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For the ISUKX.
An Open Letter to Dr. Gardner Con
cerning Baylor University.
BY B. H. CARROLL, PRESIDENT
OF BOARD OE TRUSTEES.
okar Index. —I have been
noting somewhat the running
discussion in your columns, con
ducted by Drs. Gambrell and
Gurder, relative to the proprie y
of making Mercer University
co-educitional. Whatever may
be my own convictions on the
general proposition of co educa
tion it is far from my purpose to
thrust myself into the pending
controversy looking to a special,
local app i cation in your State,
i'liai: 1 regard as a Georgia
affair. And as I know no people
on earth more competent to at
tend to their own business than
Georgia Baptists, I would be dis
tinctly and particularly under
stood as not presuming to med
die with what is no concern of
mine.
i may be allowed to say even
more: That 1 have not directly or
indirectly, furnished any thunder
to either disputant, with or with
out a vie .v to its (<7m in 7kr'/*.
1 propose keeping strictly
within the limits of my rights
and privileges. In modestly as
serting them, however, I shall
loyally and conscientiously re
frain Iron) even a constructive
reflection upon our l exas Sepa
• rate-edueal on school, Baylor
Female College, at Belton, or up
on any or its trustees or faculty,
past or present.
It may usually be taken for
granted that a present, or ex em
ployee, or trustee of either a
separate or co educational school
will likely think his own system
the better and more conducive
to denominational harmony.
But su :h an cr-parte think will
hardly >e counted proof by the
wise. Hence Ido not inflict, on
your readers any “ think ” of
mine.
Quite another object induces
this communication. I merely
rise to a question of privilege.
My point is that Dr. Gardner,
in your issue of Dec. sth, has
given currency, under quotation
marks, to a damaging misrepre
sentation of Baylor University,th.it
in my judgment, no exigency of
his discussion with Dr. Gambrell
will at all warrant.
Ido not raise the point that
his statement in quotation marks
seems too unfriendly in spirit to
pass for disinterested testimony,
for with its an irnus I have noth
ing to do; but that it injuriously
misrepresents Baylor University
in matters of fact. This unnamed
correspondent of Dr. Gardner
after rebuking Dr. Gambrell for
“ assuming all and knowing noth
ing.,'' himself proceeds thus to
assume: “ I think they have'ar
rangements with the city to get
public funds.”
Having put forth this unchari
table and damaging statement
as athink,” this as yet un
veiled writer, with marvelous
facility, immediately assumes it
as au established fact and makes
it the predicate for the following
sweeping accusation: “If Dr.
Gambrell wants to get the thing
open so as to include the public
schools of Macon, Mercer will be
able to count as Baylor does.”
For the present I pass over
less objectionable matter in or
der to submit some pertinent ob
servation:
TJ11: CHRISTI AN I\ DEX.
1.1 do not charge intention
al wrong doing on Dr. Gardner
in giving publicly to the forego
ing anonymous excerpt, whoso
author, as the Doe: or frankly
states: “ asks me not to use his
name.” I am inclined to think
that over-zealousness in contro
versy unconsciously clouded his
usual prudence and fairness. But
as an inquiry on a postal card,
addressed to any body here in
i position to know the facts, would
have saved Dr. Gardner from
being self-placed in an embar
rassing situation which gravely
discounts his prudence, it is re
: gretable that bechanced toover-
I look so simple an expedient of
I giving information.
2. Nor do I charge Dr Gard
ner's unnamed witness with in
tentional wrong. Quite likely,
when the veil is lifted, it will ap
pear that he is some genuinely
good man, who though au “ed
"Ciilor." has forgot ten lor the
time being his own class-lect-
i tires on the unconscious distor
! lion of vision, super-induced by
partisan zeal.
3. But I do say that bis being
“an educator himself, a gradu
ate of a literary school ami a full
graduate of our Seminary,” will
never make his statement relia
ble testimony. Ido say that it is
wit true that Baylor University
“has an arrangement with the
city to get public funds.” It was
never true. It can never be true.
Never at any time has it derived
a nickel of financial support from
the public school fund.
4. I do say it is not true that
Baylor University makes her ag
gregate by counting any student
of any public school. And I do
say that if Mercer should stoop
to include in her enumeration of
students the public schools of
Macon it would not "be counting
as Baylor docs. ”
And I do say that- if Dr. Gard
ner’s correspondent ranks as
high as an angel from heaven, he
ought, over his own signature,
to publicly apologize, through
the columns of the Index for so
unjust an imputation on a Bap
tist school.
