, impediments
which He has thrown in our way. They are the
materials with which we are to begin to build, and
not a heap of rubbish that must be cleared out of
the way before we lay the first stone in the edifice
of our lives.—S. P. Herron.
I'he Golden Age for June 28, 1906.
The Democracy of Christianity.
By G. A. NUNNALLY.
By “The Democracy of Christianity” we do not
mean that the express will of majorities is always
a correct standard of morality. There is not a vir
tue which at some some time has not been voted
down by a Democratic majority, and if ever saved
and redeemed it was by the persistence of the oft
defeated minorities. History shows how the lib
erty of the people, religious freedom, separation of
Church and State, abolition of slavery and other
great measures had the Juggernaut wheels of a re
lentless and sometimes envious majority to pass
over them and crushed and groaning and left for
dead, the shout of the great crowd rent the air.
Democratic majorities manipulated by political in
trigue have generally led to tyranny, usurpation,
cruelty and corruption. Vox Populi is not Vox Dei.
By the Democracy of Christianity, we do not
mean that the’ moral standards of political Dem
ocracy harmonize with the principles of Christian
ity. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on
the Mount are not the foundation stones of politi
cal Democracy. Legislation is not fitted to these
truths. They are regarded as impossible ideals—
the unattainable visions of the weird seer of the
Apoccolypse. The City coming down out of Heaven
has not yet touched the earth, and when it does it
will hardly be fitted for the habitations of men
who make up the Democracy of human govern
ments. By the Democracy of Christianity we do
not mean that Christianity is an outgrowth from
the people—a kind of concensus of the nations.
The simplest civic conception of the Nazarene—the
statesmanship of the Man of Gallilee is infinitely
beyond the possibility of the conception of the
boldest leaders of political Democracy. The very
spirit of Christianity is so averse to humanity that
its lineage could not be traced to mortal man.
Kinship is denied by human nature and fellowship
is refused. It is the Wisdom that cometh down
from above that is first pure, then peaceable. We
mean that Christianity is suited to a world-wide
Democracy—a constituency that is commensurate
with the race. It ignores all national boundaries
in its sweep of territory. It disregards national
peculiarities and individual idiosyncrasies in its uni
versal adaptations. It sets aside all distinctions
growing out of temporal circumstances. The rich
man in his purple and fine linen, and Lazarus in
his rags, the young man of spotless morality and
the woman who was a sinner, the learned teacher
in the synagogue and the ignorant fisherman mend
ing his nets, are all on a level before the throne
where pure Christianity presides.
Slowly, but surely, this glorious result is being
consummated. Like a sunrise in the Arctic re
gions when the day is breaking after six month’s
night. How the weary watchers climb the icy
peaks to catch the first of the morning gleams and
herald the dawn of a coming day. Already we be
gin to hear afar the voices of the nations, and the
continents proclaim their fellowship; bound by
stronger strands than commercial cords, and by
firmer links than cables of copper. Listen! Eu
ropean dynasties are holding bated breath, while
crowns are crumbling from human brows, a re
deemed Democracy looking alone to Jesus, cry, “One
Lord.” Listen! Asiatic peoples long bound in
the circlet of multiplied superstitions call a silence
in the confusion of tongues and looking to the Cross
exclaim “One Faith.” Listen! The loathed and
hated weaklings of Afric’s jungles, with a senseless
jargon sanctified into heavenly harmony, washed
in the Blood of the Lamb slain from the foundations
of the world, sing in joyous song, “One Baptism.”
Listen! The long lost is’es of the sea, in their!
solitude and loneliness and orphanage, hidden
through the ages, now brought nigh yea, under
the family roof-tree, by the blood of Christ, come
into the parental home as a prodigal, but now a
humanity reclaimed, and restored, and with the
voice of many waters assert their kinship to the re
deemed, and say “One Father.”
News of General Interest.
Since the Suez Canal was opened it has increased
its annual revenue from $18,000,000 to $20,000,000.
In Birmingham, England, there is the largest pin
factory in the world there being 37,000,000 pins
manufactured daily.
In Egypt alone of all countries of the world there
are more men than women, the excess being 160,-
000 in favor of “the sterner sex.”
The greater part of the almost $2,000,000 worth
of firecrackers annually exported by China comes
to New York. And the United States stands next
to China in its use of them.
To illustrate our dependence on the telephone it
will be of interest to note that in the United States
■alone there were made about 5,000,000,000 calls last
year or on an average of 54 for every man, woman
and child in the country.
King Alfonso intends to introduce golf into Spain.
He learned in England and it was noted that one
characteristic feature in his playing which distin
guished him from English players was that when he
made a bad stroke he merelv smiled and exclaimed
“Hi!”
The Emperor of China’s tea is grown in a garden
surrounded by high walls, so that none but the cul
tivators can approach it. The pickers must bathe
three times daily, wear special gloves, and abstain
from eating fish, lest their breath should spoil the
leaves’ aroma.
All stamp collectors will be interested to know
that there is, in the possession of H. J. Duveen of
the firm of Duveen Bros., famous dealers in fine
arts, a collection of stamps valued at $500,000.00
and that this is only the third in value of the known
collections.
Miss Christine la Barraque of California, now 28
years of age, who has been blind since she was a
baby, is a practicing lawyer. She was graduated
at the head of her class at the University of Cali
fornia. She is an accomplished linguist, and is at
present in New York completing her musical edu
cation.
A remaikable decrease is noted in the importa
tion of silks into this country. The cause of this is
the growth of American silk production the number
of factories having been doubled since 1900.
The Japanese exports of silk have tripled in ten
years, however, increasing from $7,470,000 in 1895
to $22,410,000 in 1904-5.
Modern use of electrical science for the needs of
■civilization is illustrated by the fact that the new
giant turbine steamship, Mauritania, being built
by the Cunard Co., is to have two passenger eleva
tors, two for baggage and six smaller electric ele
vators for mails and other light work.
As an argument in favor of manual training even
though the art learned is not to be made a life work,
is seen in the fact that King Edward of England
i anks among his accomplishments the art of being’
a successful brick-maker and builder. He and his
biotheis built a small tort at Osborne England and
at Balmoral there is a tool shed constructed by
1 lince Albeit, the father of Edward, and his young
sons.
Among the most active of recent engineering
feats projected is the tunnelling of Bering Strait
to connect Siberia with Alaska and the tunnelling
of the English Channel to connect Dover and Calais
or France and England. This latter project is an
old one recently revived, and with the help of mod
ern methods and the fact that the road would be
built through comparatively soft chalk makes it a
possibility of the near future.