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Far Elgtit THE CITIZEN September 21, 1923 DEDICATION OF FEB MEMORIAL old or by whom practiced, by lU (Continued from pag t) j bearing on the progress of the King pcrtanc. Let ui be diligent to ac- Horn of God. Bro. Frost cloicd with complish our chief work. Let noth- j these words: inn hinder us from (retting all that ,.. ' God intends for us-the good of thia 1 7' nr Church Hohm Dedication life and the glory of the life to come.' Gn2 pf mU ?lnU' who doit bnd id ian me spsrus or leeoie nres, . called the sinner's EVF.N1NC. SERVICE The speakers at the evening aerr Ice wire Ex-President William Good ell Frost, Professor LeVant Dodge, and Dr. A. E. Thomson. Dr. Thom son is a former pastor of the Union Those who before us tented here Church and is now a trustee of the: Were called to tasks that wrung College and principal of the Lincoln J the heart; Institute. Dr. Benson Roberts, for-1 Rut mirhtv W. .l4 t,l Thou who art friend, Kindle in us some great desires. God of our fathers, teach ua now To frame a dedication vow. mer pastor of the Union Church, was at heduled to speak at thia service but wax unable to be present. In simple faith they played their part. God of our fathers, grant that we Some tasks of hero sixe may see. Lord, what to thee is utmost cost. Or gift of ornament or art? Thy passion is to save the lost. Thy dwelling is the contrite heart Ex-President Frost's Address President Frost's address at this Sunday night meeting was a strik ing analysis of the elements of Bro. Fee's power, and like the ad- drill, Ki- V.UvarA C TCV 1 , VT- day night, ought to be published en-iGod f ' ,aher tire to preserve it, beauty and value. Sme Contrite hetrU m3r 8t,U drtW Fee was a prophet with distinct rev j "'" elations that made him ahead of his , O may the sheep no shepherd tend time, as well as independent: he, Here find a fold; be sweetly lead; tested every custom, no matter how; Here youth be shown life' nobler ends; Here prophet's thunders wake the dead. ; Lord, let each selfish prayer be I dumb Thy will be done, thy Kingdom come. . Dr. Thomson Dr. A. E. Thomson spoke upon what j he termed "some of his own hard j questions, and how he solved them." Principal of these question waa that of justifying himself as a trustee of Berea College for voting an expendi ture of money for the erection of the Union Church building. He did it largely upon the grounds that beauty ( is an inspiration. He said that Goi is a great lover of beauty; if He! had not been He would not have made the world so beautiful. He thought! that the beauty of this new church which would be an inspiration to those who would come and go thru Berea j during the years was sufficient jus tification for the expenditure. But it ' will amount to much more than thU. With thia new building will come a! larger and more comprehensive spirit. With increased demands come in creased) desires. Those who havt r.iade financial sacrifices for the erec tion of this structure have learned new lessons in giving, and thia means that this church will attempt things it has never attempted before. H rtosed by saying that there must be a revival of confidence in the power of prayer. Dr. Dodge Dr. Dodge spoke briefly on the sub ject, "Memory and Hope." He said in part: "As I try to analyse my thoughts and feelings, my mind goes bark along two streams of memory, verging towards this time, when they unite in the one river of hope rolling on toward the ocean of eternity." One of these tributaries he called church memories. He took us back 48 years, only 20 years from the time the Union Church was established in Berea, and gave a beautiful picture of how he came to Berea in a lumber wagon, and how on the road to Richmond In learned of the Union Church and be ef me, then and there, even before he lived in Berea, its defender and friend. He spoke also of those he roic souls who labored with him here during the struggling years of the church. "The other memory," he said, "has to do with the place that God has helped us secure as a site for this building. My connection with this Sr.vton Hit tiff in $, ,1Vf ' V Hichtuniul, h'nitiu-ki Pushin's Fashion Shop (INCORPORATED) "Exclusive but not Expensive" .Vdil Onlrrs jillnl irtt promptness a in ami ran Fall M erdnainidlnse Sale Starts September 25 Coats, Suits, Dresses, Skirts, Blouses, Hosiery, Gloves, Millinery and Sweaters We give you the newest, most up-to-date, seasonable, staple, standard and DEPENDABLE MERCHANDISE AT POPULAR PRICES Beautiful Dresses Poiret Twills, Tricotines and Canton Crepes $12.75, $16.50, $19.75 Fall Suits Velours, Serges, Tricotines and Poiret Twills All colors. Choice $19.50, $25.00, $29.50 Coats The Newest Styles $9.75, $13.50, $17.50, $22.75, $27.50 and up to $49.50 Hats The Season's Most Beautiful Hats $5.95, $7.95, $10.00 Furs Waists Coats, Capes, Scarfs, Chokers Beautiful Fall Silk Waists and Overblouses At Less than Cost to Manufacture $4.95 to $7.95 VISIT OUR STYLISH STOUT DEPARTMENT Slip-overs Hosiery All wool Slip-overs. All colors. All sizes. $J QQ $J $2 QQ $ $2.95 and up to $5.00 per pair Skirts Gloves Fall Skirts $5.95, $6.95 and up to New Fall Gloves 8'95 $2.00 to $4.00 per pair Pushin's Fashion Shop Main Street Richmond, Kentucky Notice to Students All Students having $50.00 or more cash left after paying entrance expenses are cordially invited to open an account with this bank. We will extend to students every possi ble banking courtesy consistent with good banking but wish to warn students that we can not cash checks for strangers without good local endorsement. Standing in New Customers Contest to Date Flanery, Reds 38.927 points Arnett. Blues 30.512 points Total new customers 195 New Savings customers since Sept. 1 50 Closing date of savings drive Oct. 10th. 1922 Berea Bank and Trust Co. J. W. STEPHENS, Prsijent MAIN STREET JOHN P. DEAN. Cuhier BEREA, KY. time. The test that proved his fibre cams to him in his young manhood. 11 ground reaches bark more than 40 year." He spoke of his life on this sa-.