That the re t iers of the Index
may get a fairer view of Baylor
University 1 here quote its hon
est, stringent law of matricula
tion.
‘ Mutricul tim consists of
three things:
Ist. Exa nination and classiti
cation.
2nd. Paymen’i to the collector,
i r treasurer, of all required dues,
o' whi< h fact- tha; ofliier’s re
ceipt, with coupons of classitica
tior. attached, is the only proof.
3rd Registration.
Any teacher receiving into his
class a student without legal evi
dence of matriculati m shall be
Held responsible for al. bis dues.”
Quoted from catalogue < f ’94-95.
I have vainly puzzled my brain
in the char itable endeavor to dis
cover ome fact that, might, by
careful stretching, suggest to a
fertile inriginition n plausible
sh-dow of excuse for the damag
ing reference to Baylor Uni ver
sity, upon which I have been
pai ifully Compelled to animad
vert
The only possible thing that
occurs to my mire as likely to
mislead an uninformed mind is
Baylor University’s Summer
Normal. This special institu
tion of the University, as its
name import.-, is a training
school for teachers. Its faculty
consists largely but not exclu
si zt Jy of Bay lor professors doing
vacation work. The teacher pu
pils themselves, without help
from city or State, pay for their
tuition. The University furnish
es buildings and grounds gratu
itously, but derives no financial
income whatever from the Nor
raal. It is, perhaps, the most
popular Summer Normal in the
State and does most creditable
work. For historical informa
tion, and because it is an institu
tion of Baylor University, the
number of Summer pupils, so
taught, is reported in our ar nu
al catalogue, but as a separate
and distinct item. For instance
last catalogue, 94-95, after enu
merating all the classifications
and summing them up, adds the
statement : ‘ This does not in
clude the Summer Normal.”
Then it give s another total in
cluding the 124 students in the
Normal. There is not only no
effort to mislead, but pains are
taken to prevent Ihe simplest
folk from being misled. I do
not krow whether Mercer re
stricts her matriculations to reg
ular col ege classes only, nor
what is the custom in Ihe school
of Dr. Gardner’s correspondent,
nor do I stop to inquire into the
bearing of this fact, whatever it
may be, on the merits of co-edu
cation as a system. I am con
cerned just now in showing that
Baylor University practices no
fraud in her emuneration of
students. It publishes the facts
in her annual catalogue. These
facts as cited in the last cata
logue I now give:
I SUBSCRIPTION, PIR Yr ar,-.. *2.00. I
(TO MINISTERS, 1.00. I
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 2, 1800.
1. There was a small primary class.. 43
2. There was a large sub collegiate
class, mostly grown up young
men and women not prepared
tor strict college work 227
3. The regular college classes 257
4. Specialists 39
Total 5(15
5. Summer Normal 124
6 Students taking full and Bible
course, not in other University
classes 14
This last item not in catalogue.
Grand total . 703
Average monthly attendance (not
considering Summer Normal.nor
Bible Department) 415
Os the 5(15, first total given, fe
males 223
I venture to say that no oilier
school in the South was more
rigid in making its enumeration
correspond to actual facts.
When Southern religious schools
become endowed, and academies
are provided which do not leave
()od out, then doubtless our col
leges will coniine themselves
strictly to regular college-class
work.
There remains for this article
only one other duty, to wit: To
remov s from Dr. Gardner's mind
a v ron? impression as to the age
o' co education in Texas, which
judging from his comment, was
evi lently fastened on him by his
correspondent. Here there is
some excuse fora stranger’s get
ting a little mixed. To avoid
tedious circumlocution, expres
s ons have been used about co
education in Baylor University
that are not strictly accurate. If
the Index will kindly ] ermit one
who loves the paper and Geor
gia Baptists, to use a little more
space, 1 will try very briefly to
cite the facts:
1. Baylor University, at In
dependence, Texas, was estab
lished in 1545-- fifty years ago
and was co educational.
2. During Dr. Burleson’s pres
idency (and he says at his in
stance—-I don’t know personally
—it was before my time) the
male and female departments
were separated—with different
grounds and building, trustees
and faculty. And so remained
throughout all the school life at
Independence. When I entered
the University there in 1859 they
were separate, the female de
partment bearing then its present
name: Baylor Female College.
The beginnings of this separa
tion were in 1851.
■>. So tar us the title “ Baylor
University” goes, historical ac
curacy requires us to coniine it s
coeducational features Io its
initial period, from 1845 to 1851,
and the period since consolida
tion, from 1880 to 1890.
