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Tennessee 9 s Nelv College Tor Women,
HIS school was opened on the 11th of
last September for the enrollment of stu
dents. On that day, which was the an
niversary of the laying of the corner
stone, special dedicatory services were
held which were participated. in by Dr.
Lansing Burrows, Dr. I. J. VanNess,
Dr. J. M. Frost, Mr. C. H. Byrn, pres
ident of the board of trustees; Presi-
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dent Geo. J. Burnett, president of the college, and
Dr. E. Y. Mullins, president of the Southern Bap
tist Theological Seminary.
Dr. Mullins delivered a masterful address on
Christian Education. The occasion was one of deep
interest, and there was a large and enthusiastic au
dience. Six weeks have passed since this date and
there are now enrolled 164 pupils, 106 of whom are
hoarders. The faculty of this school is second to
none in the South. The teachers have been se
lected from the very best colleges, universities and
conservatories of this country and Europe, and
nineteen in the faculty. The enrollment at present
has been very large, and is most gratifying, there
being almost 100 in the music department and other
departments are splendidly patronized.
It is a well known fact that this building is one
of the most modern and unique in the South. It
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is the property of the Tennessee Baptist State Con
vention, and is in every way a credit to the great
people whom it represents. The standards of this
school are very high, and it is the aim of the build
ers of the institution to make it a school of the
highest type for Christian education.
Murfreesboro, the home of this school, is a de
lightful town of 6,000 inhabitants, and is known
far and wide throughout our land because of the
historic events that have transpired here and
around it. It is an ideal location. Dr. Davidson,
so well known throughout the South, is pastor here,
and all the young ladies who are privileged to sit
under his ministry have just cause for congratulat
ion. This school, which is under the management
of President Geo. J. Burnett, and his brother, Pro
fessor J. Henry Burnett, has made a most auspi
cious beginning, and we predict for it' a great fu
ture of usefulness in the cultured and consecrated
lives of the Tennessee girls who will mean so much
to the school rooms and homes of the “Volunteer
State.”
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Among the Workers.
Colgate University has sent one hundred and
twenty-six of its graduates as foreign missionaries
that is every tenth man lias gone to the foreign
field.—Baptist Banner.
The things that amuse you are a register of your
mental and moral caliber. Did you ever think of
that? The sort of entertainment, for instance, that
delights a lew-bred degenerate fills a pure mind with
inexpressible loathing. The “fun” a street gamin
finds moves a gentle-hearted little girl to indignant
pity. The social mistake which convulses a shal
low fop finds only excuse and forgetfulness in the
minds of the noble. When you laugh at the cutting
rejoinder that flays and sears, when you take pleas
ure in the discomfiture of your neighbor, when you
TENNESSEE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, MURFREESBORO,TENN.
The Golden Age for October 81, 1907.
covertly enjoy a double entendre, you may well
pause and ask yourself whither you are tending,
and what your influence upon others is.—The
Young People.
Last week Rev. Thomas Dixon, Sr., the father of
the famous preachers, baptized ninety-eight persons
at one time in Buffalo church. Later he baptized
ninety-six into the same church. His son, Clar
ence, being eleven years of age, was baptized into
this church.
In a meeting in Gore’s church, several years ago,
Brother Dixon baptized twenty-one young men at
one time. The oldest one was twenty-six, and be
came a preacher. There was not 'a woman to be
baptized with the young men. —The Biblical Re
corder.
Evangelist Wm. Spurgeon, D.D., now in Louis
ville, says, to his personal knowledge, that ninety
per cent of the converts of the Wales revival have
remained loyal to their church relations; that there
is only a normal reaction to a quieter state of prog
ress. —Baptist Banner.
The Russian Baptist Union has opened its train
ing school for ministers in the Baptist church at
Lodz, in Poland, with Rev. Eugen Mohr and Rev.
Martin Schmidt as professors. This is the school
for which Baron Uxkuill is soliciting funds in
America.—Baptist Banner.
Here are some good things to learn:
“Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than
medicine.
“Learn how to tell a story. A well-told story is
as welcome as a sunbeam in a sick room.
“Learn to stop croaking. The world is too busy
to care for your ills and sorrows. If you can not see
any good in this world, keep the bad to yourself.
“Learn to hide your aches and pains under a
pleasant smile. No one cares whether you have the
earache, headache, or rheumatism.
