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The hour for services at the
First church has been changed to
6:30 o’clock in the afternoon on
Sundays owing to the warmth
and shortness of the evenings.
Dr. Burrows preached two most
instructive and inspiring sermons
at the First church last Sunday.
He occupies Kis pulpit as usual
to-morrow. H. S. J.
Augusta.—Rev. W. M. Ver
dery now preaches at the Calvary
Station, and his friends rejoice
that his health has greatly im
proved recently.
The Sunday school Convention
of the Sarepta Baptist Associa
tion will convene with the church
at Pendergrass, Jackson county,
July 21 and 22. Visitors, other
than delegates will please send
me their names, so that homes
may be assigned them.
J. W. Jackson, Chairman.
The Clerks or Moderators of
Associations will confer a great
favor on the Index and its read
ers if they will, at least a month
before the meetings take place,
send us information as to the
nearest railroad station or sta
tions to the meeting place, and
means of reaching same from the
railroad.
Vienna—The Baptist church
here has just closed a series of
meetings in which the pastor
was aided by Rev. Mr. Waller, of
Montezuma. The spiritual feel
ing of the church seems much
strengthened by brother Waller’s
spiritual sermons. There were
three accessions by baptism.
Our pastor, brother Kelly, was
too ill to till bis pulpit last Sab
bath, but two of our laymen con
ducted the morning and evening
worship in a highly edifying and
strengthening manner. Thank
the Lord for laymen in the
church who will “take up their
cross and follow Christ - ’ in
“whatsoever thy hands find to
do, do it with thy might.” The
church gave brother Kelly a
month’s vacation, which he will
spend in Alabama. May the
blessings of the Holy Spirit
crown the efforts of the Index
for the “enlarging of the king
dom of Christ.” M.
Stillmore. —The Baptist Sun
day-school of this place is run
ning on full time and making
good schedules. We organized
last January, after trying a long
time to work in union harness,
which proved in the end to be
very unsatisfactory, as well as
unsuccessful. Since the reorgan
ization we have had a very en
couraging and interesting school.
Last third Sabbath we celebrated
“Children’s Day,” observing the
program of the Baptist Publica
tion Society in all its details.
We had a real wooden ship, four
feet long, in full sail (built by
Mr. Lake, a friend of the school),
used in “The Voyage of Life.”
It was beautiful. “The Floial
Cross” was also lovely and very
much admired. The exercises
altogether were a grand success,
and reflect great credit to the
zealous efforts of Mrs. Cleary,
Lanner and Miller, who were un
tiring in training the little ones
properly, and I know they must
feel proud of the sweet and im
pressive manner in which the
children rendered their parts of
the exercises. The address was
delivered by the Rev. S. B.
Rogers, of Vidalia, and it was
original,interesting and eloquent.
Our pastor, the Rev. H. J. Arnett,
conducted the Scripture reading,
and made the opening prayer.
Altogether it was a day long to
be remembered by all the children
and workers in this community.
The proceeds of the day will be
divided between Foreign Mis
sions and Baptist Orphans’ Home.
John L. Cleary.
June 29.
The General Meeting, 2d Dis
trict,Flint River Association will
convene with Teaman church,
Spalding county, on Friday be
fore second Sunday in July.
I. G Walker, Mod.
Y. E. Bargeron, Clerk.
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The next session of the North Geor
gia Baptist Convention will convene
with the First church, Gainesville,
Tuesday before 4th Sunday in July
next. All delegates, representatives of
our denominational enterprises and vis
itors, who expect to attend, will please
forward their names to Geo. P Estes,
Chairman committee on hospitalities, so
that homes be assigned them
J. A. Wynne.
Pastor Ist church, Gainesville.
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The improvements on our
church building are moving on
slowly but surely, we trust. We
hope to be able to worship in its
wallsagain by the 15th of Septem
ber or October Ist. In the mean
time, while we are out of doors,
so to speak, our good brethren
of St. Luke’s Methodist Church
have kindly invited us to use
their lecture room to hold our
mid-week prayer meetings in on
Thursday nights, and our good
brethren of the Presbyterian
church have also kindly invited
us to divide time with them on
Sunday, pastors of the two con
gregations alternating. On one
Sunday Dr. Carter of the Presby
terian church preaches in the
morning, and our pastor, Dr.
Smith, at night, and the follow
ing Sunday the order is reversed.
