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Reminiscences of Georgia Baptists.
BY S. G. HILLYER, D D.
No. 22.
REV. J. H. CAMPBELL, CONTIN
UED, AND REV. ADAM T.
HOLMES.
In my reminiscence last week
of brother Campbell my space
was exhausted before 1 had said
all that my feelings prompted me
to-say. 1 therefore propose to
add a few items in the present
number.
The reader will remember that
1 alluded very briefly to brother
Campbell's labors in Columbus,
Ga. I told you how he went about
doing good among the poor of
that city and its suburbs. It
seems the extensive factories and
other workshops in and near by
Columbus had brought together a
large number of people who, like
millionsof others, had to earn sub
sistence by daily toil as day la
borers. Their opportunity to hear
tho Gospel was very limited. In
this matter they were hardly bet
ter off than they would have been
if there- had been no churches in
Columbus. Admitting a few ex
ceptional cases, as a rule, these
poor people were practically with
out tin- Gospel. Besides this pri
vation many of tls-m would some
times be in want of tin- necessities
of life, and some would be sick.
Such was the field that was found
by brother Campbell in Colum
bus.
lie was then seventy years of
age. He had given up his last
pastorate. For nearly fifty years
he had labored with active zeal to
help forward every good work
over all sections of our State; and
the good which he accomplished
cannot be estimated in the terms
of earthly measures. But at last
this aged servant retired to the
home of his son in Columbus.
Was it because the time bad
come that be should drop his
mantle upon the shoulders of that
beloved son? He may have
thought so, for I remember the
words he spoke when, many years
before at Penfield, he was about
to baptize (hat son. As they
stood- together in tin- water,
he said in substance: “This is
the last of my sons Io be baptized,
and my hope is that when 1 have
passed away he may wear my
mantle.”
But the time had not come.
God had a work for him to do in
his old age. For eleven years ho
carried on his mission in the man
ner already described, among the
laboring people about Columbus.
The success of his work may be
inferred from the high apprecia
tion in which he was held by the
people of the city. All classes of
people respected and loved him.
The city council, several years be
fore his death, gave him a deed
for a beautiful lot in the ceme
tery; and it was their desire that
he should be buried on that lot.
In this desire the citizens con
curred. So it came to pass, when,
in 1888. In- had breathed his
last, yielding to this general de
sire, his relatives consented that
his remains should lie in the lot
which tlie city had given him. By
the contributions of the commun
ity, a neat monument adorns tin
grave where In- sleeps. Such was
the honor paid to this faithful
servant of Jesus.
I have not spoken of brother
Campbell's labors in the Confed
erate army as a voluntary chap
lain. Os course, I could tell noth
ing about them from my personal
knowledge; but 1 learn that his
efforts among the soldiers were
immensely useful. It is said
that he was instrumental in lead
ing hundreds of them to the
knowledge of Jesus. And know
ing him as well as I did, 1 feel
sure that there were many inci
dents in his experiences in the
camps of the soldiers that would
be intensely interesting if we only
knew them. But I must leave to
some surviving pious soldier, if
such there be. who was an eye
witness of brother Campbell's
spiritual campaigns, to tell the
story.
Brother Campbell was twice
married. He raised several chil
dren, two of whom became minis
ters —Rev. Charles M. and Rev.
Abner B. Campbell. The former
was for many years pastor of the
church at Athens. From that
place he went to Texas and be
came pastor of the church, I
think, at Cleburne. But he has
passed away. Brother Abner B.
still lives and is now serving the
church at Troy, in Alabama.
I now’ pass on to another sub
ject.
REV. ADAM T. HOLMES, D D.
This brother was born in Sun
bury and raised to mature man
hood under the influences of that
remarkable village. He joined
the Baptist church when he was
twenty years old. For a time he
was a young man of much prom
ise as a church member. He
would pray and exhort in relig
ious meetings, and thus great
hopes were entertained of his fu
ture usefulness.