-red spot during the early years he was accepted the doctrine of the father rrnnected with Berea College, and hxd of God and the brotherhood of how the virgin soil that was once his n.an, with all its implications, and 2'J acres was transformed into other , turned hi face to the wilderness to ue. Dr. Dodges address was that carry that message to the people of of a man who has spent the best part Kentucky. This involved a high type of his life laboring for what is now jot- moral valor. It required moral our joy. For more than 40 years ho courage to carry that message even has seen Berea grow from infancy. I to the people of the north. It involv. He cloned by saying that "we have ed infinitely greater courage to churches in Berea of other name. pleach that doctrine at that time in One of these waa the church of my the heart of Kentucky. But he never father; one the church of my mother; , faltered, in all the years, in his fld el and a third my own until I came it; to thia divine principle. His doc here. I hope there will never be trine he termed the doctrine of im any coldness between them there partial love, and it embraced as an nit-st not be. Our aims are one essential corollary the other doctrine If not, there is a call for search- of impartial opportunity, which made ing self-examination. I lelieve that Kerea College inevitable, fur it is on sll unite in the earnest hope that the this rock that the college is founded, people of all classes, rcrsrdlest of l Very much of his soul is in these col profeimion, rank or ga-h. will fei-l at j 1 ge walls, and as long as the prin hi me within these walls. God giant ctplea he preached and for which h that all these hopes be translated into ' suffered dominate its teaching and no faith, and our faith into hlessej ' longer, it will go on its triumphant reality.' MONDAY EVENING EXERCISES i.nd beneficent career. The torch lighted by John Gregg Fee on this hit' has been held aloft and burning Among th number of speeches bf an exceptionally consecrated line made at thia meeting was one by Edwin S. Fee, son of the founder of the Church and Berea College, ats the fo!lowing superb address by E. F. White, who was a personal friend of John Gregg Fee: I first met John G. Fee in 1876 In the country back of San Antonio, Texas, whence he came from Kentucky with his son, liurritt, with the hope of restoring the health of this gifted and aaintly young man, one of the first giaduates of Berea College. My par ents came to Texas but a short time fx fore, and Father Fee and Burritt made our home one of their stopping places. Out of this association cam the inspiration that brought me to Berea College the next year. From thut time until my graduation in lKHl, I was in almost daily contact with the man whoue memory ia fore most in our thoughts today. Front the first day of our meeting until this hour, he became and has remained my hero and monitor. I am his debt or. I was the subject of many of his piayers. I was the object of his fatherly solicitude and affection. 1 was the recipient of numberless un obtrusive kindnesses at his hand. In these days he was in the fuli maturity) of his physical and mental powers. I ran vision him now a somewhat small man asKentuckians of that time grew and developed; hair ard beard originally reddish, now had sprinkling of gray; beautiful sincere eyes, a nose inuicauve oi ptwer. Arm thin lips with a smile al ways suggested, a large head well sit on Arm shoulders. The head, tho countenance, and the whole bearing of the man carried the impress of great mental and spiritual power and rererve. I see him now aa he ming led with the citizens, the student body of that day, and the really great men who comprised the faculty of that time. He was the one deferred to by all. It seems to me now that I seldom saw him without his limp Bible under his arm. He was not an eloquent man in the sense that word ia ordinarily used. He was too down right earnest to empluy the tricks and trapping! of declamation. Ills address carried conviction by rea son or thotr simple statement of eternal truths. In thia manner ho swayed men as did few men of his o." successors, and it is unthinkable tl.at this light will eer be dimmed. The very simplicity of his charac tci ami the purposes that stirred his soul will always rapture the imagina tion of the students that are to come, as it did the students that have come rid gone. It is a splendid thing to have as an exemplar and monitor one who dared all to follow the urge of conscience and who never compro mised with expediency in anything a man who feared God and not the face of any man. Youth follows tho courageous man. God was good to this "Happy War rior." He gave it to him to see tho fruition of his labors and his prayer. He gave it to him to see the curse of slavery pass away. He gave it to him to see Ber.'a College, the child of his dreams and his prayers, estab lished on an enduring foundation, anj tarrying forward his great doctrines of the humanities. He saw his bit terest enemies changed into his ei most friends and admirers. I know of no Kentuckian, save Lin coln, whose fame Is so secure as that of John Gregg Fee. He is associated with and the courageous advocate of ft great and enduring principle of so cial justice in the triumph of which he gave valiant service in the face of suffering and contumely. In addi I'cr, this great college, dedicated to ihp education of men and women in heart as well as in mind, will ca-ry far down In time the message of its fcreat founder Other memorials will follow, beautiful and appropriate as is this memorial. Some alumnus of Tciea College will see that his fa and figure are preserved in lasting bronze. Some gifted girl receiving inspiration from her life in this at imsphera will write Into immortal liNrature a delineation of the char aiter, purposes and achievements of thir heroic soul, and she will Aid in the dramatic possibilities of the story match for her genius. But the greatest memorial and the one that thia man who gave no thought to memorials would appre ciate the most, is structure not made with hands, but one abiding in the hearts of those who strive as he strove for righteousness. These will scorn evil and pettiness and insln (Continued on Page Four)