In this way we have very com
fortable quarters in which to
worship. We hold our Sunday
school and Young People’s meet
ing in the Public Library build
ing. While we are much scat
tered in our arrangements for
worship, we are endeavoring to
hold together as a working
church, and hope to keep our
lamps trimmed and burning.
Our representatives to the
Young People’s Convention at
Griffin are very enthusiastic c ver
their experiences there. They
feel that the organization is a
permanency, and that it will be a
great power for good, and much
enthusiasm will be carried back
to the various churches repre
sented. They are also loud in
their praise of the warm and
generous hospitality of the good
people of Griftin.
We feel that the Baptists of
this section are not lagging in
their work. We hear very good
reports from First Avenue
church, under Bro. Page's pas
torate ; also from Eleventh Ave
nue church and Bro. Howard’s
churches. Bro. Howard is also
serving the church at Waverly
Hal), and by the way, he has just
finished building a beautiful little
church there, which would do
credit to almost any good sized
town. It is to be dedicated on
the Sth inst. Dr. R. H. Harris,
of Thomasville, will preach the
sermon, and Dr. Smith, of Col
umbus, will also preach on the
same occasion, in the afternoon.
No doubt there will be a large
crowd in attendance. Bro. How
ard is very much loved and ap
preciated at this church.
Bro. B. W. Bussy is one of our
best and most useful men. His
pastorate at Cusseta and Mt.
Zion is fruitful, and both church
es are doing good work and are
much in love with their pastor.
Brethren Williams and Mon
crief, of Girard and Phenix City,
are moving along nicely, and we
hear gracious reports from their
work.
Our church and almost the en
tire city was thrown into a state
of profound sadness this week on
account of the death of one of our
most popular and useful young
ladies, Miss Helen Kirvin,daugh
ter of Brother and Sister R M.
Kirvin. Miss Helen was a bright,
happy Christian and loved her
church. She was one of our effi
cient teachers of the infant class
in the Sunday-school, and it was
a touching scene at the funeral
when the procession of saddened
and bereavedloved ones followed
the remains down the aisle of tne
church. When a great throng
had gathered to pay their last sad
rites to their departed friend, a
great number of the little ones,
comprising the infant class, led
by our senior infant class teach
er, Mrs. Jackson, follow’ed down
the aisle,showing how much they
love and appreciated their teach
er. The services were conducted
by Bro. Smith in a very tender,
touching manner, and all present
felt that no words of praise to
her memory could be too strong
or beautiful.
G. G. Miles.
July 4, 1896.
Program of the Tugalo Sunday-
School Convention to be Held
With the Carnesville Church
July 16
Ila. m.—Conventional sermon
by W. J. Purcell. Alternate, T.
G. Underwood.
1:30 p. m. —Exercises led by W.
Pearman.
1 2:CO p. m.—Discuss query,
Will the Sunday-school ever suc
ceed without the co-operation of
the church members? Led by
Revs. G. F. Fuller and L. K.
Burruss.
FRIDAY.
9:00 a. m.—Devotional exer
cises, led by Rev. S. E. Ma
comson.
9:30 a. m.—What relation does
the ministry sustain to the Sun
day school? C. T. Burgess and
Professor Cobb.
11:00 a. m.—Sermon, Rev. J.
G Gibson.
1:30 p. m.—Devotional exer
cises, led by A. Christian.
2:00 p. m.—Should the mission
cause be advocated in the Sun
day-school, T. G. Underwood
and G. W. Carrol.
C. T. Burgess,
T. A McFarland,
G. W. Carrol,
Committee.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. JULY 9. 1898.
PROHIBITION IN GEORGIA-THE
BUSH BILL.
How Brethren Tell About
it —Some Letters—Let Oth
ers Speak.
Cuthbert, Ga., June 19, 1896.
Dear Index: —1 think the
“ Bush Bill ” will be a happy so
lution of the liquor question in
Georgia. I will rejoice to see it
become a law.
Very truly,
J. W. Stanford.
White Plains, Ga., June 22, ’96.
Brethren Editors: —When
the “Busn Bill ” first came be
fore the public a hasty reading
of it made the impression upon
me that it simply provided for a
“liquor dispensary,” and I took
but little interest in it. A recent
careful perusal has convinced me
that it is about the best general
prohibition law that we will be
likely to get, at least, for a long
time ; and so I heartily favor it.
I know’, of course, that it cannot
be fully enforced, but neither is
any other law, and it certainly
will largely curtail the evil grow
ing out of the use of intoxicating
beverages.