But somehow, after a few years
he fell away from his Christian
profession and lost the fellowship
of his brethren. When I became
acquainted with him in 1832 he
was not a church member, and
seemed to be given up to the love
and service of the world. I
found him to be a well educated.
Though estranged from the
church, yet he held a pew, and
gem-rally was an attendant upon
public worship. He continued
to associate with religious people,
and had among them many per
sonal friends. He was about
seven years my senior; but he was
classed to be a young man,and he
was a conspicuous figure in the
group of young men who were,
at that time, in Sunbury. A more
interesting group could hardly be
found in any community. Their
relations to each other were inti
mate and friendly, resulting in
life-long friendships, and, with
the majority of them, in Christian
fellowship as well.
Gradually the winter of ’32
wore away, and spring, with its
blushing flowers clothed the earth
with beauty. In the meantime 1
had become intimate with Mr.
Holmes. We were often to
gether, sometimes at his home a
few miles from the village, and
sometimes at my lodgings, or at
social gatherings in town.
Gm- moonlight night, perhaps
in May, or early in June, Holmes
and I were walking across the
wide common that lay between
the village and the neighboring
woods. We were walking as 1
thought, only for recreation and
for social enjoyment. But he, it
seemed, had another motive. We
had not been long on our way, be
fore he said to me, “I want to talk
to you this evening upon a subject
of deep interest to me.” He then
told me the story of his religious
life, ami of his unfortunate lapse
from the fellowship of the church,
lie made no complaint of bad
treatment by the brethren; but
for souk- weeks he had been re
viewing his case, and felt, sincere
ly, that, by his own conduct, he
had placed himself in an unhappy
position. Some half dozen years
of his young manhood had been
worse than wasted. He then-fore
was anxious to be restored to the
church. I heard his story most
gladly; and gave him all the en
couragement and advice that I
was able to do at so early a day
in my own religious life —1 was
hardly a year old as a church
member.
A few weeks later, Mr. Holmes,
having consulted, no doubt, other
brethren, presented himself be
fore the conference of the church
to ask them to restore him to
membership. He made a full
confession of his errors and avow
ed his desire to live a better life.
The church forgave the penitent
backslider and extended to him
once more the right hand of fel
lowship. It was a joyful day to
bro’ther Holmes, no doubt. He
becami- dearer to me than ever.
It was not long before he came
to the up country to engage in
teaching, and in the course of one
or two years he was ordained to
the ministry. The seem- of his
labors was in Middle and South
west Georgia. He grew’ in the
ministry very rapidly, so that his
services were in demand. I heard
Dr. ('. D. Mallary, who knew him
well, say that he regarded brother
Holmes decidedly one of the best
preachers we then had in Geor
gia.
lb- was not only an able preach
er, but was interested in all our
benevolent enterprises and an ad
vocate of the temperance reform
ation. He was made a member
of the Board of Trustees of Mer
cer University in which position
he took an active part and it was
Mercer that conferred upon him
the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
Another important position to
w hich he was called w as the Pres
idency of the Baptist Female Col
lege in Cuthbert. All these
things show the high apprecia
tion to which this dear brother
attained among the Baptists of
Georgia.
The last time I met brother
Holmes was at Newnan, Ga.,
where the Baptist convention was
then in session. He met me with
tender affection. I could perceive
that his health was failing, and it
was but a few’ months before he
passed away. I learn that he en
tered the valley of death in full
assurance of faith. He left a
widow and one son to mourn his
loss. I know so little of their
subsequent histoiy that I need
not try to sketch it. I will only
add that Mrs. Holmes was of the
Hampton family of South Caro
lina. She lived with brother
Holmes more than thirty years.
She was a lady of culture and of
piety. I suppose she has ere this
joined her husband in heaven.
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THE CHKISIIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. JANUARY 7. 1897.
©ur yulpit
CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP AS RE
LAI ED 10 THE ENDOWMENT OF
MERCER UNIVERSITY.
BY J. H. KILPATRICK, D.D.
