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2 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.