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HU7I9IH NINE
SPREADING THE LIGHT(
"The Conference Tor Tducation” a Mighty Stimulus in the Educational of the South— l{ural Districts
Transformed —Gardens of Roses Where Weeds and Thistles Grelv.
HE awakening is beautiful, and the
friends of humanity rejoice. The clouds
are rifting and lifting, and the “Eastern
Gate” is opening, not with the fatr
sparkle of the morning star, but with
the bursting glow of the Rising Sun.
The South is pulsing today with the
throb and thrill of a genuine educational
renaissance. This section of our Union
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sources, her possibilities —and let it be said—her
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BEFORE THE AWAKENING.
needs. Our people are awakening as never before
to the need of trained heads, trained hands and
trained hearts, both for educational leaders and
for the rank and tile of the people who are to
follow this leadership.
Each Southern State faces its own school problems
and is working out these problems with a will. Each
-State impressed with her own needs and inspired
and encouraged by the progress of another State,
is voting money right and Left for schools and
colleges, and is taking peculiar pride in the
achievements of i( educational governors” and “edu
cational legislatures.” It. is at once a significant
and a magnificent sign of progress when law makers
rejoice to announce themselves on the educational
“band-wagon”; but it must be said in simple
justice to many of our governors and legislatures
that they are making this band-wagon themselves.
They are proving themselves real “heroes in the
strife.” Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia was an edu
cational leader long before he was a candidate for
governor.
WE SALUTE THE FRIENDS OF EDUCATIO N—Page Four
ATLANTA, GA., APRIL 15, 809.
By WILLIAM 1). UPSHAW.
Outside Fellowship and Inspiration—A Tonic in
Philanthropy.
While we rejoice in the truth that Henry Grady
told in his famous New England dinner speech,
true then and truer now, when he declared that the
best progress of the New South has been born on
Southern soil, and while we rejoice to know now
that the Marseillais against ignorance is being
beaten by Southern hands ami sung in liquid tire
that leaps from Southern hearts and Southern lips,
yet we are honest enough and grateful enough to
bear glad testimony to the fact that a great force
in this educational awakening has been the work
of the General Educational Board. Great-hearted
men of the North—patriots to the core —have loved
humanity better than they have loved their fortunes,
and instead of giving themselves over to the blight
ing tide of commercialism as so many of their neigh
bors have done, these men have been seers and proph
ets as well —have stood like kings ami princes mi
the thrones of their own making, and have given
their money with wise and lavish hand to help
their brothers in the South in the problems with
which they are wrestling— problems more delicate
and difficult of solution, perhaps, than any other
people of any section have ever faced in the history
of our civilization. These great and good men have
shown their wisdom by building slowly at first, but
measuring with careful investigation every step they
have taken. At last they are ready with “rapid
fire” for the grand charge, and some who have been
a little impatient are seeing now the wisdom of their
course. The practical help which the General Edu-
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AFTER THE AWAKENING.
eational Board has given, and the larger help which
it now proposes to give, is having the effect of a
marvelous tonic —both mental and philanthropic.
The devoted friends of distinctly Christian institu
tions felt a little disappointed for a time because
the energies and gifts of th<> Board seemed directed
chiefly to State institutions. But all the time, with
very limited means first at their command, they
were carrying on a sane campaign of widespiead
investigation of denominational schools, recognizing
the fact that these institutions, both preparatory and
collegiate, touch humanity in away so deep and
far-reaching, that the wise philanthropist— -the real
builder of the State —must include the Christian
school as a rich and fruitful soil for investment.
And now with the greatly increased income of the
Board through the startling and inspiring gilts of
Air. John 1). Rockefeller, the denominational schools
are also receiving large gifts to stimulate their own
endeavors and greatly increase their usefulness.
The evident purpose of the General Educational
Board is to invest money anywhere and everywhere,
if investigation and common sense indicate that the
people are thus to be uplifted and made worth more
to the world. For the organizing work of Robert
C. Ogden, the painstaking wisdom of Dr. Wallace
Butterick, the enterprising wisdom and counsel of
the lamented Wm. 11. Baldwin, and the beautiful
living, giving and leadership of George Foster
Peabody, and all of their associates and helpers,
the people of the South owe a debt of gratitude
which they never can repay.
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