I invite careful attention to the fol
lowing Scriptures:
“The kingdom of heaven is as a man
travelling into a far country, who call
ed his own servants and delivered unto
them his goods * * ♦ to every man
according to his several ability.” Matt.
25:11-15. “Ye are not your own; for
ye have been bought with a price;
therefore, glorify God in your body and
in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Cor.
6:19-20.
"Whether, therefore, ye eat or
drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to
the glory of God." 1 Cor. 10:31.
“He died for al), that they which live
should not henceforth live unto them
selves, but unto him who died for
them, and (for them) rose again.” 2
Cor. 5:15.
“As every man hath received (a)
gift, even so minister the same one to
another, as good stewards of the mani
fold grace of God. * * * Jf any
man minister, let him do it as of the
ability which God giveth that God in
all things may be glorified.” 1 Pet.
4:10-11.
“Moreover, it is required in stewards
that a man be found faithful.” 1
Cor. 4:2.
“Unto whomsoever much is given, of
him shall much be required.” Luke
12:48.
“He that is faithful in that which is
least is faithful also in much; and he
that is unjust in the least, is unjust
also in much.” Luke 16:10.
"Every one of us shall give account
of himself to God.” Rom. 14:12.
"Thou wicked and slothful servant!”
“Cast ye the unprofitable servant into
outer darkness.” Matt. 25:26 and 38.
The above Scriptures and others
which might be given, abundantly
teach the general doctrine ot
CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP.
1. If we are really God's people, re
deemed and saved by the blood of his
Son, then do we in a special and pecu
liar manner belong to him. Not only
his because he made vs bat because
when we had forfeited cui lives by sin,
and were doomed to de it'i, he bought
us out from under the condemnation
that was upon us by gi’ big the blessed
Jesus to die for us.
2. Not only do we don.T to God,
but all we have is his, and because all
comes from him.
3. Moreover what God has given us,
he gave not that we might have it
to do as we pleased with it, but as
he pleases to be used in serving him,
according to his will and for his glory.
4. The day is coming when we shall
all be called to appear before God to
render an account of our stewardship,
and a sad account it is to be feared
many will have to give.
Now, whatever may have been true
of other days and other times, certain
ly at the present day, and in our coun
try, none of these truths are recogniz
ed and appreciated as they should be.
How little do most of us feel that we
are not our own—that we cannot do as
we please, but must do as God pleases!
And much less do most of us feel that
what we call ours is not really ours but
God’s—that our time is his, our
fortune is his, our powers and capaci
ties, both of mind and of body, are
his. And especially, provided any con
siderable number of professors are
really Christians, the Lord’s people
generally do not feel that their great
business is, and their great concern
should be, not to advance their own
interests, or the interests of their fam
ilies, but rather the interests of his
kingdom and the glory of his name;
and that time, talents, energies, for
tune, all should be directed to this
end.
Yes, and still more especially, and
this is the matter which I wish par
ticularly to emphasize in this dis
course, it does seem, judging from the
way that most professed Christians
spend their money, that very few of
them really believe that their money is
the Lord’s, as well as themselves. They
seem to think that they made it, and
so it is theirs, and they can spend it
as they please. If any of a neighbor’s
money should come into their hands
they would not think of using it ex
cept according to the will of that
neighbor, and in his service; but alas,
when the Lord puts his money in their
hands, the most of them seem to think
they can do with it as they please, and
certainly they do spend it quite gen
erally without the slightest reference to
God's will or his glory. Now accord
ing to the Scriptures quoted above, this
is all wrong. As our money is really
the Lord's, and only intrusted to us
as his stewards, every cent of it should
be spent as his and not ours, and in
view of our accountability to him. And
that the expenditure in any given case
is small, does not change the issue.
We have no more right to spend five
cents without reference to God’s will
than five hundred or five thousand
dollars. And if we go on spending our
money, be it little or much, without
taking into the account God’s will, a
fearful account will be ours to render
in the coming day!
