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T*3; AWLUMX ETJWG. ftieUb ot dfficetW$Address B) Dr. Daniel and Dr. McCul lough. A large audience heard the elo quent addresses to the alumni asso ciation of Newberry College in the opera house on Tuesday morning by the Rev. Dr. J. W. Daniel, pastor of the Washington Street Methodist Church,- Columbia, and the Rev. H. A/McCullough, principal of the col legiate institute, Mt. Pleasant, N. C., andi pastor of the Lutheran Chureh of that place. Both gentlemen are alumni of the college, and their ad dresses Tuesday morning were appro priate to the gladsome occasion which had brought the alumni to gether. Dr. Daniel spoke of the power of thought. He is one of the most force fil men in the Methodist Conference, and is recognized as one of the strongest pulpit orators in South Carolina today. The Church and the College was the theme of Dr. McCullough's ad dress. Dr. McCullough is a native of Newberry, and his many friends hero take a just pride in the success which lie has achieved. His strong address Tuesday inorning was heard witi close attentionl. The following is but a brief synop sis of, Dr. McCullough's address: Alumni and Friends of Newberry College: " I promise this morning to speak to you on the subject of Christian Education and Christianity.'' "The church and state have been separated and many think that relig ion and education ought to be separ ated. The religious mind must be ever truth-loving and truth-seeking The founder of the church taught brave allegiance to the truth. We do not contend that -Christianity and culture are the same. We do contend that Christianity has something to laarn from culture. Eduention con fers upon Christianity the means for more powerful dissemination and a richer heanlily. lhleation to Pinto was cultue, turning tle eye of the st1udent from darkness to light. The truie ob.ject of' edtucation is no mere instruction, not mere knowledge; it is the building up of the student's mind; not mere information but aspiration, inlspiratlonl. What is re0 ligion, true and I undefled betore Uod ? Soie would say that religion is not an evolution but a revolution. But we should remember that all re ligion is a growth; every one of the great religions was a growth. Bud dhism had its origin in Brahmanism; Moliamedanisn in Judaism and Christianity. Even Christianity had its germ ill Judaism, in the leading of Israel from E4gypt to the Promis ed Land and promised Christ. The greatest reward of a faithful teacher is to see the dlull minds of studlents awakened ; to see their ideas trains formed. To the academic mintd it is p)lain that Chiristian edulcation and Chris tiani ty arc mnutualnly confirmatory, fundamentally one. The soul was not cated for the chuarchi, but tile chlurchl for thle soul ; the chutrch w'as not created for the school, hut tihe school for thle chulrch. Christ ap p)ealedl almost intvariably to the wvill of mail, "'He who will shall know.'' Discipleship is the law of obedience. It is a spiritual growth. Christian education has its origin with Chris tainity itself in the fact that the ''word wvas made flesh.'' Christian ity nmust be Christecentric. The friends and enemies of Jesus were in stinctively led to call him teacher. lHe (lid not look for full growvn reli giont ill 'half growvn minds. The scribes wven- euforcing an c:<turnial system, Christ a spiritual growth. The Christian pastor and Chris tiani teacher stand side by side.w~ith their labor 'elated as tihe heart to the mlind(. Bles4sedl the student whose chiurchl life and schlool life are inl co-operation, whlere one confirms the other, whiere the chlurel'. plants, wvhere tile school wvatermi. If thte relation of Christian ity and Christian education stands thus, then Christianity must owve soldething to Christian education. Thte educated mind is destined t,o rule the world. Christian education must of necessity become a preemin ent sphere' bf;benevolence. The\gifts of the past have been eclipsed by the raen of the jresent. It is. now becom ing known' that he who cozntributes anything to the development of Christian magihood. Is contributing largely to the evangelization of the world. The greatest thing the Luth eran church ever did toward Chris. tianising India was the fNnxding.ol Watts. college. He who 6ontributes byv money, muscle or brain to the growtyi of a college is contributing *i-kta tbhe world tihan men ou angels know. We should rememboi that a new era oonfronts us. No longer can we appeal to emotions and Whims of tbe pOple. We.sometime wonder; why there is eaingly les feeling, Ir. religidf; there is not les true feeling, but there is a larger aF peal to reas)n. The- dearth of ministers in the L t.heran church is a subject of 'vita importance. The church needs man things, but her greatest need is mor young men preparing to preach ti gospel. Our theological seminar; has been increasing year by year ii efficiency but all the while there ha been a steady decline of the numbe of young men in, attendance. Fort; thousand communicants in the South ern church, only eight young men i1 the seminary, not enough to suppl; the places of those who die. Vacan eies must be filled by creating vacan cies. Strong churches are calling bu there are no men. No longer is thi question, who will we get, but cat we get any one. In 1884 there wer 484 students in the theological sem inries of the Presbyterian church In 1801, only 208, a decline of 4( per cent. The church gave earnesi heed to the reasons for this condi, tion and there has been a slight in, crease. In 1903 in the theological seminaries of the Lutheran