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I had been there only a few days when
Mrs. Sallie Rogers, a dear, noble wom
an, who loved to serve God and human
ity with her money, came to the college
and hearing my story, met the remain
der of my expenses and left one thou
sand dollars in her will for the com
pletion of my education. So you see
God answered the prayer of just a
school girl.
I let my ambition to advance rapid
ly cause me to overwork, and I be
came practically an invalid. Although
unable to read or even set up longer
than for my recitations, I continued in
my classes for some time through a
classmate’s reading the lesson to me.
After leaving college, I grew con
siderably stronger and through my de
sire to know more of the Bible, I ap
plie dto two Bible schools and was
refused, but a third accepted me and
yet I had nothing with which to cover
even railroad expenses.
Again I prayed, distributing tracts
in the meantime, visiting the poor and
sick, doing all my church gave me
to do, becoming a missionary, but with
out pay, finally teaching a class of
working people at night to defray my
expenses.
In May of eighteen and ninety-six,
after helping in tent evangelistic work
where many were led to Christ, so
many appeals came from those who
wanted to be fitted for Christian ser
vice that I began praying God to raise
up some one to establish a school
to give the helpless a chance to help
themselves, and on faith started South
alone.
For two years I prayed and worked,
trusting him for everything necessary
to establish a co-educational, non-sec
tarian, industrial school.
My attention was called to a large,
unfinished building of about one hun
dred rooms, one mile from Marion,
N. C., on the Southern Railway, which
was well adapted to the work I had
in view. The country was high and
rolling, the water excellent, the cli
mate bracing and conducive to physi
cal and mental development.
Confident of divine help, I started
from Columbia, S. C., to purchase this
unfinished Catawba hotel, not having
enough money in my purse to cover
my railroad expenses. Not knowing
where the money was to come from,
but feeling that the Lord had said,
“Go,” I stepped out on his promises
and reached Marion with two dollars
in hand and eighty-four promised. On
faith I made the purchase, July 18,
1898, arranging a payment of three
hundred dollars. I got the bond for
title for this large skeleton of a house
that had stood unfinished until it need
ed much repairing, besides inside fin
ishing, before it would be fit to open
school in by January.
In August, at Indian Springs, Ga.,
I closed a missionary talk with an ap
peal for those who like myself had only
lives to give. Bro. McConnell gave
twenty-five dollars and took a collec
tion for Elhanan. Rev. T. W. Garbutt
gave six carloads of first class lum
ber for ceiling, a minister gave books
from his library others gave money
and made up boxes of bedding and a lit
tle girl of five gave her own five dol
lars because she wanted to help.
So the work began and so God has
taken care of it, although through the
years there have been many conflicts,
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with the evil one, and many, many
hard places that only an omnipotent
hand could have handled, but in ans
wer to prayer he has always come to
our rescue.
Many of our charter pupils have
been engaged in Christian work. Some
of whom have gone to Africa as mis
sionaries, and to India, South Ameri
ca, China and other countries. Some
are evangelists, some filling appoint
ments in abandoned churches, school
houses and cottage work, others are
teaching and in different ways mak
ing an honest living by their own
honest toil, who without this glorious
work that our Father has enabled us
to do might have been lost in the
depths of sin and degradation.
I am now talking to the Father
about having a lyceum course for the
Fall work. We now take the students
through the twelfth grade and a ly
ceum course would mean so much to
the advanced students. Probably He
will lay it on the heart of some of
His gifted ones to volunteer a visit as
they go up and down over the country
with their messages of burning inspi
ration. Pray for us that we may be
all that God can make of us here in
this institution.’ Remember we have
no income but are dependent on free
will offerings for the care of our
friendless cast outs.
‘SISTER MATTIE.”
Elbanan, N. C.
Shipping address, Marion, N. C.
THE. BOY FROM THE SAW MILL.
Dear Home Circle.
Being on my way, as I am from
Miller, Okla., to Bowling Green, Ky.,
and having to stop over eleven hours
at the beautiful city of Springfield,
Mo., I shall try to tell some of the
pitiable conditions of our Oklahoma
people.
I have been trying to teach school
at a saw mill camp for three months.