J. H. Kilpatrick.
Arabi, Ga., July 2, 1896
Dear Index: —The question,
“ How are you going to vote at
the national election?” is one of
ten asked me. My answer is, I
am going to vote for Joshua
Levering for President of the
United States. But there are no
Electors in this State. What of
that? lam going to vote for
Joshua Levering for President,
and if my vote is the only one for
him in the State I will vote it. I
have just>re-read theßushßill. I
am in favor of its being a law in
Georgia. lam a prohibitionist,
and in this way put myself on
record. What about the other
Baptist preachers in Georgia?
J. J. Hyman.
Summerville, Ga.
Editors Index: —It seems to
me that there has been enough
said already by the prohibition
advocates to convince all reason
able, thinking men that intem
perance is the greatest evil of the
day.
That man who realizes that the
principal purpose of life is to be
useful, and that he can best be
useful by faithfully serving God,
and that he can best serve God
by helping and uplifting his fel
low man, when he looks out
upon the field of labor and sees
the vicious destroyer actively and
continuously engaged in wreck
ing thousands of homes, gapping
many human hearts of their very
life’s blood, robbing the precious
youth of our land and country of
the gem of true manhood, haunt
ing with his ghastly ghost the
subjects of his prey at midnight’s
darkest hour, causing them to
shudder w’ith terror, preferring
death to life, so mortified by its
presence that they would for the
time being mount upon the wings
of the morning and fly away to
the secluded caves of the moun
tain where human eyes could not
see, can but say: Down, down
with this huge monster! Away
with the abominable saloons!—
the demon’s stronghold of the
blackest dye. Bury forever in
oblivion the accursed stuff!
The note left by the suicide
saying, Whisky did it. The cul
prits, in their dark prison cells,
are crying, Whisky did it. The
distressing voices of the inebri
ates, as they reverberate within
the walls of the aslyum, are but
repeating the same in their ma
niacal tones. How then, in the
face of all these facts, any man,
who loves God and his fellow
man, dan look upon the whisky
traffic and license system with
any degree of satisfaction, is a
mystery to me.
I frankly admit to be able to
see an evil and to be able to get
rid of it is altogether a different
thing, but conviction must pre
cede action; therefore, if we ex
pect the proper legislation on the
whisky question, we must be
come so enthused with the im
portance of it that we will not
suffer ourselves under any kind
of influence to vote for any man
for Representative who is not an
avowed anti barroom man. We
take it for granted that every
man in the State of Georgia who
is capable of distinguishing be
tween right and wrong, will, in a
quiet moment of meditation, read
ily decide that the manufacture
and sale of liquorshave been a
curse instead of a blessing to the
State.
It behooves every lover of hu
manity and the right to devise
plans whereby the very’ best leg
islation, in conjunction with the
greatest possible mental and
moral suasion, may be had, so
that we can rid our country of
that despisable and destructive
whisky traffic. I do not believe
that legislation alone will accom
plish the desired end, nor do I
believe that mental and moral
suasion will do the work, for
there are‘some w’ho would violate
the law regardless of the penalty
annexed, and there will always
exist a goodly number who would
not be amenable to mental and
moral suasion.
Every good man realizes that
something must be done. How
can it best be done is the ques
tion.
In the “ Bush Bill,” which I
have before me, I do not see all
that I would like to see; however,
it may be the very best step that
can be taken at present, and may
enable us to step further later on.
In the main, I am an uncom
promising prohibitionist, nc t will
ing to stop anywhere short of the
entire suppression of the whole
business.
Some say that whisky is an
evil, they will admit, but that if
you would keep it out of you
and stay away from it, it won’t
hurt you. No, of course not,
neither will the devil.
We are admonished by God to
shun the very appearance of evil.
We should legislate against this
offense as we would any ether
crime.
lam truly proud of the prog
ress and record the ‘Baptists of
the South have made in the pro
hibitionmovement in the last few
years. The time is fast approach
ing when he who advocates and
votes for the use of whisky shall
have no place in our churches.
May God speed the time.
Let every Baptist in the State
of Georgia, who loves the cause
of Christ, do everything he pos
sibly can to get our next Legis
lature to pass the best possible
bill favorable to prohibition, and
the first step is to vote for the
right man for Representative.
God is in this matter, and I am
looking forward to a complete
victory sooner or later.
J. G. Hunt.
Mercer University.