churel there were 1,285 students. In 1906 only 910, within three years a de crepse of 375. Twelve years ago therc was one applicant out of every 450 comnnmunicats. Now, only one outl of every 77. What is the remedyI Of course every one will say: "Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that he may send forth laborers into the har vest." Prayer is not a substitute for efficiency. Prayer must be ac companied by search. The church prays too much with its eyes closed; she prays "Send men." Christ an swers, "Open your eyes and look for them." Seek men, where? Where has she the right to seek save in that institution which has the same aim as itself. Where does the Luth eran church look? To that institu tion on the Hill. ''The Lutheran church, horn in a university, always standing for an enlaated ministry And laity, has yet beenl outstripped in the race for Christian education by religious bod ies that once esteemed them not so highly, yet have come, through ex perience, to realize their absolute necessity. The Christian teacher and Christian preacher should stand hand in hand and side by side, and when the church realizes that God calls mie, not independently of, but through the church, when she seeks, calls, sends forth, supports imen, there will be no dearth of ministers. Let the alumni and friends of New berry college, the Christian preach ers and teachers bow themselves to the earth, like Gustavus Adolphus on the field of Lutzen, say "We flight together, 0 God." Dr. y. W. Daniel's Address. Rev. J. W. Daniel, D. D., of Colum bia, an alumnus of the college, was the next speaker. He said in part: "I was asked, in speaking to you today, to represent those who wvent forth from you among strangers. I am glad to be present; glad to bring the greetings from the strangers scattered abroad who received here their instruction and then wvent out to give instruction to barbarians. These have received us and treated us well. We have never had occa sion to feel otherwise than proud of the institution that sent us out. I note the improvements made since wve were boys-a long time since we were boys gathered about our moth er's knee. We note that she has not only brought forth sons, but daugh ers and that many sisters have grown WI Three I Lowe New! 5 up arouid hOr, 4ad them 8 wi. all our hesoto. I t know 8 when F ean ekeily 2 o talk about; I scarcely know now. I have npt. given great pains, to preparation, largely by reasob of pressure of I work, but chiefly because of mental y laziness to which I am subject. I e wish to speak, however, of the mar e velous period of history followed by y the last 50 years. Just prior to the a breaking out of the Civil war, this s institution was erected to represent r a great church. Scarcely- had the open y ed her doors when the country was - drained of its strong manhood and i almost every institution of learning r closed. At the close of the war the - millions of property which. had ac - cumulated through centuries, was t swept away. Nothing but natural 3 resources were life. Fromh 1865 to 1 1876 there came the men who took delight in still further draining the country of everything they could lay their hands upon. Then institutions I like this opened their doors to the most poverty-strickei gang of boys the world ever looked upon.- Think of the conutry today, of its marvel ous development. " ''With all her property swept away in less than 50 years she has accumu lated wealth vastly greater than the accumulation of centuries before. What the source of this prosperity. Here is a volume in the history of Christian colleges that has never been written. The mind gives values; the mind makes values. We see here these institutions standing by our youth when the black man was on every other institution and no white man admitted. Here were the men of today prepared. No debt of gratitude is greater than that which we owe to the institutions of 'lle church during that dark period. Our greatest debt of gratitude is always to the past. This is true everywhere, true in everything." 1-ere Dr. Daniel pointed to the great manufactories dotting all the Southland, to the network of steel bars crosing every state, to the marvelous development of the great cotton industry and the harnessing of our waterways and contrasted the present with the past and demon strated the power of human thought in bringing to pass these wonderous achievements. He continued: "Back of the throb of every en gine lies thought and thought alone gives it value. We do not appreciate our schools as we should; God is a great being, but he did not stultify himself by making man complete. God did not make everything. Do not be carried away' by that heresy, even though the preachers do tell you so. God made embryonic things and left it for man to complete them. I once read a history of dogs. Once all dogs were wild; man developed them; he developed the bulldog and the terrier and the fiee. He develop ed the graceful pointer and the in telligent setter; the dog in which man put an idea and the dog trans mits the idea that man put' into him. We can 't even have a setter dog with out thought. ''Do you like flowers? the botanist tells us that God made one flower the wild rose. Man took this annual and brought it up until it -blooms every month in its beauty; what is it but a wild rose into which man has put his thought. Everywhere we see man 's thought and God 's power. Under the cultus of Christianity something is imparted that speaks out through the eye but is not pres ent in the eye of the heathen. Is not this perfectly natural? As a matter of course, if