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The Worth of Experience as an
Argument.
It Is sometimes urged that the
argument for the authenticity and
inspiration of the Bible which is
drawn from the experience of
Christians, while it may suffice for
them, is without weight to those
who have not this Christion con
sciousness. But is that so? Here
is a vast mass of testimony. It is
drawn from the consciousness of
thousands whose testimony on
any other subject would be enti
tled to credence. This testimony
is of intellectual worth to the
men who have not had the expe
rience themselves. Thousands
have not had experience in recov
ery from a given disease. They
have not been cured by a given
specific. But there is a vast mass
of testimony as to the effect of
aconite and of quinine and of nux
vomica as drugs, and of the bene
fit, under certain conditions, of
stimulants. Medical men. on the
basis of this testimony, write
learned volumes on diseases and
their treatment. They accept the
testimony of other men’s experi
ence. They ought to do so. Ex
perience of others may be in some
cases more valuable and trust
worthy than one’s own. You
may be a better observer of the
course of a fever in your friend
than in yourself. Testimony as
to experience is everywhere re
ceived and given its place as of
more or less worth. Nor can all
these long centuries of Christian
experience be ignored by those
not themselves Christians. It is
nothing to the point for one to
say that he has had no such ex
perience. The negation of experi
ence in one man counts for noth
ing as against the positiveness of
another man's experimental
knowledge in religion. But the
man who has not had the experi
ence himself is bound to give cre
dence to the fact to which others
testify. Facts of experience are
as substantial facts as we know,
and a man may no more set them
aside than he may dismiss the
facts of gravity in his study of
the physical world.
It is sometimes said byway of
disparagement, that this experi
mental consciousness is mere
feeling. It is enough reply to
say that feeling is just as real a
fact as the existence of a piece of
granite. Feeling is one of the po
tencies of life. Love, that rules
the world, is a feeling. It is the
grandest, surest, most substantial
factor in human conduct. What
a man loves is the main thing
about him. Love is character,
had or good. Think of a man at
tempting any analysis of human
history in a nation or of life in a
man, with no reference to the
fact that love is a power that
sways men profoundly. At the
last analysis states of mind, such
as love and hate, joy and sorrow,
hope and despair, are the most
certainly known of all our hu
man knowledge. And so far from
a disparagement, we claim it as
one of the surest of evidencesthat
Christian souls, thrilled with love
to God, have this experimental
conviction that the Bible is an in
spired volume. * * *
In questions of music we give
special weight to the opinion of
the musician. In questions about
mathematics we consult the man
of mathematical genius and at
tainment. We make use every
where else of specialists. Why
not give here in our investigation
of the spiritual fact of inspiration
an especial importance to the tes
timony of spiritually minded
men?
The experimental method alone
may not satisfy some investigat
ors. Like the inductive method,
it has its limitations .and its lia
bilities to mistake, when it is em
ployed exclusively. But this at
least is clear, that its trend, like
that of the inductive method, is
unmistakable. It is a factor in
the problem. Certain minds are
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so constituted that, in regard to
the inspiration of the Bible just
as in regard to the existence of
God, the profound inward con
viction is that on which they rely
most confidently. In these minds
the logic of the heart is more nim
ble than the logic of the head.
Nor are such men necessarily the
least intellectual. What mind
more logical than that of Paul?
When a revelation by inspiration
of God was made to him on the
way to Damascus, his heart yield
ed at once. But he must retire
for three years into Arabia to ad
just his intellectual convictions
to his new moral feeling. His
head must now become recon
ciled to his heart. The most log
ical mind of the Scriptures, he is
converted through the emotions,
in view of a divine intervention.
The revelation of Christ to him
on the way to Damascus is the
first of a series of inspirations
for his soul; and the successive
inspirations of God’s Holy Spirit
are given us in his Epistles, as he
speaks the words which are free
ly given him of God.
Multitudes of young men have
been converted. Some of them
have failed to adjust the head to
the heart; and so have become
confused about religious fact
and doctrine. They have let the
certainties of individual experi
ence stand in the background,
while they have attempted to de
cide on the truth by mere logical
processes. It is as if a man
should resolutely close his eyes
and seek to know all the things
about him in the physical world
by the sense of touch alone. Let
him not ignore the use of his eyes
because he has hands. God gives
the various senses that we may
correct and confirm the one by
the other. It is unwise to refuse
the testimony given us by any of
them. It were better to secure
everything we can from each as
we use them all.