This camp is located four miles north
of Zoraya, Okla., and is composed of
about forty or fifty families, with sev
enty-six children in the school. But
I must say that I never saw children
in the country or inf town (and I
have been in the graded and high
school work of Glasgow, Ky.), learn
faster than those dear children with
whom I have labored. Some of those
children from eleven to fourteen years
old have never been in school but
four months in their lives. A good
many came to school without a single
book; didn’t have and could not buy
them.
Just let me say right here that I
never met brighter, sweeter, children
anywhere. They possess strong minds
and the best God-given talents. But,
O how they need development.
We now have a Sunday school or
ganized there with seventy-five, count
ing old and young, engaged in the
work. And they are now asking for
a protracted meeting. I give them
service along as I can reach them.
Some of those precious school chil
dren said that they had not heard
a sermon for four years until we went
there. Friends, how in the name of
our God can we keep his people out
of service another four years? Be
fore we went there they had two
dances each week, and they desecrat
ed to the fullest extent God’s Sab
bath. But now they can and do go
to Sunday school and sacred singing.
In this camp we find homes without
a chair to sit on. I have visited
in the camp without dishes
enough to set the table. I have also
visited homes in this same camp with
out a single bedstead in the house.
Now I will have to close, as .time will
not permit more. Just remember,
dear friends, that I have only given
you the sad conditions of one place.
There are thousands of others in the
The Golden Age for May 29, 1913
same condition. Let me say in con
clusion that we are Cumberland Pres
byterians, but are not narrow in this
respect. Please send all Baptists, all
Methodists (who believe in heart work
and in personal salvation through a
regenerating faith in Jesus Christ)
to eastern Oklahoma to help us. The
sinners are begging for the gospel.
Yours for service.
RESA REID.
DIOGENES FINDS AN HONEST
GIRL.
A wealthy man who died in Brus
sels recently left much of his large
fortune to a girl who was unaquainted
with him. He was very eccentric,
and, like Diogenes, he set out to find
an honest man. His tub was an omni
bus he took his seat near the conduc
tor and always showed himself very
obliging, passing up* the money of
passengers and returning the change,
but to the latter he always managed
to add a franc or half-franc. Then he
would watch those to whom it came.
They would count it carefully, notice
the extra coin, and invariably slip it
into their pockets. But at last a
young woman passed hers back, with
“Conductor, you have given me half
a franc too much.” The man followed
her to her home, learned what he
could about her, and made his will
in her favor, though he never told her
that the half franc returned would
bring her a million. —The Christian
Herald.
NEWS FROM THE WOODLAND.
(Continued from page 8.)
W. Fairbanks of Indianapolis, Ind.;
Bishop Charles D. Williams, Detroit,
Mich.; Rev. Henry Collin Minton, LL.
D,. Trenton, N. J., President of the
National Reform Association; and Rrs.
R. C. Wylie, W. I. Wishart and James
S. Martin of Pittsburg, Pa.
The stadium in Portland has been
secured as the place of meeting to ac
commodate the thousands whi will be
in attendance. A local committee of
one hundred people is busily engaged
in making preparations for the ap
proaching assembly. All desired in
formation concerning the Conference
can be obtained by addressing Dr.
James S. Martin, 603-604 Publication
Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
BACK TO FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS.
Mr. W. W. Borden, the young mil
lionaire who had decided to dedicate
his life to mission work in China, and
who died in Cairo, Egypt, on April 9
on his way out to his chosen field.
Practically all of his estate of a mil
lion dollars or more was given to mis
sion work. His will contains the fol
lowing recommendation concerning
the use of the bequests: That each
of the bequests be used for or in con
nection with missionaries and teachers
who are sound in the faith, believing
in such fundamentals as the doctrine
of the divine inspiration and authority
of the Scriptures, the doctrine of the
Trinity, including the deity of Jesus
Christy and in the doctrine of the
atonement through the substitutionary
death of our Lord Jesus Christ.” This
clause in Mr. Borden’s will, taken in
connection with the opening clause
in the will of Mr. J. P. Morgan, which
we published recently, we hope will
have a good effect in calling the
world back to a belief in the old-fash
ioned gospel of salvation by grace
through faith in the blood of Christ.
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