In the light of the foregoing, it cer
tainly becomes us all carefully and
prayerfully to consider what expendi
tures we make of our money. And
we should daily pray, “Lord teach me
not only how to spend my time and
strength so as to please thee, but how
to spend my money, which is really not
mine, but thine.” We have special
need for prayer how’ to use money—
for right here is special danger. Doubt
less it is God’s will that we should
spend some of his money upon our
selves and families, but surely not all
of it. The Scriptures teach us. in
making our expenditures, to look out
upon the wants and woes of others,
and especially the interests and neces
sities of the Redeemer’s kingdom.
This prefaces the way for more spe
cific prayer: “Lord, teach me just how
much money to spend upon myself and
family, so as to prepare me and
them better for thy service, as well
as to sustain us in it, and show what
we ought to spend upon the outside
world.” But as soon as we get out
side of ourselves and families, a mul
titude of worthy objects present them
selves: charities of various kinds, pub
lic and private, State missions, home
missions, foreign missions, and then
churches and Sunday-schools. hig s
schools and colleges, etc. And we
should earnestly and honestly ask the
Lord to show us just what our duty
is with reference to all these, and to
give us strength to do it. And accord
ing to our varying conditions and
surroundings, our abilities and our op
portunities, so will be our duty: and
according to our duty, so should be
our expenditure.
With this expositon of the general
subject of Christian stewardship, and
passing for the present time and oc
casion many noble enterprises which
claim our support, let us turn our at
tention to the cause of education. As
the Lord’s stewards, intrusted with
more or less-of his money, what Is
our duty here? What to ourselves,
our families, the world?
1. It may be that we have neglect
ed our own education. How much
time, and care, and money,then,should
we spend, even at this late day, in bet
ter preparing ourselves to glorify God?
Certainly, a pertinent and an im
portant question.
2. We may have children —what is
our duty in the matter of their educa
tion? Well, we should ask the Lord to
teach us. I feel quite sure, that as a
general rule, other things being equal,
it is better, and much better, to give
our children an education rather than
property. The education they are
more likely to keep and more likely
to be benefitted by. Property is cer
tainly more likely to slip away from
them, and more likely to hurt them,
whether they keep It or lose it.
But let each one, having children,
make the matter one of solemn and
prayerful inquiry as to what duty is,
and then ask'for strength to do it.
3. But what about helping to provide
education for others? So far as in
struction in the elementary branches is
concerned, the State is making pretty
full provisions for this, and we are all
taxed to pay for what is being done.
So, while much might be said here, we
will pass this.
We come to the domain of the higher
education. Here we have schools and
colleges. Many—some for boys, some
for girls, some for both —some for the
white race, some for the negro—some
sustained by the State, and some, in
whole or in part, by cities, communi
ties, associations, etc. Some of these
have special claims upon us —claims
which we are bound to recognize as
the Lord’s stewards. And I wish I had
time and ability to present especially
and fully the claims of the noble in
stitutions among us for the education
of our daughters. There are a number
of them, and they are worthy of the
highest appreciation and the most lib
eral patronage. But these I must pass
without further mention.
So far, however, as the cause of the
higher education is related to the Bap
tists of Georgia, there is one institution
that stands out solitary and alone as
the rightful center of living interest
and of universal support—Mercer Un
iversity. Coming down to us as a
heritage from the fathers —hallowed by
the memory of their sacrifices, their
toils, their prayers and their tears —
the representative of no individual or '
local enterprise—the rival and com
petitor of none, but the friend and
helper of all, it should receive the
sympathies, the prayers and the liberal
support of the denomination through
out the whole State.
This institution has a bright and
honorable record. Dating back from
its origin as Mercer Institute, now for
more than three-score years it has
been doing a grand work for the Bap
tists of Georgia. But while it has ac
complished much, its operations, dur
ing all these years, have been sadly
hindered and circumscribed for the
lack of larger facilities. And especial
ly now does the progress of the age,
the growth and development of sim
ilar institutions, and the large increase
of our own numbers make it an impera
tive and crying necessity for Mercer to
. have a better equipment for its great
work—and to have this better equip
ment and these larger facilities, it must
have more money—a larger endow
ment.
As the Lord’s stewards we Georgia
Baptists have more or less of his
money in our possession, every cent of
which, if we qjjr really his loving and
obedient jMgflts, we wish to spend
his eye, and
in accordantT wltff his will. Now,
then, the question and the prayer for
each one of us should be, “Lord, what
wilt thou have me to do? How much
ought I to give to help Mercer Univer
sity, and to make it a still greater pow
er for good.” Mark, the question is not
that of Peter’s, “Ix>rd, and what shall
this man do?” but that of Paul’s,
“Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
God quite generally teaches us our
duty through the exercise of a com
non sense view of the situation. And
so, I say,
1. We certainly believe in the truth
and importance of Baptist principles.
If not, we are not Baptists.
2. Our separate denominational ex
istence is essential to the maintenance
and furtherance of these principles. If
we do not teach them and spread them,
who will?
3. Our highest efficiency and success
as a denomination cannot be maintain
ed, except in connection with an edu
cation commensurate with the de
mands and necessities of the times,
Os course God is the great power, and
he could do everything without us, but
he has seen fit to use us and ours, and
the Scriptures teach that he demands
of us the best—the “fine flour” and the
“beaten oil.”
Our fathers realized these facts when
they founded Mercer University. They
felt that it was something which God
required at their hands, or surely they
had never sought its establishment.
They laid the foundation in prayer,
and they built the superstructure with
prayer and sacrifice. They expected
God to hear their prayers and accept
their sacrifices, and were not disap
pointed. It is not too much to say that
the present position of the denomina
tion in Georgia is, under God’s favor
and blessing, largely the result of in
fluences connected, in one way or an
other, with this institution. Do we
wish to maintain this our high posi
tion, and not -only to main
tain it, but to move forward as our de
nominational mission demands, and as
the necessities of the world demand?
Then let us, one and all, rally to the
support of Mercer University and move
it forward. The world is advancing,
population is increasing, our own num
bers and necessities are multiplying.
Something must be done, and much,
and that. soon, or our loved institution
will not only fail to be abreast with the
times, but will be far in the rear. Ed
ucation, such as is demanded, will be
sought and obtained elsewhere, and
quite surely, if our sons are driven to
ether colleges for their education, our
efficiency as a denomination will be
lessened, and the great truths for
which we stand will be pro
portionally hindered. If we would be
fellow-helpers to the truth as we hold
it. let us help Mercer University. While
the special work of the university is
not to teach Baptist doctrine, yet there
is diffused from it an influence which,
though subtle and indefinable, is nev
ertheless powerful, and has been won
derfully helpful to us in the past, and
we cannot afford to lose it in the fu
ture.
But it must not be forgotten that for
the institution really to fulfill the de
sires and expectations of the fathers
which founded it. as well as meet our
own i resent necessities, strict theologi
cal instruction must have a more prom
inent place than has been possible to
give it in the recent past. While it may
be true that theological instruction,
good, sound and thorough, may be ob
tained elsewhere, yet it is also true
that many and large benefits will flow
from the maintenance of a theological
department just as the fathers intend
ed. But this is not the time or place
tc enlarge upon this idea, and so let it
pass.
Mercer University is a necessity to
the Baptists of Georgia, and that it
may become the power for good that it
might be, it is an absolute necessity
for it to have more extensive appli
ances and equipments, and in order to
have these, it must have more money.
If the fathers, comparatively few in
numbers, and in the midst of one of
the most disastrous financial panics
that this country has ever known, were
able to found this University, surely
we, with our increased numbers and
larger resources, can carry It forward.
The truth is, the Baptists of Georgia
have plenty of money to give Mercer
all it needs, and at the same time give
twice as much to the other denomina
tional enterprises as they are now do
ing. If they can just be induced to
feel that they are nothing but stewards
intrusted with their Lord's money,
and then will prayerfully seek to find
out their duty and then do it, all need
ed money will be speedily forthcom
ing.
Brethren and sisters in Christ and
“stewards of the manifold grace of
God,” as you love Jesus, and love his
cause, and love his truth, prayerfully
consider the claims of our beloved and
time-honored University upon you,
and may God help us all to do just
that which shall be well pleasing in his
sight, to whom be the glory forever.
Amen.
For tbe Jndxx.
Mercer University From a Woman's
Point of View.
BY MRS. ELIZABETH ANNE BURNEY.
When I was requested to contribute
to the Mercer edition of the Christian
Index, I felt in my heart the throbbings
of a great loss, and the tender love I
have ever entertained for my dear fa
ther-in-law, Hon. S. A. Burney, late of
Madison, Ga., rushed over me, thoughts
of him and his life’s work controlled
my answer, and I said: “I cannot tell
how I shall succeed with ‘task work,'
for my scribblings have ever been
scribbled because I could not help
scribbling. I can do but little for Mer
cer, but with the good Lord’s help I
will do what I can to get the Baptist
mothers in Georgia to feel an interest
in it. Shall I say our? yes, our fathers
built, sustained and brought the Uni
versity to its present position in the
• world of schools. We are the heirs of
our fathers, so it is now ours, and we
hold it, as our fathers held it, in trust
for the Lord. It is no light matter to
hold property in trust for the Master.
Shall we let it languish, lose its place
among universities, because we will
not help it? Let every Baptist mother
in Georgia repeat over and over, Our
University, Our University, and it will
not be many days before she will begin
to think about sending her boy there,
and will, in her own way, begin to pre
pare him for the going. Ido not think
the Baptist children of to-day hear so
much about Mercer as those of my age
did. In the dear old home of my in
fancy and childhood, Mercer was a
household word, and the Mercer fund,
in our family, was laid aside each year
as regularly as that ot missions or any
other Christian work. Many times by
that, to me, hallowed fireside did my
beloved father, Hon. J. H. Stark, late of
Griffin, but then of Jackson, Ga., and
the dear old “preacher” of Macedonia
church, in Butts county, "Uncle” Jim
mie Carter, discuss and plan for the
good of the academy (I think it was
then called) at Penfield.
Later, when we had moved to Griffin,
my father and dear “Uncle” Campbell
continued the theme. Then Mercer had
become a college, and one evening, out
of an accidental company of ten young
men in our parlor, seven of them had
been, or were, Mercer students.
My dear father-in-law used to keep
me fully posted in regard to the w’ork
done for the University, their aims and
ambitions, and in all our conversations
the University was as one of the fam
ily; its well-doing, its needs, its work
were as real then to me as the health,
happiness and prosperity of brother
John or Sam.
For many years the University has
been almost lost to me, and it and its
interests are now revived in a visit
made by Rev. H. R. Bernard to El
berton. Ga., where I am a sojourner.
While I have no special knowledge
of its needs I know that it has need of
all the help every Baptist in Georgia
can give it.
Thirty years ago in the South, the
edict went forth, “Our daughters must
be educated.” The girls were sent to
school and the boys were sent to work.
Who does not see the effect of such
discrimination? The mother of Romu
lus and Remus fed her sons on the
milk of wolves to make them cour
ageous. The mothers of Georgia, in
their efforts to advance their daught
ers. have, in a measure, neglected
their sons, left them to toil for
money's sake, and to-day many
of our boys are growing up without
sufficient education to enable them to
write and spell well enough to carry
on an intelligible business corres
pondence. These things are true.
Money is a fine thing. Female education
is a finer, and a boy’s education should
at least be as good as his sister’s.
Then the fine old days of woman’s
loving dependence on the men of her
family will, in a measure, return, and
the chivalry’ of old Georgia will be re
newed. Those were fine old days. Our
men were collegebred, our women re
fined. The woman looked up to the
man, and the man respected her. Class
legislation is not good for the State.
Our homes are miniature States, and
if you educate the girls to the exclu
sion of the boys you detract from the
happiness of both girls and boys.
In sending a boy from home how
many questions arise in the loving
mother’s heart. Now here is James.
He has been brought up on the farm,
or in the country town. His parents,
sisters and their friends are all the
people he has known, and a neighbor
hood picnic the greatest dissipation of
his life. Ah, well may a mother trem
ble for her boy. Well may she begin
to pray at his birth that God will
make him a good man.
Will it be right after all these years
of painstaking and prayer to place the
country lad among other than Christ
ian influences?
I am no sectarian, but I am a Baptist,
and if you have held the Baptist faith
In your heart and taught it in your
home, then send your boy among Bap
tist people when he goes from you.
There will be plenty of new things for
him to see and learn, beside new re
ligious views. There are more ship
wrecks in faith at the age of a “Fresh”
or “Soph” than any other, and a boy
who gets at sea at that age is likely to
remain so through the most useful
years of his life. There is no man, I
care not who he is. nor what he has
become to the State, that does not stand
on a higher plane before his fellow
men if he is firm in some religious
faith —allied with some Christian
sect.
The mother in sending her boy from
home ponders in her heart this ques
tion: Will my boy be thrown among
refined people in his social life? Every
mother feels that as her boy’s asso-
ciates deport themselves so will her
i boy’s manners be.
' When there was talk of moving the
University from Penfield, ths social life
of the student was considered. At
Penfield in those days there was, per
haps, the finest intellectual society in
the State, for the inhabitants were al
most exclusively of and connected with
the professorships, and they were in
comparable. Still the student's social
life was cramped, more, perhaps, by
the student's timidity or inexperience
than otherwise, for it takes age to learn
that the greatest men intellectually are
the most genial, and at Penfield the life
of the student grew monotonous and
irksome. At Macon the student is
thrown in a community where social
life ranks with that of any city in the
State. I have endeavored to say these
things without referring to other col
leges, “for comparisons are odious;”
but at Mercer the Christian mother
may feel that her boy is as safe in a
moral sense as he can be anywhere
outside of her own Christian home.
Then, dear mother, if you want your
boy taught that in this life he should
alm at the highest things, and for the
glory of God in eternity, try Mercer.
There is nothing that appeals to me
like the uneducated men of Georgia.
God knows their lives have been hard
ones, both during and since the war.
Taken from their books and placed in
the trenches to fight the battles of their
dear South, at the close of the war
they found themselves poor, and, as I
said before, their portion has been toil.
Now their sons are here, ready to be
sent to some place; it must be a cheap
one, or the boys cannot go. Shall the
boys of Baptist families seek elsewhere
for higher education because Mercer —
our University—is too poor to help her
sons?
I have said nothing about the vast
good done to society and the everlast
ing glory to Christ’s cause, which is
being done by our University in sending
forth her educated ministers. These I
shall leave for a heavier pen, or for a
future offering from my own light one.
To Baptist mothers I will say: Help
your boy to become a Christian. Edu
cate him, let him have good manners
and your life work for him is complet
ed. Then turn him loose in the world,
after placing him in God’s hands, and
you have accomplished a work well
pleasing to the Master, good for your
State, and your mother-heart will be
made to rejoice in your son.
Elberton, Ga.
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The Beginners of a Nation. Edward
Eggleston. D. Appleton & Co., New
York. Price $1.50.
The supplementary title of the above
volume explains more fully its charac
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rise of the earliest English settlements
in America with special reference to the
life and character of the people. By
this it is intended to set forth that this
volume deals not so much with the
events connecting with the founding
of the early colonies, as with the kind
of men who played parts in these ven
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he has devoted a good many years to
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The Rise of the First English Colony,
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Forces in Colony Planting. We have
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The various motives that actuated the
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Messages of To-day to the Men of To
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Am. Baptist Publication Society,
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Anything from Dr. Lorimer will be
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This book will be of lasting interest.
It is a book of sound advice and
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Dr. Lorimer has a wealth of historical
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