Middle, Middle Cherokee,
Miller and Mountain Town Asso
ciations are down on the conven
tion’s “regulation schedule” to
help Mercer University during
July. These associations are
made up of 102 churches, 7,226
members. One dollar from each
church would give 8102. The
value of one postage stamp from
each member would yield 8144.52.
Contributions so small as these
would not be felt, or if felt,
would be felt only for good. Is
t too much to say, byway of
venture, that the dogs, the
worthless curs, that roam about
in the bounds of the associations
eat more than two cents worth of
food in one month. Is a dog
worth more than an educated
man ? Mercer University is
worth more than all the dogs in
Georgia, and yet the dogs, no
doubt, are being better sustained
at this time than the university.
We have not singled out the
above named and
churches in 6iMr to reproach
them. They are doubtless as
good as any in the State and, no
doubt there are multitudes of
members superior in gracious at
tainments to the writer of these
lines, and it may be that
these brethren at this very time
are moving in the matter of help
ing the university. If so, well
and good. If not, then brethren,
if the time marked on the sched
ule suits you and you can believe
in Mercer and its success, “lend
a hand.” If our people only had
a mind to work how gloriously
we would triumph in Georgia !
Are there not a few men and
women that will lead out in this
matter ? H. R. Bernard.
Southern Female College.
CHARTER.
Some of our friends seem solicitous
about franchises, rights, charters, etc.,
and hence for their information the fol
lowing extract from official records is
given:
“In open court, spring session, May
6th, 1896, Judge S. W. Harris presiding,
with jurisdiction, touching charters,
limited to corporations doing business
in Troup county, Georgia, the follow
ing decree was taken after reciting the
history of the charter as granted and
variously amended in the past, tracing
the same to the present board of trus
tees, reviewing the contract of former
owners in which, with the deed to the
property it was agreed, ‘the rights re
served to each party to use the name
they are now using without interference
or molestation by the other by suit at
law.’ — (Date of contract October Uth,
1895)
“It is ordered and adjudged by the
court that the prayer be granted, and
that petitioners and their successors be
invested with all the necessary corporate
powers and authority, and their
chartered rights be confirmed under the
name of the Southern Female College
of LaGrange, Ga. That they may own
and use such real and personal property
as may be needful, establish regulations
for the government of said college, re
ceive donations and bequests, confer
degrees, grant diplomas, etc., with the
right to convey the college property,
franchises, etc., to such religious organ
ization as they may think best for pur
poses of perpetuation
(Signed) S. W. Harris, J. S. C. C. C.
ECONOMY.
Economy is a virtue when it is had
without a sacrifice of decency and effi
ciency. In college matters good food
must be provided at the table, polite
management in the boarding house, and
high grade talent need be had in the
class room. But expenses might be re
duced by issuing catalogues not so
gaudy and extravagant, which senti
ment seems just at this time to be pre
vailing among the colleges. Less money
spent in advertising and canvassing
would allow a reduction in college rates.
If the public would demand less, the
patron would get more Colleges are
often unable to give aid to deserving
girls because they ‘have been heavily
taxed in putting themselves before the
public. A two-cent postage stamp
ought to be as successful in bringing a
girl to college as a twenty-dollar visit.
G. A. Nunnally.
“Subscribe for the Christian
Index.
Southern Female College.
FACTS ABOUT ITS FRANCHISE AND
HISTORY, AND ITS REMOVAL.
I observe from various sources that
the new college at LaGrange is still
making strenuous efforts to run under
the colors of our history and reputa
tion
After denouncing me for moral decep
tion in petitioning the Judge of the Su
perior Court to remove the old college
charter.and after stating that the trans
terred charter was not worth the paper
it was written upon, the gentlemen who
are trying to launch a new school under
the guise of our old one concluded to
imitate otr method of appealing to the
Judge. But a careful perusal of the
franchise and powers conferred by the
Judge shows that there is no renewal of
the old charter granted to the LaGrange
gentlemen, and no recognition of their
claims to our history. In the preamble
of their petition they might as well have
asserted that they owned and ruled all
Great Britain, but the Judge restricts
their wild claims, and carefully defines
for them their limited powers
Our amended charter, granted during
October, 1895, is explicit as to its rela
tion to the old ones. The petition
shows: “That Prof. I. F. Cox, father
of petitioners, was at his death
Principal and sole proprietor- of the
“Southern Female College of La-
Grange ’ and under said name and by
virtue of an Act of the Legislature, 1850,
and acts amendatory thereof, conducted
a school at LaGrange, and after his
death the petitioners continued as his
successors to conduct said school to the
conclusion of the fifty second session at
LaGrange;
“That petitioners by unanimous ac
tion decided to remove to Manchester,
where the fifty-third session was opened:
“That all the officers of said school are
now residents of Fulton county, and
they desire to amend said charter by
changing the name from the ‘Southern
Female College of LaGrange,’ to the
Southern Female (Cox) College.’ and its
residence from the county of Troup to
the county of Fulton.
