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NUMBER TWENTY - NINE
"OLD VICTORIOUS NOVENENT
President James E. Dickey on f /o o Stretch in an Endowment Effort for $300,000 —The Money
Pjplvs in Si, in Response to His Sacred Eloquence.
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also. And it has struck everywhere—in the little coun
try church, in the shining city edifice, at the “Georgia
camp-meeting,” at the dis
trict conference, up among
the mountains and down
among the pines, he has
carried the winning battle
until, at the last “raising,”
the magnificent sum of
nearly $220,000 had been
reached. And inasmuch as
not a dollar of those sub
scriptions is binding until
the whole of the intended
$300,000 has been subscrib
ed, Emory’s dynamic Pres
ident is whirling through
space at a startling and in
spiring rate, saying day by
day and hour by hour,
“How am I straitened till
this be accomplished!”
Some Great Giving.
Among the notable gifts
that have encouraged
President Dickey so great
ly in his work, stimulating
the whole State and giving
assurance of victory are
$50,000 from Mr. Asa G.
Candler, the famous finan
cier and philanthropist;
$25,000 from Capt. J. P.
Williams, the consecrated
railroad and lumber king
who had previously given
$30,000 to Emory, and $lO,-
000 from George Winship
of “Winship Machinery’’ fame, who has proven that
he loves the Christian training of young men bet
ter than cotton gins and all the money that they
bring. Many other gifts of SI,OOO each, with count
less others quite as liberal as these, but not so
large, have proven the loyalty of Georgia Metho
dists to historic “Old Emory’’ and the cause of
Christian education.
President Dickey’s victory has been all the more
notable because of the simultaneous campaign for
the Wesley Memorial enterprises which has covered
almost the entire State.
HE man and the hour have met in the
victorious endowment movement for
Emory College. President James E.
Dickey has proven himself a veritable
Boanerges in the leadership of this
movement, plus the affix “A Son of
Lightning” as well —for, where the
“thunder” of his princely eloquence has
sounded, there the “lightning” has flashed
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THE YOUNG J. ALLEN MEMORIAL B EING ERECTED AT EMORY COLLEGE,
ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 9 1909.
Dickey’s Personality and Power.
It does not minimize the meaning of any great
movement to say that it is put into italics before tne
public by the powerful personality of its advocate, in
deed, the personality of the man is usually regarded
by the people as an exponent of the truth he pro
claims and the cause he advocates. And in this par
ticular Jas. E. Dickey is peculiarly blessed of Heav
en. He don’t mean a bit of harm by it, but he is
a “mighty good-looking” man. When he “stands up
for to speak” the people expect something, and
verily they are not disappointed. His style of elo
quence is imperial, and when he is in full action he
makes you think of a mountain peak on fire. His Is
the ideal eloquence for the presentation of such a
theme as Christian Education, for his sermon-ad
dresses are packed with logic and clothed with the
radiance of rich and sparkling speech.
Above all, Emory’s President believes in “old-time”
religion, and his great sermon at Newnan at a cru
cial time for orthodox faith, which put almost the
whole North Georgia Conference to shouting, was
an impassioned restatement of the old Truths that
have lighted the world through darkness and saved
culture from becoming a “sounding brass and a
tinkling cymbal.
The Young J. Allen Memorial.
It is another evidence of pluck and loyalty that
coincident with this endowment movement the
Methodists of Georgia and Florida should build the
magnificent Memorial Church and College Auditori
um in honor of the great missionary to China,
Young J. Allen, who proved himself both a patriarch
and a prophet in that land of mystery and gloom.
real and wise.
Editor’s Note: It was our purpose to use the pic
ture of President Dickey on this page but at the
last moment —too late for remedy—we found that
the cut was too large to accompany the Young J.
Allen Memorial and the story. We simply wished
to prove our declaration that Emory’s president is a
“mighty good-looking” man —that he looks as well
as he speaks—and that is a compliment both to his
appearance and his stirring eloquence.
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Georgia’s Awakening in
Christian Education.
This successful endow
ment movement for Em
ory College, following fast
on the heels of a similar
movement for a similar
amount led to victory in
face of a financial panic by
President S. Y. Jameson,
of Mercer University, is a
splendid commentary on
the renaissance of Chris
tian education in Georgia,
and will mark an epoch of
encouragement for this vi
tal cause in other States.
The signal success of these
movements on the part of
Mercer and Emory will
make those who have been
saying that the days of our
denominational schools are
numbered “sit up and take
notice.” These institutions
that have made a gulf
stream of warmth and light
and truth and blessing
flowing through our Chris
tian civilization have made,
and are making, too great a
contribution to the sanities
and verities that make for
home and Church and
State to be neglected by
philanthropists who are