4. But in 1801 Dr. Burleson,
with al] the rest of the faculty of
Baylor University, at Indepen
dence, resigned, and established
here Waco University on an out
md out coeducational basis.
Here then, within my own knowl
edge, and on a large scale, co
education has continuously pre
vailed for 35 • years—with ever
inc reastng success.
5. Now, in 1880, Baylor and
Waco Universities were consoli
dated, one yielding the name, the
other the place and faculty.
Waco University would never
have consolidated at the sacrifice
ol' co-education, which they had
even then verified by 25 success
ful years.
Its representatives, however,
did agree that co educational
feature might be reconsidered as
an open question at the end of
ten years. Not at all because
they considered co-education an
experiment, bit to satisfy the
scruples of the advocates of
separate education and because
they were willing to risk a ver
dict at the hands of the denomi
nation. Thus Waco University,
itself co educational from the be
ginning, projected co education
back into Baylor University
which had abandoned it. Now I
leave this question to casuists:
Since Waco University is now
merged into Baylor University
does not the latter name cover
the history of the former, so as
not to leave its alumni and alum
nae without an Alma Mater?
Hence is it, in college parlance, a
grave offence, when to avoid a
tedious circumlocution, one
speaking of co-education in Bay
lor University should include
with the initial period, and the
cor solidation period, the inter
vening gap of 25 years supplied
by Waco University? Let the
casuists decide as they may, my
province is to give the facts.
One thing I know, co-education
in Texas was not born in 1886.
Long before that date it was a
grown man.
Allow me in conclusion to give
your Georgia people one more
fact, necessary to our thorough
vindication : The co education
people in Texas have never de
sired to destroy separate Female
education. They honestly and
sincerely desire that Baylor Fe
male College, at Belton, remain
forever a separate education
school. And right loyally and
lovingly have they helped to fos
ter it. We know that a large
number of our people prefer
separate education for their girls
and will have it because they
want it.
It is equally true that another
large class prefer co-education
and will have it because they
want it. And when either de
sires the other to die that it may
live, it betrays a fear of being
unable to stand on its own merits.
Again I assure you that I have
nothing to say about your Geor
gia case. Settle it your ovn way
and it will suit me. But let not
eager disputants there' be be
guib d into a misrepresentation
of Baylor University in order to
score a point against each other.
And when Bro. Gardner furnish
es the name of his correspondent,
1 venture to say he will frank),v
admit, on sober, second thought,
that his statement about Baylor
University should not have* gone
to print.
Very truly,
B. H. Carroll.
Pres. B >ard of Trustees of
Baylor University at Waco, Tex.
For the Index.
Christ, Our Advocate.
BY’ .i. s satchwill.
Gracious and abundant are the
provisions which God has made
for his intellectual but sinful
creatures, and one of the items
of these provisions is that he has
vouchsafed to us an advcc tte to
stand in his presence as our rep
resentative.
Now an advocate is one who
pleads the cause of another, like
an attorney at law who pleads
before the judge and jury in be
half of some cue who is guilty
of transgression of law. He is
the offender’s counsel of defense
or aid, so Christ is the sinner's
counsel of defense before the
high court of heaven, for “If
any man sin. we have an advocate
with the Father, Jesus Christ
the righteous.” Christ alone is
eminently qualified to fill the of
fice of an advocate because of
divine appointment. He glori
fied not himself to talk with God
for us but GoJ glorified him in
that he elected him to Ibis office
for “No in in taketh tb’.s honor
to himself, but he thjnn- called
of God, as was Aaron. Christ
was man as well as « -o(? conse
quently ho ui-1
ously assume the work of plead
ing our cause before God, but
was divinely chosen thereunto.
The wisdom of Christ also fi's
him to advocate the sinner’s
cause before the tribunal of an
holy and just God. In Christ
dwells all the fulness of the God
head bodily, so then he is not ig
norant of the law being made
under the law that he might re
deem those who were under law.
He is also thoroughly familiar
with the nature of each sinner’s
case which he represents before
the Father, for he was in all
points tempted as we, yet with
out sin. Christ’s knowledge of
the law of God and of every in
dividual case put into his hands,
together with the eloquence of
his pleading, certainly qualifies
him in an eminent degree to be
the sinner’s advocate.