“Learn to attend to your own business —a very
important point.
“Learn to greet your friends with a smile. They
carry too many frowns in their own hearts to be
bothered with any of yours.”—Epworth Herald.
A few months ago reference was made in this col
umn to the alleged scarcity of preachers, and the
small number of young men entering the ministry.
At that time, and in several paragraphs since, it
was suggested that the Lord did not send more “la
borers into the harvest’.’ because the Christian peo
ple in charge of the harvest fields did not employ
these whom He had already sent. Thousands of
men called of God, and good men, are- shut out of
work, and are not permitted to work, because at
some time in the past, they had been compelled for
one reason or another to retire for a time from
work. When they have sought work afterwards,
they have been told that “no man out of a job is
needed.” Since The Golden Age published that
idea, other papers have taken it up and the notion
is coming back in our exchanges variously. A great
many people are coming to see the matter that way.
Maybe it will cause some of the pastorless churches
to look out for an unemployed preacher.
The Prohibition Tight.
I have just read the details of that horrible mur
der and suicide at Brunswick the other day. They
are so like thousands of others. They characterize
a class of tragedies all its own. William M. Roney
had been drinking heavily. He became mentally un
balanced. He had left off drinking, but had become
wildly jealous. In a moment of frenzy he pursued
his wife, shot her down on the street in front of
their home, and then sent a bullet through his own
brain. We shall expect no more such stories from
Brunswick next year.
An exchange says:
“In Bridgeport, Conn., the law requires a per
son to be a land owner in order to become an en
dorser of an application for a license to sell liquors.
The bookkeeper of the Connecticut Breweries Com
pany has conveyed a lot of land to 32C men in or
der that, as joint owners of the lot, they may be
qualified to endorse applications for liquor licenses.
Such a transaction as this marks all concerned as
breakers of the law, in spirit, if not in letter.”
The fight on liquor selling at the national capital
will not be abated. The W. C. T. U. has for ten
years been at work on the job. The Anti-Saloon
League is co-operating. Congress has been made to
feel the pressure and to see the decent side of this
thing, in part at least. The selling of liquor in the
capitol and at the Soldiers’ Home, and in the army
canteen has been abolished, and Congress will be
still further urged to prohibit the sale in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The following clipping from an exchange has the
earmarks of genuineness, and yet it is a matter of
surprise to learn that even presidents of the United
States were so well informed from seventyfive down
to forty years ago. The clipping is as follows:
“Between tl s | iaw ars 1833 to 1867, Edward Dela
van, one of the foremost reformers of those days,
secured the signatures of twelve presidents of the
United States to a remarkable temperance declara
tion as follows:
“ ‘Being satisfied from observation and experi
ence, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent
spirits, as a drink, is not only needless, but harm
ful, and that the entire disuse of it would tend to
promote the health, the virtue and the happiness of
the community, we hereby express our conviction
that, should the citizens of the United States, and
especially the young men, discontinue entirely the
use of it, they would not only promote their own
personal benefit, but the good of our country and of
the world.’
“These twelve presidents were Jackson, Madison,
John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, Fill
more, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln and Johnson.”
The following is exceedingly important, and is
thoroughly in accord with common sense:
“Washington, October 14. —Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue Capers has rendered a decision rela
tive to the manufacture and sale of alleged medicinal
alcoholic compounds, where on analysis it is found
that the said alleged medicinal compounds are suit
able for use as a beverage.
“Summing up an elaborate opinion, the commis
sioner holds as follows:
“ ‘That a special tax is required for the manu
facture and sale of alleged medicinal alcoholic com
pounds, or for the sale of malt extracts manufac
tured from fermented liquors, the drugs used in the
manufacture of which are not sufficient in amount
or character to render the product unfit for use as
a beverage; or, in the case of cordials, extracts and
essences, in which the amount of alcohol is greater
than is necessary to preserve the ingredients, or to
extract the properties or cut the oils and held the
same in solution.
“Manufacturers of alcoholic medicinal com
pounds, malt extracts, flavoring extracts, essences
and soda water syrups who wish to avoid liability
for special taxes must satisfy themselves that their
products are within the limits herein defined: and
those who put out alcoholic compounds of doubtful
medicinal value, or containing a questionable proc
ess of alcohol, must do so at the risk of being re
quired to pay special taxes for the manufacture and
sale of the same.’ ” A
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