In approving the petition, the Judge
ordered;
“ That said charter be amended, and
the name of said school be and the same
is changed from Southern Female Col
lege of LaGrange to Southern Female
(Cox) College, and that the residence be
changed from the county of Troup to
the county of Fulton, State of Georgia,
and that said school be hereafter con
ducted in Manchester. Fulton county.”
The management of the LaGrange in
stitution does not publish the grounds
upon which the various claims are laid
to our old college. I will briefly review
them in the order-in which they were set
forth.
It was first asserted that LaGrange
had named the old college, implying
that the town had some authority or
right in the institution. When the
school was his “individual enterprise,”
in his exclusive possession, my father
in law, Mr. Bacon, had it chartered as
“The Southern Female College of La
Grange,” no doubt to distingish it from
the Southern Female College of Madi
son, Ga. The phrase so much insisted
npon, Southern Female College at La
Grange, does not exist in the charter.
Beyond this title that Mr. Bacon se
lected the original charter does
not allude to LaGrange, nowhere
specifies LaGrange as the -location,
and not even remotely suggests any
claims or rights of that place in the
franchise. As a fact, LaGrange has
never owned one cent in the franchise
of the College, nor had aught at any
time to do with its management and
control, the employment of teachers, or
payment of salaries. In 1877 my father
offered the LaGrange Baptist church a
one half interest in the College for
s6.ooo,but the proposition was declined.
Upon our removal from LaGrange,cer
tain gentlemen whom I appointed to the
purely honorary position of Local Ad
visers.and whom I notified of the nature
of their office, announced: “It is with
regret that we part with the Cox fami
ly, who have composed part of the fac
ulty for some years past, &c. “They
threatened action if I used the name
“ Southern Female College.” Upon sug
gestion I appointed these gentlemen to
the nominal position of Local Advisers
three years ago; their position and
authority was subject to my appoint
ment, and their tenure of office was at
my discretion.
It is proper to add byway of paren
thesis, that I kept the citizens of La-
Grange informed of the progress of our
negotiations for removal as fast as de
velopments came. I saw fit to commu
nicate any information upon the subject
so freely, that two of the representa
tives of the local board remonstrated,
saying it was not the best policy for me.
I state this because the LaGrange gen
tlemen now insinuate that I tried to de
ceive them, or to cover up motive.
Next, the LaGrange representatives
tried to appropriate our college by call
ing themselves “Trustees ” The name,
“Trustee,” has not been associated with
the College since 1863.
They also thought to retain the Col
lege by prejudicing the alumna- to say
that the name and history belonged to
LaGrange. They prepared circular let
ters stating that while they could
prevent us by legal means from
using the name and charter of
Southern Female College, they sought
to accomplish the result by gen
tle means through the alumna- They
asked each alumna to sign a detached
blank, pledging her allegiance to the
LaGrange school. These letters they
had sent by old friends to our pupils all
over the country. But our alumna- at
large have remained true to us. Part of
the alumna- residing at LaGrange, now
or formerly, have no right to perpetuate
our College. As a whole, the alumna
are with us in sentiment, and they all
belong to our institution by right of
history and law.
In order to create the impression that
the new college is a continuance of the
old, the LaGrange representatives en
gaged as many of our old teachers as
they could. Teachers formerly in the
employ of our private institution, would
have no right to perpetuate our College
elsewhere. We removed fourteen of
the former faculty to our new location;
all who were elected, accepted.
I hardly need add that new teachers
in the LaGrange institution have no
right to perpetuate there our college.
Representatives of the LaGrange Col
lege then plead with the Western Bap
tist Association to assert a claim in the
franchise of the College and to indorse
the local efforts to retain it in LaGrange.
But the Association had already com
mitted itself on that question
“Since the destruction of the South
ern Female College, the Association has
no educational enterprise in which it is
immediately engaged. ”
(Minutes of 1867 page s,report by J.F.