The absolute purity of Christ
is another characteristic that
qualities him for the high office
of advocate. He is the Lamb of
God without spot and blemish,
and in him is no sin. Pilate
found in him no fault at al). He
is described as Jesus Christ the
righteous. The purity of Jesus
Christ is unquestionable. Even
his enemies could not convict
him of sin because in him there
was no sin. The Jewish High
priest had to be holy before he
could enter the Holy of Holies
and there talk with God in be
half of the people; to this end he
made an atonement for himself
and house, thus fitting himself
for representing his people be
fore God. Christ had no sins of
his own to be purged, hence he
is a much superior advocate to
the Jewish High priest. If there
were any trace of sin in the char
acter of our Lord Jesus Christ
he would have enough to do to
plead his own cause before God,
yea some other being perfectly
holy would have to stand advo
cate for him inasmuch as God
cannot look upon sin with any
allowance.
Christ’s divine appointment
and wisdom, purity and obedi
ence, both passive anti active
obedience, are the essential qual
ities of Christ our advocate.
Christ is not only qualified to
plead the sinner’s cause before
the court of heaven, but he is al
so a successful advocate. He
has never, through ignorance,
lack of diligence, or eloquence,
or from any other cause, lost a
single case.
During his earthly ministry
he was confident that the Father
always heard him, and after he
completed the scheme of redemp
tion to the full satisfaction of
the Father, surely he would be
no less willing to hear him in
behalf of those for whom he
died. The success of Christ’s I
advocacy is grounded upon his
atoning death which was in pur
suance of the covenant (See Isa.
53: 10, 11, 12) made between God
the Father and God the Son.
lit* poured out his soul unto
death as an offering for sin, and
because he is the propitiation for
our sins, all that the Father giv
eth him shall come to him and
none that come to him shall be
lost except the sons of per lition.
He is also impartial in the bless
ed work of aiding those who be
Hove in him, for if any imm sin
he has an ndvoc ite. Ho is no
respecter of per.-ons. The poor
man's case is as duly and ddi
g< ntly attended to as the rich
man's, provided both are believ
ers in him. It- is also a gracious
work’ Like the water of life, it
is without money and without
pr ce that Jesus uubrlakest >
plead for us before the Father.
The only condition of being as
sured of his effective service is
that we wholly commit our c iso
into his hands. Certainly the
graciousness, impartiality and
success wit ’n which ho plea I < are
sufficient inducements to us to
seek liis assistance.
Campbellsburg, Ry.
Canton. China, Oct. 2*, 1*95.
You ask me to toll you about
my work. May 1, instead, tell
you about some whom I have
met in my work? 1 have met
them but once or twice, so I can
tell you ■ nly a little, but they
seemed to be photographed upon
my memory. Shall 1 try to help
you to see them?
It is a dirty house. A half
blind woman is mending a torn
garment. A blind singing girl,
who has led a sinful life, sits
near her. Suddenly, a lame
boy, with the swiftness of a cat,
crawls acro-s the room and
crouches at my feet. He is a
veritable Ishmael, his hand is
against every man and every
man’s hand is against, him. He
isij knocked at as if he were a dog
and, in turn, he does his own
striking at dogs and children
who come between himself and
me.
From the moment I begin to
speak, there is an earnest look
upon the upturned face. When I
tell of a God who loves and pities
win;, <t« Lis gr(.Ub h; \’i • i ~‘t tliom
nail Him to a cross for us his
dark eyes grow ten lor with the
thought of a love like t his, and
he seems to drink in every word.
“I thank Thee O Father Lord oi
Heaven ami earth that Thou h ist
hid these things from the w ise
and prudent and hast revealed
them unto the babes" that*ven
this ignorant, crippled heathen
boy has had some glimpses of
that love which “passeth all im
derstanding.”
In a heathen home, a woman
is listening for the first time as I
tell of Jesus. “Are you sure,”
she asks, as if her soul's salva
tion depended upon my answer,
“that if I pray to Jesus ,/>/s7 <k
you said, are you sure He will
save me?” I turned silently to
the Helper of the helpers and
breathed the prayer “Lord teach
her how to pray” realizing that
even this earnest soul may be
lost, through faith in her prayers,
instead of faith in a (Iriwifed
Christ.
Again, another heathen home,
and another earnest listener.
“How must I believe," she asks,
“I want to, but I do not under
stand it.” “Teach me how.”