And many, converted through
spiritual processes in early youth,
have gone on to verify, by subse
quent intellectual processes, the
great convictions of a regenerated
soul. • Like. Paul, it has taken
time and thought and study ami
prayer and the fuller experience
of riper years. They began with
only these early and scanty ex
periences of biblical fact and doc
trine and promise. But (he Bible
has ( ’'own for them. They now
know the book. They have
weighed the difficulties, and
weighed also the immense confir
mations. Evidences have become
more evidential. Related studies
have enlarged their knowledge
and strengthened their confi
dence in the divine inspiration of
the Bible. The evidence accumu
lates daily with their daily study
and trust. They live by faith in
Christ as he is so singularly dis
closed in the Gospels and Epis
tles. The “Spirit beareth wit
ness” with their spirits. Other
evidences they have that the book
has on it the seal of the Holy
Spirit. They do not disdain to re
ceive any light which more mod
ern studies bring to them. But
for themselves this experimental
method of investigation yields
the most satisfaction. They know
the spiritual contents of the book.
It is greatly to he regretted
that so many men, scholarly in
some single lines of biblical
study, have unconsciously subor
dinated the spiritual to the intel
lectual method of investigation
on this subject of inspiration, as
well as in other and related in
quiries. It is easy to sneer at
men of less technical learning; to
make disparaging statements
about the habit of “seeing every
part of the Bible as of equal val
ue and present-day importance.”
And yet there is a certain some
thing behind even the crudest
ideas of inspiration, which more
learned men, in the interests of a
really scholarly breadth of view,
would do well to consider. The
specialty of any man’s learning
is useful to us all. We consider
his results, and compare them
with other results not infrequent
ly disagreeing and antagonistic;
so that their main worth is not
in their end but in their trend.
The fruits of any line of modern
scholarship we value; but schol
arship is no modern thing. In
ductive methods may have been
newly formulated, but they have
always been used since men be
gan to think. Deductive methods
are not exclusively ancient nor
exclusively modern. And this
vast mass of experimental fact,
accumulating through long ages,
coming to us through the devo
tional study of sympathetic souls
who have had a singular genius
for interpreting the main ideas of
the Bible, ought to have a large
place in the appreciation of men
of technical learning. Side by
side with what they call the “crit
ical results” are to be placed
those which in another way are
just as critical.—lnspiration as a
Trend. —Faunce.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 28. 1897.
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The Sp i i Missions a Chnstlike
; .it.
BY REV. BRYAN W. COLLIER
As Christ looked on the world
in sin he longed to save it. He
had compassion on the multitude.
His heart went out in tenderest
sympathy to the wretched and
the destitute. As the great mass
of humanity, saturated with sin,
groaning under affliction, part
ners in a common curse and yet
struggling each to overreach his
fellows, passed in melancholy re
view before him, divine compas
sion went out to every guilty and
helpless soul.
Surely the highest attainment
of Christian life isto belike Christ.
We ring the changes on this sen
timent in our mutual exhorta
tions, and it is a truth that we
cannot too constantly reiterate.
But the spirit of Christ was em
phatically a missionary spirit,
and so those who have the mis
sionary spirit have the spirit of
Christ.
The spirit of missions is chari
table because it is aggressive.
This is a most important quality.
Many otherwise excellent people
fail in life, because they lack ag
gressiveness. Christ had it. He
had no kinship to the people who
are constantly calling upon us to
let well-enough alone. He saw
great room for improvement, and
he went vigorously to work to
bring it about. If the overthrow
of a crying evil demanded a lash
of small cords and some violence
of action and manner, he did not
hesitate to apply the lash. The
consciousness of his great mission
urged him into constant activity.
He could not be supinely inac
tive. lie said, “I must work the
works of him that sent me while
it is day.” He felt he had a mes
sage for the world which must be
delivered in all seasons and at all
places.
The foreign missionary has
caught this aggressive tone.
Every zealous advocate of foreign
missions has caught it. The con
stant impulse of such a man is an
on'ward one. His is the spirit of
Caesar, “thinking nothing done
while aught remains to be done.”
It is not sufficient for him that
many nations have owned the
sway of the cross, and bowed to
the benign influence of the Son of
Go<l. His eye is turned towards
“I he region beyond.” It does not
suffice for him that many millions
are in the fold, since there comes
constantly io his ears the cries of
(he lost and perishing. Like his
Master, he plants his feet on past
achievements, and reaches out
after yet richer laurels,
The missionary spirit is Christ
like also, in that it is broad, cath
olic and universal, Christ died lor
all the world, and commissioned
his disciples to preach the Gospel
to all mankind. Man is by nature
selfish. His tendency is towards
narrowness, insulation and ex
clusiveness. This selfish attrib
ute of the natural man, when
joined to ignorance, is expressed
in the cry of the cockney English
man, “’Ere’s a stranger, let’s
’eave ’arf a brick at ’irn.” Christ
taught his disciples a better les
son than that, and instructed
them to love all men and seek
their salvation. In accordance
with that teaching, the missionary
goes with the message of salva
tion to the uttermost extremities
of the earth. The selfish and
worldly wise, on the contrary, de
clare that they have nothing in
common with the yellow Mongo
lians and low-browed Africans,
and need feel no special concern
about their fate.
The missionary spirit is the
spirit of Christ, moreover, be
cause it is a believing spirit. The
consciousness of support from
above caused our Savior to be
hopeful and undaunted in the
face of mosjt tremendous opposi
tion. When his disciples forsook
him and fled, he remained unter
rified and undisturbed. Amid
buffetings and vexations he held
on his calm and tranquil way,
confident of ultimate victory and
undeterred by present reverses.
The missionary shares this con
fidence, and must share it. Noth
ing on earth but firm faith in the
completeness of God’s power and
the reality of God’s presence
could sustain for a day the cause
of foreign missions. A man is a
fool for giving money for foreign
missions unless he believes that
the Gospel is God’s power unto
salvation and that the sword of
the spirit, is more than a match
for all the weapons of carnal war
fare. The missionary who car
ries a knowledge of the Bible to
foreign lands embarks on an er
rand wilder and more chimerical
than the fabled ones of Don Quix
ote, if it be not true that God is
with him. The enterprise of for
eign missions is a hopeless one,
but for the power of God.
But God’s utmost power is
pledged in behalf of every true
missionary. Relying on that fact,
the soldiers of the cross in
litenthen lands are full of hope
and buoyant with courageous de
termination. That confidence
which the Savior possessed is im
parted unto him who believes
that Christ is with him, “even
unto the end of the world.”
Undoubtedly the man who has
partaken most largely of the
mind of Christ must be an ardent
advocate and friend of foreign
missions. No man can claim to
have entered thoroughly into the
spirit of the Masi er unless a pas
sion for worldwide evangelization
has taken possession of his soul.
Decatur, Ga.
Forthe Index.
Reminiscences of Georgia Baptists.
BY S G. HILLYER, D D.
No. 25.
COL. ALFRED SHORTER AND HIS
WIFE.
Among the Baptists of Georgia
there have been very many
w orthy church members who held
no official position, but who, for
their works’ sake, deserve to be
held in grateful remembrance by
their brethren of the present, and
of succeeding generations. Such
persons are as truly object les
sons as are the more conspicuous
ones who have filled the higher
places in our denomination. And
such a man and woman most cer
tainly were Col.' Alfred Shorter
and his wife.
My acquaintance with them be
gan in 1836. At that time, they
were living in Monticello, Jasper
county. A company of Baptist
preachers, from the ministers’
meeting at Forsyth, were return
ing home, and it was arranged to
stop for the night in Monticello.
It so happened that Dr. Sherwood
with several other ministers, my
self included, were the guests of
brother and sister Shorter. This
was the first time I ever met
1 hem.
A few years later, when the
Cherokee Indians had been re
moved to their new home in the
Indian Territory and Northwest
Georgia was fairly opened to the
citizens of the State, Col. and Mrs.
Shorter were among its earliest
sei Hers. Theify fust stopping
place was in Cedar Valley; but
it was not long before Col. Shor
ter’s keen perception discovered
the better advantages of another
location. He sold his place in
Cedar Valley anil made large in
vestments in land about the junc
tion of the Etowah and Oosta
naula rivers, and along the banks
of the Coosa. This land became
very valuable. A part of it was
included within the area upon
which the city > of Rome now
stands. The sale of these city
lots, no doubt, helped to make
him rich; but his fertile and well
cultivated fields must have con
tributed largely to the same re
sult. It was not long before he
was managing a very large and
complicated business Unit yielded
to him an ample revenue. He was
perhaps the richest man in Floyd
county.
This was the prosperous condi
tion in which 1 found Col. and
Mrs. Shorter, eighteen years after
my first acquaintance with them
in Monticello. In 1854 I visited
Rome, by special invitation, to
spend a Sabbath with the Baptist
church. Part of the time I was
the guest of these good people at
their elegant home near the city.
My wife was with me. It is need
less to say that we were enter
tained with generous hospitality.
This was only my second inter
view with them.
Two years later it pleased the
church at Rome to call me to be
their pastor. I accepted the call
and entered upon my duties on
the first of January, 1856. This
brought me into close relations
with brother and sister Shorter,
which were continued for three
years and eight months. I had.
therefore, the best opportunity of
knowing them both. I will speak
first of brother Shorter.
HIS CHARACTER.
I have said that he was a rich
man. But of what value are
riches in the hands of a man with
out an upright character? They
only serve to make his faults
more conspicuous, and his views
more hideous. The tinsel of
wealth and the glamour of osten
tation may draw around him a
horde of sycophantic flatterers, or
of greedy parasites who hope to
fatten on his excesses; but he
finds in his retinue few sincere,
unselfish friends —the wise and
the good forsake such a man.
In contrast with the case just
alluded to, it is refreshing to turn
to a character like Col. Shorter’s.
One element of his character was
an unobtrusive modesty. He
seemed to have not the slightest
desire to be a leader. This ele
ment of character, some may
think might be an indication of
weakness; for it often happens
that one who has no ambition to
lead, is at the beck and call of
others —utterly devoid of all per
sonal independence. But in
brother Shorter's case a suspic
ion of weakness would be a great
mistake; for, in his character, the
element in question was off-set by
another of kindred nature, that
marked him as a man of inflexible
firmness. While he did not care
to lead, it was equally true that
he could not be led. I never knew
a man who was more completely
his own master than Alfred
Shorter.
Another element of his charac
ter is found in the accuracy of his
judgment. And here we touch
what was in him a most remark
able endowment. His education
was limited —he knew nothing
about the logic of the schools. He
studiously shunned debate. I
don’t think he spoke five words
in any of our church conferences
during all the years that I was
his pastor; and yet the conclu
sions which he would reach were
more generally correct than
those of any other mem
ber. His judgments were like
intuitions. The proof of all
this is found in the confidence
that the people who knew him had
in his judgment. Withouttryingto
be so, he was almost everybody's
adviser. His opinions upon all
matters of business were almost
oracular among the people.
Now, when to these elements
of modesty, firmness, personal in
dependence, and soundness of
judgment we add his faith in God,
his sincere feeling of moral obli
gation and his sterling integrity,
manifesting itself in his love of
truth ami of fair and just dealings
towards all men, we behold his
character clothed with that nobil
ity which commands our admira
tion. But this is not all.
Col. Shorter was not content
with being merely just. Many
a rich man can boast that
lie never, intentionally, wrong
ed a neighbor; and yet
he may be dominated by
a cold, unsympathizing selfish
ness. Not so with Col. Shorter.
He was generous as well as just.
He was the poor man’s friend;
and no doubt many now living
could bear witness to his generous
kindness. But his beneficence
was not limited to private chari
ties. lie gave liberally to every
public enterprise that, in his judg
ment, promised to be for the
glory of God and the well-being
of man. When his brethren, in
1854, wanted to build a church
edifice, which was very much
needed, they were then few in
number and of moderate means.
Nevertheless they built an eight
thousand dollar house; and I have
heard that brother Shorter paid
six thousand dollars, equal to
three-fourths of the entire cost.
But the crowning work of his
benevolence was the founding of
the college which bears his name.
He expended upon that enter
prise, including a permanent en
dowment of forty thousand, not
far from a hundred thousand dol
lars.
The college was designed for
the advanced education of the
daughters of Georgia and its ad
jacent States, not only in secular
learning, but also in moral and
religious truth. The building
contains not only recitation and
lecture rooms, where may be
heard Hie deliverances of earthly
knowledge, but also a chapel
where may be heard the words of
inspired wisdom that teach the
way which leads to everlasting
life. It is a monument to the
memory of its founder that a
prince might envy.
MRS. SHORTER.
I have left myself but little
space to speak of Mrs. Shorter.
But really, what more need be
said than that she was the true
counterpart of her noble hus
band. This husband and wife
were one. So at least it seemed
to those who knew them. They
were rich, lived bountifully and
dispensed a generous hospitality;
but they were not what are called
“society people.” If the husband
was the poor man’s friend, as be
fore stated, the wife was an angel
of mercy to all who were suffering
or in sorrow. She was in full
sympathy with all her husband’s
schemes of public beneficence. In
the case of the college, this sym
pathy with him was gracefully in
dicated by brother Shorter him
self. He caused to he put up in
the chapel a large window, beau
tifully ornamented and inscribed
in brilliant letters with her name
as a personal memorial of his de
voted wife who had passed away.
Indeed, it would seem, that so far
as his wishes were concerned, he
would have preferred that the in
stitution should have been named
for her rather than himself.
Let not the example of these
two good people be lost on those
who, like them, are blest with this
world’s wealth.
563 S. Pryor St., Atlanta.
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Columbian University—A Great Op
portunity and a Great Duty.
BY JOHN G. WILLIAMS.
And what better opportunity
can Baptists have to increase
their power to do good than the
opportunity to build a great
Christian university. Such an
opportunity has been given to the
Baptists in the providence of God
in Columbian I niversity at Wash
ington,in theDistrictof Columbia,
and that they have not seen their
great opportunity and have not
done their great duty imposed
upon them by their great oppor
tunity has been a great Baptist
mistake. The claims of Columbian
University to be made a great
National Baptist University are
these to which we call special at
tention :
hope they will not do. The claims
of Columbian University to be
made a great National Baptist
University are these to which we
call special attention:
1. Is its location at the capital
of the nation. Surely this must
give it a great advantage. Here
better than anywhere else, in a
great Baptist University we could
impress our Baptist ideas of civil
and religious liberty, complete
separation of Church and State,
and our other distinctive principles
upon the country that is being
rapidly filled up with people from
all parts of the world, many of
whom are hostile to these ideas,
upon the maintenance of which
depend the very existence of our
free institutions. It can readily
be seen what prominence and in
fluence the Baptists would ac
quire from their having a great
university, like the great Baptist
University of Chicago, in the city
of Washington, which, if
not a great center of
trade like Chicago, is the
great intellectual and political
center of the nat ion. I hope nev
er to see Baptists bidders and
seekers for political patronage
and power, but surely it is a
high and laudable ambition to
occupy a position wheue their
power for good in the country
will be the greatest. And I
know of nothing that would give
to the Baptists this moral power
and influence for good more than
a great Baptist University in the
very heart of the nation.
But though the Baptists were
the first to start a college in
Washington, they are letting
other denominations outstep
them in zeal to build up there a
great university. It is an unde
niable fact that the Baptists are
less known and have less influ
ence in the political and national
life of the country, considering
their great numbers, wealth and
intelligence and good citizenship,
than any other one of the great
denominations.
2. A great university in the cap
ital of the nation, by virtue of its
location, would offer to young
men advantages to be had no
where else. What a university
itself Congress would be, made up
as it is of many of the brainest
men in the nation, with its great
debates on greta constitutional
questions, and of the tariff and
finance, and other great subjects
that touch the well being and life
of the nation. Clay, Calhoun,
Webster and Alexander 11. Ste
phens, and many others since
their day—who heard these
matchless orators and statesmen,
and were not lifted “out of their
dead selves,” and fired with ambi
tion to be great and honored
men ?
Can there be any doubt that
it was the Roman Forum, and
the Athenian Senate and the pop
ular assemblies that made the
Greeks and the Romans the best
educated and the most cultured
people that the world has ever
seen. See the streams of people
pouring out of the villages and
hamlets of Greece to hear blind
old Homer recite in verse the
“woes” of Troy and the bravery
and patriotism of the Trojans.
But where are going these rush
ing crowds of men, women and
children in the streets of New
York, Atlanta and Charleston?
To a great literary treat? No.
They are going to Forepaugh and
Sells’ big circus.
Another advantage that stu
dents have at Columbia Univer
sity is the scientific lectures in the
Smithsonian Institution, deliver
ed by the leading scientists of
our own country and the world.
Also, if I’m not mistaken, they
have the advantage of the Na
tional library.
And again, students that intend
entering public life would find at
the seat of government a training
and opportunities for it that they
could hardly find in any schools
out of Washington. Here they
would breathe an atmosphere of
public life, as was said that the
young men of Athens breathed an
I atmosphere of eloquence. Very
I likely the fact of his having been
VOL. 77-NO. 4.
educated at Columbian University
had something to do with giving
to the country the lion. W. L.
Wilson, the present Postmaster
General of the United States, the
great tariff reformer, and the au
thor of the Wilson bill, and I’m
glad to add, a great and useful
Baptist layman. I cannot but be
lieve that a great Baptist Univer
sity at Washington would give to
the country many such as he.
3. Columbian University, locat
ed in the District of Columbia, is
the university of the whole coun
try. It belongs to no one State,
but to all the States, and there
fore should have the support and
patronage of all the States. Such
a university is needed as a bond
of union to bind the Baptists of
all States together in educational
work and in good fellowship.
There is something grand and in
spiring in the idea of such a uni
versity, where young men from
North, East, South and West meet
together in college life. Would
not the tendency of these college
associations, and the personal
friendships thus formed be to
draw the different sections of the
country closer together, for there
are few ties stronger than college
ties? The name “Columbian” is
singularly beautiful and appro
priate for the name of a univer
sity for the whole country, “Col
umbia” being the poetical name
of America.
It is not meant in advocating
the claims of Columbian Univer
sity to the support and patronage
of Baptists of the whole country,
to interfere in the least with the
great work that is being done by
our Baptist colleges in the differ
ent States. Furman University,
Mercer University—to both of
which I gladly acknowledge a
debt of gratitude and love that I
can never pay—Richmond Col
lege, and Wake Forest College,
and our other Baptist colleges,
would be strengthened rather
than weakened, if the Baptists of
the United States would make
Columbian University what it
ought to be, a great central litera
ry orb, rich in money and learn
ing.
I’he most zealous friends of Wake
Forest, Furman, Mercer, Howard
and the others, do not believe that
any one of these colleges can ever
be a great central university, but
who does not see that the Bap
tists, in order to complete their
educational scheme, ought to have
in common a great university, not
one in name but in fact and one
with the largest of equipment of
money and . scholarship. The
foundation of such a university
has already been laid in Colum
bian University in Washington,
the capital of the nation.
4. One of the most import
ant things, if not the most im
portant, to make a great universi
ty, is a great man for its president
and head, and that Columbian
University already has in its
young President, B. L. Whitman,
who was born to be a great col
lege president. It is easier to get
an endowment of money for a col
lege than it is to get an endow
ment of a great president. Col
lege presidential timber is by no
means plentiful, but it is all im
portant that it should be found.
A great general is more important
than a great army, and that is
just what a great college or uni
versity president must be —a gen
eral. Francis Wayland at Brown
University, Eliphalet Nott, at Un
ion College, New York; Mark
Hopkins at Williams Col
lege, Massachusetts; Jonathan
Maxey at South Carolina
College and Basil Manly at
the University of Alabama, were
worth millions of dollars to these
colleges—in fact were the colleges.
A college is rich that has a great
man for its president.
Chicago University has her
John I). Rockefeller; Col
gate University has her James
B, Colgate, but who of our
rich Baptists will seize this great
er opportunity and be the Rocke
feller or Colgate of Columbian
University?
The Baptists may have but one-
John D. Rockefeller, but they
have got a great many rocky fel
lows. Oh, ye rich Baptists who
have the Lord’s money, remember
that a great opportunity is a
great duty. I just want to say
this more about President Whit
man. Christ and his cross are
the center around which his great
intellect, great learning and great
personality revolve. He loves the
Old Book and every one who
heard his great address at the
Baptist State Convention in
Charleston a few weeks ago, could
j but feel that he made the Bible
his supreme study. It seemed to
me as I listened to him that he
was a very Paul for familiarity
with and knowledge of the Scrip
tures. There will be the higher
education, but not the higher
criticism at Columbian University
so long as B L Whitman shall be
1 at its head.