man can put an idea in E ARE SE Iinu(e Ic AR E 3st for th berry LF ABMAF A0 OWS to a dog snd make a more perfot dog, God can communicate an idea to the human soul through his won, derful words. OUlture, development, art are everywhere; and the debt to the past grows.. Progreis imposes a great debt of gratitude upon every generation-to generations prooced mng. "Over every flange and every piece of metal and every gun and every charge, at Santiago, and in Manila bay science, art and know ledge gave power to all. Here was glorious victory; itI was the victory of knowledge; the victory of thought, the victory of ideas, and only know ledge, thought and ideas can give victory. If education is an individ ual's capital, that which is inherent in the individual who is without edu cation, is his only capital. The aver age salary for farm laborer is $180 per year. This represents a capital at 6 per cent. of just $3,000. Every ordinary man is born into world with this capital and it is his to use, if he is not too lazy. The average salary of a high school graduate us $600 per annum. This represents a work ing capital of $10,000; seven thous and dollars more than would be his with merely natural widowments. Thus see that $120 spent on child's elementary education yields 600 per cent. on the investment. The aver age salary of the college graduate is $1,200 per annum, representing a cap ital of $20,000. Therefore, $1,000 spent on his education adds $10,000 to his capital. The college educa tion from a business viewpoint pays. It follows as day follows night that when men invest in any education al movement in the endowment of a college, or in the education of a young man, that this is the greatest investment known on earth. This country with its vast progress will be 20 years from today just what our educated men will make it. "We are proud that we are des cended from an institution; our Mother who has made us what we are and proud that we can say that none, not one of her sons has brought disgrace upd*n her . We are proud of our descent. Not as the English man who said that he was descended from Lord So and So and Lord So and So .and the wag to whom lie was speaking replied, "Heavens man, how you have descendedl We are proud of our descent from our moth er and pray that never in time to come shall she cease to bring forth sons and daughters whose throbbing hearts and gifted minds shall fill the earth with all that's noble.' Business Meeting. After the conclusion of the addres ses the annual business session of the association was held. The election of officers resulted in the selection of tIme following: President, Rev. M. 0. J. Kreps, of Prosperity; Vice President, Rev. J. J. Long, of Pomaria; Secretary, Prof. 0. B. Cannon, of Newberry; Treas urer, Prof. A. J. Bowers, of New berry. Rev. J. S. Elmore, of Ogle thorpe, Ga., was granted the privi lege of the floor, and in respond img, started he presumed he was the oldest living student of the college who was present on this Semi-Cen tennial occasion. He entered thie sollege in 1859 and continued through '60 and '61, but as he stated, his mass fearing the war would end be fore they had an opportunity to do battle, resigned and entered the Con federate army in a body, and after the close of the war he never resum ed his studies in the college, and Stherefore, was. no graduate. H< ?LLING e Croon TH4E stated tst him as consisted of six nembors, three from South and three from Oeorgia. The gouth Carolin inns were, Renson M. Jones, George W. tolltehilnson and Drayton Boozer. Mr, Roober having afterwards mov od to MIllssippi. Tite Oorgians were T, S. Rawls, ono other and himsef. He stated that it was one of the regrets of his life that he 1was not permitted to be an alumnus of the college, and that the. college had done his class the honor to con for uipon him the degree of A. M., while the iustitution was at Walhalla. Mr. Elmore la a visiting member of the board of trustees of the college from the Ge-orgia Synod. Upon motion of Col. John F. Hobbs, Mr. Almore was elected an honorary members of the Alumni Association. Upon m1otion of Prof. S. J. Der riek the selection of the speaker for next year was left to the officers of the association. Prof. Cannon, see retary elect being absent, Prof. S. J. Derrick was elected secretary pro ten. The committee appointed on the erection of the gymnasium build ilg at the last meeting of the asso ciation repoirted that the building had been about completed at a cost of $3,500.00 and of this amount about $1,500,00 has been paid and subscribed, about 900.00 remains un paid. Tite committee appointed at the last meeting was authorized to continue the canvas for funds until a sufficient amount has been rais ed to pay the balance due on the building. The secretary was instruc ted to convey to Prof. - Powell the thanks of the association for hie ser vices as architect, and also for look ing after the construction of the building. * The president was also authorized to make formal transfer of the build ing to the board of trustees of the college. The thanks of the associa tion were tendered to the speakers for the excellent and thoughtful ad dresses which they delivered Tues day morning. There being no further business the association adjourned. The Big 10 yds. good Dress La 10 yds. White Lawn a 10 yds. Figured Prints 10 yds. 4-4 Sheskting a 10 yds. good Check'd I 10 yds. 40-in. Mollohon 10 yds. Ginghams at ot 10 Bars Octagon Soap 10 Plugs Chewing Toba 10 Boxes Sardines at oi 10 lbs. A. & H-. Bulk Sol Now is the Time. Y the Iroi 0. 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