Ah ! Sisters in a Christian
land! it is a solemn thing to be a
missionary in a heathen land a
solemn time when one, groping
in heathenish darkness, stretch
cs out the hand helplessly ask
ing that you lead them out safely
into the light. In a Christian
land, you fail, and another may
do it for that soul. Here, to fail
may be to leave the soul to grope
it’s way down to darkness and to
death. How often in my “seek
ing days,” 1, too, had longed for
some one to teach me how to be
lieve. Now faith seems so sweet
and simple that I longed to be
lieve/br her But it could not
be. So I prayed, “Lord teach
her to believe,” and then tried to
make her understand that it was
simply trusting an unsaved soul
with an unseen but a pitying Sa
vior.
In still another heather home.
A woman listens silently while
the other ask questions. The
face is very sad as if all joy had
passed out of her heart and life.
She has heard of Christ’s powei’
and compassion. It may be that
He can help her. So she asks:
“If I pray to Jesus is he willing
to change my evil destiny?” She
has had much sorrows and the
explanation she gives of it all is,
that she is ‘ ‘fated. ” Her great
est sorrow is, that she has lost
her only child, a baby, by death.
I tell her of how Jesus blessed
little children when on earth,
how he loves little children now,
and has taken hers to Heaven.
“It is even better for the child,”
I said, “than if the Emperor had
taken it to live in his Palace."
To make it more real I said,
“Jesus said, 1 will take this baby
to my own home where it
will never be sick; never have
any sorrow; never sin, but will
be happy forever more."
Then I told of David who said:
“I shall go to him, but he shall
not return to me” that if she
loved Jesus she would meet her
child in heaven. The burden
was being rolled off the woman’s
heart. Hope came instead of
despair peace (if not joy) in
stead of unrest and the heart
crushing sorrow. Perhaps her
life, after all, was not to be con
trolled by fate, God had been
dealing with her in the past. He
might help her in the future
which had, before, seemed so
hopeless. It is a blessed privi
lege to bring even a little s-un
shine into hearts and lives so
dark as hers had been.
This time, it is at the back en
trance of our chapel. Passers
by have been invited in, and a
feeble old woman accepts the in
vitation. “Sit down grandmoth
er,” I said. “Don’t ask me to
sit down,” she replied, “1 am
only a beggar.” “Even a beggar
has a s nil that is very pr- cions,"
1 remarked. At first, she said
she had no heart to listen she
ivas so sad. This was the story
she told. “I am not a profes
sional beggar though lam beg
ging now. I had an only son
who died last year of “the
plague.” He was on the Hong
Kong Steamer, had good wages
and gave me half of what he
earned. Some time when 1 have
crossed the river in a ferry boat,
the sight of it made ine think of
him and 1 have been so sad that
I have been on the point of com
mitting silicide by drowning my
self, but I have been dissuaded
from it by others.” She told us,
between tears and sobs, of the
good faithful son. She went on
to say: “I was never covetous,
1 gave to others when I had it to
give. I have tried to be kind to
others. Toe other day I led a
blind beggar over a slippery
place, fearing he would fall. I
have usually .begged enough
food. The gods have been kind
to me. But, somehow I seem to
have losi their favor during the
last few days. 1 have gone out
and come bad; with scarcely
anything. I have not had enough
alt >gether lor a single meal the
last three days The woman
who le s me live will) her is very
poor, so 1 have not let her know
how hungry I was for fear she
would share her food with me.
\Vhen she has asked: “Have
you eaten your rice?' I have
-■lid: ‘A’es’ 1 have eaten plenty."
(She thought her motive being
good, justified her in telling an
untruth).
1 told the sorrowing old wo
man of Jesus’ sympathy with the
Widow of Nain that lie did not
give us back our dead: Ha com
forts our hearts so that it is not
so hard to do without them.
“Tell al! your sorrows to Jesus,”
1 said. "He alone can help and
comfort." .A very earnest listen
er she proved. The following
Sunday she was at church. 1
asked if she had been praying to
Jesus. She exclaimed: “Yes.
I went home that night and knelt
down and said ‘Jesus’, the for
eign lad y that I met to-day told
me to tell you all my troubles
and yon would comfort me." Like
a simple hearted child she talked
to her unseen friend, feeling sure
of His sympathy and His help.
She added: “My heart is not so
sad now. •It is comforted and at
rest ”
Another burden which rests
too lightly upon her heathen
conscience-—her sins—has not
yet been laid upon the Great
Burden Bearer May the Holy
Spirit lead her to Christ for par
don and salvation—then will her
sorrowing heart know, in its ti u
est sense, the.<peace that Jesus
gives.
