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J. A. SCARBOROUGH, Field Editor.
Wednesday Evening. Dec. 14. 98.
WHITWORTH COLLEGE.
An educational institution, wisely
managed, is a blessing to any country
and a special means of grace to the im
mediate community in which it is loca
ted. It is no fulsome praise to state
the simple facts in regard to M hit worth
College. Organized to meet the neces
sities of a rapidly developing country,
its promoters never lost faith in the
central idea of its inception, that Mis
sissippians needed a school for the
higher education of women, located on
the healthy pine hills of South Missis
sippi. That it became a Methodist
institution was the accident that its
earliest founders were members of that
communion and the additional fact
that Methodism needed such an insti
tution. The limits of this article will
not permit an extended notice of its
trials and triumphs during the stormy
years reaching from 1857 to 1865. It
was in the year 1866 that final action
was taken by which Rev. H. P. Johnson
came to the head of Whitworth Col
lege. He was a man of the people. He
knew their needs, he knew their ability.
Wisely he planned and grandly did he
fulfil his mission. He made the name
of Whitworth College familiar t hrough
out the educational world, and demon
strated not only that Mississippians
believed in the education of their
daughters, but also that they were
willing that those daughters should be
educated at home.
The day of Dr. Johnson's death was
a gloomy day for Whitworth College.
Who could take up and carry forward
the work? After much patient effort
a new faculty was gathered together
with Prof. L. T. Pitzhugh as president
and Rev. W. B. Murrah as vice presi
dent. Under their joint presidency a
new idea was thoroughly infused into
the college, foreign, it is true, to all
ideas of development as expressed by
Dr. Johnson, but certainly helpful in
establishing an almost national repu
tation for the conservatory of music
and art which under their administra
tion formed the most attractive feature
of the work of the college.
The building of Millsaps College at
Jackson and the effort of that people
to infuse into the whirl of their social,
business and political life, something
of college life, took away from
Whitworth its vice president and
later its president. At that time it was
questioned as to whether Whitworth
had not already fulfilled its mission.
The growth of the High School, it was
said, had done away with the necessity
for so many colleges.
Experience, however, has justified
the election of Rev. J. W. Chambers.
A. M„ of Mississippi Conference, as
president and has demonstrated the
fact that no institution outlives its
time, if that institution is a leader of
the times. Education by the church
has never been so firmly believed in as
in our own day and generation.
Never before have there been so many
schools of good grade preparing young
women for college work.
No institution has a better course of
study to offer than Whitworth College.
Its teachers are well qualified, its pu
pils are well taught. It is not too
much to say that the best ideas of Dr.
Johnson are being carried out accord
ing to the necessities of our day, and
whatever was good in the later plans
of Drs. Fitzhugh and Murrah has been
incorporated in the present plans for
the still further development of the
influence, power and usefulness of
Whitworth College. Its plan of helps
gives 16 young ladies the opportunities
of a collegiate educations for the
small yearly outlay of $50.00 each.
Its department work is of the highest
order. Its plan of management is
unique among the colleges and gives
the Whitworth girl a confidence and a
cheerfulness that attracts the attention
of every visitor.
To every render of this article who
has a daughter or ward to educate, we
say, come to Brookhaven, call at the
College and see for yourself. The
present motto of the institution is,
“Education, NOT Graduation."
As to the cost, elsewhere in these
columns will be found the information
you wish.
The best heritage which can be be
stowed upon a boy or girl isa Vhrixtian
Education.
The farmer is the salt of the earth.
In Mississippi the farmer composes
about 80 per cent, of the population.
What he sows he reaps, whether in
seed or in polities. If he diversifies
his crops, and makes everything he can
at home, his surplus crop yields him
surplus money. If he allows the of
fices to be filled with demagogues he is
sure to reap a crop of incompeteucy
and higher taxes. Next year the far
mers will be called upon to select a
new crop of officials from governor to
beat constable. Let them weed out the
sorry candidates just as they would
pick their seed corn. Then when they
come to harvest they will not find any
thing to be ashamed of in the matter
of the occupants of public trusts.
