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Vol. IX—No. 23
“CANDLER UNIVERSITY”-The South is Thrilled
ASA G. CANDLER GIVES ONE MILLION DOLLARS TO FOUND THE SOUTHEASTERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY AND AT-
LANTA WINS ANOTHER GREAT INSTITUTION—A PRICELESS VICTORY FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.
ixAilOix born m a day! We read
about it in the Book of books—but
what of a generation—yea, a thou
sand generations born in one mighty,
A
deathless hour?
That’s what we saw in Atlanta the past
week, when Bishop Warren A. Candler, the
Giant Defender of Orthodox Christianity, and
Asa G. Candler, the great-hearted statesman
philanthropist—brothers in the flesh and
'brothers in Christian love and faith, arose from
their knees, their faces lit like evangels from
the Mount of Transfiguration, nnd grasping
each other’s hand in the pact of a holy and
mighty purpose, declared in tones that thrills
the eternities: “In the name of our God the
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BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER.
thing shall be done! —in the name of our Re
deemer around whose altar our praying par
ents taught us to kneel —in the name of Him
whose Book is our earthly salvation and our
heavenly hope, the cause of Christian Educa
tion in Southern Methodism shall not die by
judicial edict in Tennessee —it shall live in the
greatest university the South has ever seen—
i+ shall live to train our leaders to train mil
lions yet unborn that “the fear of the Lord
“GEORGIA EDITORS AND LAGER BEER”—Page 4.
ATLANTA, GA., JULY 23, 1914
By William D. Upshaw, Editor.
is the beginning of Wisdom,” and that the
Rock of Ages must be the foundation stone of
life’s pyramids of Philosophy, Love and Truth
that shall ‘outlive the stars and outshine the
sun.’ ”
A Triumph For Christian Education.
You know the story, of course, of Vander
bilt University, and how, through the leader
ship of “liberal” educators and trustees who
valued money more than church connection, it
was lost to Southern Methodism by the ver
dict of the Tennessee courts.
The M. E. Church, South, could have con
tinued a sort of quasi connection with Van
derbilt, but fearing the influence of that “lib
eralizing” tendency of certain millionaire
“foundations” that would swing loose from
the control of Christian denominations—fear
ing the encroachments of that specious, nar
row “broadness” that would pension the Pro
fessors in state institutions and let veteran
Christian teachers starve, the General Confer
ence of Southern Methodism at Oklahoma City,
led by Bishop Candler, determined to build
two great universities under the undisputed
control of the church, one west of the Mis
sissippi at Dallas, Texas, and the other east
of the Mississippi, at the place making the
best all around offer.
Birmingham came with the magnificent of
fer of $400,000 in cash and the property of
Birmingham College, aggregating about three
fourths of a million: Hendersonville, N. C.,
a plucky mountain town indeed to dare to
compete in the Birmingham and Atlanta class,
came with what her representatives declared
to be “the best climate in the world, and all
the land and all the money necessary to erect
the buildings.”
That was “some” offer for such a town.
But Atlanta capped the climax by offering over
Two Million Dollars —the site for the univer
sity, the great Wesley Memorial properties
worth a full half million, another half million
in cash for buildings, and a full, round, plump,
able-bodied, actual, live, sure-enough Million
Dollars from Asa G. Candler for endownment.
Os course Atlanta won! Everybody is hap
py and all the South is athrill over the glor-
ious gift, of One Million Dollars from, one man
to the cause of Christian Education.
It means a re-setting of conviction in this
“citadel of orthodoxy” concerning the neces
sity for education that is distinctly Christian
without apology to any living man or gov
ernment, and without smirking and smiling,
fawning and falling before the thrones of god
less weatlth.
If Vanderbilt, Why Not Candler?
And now the people are naturally saying:
If Vanderbilt University bears the name of its
greatest benefactor, why should not the new
Southeastern University bear the name of
the great, far-seeing philanthropist whose gifts
have made it possible—for without Asa G.
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ASA G. CANDLER, Philanthropist.
Candler’s benevolent wisdom the Wesley Me
morial enterprises, now a part of “Candler
University,” could not have been.
Bishop Candler’s First Utterances.
With last Sunday a day of general thanks
giving among Methodist Churches in Atlanta,
I felt that I must go to Trinity Church and
hear the first public utterance of Bishop War
ren A. Candler (as was said of Phillips Brooks,
“everybody’s bishop”)—the man whose proph
etic vision had seen, and whose constructive
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