Again, at the back entrance of
our chapel, a sad face, almost
heart-broken, woman tells us her
story. “Truly lam an ill fated
woman,” she said. “Seven chil
dren died in infancy. Two sons
Jived. My home is with the old
est, but he grudges me the very
food I eat. The second son ran
away last year with a theatrical
company. I had no clue to his
whereabouts, but one day I saw
him on the street and called his
name, delighted to see him once
more. He would not recognize
me, denied even his name.” The
poor woman’s cup of bitterness
was full. All we could do was
to tell her of “the God of all con
solation,” feeling that “earth
has no sorrow that Heaven can
not cure.”
I have tried to tell yo i of
some whom I met who have be
gun to grope their way towards
the light—pray for them. Pray
too for the thousands here who
know of Jesus, yet care nothing
for Him or His salvation. Pray
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that in dealing with all I may be
taught of God.
'i ours with Christian love,
Lula F. Whilden.
For the Inkkx
Mercer University.
This is our institution. It be
longs to us. It all belongs tc
each Baptist in the State. What
are we doing with and for our
property? Is it answering tc
the ends for which it was found
ed? Is it proving to be the right
hand of our denominational pow
er in Georgia? If not, why not?
Mercer needs, needs now and
needs badly at least $100 ; (X>0.00
endowment. Who doubts this?
The State University and Emory
College are to some extent in the
nature of things in competition
for patronage with Mercer.
There are Baptist boys now in
the State University that ought
to be in Mercer. They are where
they are because of the advan
tages granted them through the
“Brown Fund." Money has a
drawing power. Alas! Mercer
has no Brown fund. Emory has
ti large fund out of which she
makes loans to help the boys
along. There are many boys
that can not get on without help.
If we cannot stretch out our
hands and help when help is
called for, and somebody else
does, somebody else will get what
we ought to have, and then what
will we have? and where will we
be? Glasgow and Edinburgh made
Scotland Presbyterian Oxford
and Cambridge made England
Episcopalian. If we love the
truth, and we claim to de so,
surely it is a precious heritage;
then among other things to be
done by us to promote it it is to
endow Mercer University and
thus put it in a commanding po
sition. We have a great way of
thinking and saying that “the
truth is mighty and will pre
vail ’’ Let us not b? betrayed
into a “false security.” “The
truth is mighty and will pre
vail." A'es and my knife is sharp
and will cut. So it will when I
take it out of my pocket, open it
and applv to a stick. If we say
“the truth is mighty and will
prevail” and then be still to see
it prevail we will be disappoint
ed. A good way the best way
to show our loyalty to Baptist
principles to-day is to endow
Mercer University. A good way
to show our folly and be rele
gated to the rear is not to do
this. Last April the convention
at Waycross recommended to the
churches the adoption oi a Reg
ulation Schedule." In it Mercel
University wtis provided for.
We a re glad that so many church
es have adopted the schedule
and have thus given Mercer a
home under their roofs. The
adoption of the schedule by all
rhe churches would secure no
little promotion of Mercer’s in
terests. And now brethren let
us not wait one for another, but
let each Georgia Baptist go to
work and do what he can. Some
of the brethren country breth
ren, poor brethren, have been at
work already on schedule lines
for an endowment of Mercer and
we have in hand and at interest
three million two hundred thous
and mites. Interest on this is
one mite per day. This is some
thing to start on something as a
foundation, so we will say the
endowment has begun. We have
some money and it is growing.
Now if a few poor Baptists in
the small county of Oconee can
make a stat I. are there not
enough good Baptists in each
county in Georgia to do similar
work? Now brethren in the
3200000 mites there is nothing
from the learned or the rich. If
poor country Baptists make a be
ginning, can not our wealthy city
brethren join us? If unlearned
men make a beginning what may
we expect from the Alumni of
Mercer? The year of 1896 is
upon us. Let us make it a nota
ble year for Mercer. Let the
rich give. Let the cities give.
Let the country give. Let us all
give, and to be sure that noth
ing is forgotten. Let all the
churches adopt the Regulation
Schedule and then-work upto it.
This will bring a measure of suc
cess. H. R. Bernard.
Milledgeville. Someone,
yes many, must be praying for
the work here. We see it in the
way God is blessing us. We feel
that God is going to do a great
work here through His people.
Largo crowds yesterday, many
asked for prayer and several
professed conversion. Yester
day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock we
held a service at the jail and
preached for the colored people
at 3:30 o’clock. So you see our
hands Avere full! Am generally
kept up to my ears in work, but
praise God every day that He
has called me to the glorious
work.
May God bless His servants
who are laboring in this State!
Pray for us! J. A. W.
■Dec. 16th, ’95.