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College Notes.
Hickman College, Hickman, Ky., has conferred
the degree of D.D. upon Rev. N. B. Graves.
Prof. R. AV. Edenfield, well known through his
work at Hearn Academy, has consented to remain
during next year at the head of the school. He will
devote his attention during vacation to the erec
tion of new buildings.
Prof. H. L. Fairchild, of the University of Roch
ester, Secretary of the Zoological Society of Amer
ica, will spend the summer on the Pacific Coast
and thereafter attend the International Geological
Congress in the City of Mexico.
The bill of Mr. Connor of Bartow county, provid
ing for the appropriation of a hundred thousand
dollars for the development of the Agricultural
College of the University of Georgia, has passed
the House of Representatives by a good majori
ty.
Dr. H. R. Bernard has accepted the position of
Assistant Secretary of the Educational Commission
of the Georgia Baptist Convention. He will be lo
cated in Macon as assistant to Dr. S. Y. Jameson,
Secretary of the Educational Commission and Pres
ident of Mercer University.
The Bainbridge, Georgia, Chapter of the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy at a recent meeting, decid
ed to send two daughters of Confederate veterans
to college during the coming year. The Georgia
Normal and Industrial College at Milledgeville, is
one of the colleges but the other has not yet been
decided upon. The ladies will raise the necessary
funds by a series of entertainments.
Miss Christine La Barraque, now twenty-eight
years old, who has been blind since she was a baby,
graduated at the head of a law class in California
law school and has been admitted to the bar in
that State. She is now in New York City complet
ing her musical education. Realizing that a blind
woman can hardly practice law successfully, she
has decided to make her living out of music.
Much interest in college circles has been taken
in the attack on sport by President Chamberlain of
McKendree College, Lebanon, 111., in his annual re
port. Besides recommending the unconditional
abolition of football, Dr. Chamberlain virtually
attributed much of our current grafting and anarch
istic tendencies to the prevailing spirit and practices
of inter-collegiate games.
President Schurman of Cornell University in a
recent address before his students and faculty,
made the following statement:
“The love of money and the reckless pursuit
of it is undermining the national character. But
the nation, thank God, is beginning to perceive the
fatal danger. The reaction caused by the recent
revelations testifies to a moral awakening. At
heart the nation is still sound, though its moral
sense has been too long hypnotized by material
prosperity, ’ ’
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The Golden Age for July 19, 1906.
Two Ambitious Girls.
The Editor’s life work for a number of years has
been that of giving assistance to struggling girls
whose poverty closed the way to higher education.
His efforts in this sacred cause have made his name
a familiar one to many who do not know him per
sonally. The letters given below are published in
the conviction that no one can read them without
being moved; and in the sincere and prayerful hope
that some who are blessed with means will find an
avenue to happiness and heartsease by coming to
the assistance of deserving girls who have set their
eyes upon the upward road:
Dear Bro. Upshaw:—You may be surprised to
hear from this little middle-Georgia girl again, for
I wrote you about two years ago asking if away
could be provided for me to enter Monroe.
I’ve tried so many times and failed that despair
has almost taken the place of hope.
You wrote me if I could raise seventy-five dollars
the other funds would be all right, but I had a
brother in Mercer part of the term and papa was
doing all he could for him, so the money was not
allowed me, and next session will be the same and
I shall be left again.
I completed my high school course in 1904, but
that’s not by any means a finished education.
Papa has done, and is doing all he can, but it’s
no easy matter to give nine children a completed
education.
I am ambitious and shall always be, and, natural
ly do not like to see my boy and girls friends out
stripping me when all I lack is means.
I have been teaching in South Georgia, trying to
raise the money to school myself, but had a pro
longed case of sickness and my money went for doc
tor bills.
Seems like Fate is against me, but I am persist
ent in the effort, and an advocate of a good educa
tion and have begun nearly three months ahead of
time trying to find some one to take an interest in
my almost perished effort.
I think it will revive if I can get some encourage
ment from one who knows what an education means
to the human soul.
Bro. Upshaw, is there away for dependent girls
to get an education or is it only for the few?
I’ve tried so hard many times to enter college
and failed that I am almost afraid to make another
attempt, but try once more I shall.
I trust this will not be an intrusion, and remem
ber my gratitude will have no bounds if you can
conceive of some plan to help me.
If there can or cannot be away prepared for me,
please let me hear from you at your earliest oppor
tunity.”
My Dear Mr. Upshaw:—l am very anxious to at
tend “Monroe,” but my father says, he is not
able to pay my expenses.
I have heard of your kindness to girls in secur
ing an education; and I write to know if you can
help me.
I attended last year, and completed the Sopho
more class there. lam making a specialty in “Ora
tory.” My teacher said I could finish the course in
“Emerson method” in two (2) years. As this is
the method tought in Monroe, I would like so piuch
to attend Monroe, and stay two years—and com
plete the course.
I am so anxious to complete my education, so I
can be self-supporting.
When I have finished, the first money that I
make I will pay you. I can give you good security
on the note.
My father is a Methodist minister of the North.
Georgia Conference. His health failed, and he was
superannuated the years 1903-04; and the past two
(2) years he has had light work. He has charge of a
circuit this year—and it pays him a small salary.
It will be impossible for him to help me any at
all this year; and I don’t feel like I have any time
to lose.
Please let me hear from you as early as possible.
The Y. M. C. A. at Mercer.
By J. L. D HILLYER.
When I see the rather frequent references that
appear in various publications about the Y. M. C.
A. at Mercer, I am reminded of something that
ought to be said again.
A few years ago I was a boy listening to the
stories of old men, before I was aware of it, the
scene had shifted, the old men had passed to their
various exits. The stage has filled up with young
people, and I have assumed the role of the patri
arch, to tell the stories of past faithfulness that
should never be forgotten.
Fifteen years ago everybody in Atlanta knew Dr.
J. S. Lawton. In 1835 he was at Penfield with his
brother, William. They were students of Mercer
Institute, General James Longstreet was there at
that time. Among the students there were seven
or eight pious boys, to whom religion was a reality,
and prayer a delight. The two Lawtons were
among them. I don’t know certainly the others,
but I think that Tryon and Huckabee, whose lives
were given to planting the word of truth in Texas
were there. A little later, Thomas Gibbs who serv
ed the Stone Mountain Assciation as clerk so long
and faithfully was with them. So came Jesse M.
Wood and B. F. Tharp a little later. Those boys,
away back there in 1835, nine years before the Y,
M. C. A. was born and twenty-one years before it
began work in Georgia—those boys established as a
permanent institution, the “Young Men’s Twilight
Prayer Meeting of Mercer University.’’ The suc
cessive relays of students from then on, until now,
have kept the fires burning on that altar. Many
a time as the years have rolled by, the Holy Spirit
has descended upon that prayer room in pentecostal
power. Many a Mercer student has been led to
Christ right there, and in those simple services,
seeds of truth have been sown, that have, years
afterwards brought forth a harvest of righteous
ness and salvation, in the lives of men who left
those scenes before they were saved.
May the Y. M. C. A. never allow the Twilight
Prayer Meeting to fail. If only two met let them
hold the meeting and save the occasion. If only
one comes let him there and then pray for the con
tinuance of the meetings. One stormy night in
sixty nine I went to the prayer meeting. The only
other attendant that night, was not a Christian.
I had the inexpressable joy of leading that boy to
Christ a few weeks later,
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