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X wro |W> - NjS J®£s C'l’Ai. ■ |W! b ” n 1&(B Kii/wr ** -tH WWa IjL 18S| \gF 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 Ml * • 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. '■w ' - 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 (Continued on page 5) ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY