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The Lesson of Asa G. Candler’s
(Gift
The magnificent donation by Asa G. Candler of more than a
million dollars to a great educational institution for Atlanta and
the South is profoundly impressive and suggestive from several
viewpoints. One million dollars is an immense sum of money.
Nothing could be more significant of the growth and pros
perity of this so lately war-wasted South than the fact that there
is a business man within this territory who is able to give one mil
lion dollars to a great beneficent institution. It has not been
many years ago that there was not a single man in all the South
who was worth one million dcllars. To-day there are hundreds of
men who have builded fortunes out of the new conditions that
surround the Southern States. Mr. Candler’s great gift marks
this pleasing and inspiring advance in the material progress of
this people.
It is a much more impressive and inspiring thing that a man
who from poverty has worked for and accumulated a great for
tune in his own lifetime should be great enough in mind and sym
pathy to part with it for altruistic causes. Generally speaking, it
is the men who have inherited money who let it go easily. But
the men who out of nothing have steadily accumulated all they
have, acquire also the habit and passion of accumulating and the
instinct of holding on to what they have. It is a notable evidence
of the inherited and stimulated devotion of Asa G. Candler to his
church and his country, to his religion and his fellowmen, that
these nobler ideals should have so gloriously survived the rapid
acquisition of money and dominated his character and his action
in this great and beneficial act. Asa Candler has made this pos
gible only by keeping alive during all his financial progress the
full force of his inherited and acquired ideals, by such active,
helpful, altruistic work for his church, his city and his State,
that the influences of money have not been able to corrupt and
spoil his perfect citizenship and his perfect Christian manhood.
And this is the wholesome and inspiring reflection that grows
out of his superb donation.
Best of all reflections, however, is that the effect of this
grand example can not possibly be lost upon the contemporaries
of Asa G. Candler in Georgia and the South. Few, if any, of them
are able to give a million dollars to the Christian education of
our Southern youth.
But there are thousands of them who are able to give much
in their own lifetimes and to leave more when they die. It is
pot so much in the sum total that a great spirit gives to good
causes as in the proportion to its real capacity to give. The
widow's mite is as old as sacred history in the sweet and sus
tained approval of our common Lord and those who follow Him,
and this great rich man of Atlanta, who in his lifetime has so
nobly let go so vast a sum of his material possessions for the
common good, must surely inspire and point the way to hun
dreds of his prosperous fellow Southerners in which they may
build this Southland that we love into real greatness and en
during glory and ‘‘departing, leave behind them footprints on
the sands of time."’
Some great soul has said, ‘‘the sight of one free man makes
a thousand free,’’ and so let us seriously and earnestly hope—we
who love and serve our country and our section—that—
THE SIGHT OF ONE GREAT GIVER MAY MAKE A
THOUSAND GIVE!
This is the moral of Asa G. Candler’s gift.
Oglethorpe and the Methodist
Universities
The year 1914 in which we live will be rendered memorable
in the history of Atlanta by the establishment of a great Pres
byterian university and of a great Methodist university.
Measured by all the standards of influence and of highest
value, the establishment of these two great institutions is for
Atlanta and for Georgia the two most important events of the
decade in which we live. They will play a larger part in the
future of the city and the Commonwealth.
It is a matter not less desirable, and absolutely true, that
these two great institutions will undoubtedly heélp each other.
The glamour created by the splendid generosity of Mr. Candler
may have created also the impression that the Presbyterian uni
versity was crippled, if not practically eclipsed, by the advent of
the Methodist university. This is far from true in the opinion
of the great men who are making the Methodist university, as
it is far from true in the unabated zeal and confidence with
which the Oglethorpe people are prosecuting their great insti.
tution to success.
The very magnitude of the interest which has been created
by this great newest university makes good reason for stating
the facts and conditions which maintain the noble balance be
tween the two.
The Methodist university received its magnitude and con
quering impulse through the vast generosity of Mr. Candler's
donation. It will of course grow rapidly and continue to grow.
The Presbyterian university started in actual fact upon the
single contribution of $l,OOO by Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, and has
grown steadily and superbly through diligent effort to its pres
ent status. Seventy Presbyterian churches in seven States, and
numbering nearly 14,000 contributors, have responded with com
paratively splendid liberality and heartiness to the success of
Oglethotpe University, and the Synods and churches of the
Presbyterian faith are pledged to the utmost heartiness and zeal
in its prosperity.
The Methodist university starts with nearly two million
dollars, and will probably reach more than two million dollars
more before its doors are opened. That much money surely will
make the national foundation for a great and successful uni
versity.
Oglethorpe University is now backed by practically three
) fourths of a million dollars. One hundred thousand dollars less
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There are thousands of men like this
---telling a wearied listener “my wife does
does not understand my temperament.”
The man probably would not be pleased
than this laid the foundation upon which Vanderbilt University
reached its present fame and usefulness. Each of these sums
is enough to make the substantial basis for a great and national
university.
The Methodist university will have behind it a clientele of
seven or eight millions of Methodist people in the South, meas
ured by the school and census record. The Presbyterian univer
sity will have behind it a clientele of a million and a half Presby
terian people, by the same standard. Each of these is in num
bers, at least, a magnificent and all-sufficient base for a glorious
university. If the Methodist membership is more than twice or
three times as large as the Presbyterian, the Presbyterian clien
tele is by commitment already made fully as compact and com
mitted to its institution just now as the other.
If one-hundredth part of the Methodist clientele will rally
to the fortunes of its great university, we shall have in Atlanta
an instituion which in numbers will have no superior in the coun
try. If one-hundredth part of the Presbyterian clientele shall
rally in faithful earnestness to the great institution established
here Oglethorpe will have a registration list greater than
Princeton has ever known.
The zeal and the earnestness, the consecration and the
energy of the great Methodist church are balanced by the abso
lute faith in the scholarly record of the Presbyterian clergy and
of its church during the century in which we live.
But the leaders behind both of the great movements are
united in the faith and expression that not money and not men,
but merit and methods and consecration make great universities.
And so the qualities that will attract and hold the educational
clientele of the South’s future will be dependent upon the discre
tion, the earnestness and the diligence with which their rulers
select the faculties and equipment which both institutions will be
likely to have in abundance.
Beyond this the records show that really great universities
under denominational auspices aitract nearly as many students
outside of their denominational creeds as those who follow their
church standards. The numbers of other denominations at Pres
byterian Princeton, almost outrank the Presbyterian students
who are gathered there, and it was so at Methodist Vanderbilt,
which enlisted men without regard to sectarian lines.
Summing it all up in a hopeful paragraph, there will be
money in plenty and men in plenty behind both Oglethorpe and
the Methodist University to make them great. The noble and
generous rivalry between these great institutions, and that which
will make them better, will be to see which can render the best
service in the greatest and truest education to the young men of
the South.
This noble competition has already been pitched by the Ogle
thorpe Board in its cordial resolutions, and by Chancellor Can
dler in his broad and generous response upon lines of the highest
fellowship and co-operation.
The Capital of education in the South is twice blessed in the
spirit which is to mark its two great leading institutions.
if he knew what the woman listening
thinks of him. It would be a poor world
if the women were not better than the
men.
Wedding Contract Not
Like a Business One
Marriage Should Be a Pooling of Interests, but How
Many Life Partnerships Lack That Team Work to
Bring Results.
N a sensible interview given
the other day, Miss Elizabeth
Marbury, speaking of matri
mony, sald:
“Any other contract involving
obligations of two partners is
broken less lightly these days
than the marriage agreement.”
And she might have added that
there is no business under the
sun that people go into that they
make as little effort to make a
success as they do the business
of matrimony.
If the average man would put
as much energy, and intelligence,
and thought into trying to make
his marriage a success as he
does into trying to malke his gro
cery or his store a success, there
would not be so many marriages
that are failures
Good Teamwork
If the average woman would
use as much tact and diplomacy
in trying to get along with her
husband as she does in trying to
hold her job as a stenographer ore
a clerk, we would be able to do
away with divorce courts.
When two men go into busi
ness together they pool their cap
ital and their ability, and they
know that their success depends
upon their getting along amiably
together and doing good team
work. They know that if one
partner pulls one way and the
other partner pulls the other way,
and they never agree upon a
course of action, and spend their
time in scrapping, they are bound
to fail.
Therefore they make an effort
to work harmoniously and
smoothly together They are not
always picking fauits in each
other, or interfering with each
other’'s particular department
They talk the business over to
gether, and compromise their
By DOROTHY DIX.
opinions, and they divide fairly
and squarely the profits.
Those tactics would work just
as efficaciously in the home as
they do in the business, for a
marriage is nothing elsé than a
life partnership, into which a
man and a woman enter, and in
which they pool their interests.
The man puts into it all that he
has. The woman puts into it all
that she has, body and soul, and
she works in the home just as
hard as the man works in store,
or office, or shop.
Is the Wife a Partner?
But the man seldom treats her
as a partner, with whom it is to
his interest to get along smooth
-Iy,
He doesn’t try to placate her.
He doesn’t refrain from criticis
ing the way she does her work.
He seldom talks over the details
of the business with her or con
sults her, and he gives her what
he pleases of the profits of it.
He doesn't make her feel that
she is a real partner, just as in
terested as he is in building the
business up to a big success.
And exactly the same thing is
true of women. The woman who
gets along in business is the
woman who learns to handle em
ployers with kid gloves. She
learns how to keep off masculine
nerves, which are far more raw
than feminine nerve.
We Play It Like Fools.
How to turn away wrath with
a soft word and to apply the
jolly where it will do the most
good and be the most soothing to
masculine vanity, and that racipe
for getting along harmonlously
with men goes just as strong for
domestic life as it does for busi
ness.
The only reason that marrlage
is a failure is because we play it
as if we were fools instead of in
telligent human beings. .
THE HOME PAPER
Men Who Made
America
Roger Williams--- There Could
Be No Union of States With
out Religious Freedom, and
That Principle Was Planted
Here by That Welshman.
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY
MONG the men who made
A America, an illustrious
place must ever be given to
the great-hearted Welshman,
Roger Williams. The ma.” who
helps to furnish the material is
entitled to be reckoned among the
builders, even though he take no
hand in the actual construction,
since without the material the
building would be impossible.
There could have been no
United States of America as we
know it to-day without the great
principle of Religious Freedom,
and that principle was planted
here by Roger Williams.
Willlams wae born in 1620, at
the very dawn of the wonderful
century that.was to work such
«fundamental changes in human
thought and life. After his course
at Cambridge, Willlams entered
the ministry, but that apotheosis
of unreason, Archbishop Laund,
took a disliike to Williams’
preaching and the young clergy
man fled to New England.
In Boston Willlams found the
same trouble that he had fled
from in England, so he tried Sa
lem. The Boston parsons drove
him from Salem, and he settled
in New Plymouth, His preach
ing there was not llked by the
agents of the “Bay,” and from
Plymouth Williams went back to
Salem. This greatly angered the
ecclesiastical machine at Boston,
and it was determined to kidnap
the disturber and ship him back
to England.
Got Wind of This and
Left With His
Followers.
Getting wind of this, Willlams
left his sick bed and “steered his
course toward the Narragansett
Bay and the Indians,” in the hope
of finding among the savages the
kindness that had been denied
him by the “Christians” of Bos
ton.
It may be interesting to note
the fact that, with the exception
of one Willlam Blackstone, Wil
liams was the only white person
in the region to which he had fled.
He had a splendid chance for si
lent meditation and undisturbed
reflection upon the beauties of na
ture and the accursedness of ec
clesiasticism.
At Mount Hope, Willlams was
joined by a small company of
friends whom he had invited to
cast their lot with him in the
wilderness, and together they
paddled in birch bark canoes up
to the head of Narragansett Bay.
Finding there a green slope, with
a spring of sparkling water near
by, they went ashore and selected
the spot for a settlement. The
beautiful place seemed llke the
gift of heaven to them, and they
named it “Providence.”
In 1638 others came from vari
ous points in Massachusetts, and
from the Chief Miantonomah they
purchased the island of Aquiday.
Aquiday was the Indian name for
the region, and meant “Peaceable
Isle”—a most appropriaite name
for the place that was about to be
settled by the gentle-souled wan
derer from Massachusetts Bay,
whose motto was “Amor vincet
omnia"—Love i~ all powerful.
With the way nicely cleared,
| THE BUTTERFLY |
ELLOW, flashing butterfly
i Like a sunbeam flitting by,
Stranger to the specter sorrow,
Quick to-day and dead to-morrow,
Heedless of the course you wing
Are you, then, a useless thipg?
No. Within your littie hour
You are soothing, like a flower
Blooming in a garden fair
For a sick soul brooding there.
Your adorn a worid too dull,
Symbol of the beautiful,
As the diamond dewdrop gleams,
As the,sunset gilds the streams,
As the rich, red roses nod
Grateful worshio to their God,
You were sent here from on high,
Yellow, flashing butterfly,
Willlams and his_ little crowd of
followers then made ready to es
tablish an anomaly in the history
of the race a State that should
absolutely ignore any power in
the body politic to interfere with
the matters that solely concern
the individual man and his
Maker.
When Williams got back from
England with his charter he
wrote the Constitution that has
the distinction of being THE
FIRST LEGAL DECLARATION
OF LIBERTY OF CON
SCIENCE EVER ADOPTED IN
AMERICA, EUROPE, OR IN
THE WORLD.
Such Is the Honor Thai
Belongs Alone to
‘‘Little Rhody.”
Such {s the honor belonging to
“Little Rhody”—an honor that
the proudest of the Empires of
the earth might well afford to
cherish with deepest satisfaction.
The Reverend John Cotton,
who died in 1652, the greatest
and most influential personage in
Massachusetts, in his discussion
with Williams, got off this infer
nal statement: “It is wicked for
Falsehood to persecute Truth,
but it is the sacred duty of Truth
to persecute Falsehood.”
But admitting that it is right
for Truth to persecute False
hood, where is the infallible and
unerring wisdom which shall be
able to tell us what is truth and
what is falsehood? Who knows
Just what is true, and just what
is false? May not the persecut
ing “Truth” be arrant falsehood,
and the persecuted “Falsehood”
the real truth? We know that
such has often been the case.
Roger Williams knew history,
knew that the slogan of infalll
bility is either the cry of fools or
the subterfuge of hypocrites,
and, like the honest man that he
was, he came back at John Cot
ton with these blessed words:
“We have no law among us
whereby to punish any one for
only declaring by words their
minds and understandings con
cerning the things and ways of
God.”
That settled John Cotton—and
all the other Cottons, it is to be
hoped, for all time, so far as this
country is concerned.
Put All Creeds on' the
Same Footing With
One Another.
Willlams stood for absolute
freedom of conscience. We have
heard muchk of the Maryland
Constitution, and a whole lot of
other Constitutions; but Roger
Williams' Rhode Island Constitu
tion was the only one that went
the whole length in the matter of
religious freedom. Maryland es
tablished freedom of worship for
most Christians, though not for
all, the Unitarians, on account of
their denial of the Trinity, being
excluded; but Rhode Island,
thanks to the influence of the
grand old Welshman, put Catho
lic and Protestant, Christian and
Jew, Mohammedan and Buddhist,
on the same footing, with abso
lute liberty for all.