Awtrey, Deacon in LaGrange Baptist
church.)
In 1874 my father offered the Associa
tion a one half interest in the College
free, but it was declined, much to his
disappointment and mortification; more
over, at the same time the Association
pledged itself to a rival school at Gaines
ville. “In casting our eye over the
field, we find that we have no institu
tion of learning immediately under our
fostering care, remembering that two
years ago our Association df clined to ac
cept the fostering care of the only Bap
tist institution of learning in our bounds,
when tendered by the President, per
haps upon the principle that such insti
tutions succeeded better as individual
enterprises."
(Min. 1876, page 8.)
Report written by pastor of LaGrange
Baptist church.
Evidently the Western Association
has no claim in the franchise, and no
right to bolster up local efforts to retain
the College.
As another resort the representatives
of the new college asked Rev. Henry E.
Brooks to transfer to them his interest
in the old charter. More than thirty
years before he hail parted with all in
erest he had in the school to I. F. Cox.
The charter specified that the franchise
went to successors and assigns in office,
according to relative ownership of the
joint proprietors interested. Messrs.
Brooks and Foster gave up their
part in the property and the school to I.
F. Cox; finally the Association with
drew and declined an interest in the
College, and thus the College, its prop
erty and franchise, became vested solely
in I.F.Cox. Granting that Mr. Brooks did
not in express terms transfer his inter
ests in the franchise to Mr. Cox, he cer
tainly did so by implication when he
gave up his interest in the property
and school. In no event, after the expi
ration of forty years, could he have any
interest to transfer to the LaGrange
people
The LaGrange gentlemen also refer to
a renewal of the old charter in 1892.
This is spurious, because the old char
ter is perpetual, and because no organi
zation was effected under the renewal.
This renewed charter was granted with
the understanding that it should be
ours, and even if it were valid it is in
our exclusive possession, morally and le
gally.
The LaGrange representatives claim
our history also upon the ground of an
agreement acceded to in the sale of the
property. I had refused repeated over
tures and propositions to compromise by
allowing a school to be established to
share the history and franchise of our
College, but finally consented, upon ur
gent request, not to interfere by law
with ‘any one who might use our
name, being informed that by law
there could be an institution by this
name in every county, and that there
were already four institutions in exist
ence by that name. By this agreement
no history or franchise is conveyed by
us. by no trade have we ever parted
with our franchise, and the new school
is only a namesake, not a year old.
“Georgia,Troup county —Where
as, The Cox Family by deed bearing
even date with this instrument, con
veyed to (a private citizen) the lot
known as “Southern Female Col
lege Property,” it is mutualy agreed
by both parties that said conveyance
has no bearing whatever on the claims
or rights of either party to the charter
of said college, but the same is left just
as it stood before signing the deed—the
right being reserved to either party to
use the name they are now using with
out interference or molestation by suit
at law ”
I was telegraphed that unless 1
agreed to allow the use of this name,
the property would not, under any cir
aumstances, be bought by the party. I
have never asked any privilege in the
use of our name and history.
While it was announced from La-
Grange that I would not sell the prop
erty to the gentlemen there I was mak
ing every effort to sell, accepted two
propositions, from which the LaGrange
gentlemen afterwards receded. Mean
while these gentlemen continued to de
press the price of the real estate, threat
ened damage suits and back taxes,
opposed the purchase of the property by
others and weie unwilling to buy them
selves So bad become the state of af
fairs and so bitter the feeling that an in
surance agent, who is our friend, had to
cancel insurance on the buildings,
though we kept a family living in them,
and he returned the premium. When I
sold the real estate proper used for
the College to one of the gentlemen
at less than $7,500. the property was
then promptly reported in the Baptist
Year Book as worth $40,000.
This property, I will state, has been
bonded, and the public is now being
urged to make contributions in order
to pay the debts, meet expenses and
to support a school which is almost al
together local.
After we have conducted our private
school for years in such a manner as to
benefit LaGrange in many substantial
ways, and have run the local patronage
for a long time at a loss, some of these
gentlemen, to protect their real estate
holdings, are trying to misappropriate
the whole er terprise. Because I saw
fit to remove tlie College, in the interest
of education aid the denomination,
these capitalists, the most prominent of
whom are neither Baptists nor members
of any church, have violently abused me
through the press and in private, and
sought to ruin the College: but these
efforts I passed unnoticed; the parties
now appeal to the Baptist denomination,
even our alumnae and friends, to pay
the debts that are being created, as if
to help out the old College. If the de
nomination has to build a college for
these gentlemen, payoff their mortgage
bonds with interest, turn a handsome
speculation for them, meet their debts,
help to sustain thair running expenses,
and endorse a franchise founded neither
in right nor law. it is fair for the de
nomination to be informed of these facts
at the outset, and to know that it will
be nece.-sary to spend over SIOO,OOO to
bring a new school to an equal footing
with their other female colleges, which
they already have, well established and
accessibly located, and which cost them
not a cent. Such a proposition was
made the late Georgia Baptist Conven
tion, who promptly repudiated it; pro
positions, purporting to be for our old
school, are now being laid before the
churches.
I regret being called upon to set forth
the merits of this case at length, but I
am resolved that a great college, built
and conducted for half a century by my
fathers, and bequeathed us, shall not be
misrepresented, and that the public in
these matters shall not be imposed upon.
There is but one College in the'premises,
single and undivided, whose franchise
has not been compromised or parted
with in one iota, and that College has
been removed from LaGrange to College
Park. In order to carry out the decep
tion that they are running our old
school, or rather a branch of it. the gen
tiemen have even hung portraits of my
fathers ansi myself upon the walls of their
chapel. In all kindness and frankness,
I say that our family, as everybody else,
would wish them Godspeed in efforts to
build a school upon a right basis.
Our history and franchise is all
clear: our rights are conceded; in
addition, we point to tie merit and
advantages of our institution, which
the LaGrange gentlemen recognize by
trying to make it appear that they have
a claim in it, but which the public also
recognizes by giving us the largest pat
ronage that the College has ever known.
C. C. Cox.
College Park, Ga.
Deacon Thomas A. Gibbs.
Another will write the obituary
of this good brother; it is my
purpose in this short article only
to speak of our relation as co
laborers.
When I moved into the terri
tory of the Stone Mountain As
sociation in the winter of 1871,
one of the first workers I met
was brother T. A. Gibbs. In
the general meetings of the Third
district, where both of us lived,
he always attended and took a
prominent part in the discussions
and devotional services.
In the sessions of the Stone
Mountain Association he was
deeply interested and always
threw his whole soul into every}
thing that had a tendency to ad
vance the interests of the Re
deemer’s kingdom, or promote
the piety of the Redeemer’s sub
jects.
Since 1854, with the exception
of two years, he had been the
clerk of the Stone Mountain As
sociation. Where is there any
record of a clerk serving thus for
forty years? Years ago he often
expressed a desire to serve forty
years, and he lived to have his
desire gratified.
For more than a dozen years
he and the writer sat side tty side
as presiding cfficer and clerk,
and I can most sincerely testify
that he was helpful in a most
eminent degree.
While he was anxious to have
the business of the association
promptly attendtd to, yet he
did not wish the devotional ser
vices to be neglected.
*He was a firm believer in the
old doctrines of grace, and his
addresses before religious bodies
were readily seen to proceed
from a faith firmly grounded in
the fixed purposes of an infinitely
wise and immutable sovereign,
who directed all things after the
counsel of his own will. He be
lieved in human instrumentality,
and exemplified this practically
by doing all he could to lead
souls to Christ at home, and of
fered his fervent prayers and
gave liberally of his means
to spread the gospel among
the heathen, that souls might
be saved abroad.
Our beloved co-laborer of so
many years has entiredinterest.
Though dead, he yet speaks, and
far into the future his godly life
and faithful work will continue
to bless the world. No figure
will be more sadly misse’d at the
next session of the Stone Moun
tain Association than the faith
ful clerk who has been at h’s
post for forty years.
As I have moved to another
field, I may not be present at the
next session of this body. But
should I meet with the messen
gers then, I shall mingle my sor
row with those who are sad, be
cause of the absence of our
sainted brother, whom God has
called to rest after a long life of
toil. J. M. Brittain.
The Religious Herald: A distin
guished lawyer and judge of
Bowling Green, Ky., says: “I
was present the time Dr. Chris
tian’s resolution was under dis
cussion in the late session of the
Baptist General Association
here, and was convinced by what
I heard, of the correctness of Dr.
Whitsiti's position about the his
torical matter in question. A
completer overthrow than that
received by the movers and sup
porters of that resolution I have
never known in a public debate.”
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