John Ferguson, who works a farm
near Calhoun, Ga., is 30 years old, just
over eight feet tall and weighs 316
pounds. Up to the age of 20 he was an
invalid, but after that time he increased !
in brawn and muscle with miraculous
rapidity, until at the age of 30 he was,
aa he is now, a veritable giant. He is
forty-eight inches around the chest and
forty-four around the waist.
Pains in the chest when a person has
a cold indicate a tendency towards
pneumonia. A piece of flannel damp
owed with Chamberlain's Pain Balm
and bound on to the chest^over the
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LINCOLN COUNTY.
W hen and No* It Was First
Formed.
A Pen Sketch of It' Natural
Admtimm, Soil, Pr»**
riucts. People. Etc.
Tim following article, copied from
The Leader of Feb. 17, 1887. will be
of interest to a great many of our read
ders. especially to members of the
younger generation, who are not famil
iar with the history of Lincoln county:
Lincoln county was created by act of
the Legislature approved April 7, 1870.
and though there have been several
acts passed since affecting its boundar
ies, its area has not materially been
altered. It was formed of parts of the
counties of Lawrence, Copiah, Pike,
Amite and Franklin, as they existed
previous to that time, the first named
contributing about one-half of the ter
ritory to the new county, Its name
was given it in honor of “ Honest Abe."
Ilountlarlp* ami Area.
The southern boundary of the coun
ty is parallel with and just 24 miles
north of the 71st degree of latitude.the
line separating Mississippi from East
Louisiana. Its northern boundary,
save the “notch" cut into the county so
as to retain the town of Wesson in Co
piah, as shown on the map of theState.
is parallel with the southern boundary,
and just 21 miles north of it. The
main ridge separating the waters that
flow into the Mississippi from those
that seek Pearl river extends nearly
centrally through the county. The
breadth from east to west is 27 miles,
save that six miles square is added to
the northwest, thus making the north
ern boundary and a strip six miles
south of it extend east and west 20
miles. The county is bounded by
those from which it was formed and
also by the county of Jefferson. Its
area is 59.7 square miles, and it is com
paratively q .small county, being about
one-third smaller than either Pike or
Copiah, between which it lies. The
Illinois Central railroad passes cen
trally through the county from north
to south.
TIm* Population
iu 1870 was 10,184, of which 6,022 were
whites, and 4,162 colored. In 1880 the
whites numbered 7,701: the colored
5,842: total, 13,547. It will thus be seen
that the increase in the decade as a
whole was 3,363, over 33 per cent.
There hits been a large increase of pop
ulation since the last census, and ac
cording to most reliable estimates the
population is now about 17,000.* Dur
ing the last few years quite a number
of negroes have left the county at
various times the for Yazoo delta, their
places being gradually filled by whites,
so that Lincoln may justly be classed
as a white man's county. The regis
tered vote of 1886, the largest ever
reached, was 3,200, of which 2,075 were
white and 1,125 black.
Am Me ft tte<l Value of Properly.
The assessed value of property in
1886 was: Realty, 8863,095: personalty
8570,528: total, 81,453,000. The net
increase in values in the last five years
is 8343.095.+ The indebtedness of the
county is small, not exceeeling 87.0(H)
and this will be canceled within the
next two years.
Topographieally Countered
Lincoln county is peculiar. While no
very large streams are in the county,
yet quite a number rise here. A point
a few miles northwest of Brookhaven
seems to be the highest in the county,
and a general watershed. In this
neighborhood the Bayou Pierre rises
and runs almost due north for many
miles, and thence turning to the west
finds an entrance into the Mississippi
in the neighborhood of Port Gibson.
Near the same point McCall's Creek
rises, and not far west the Homo Chit
to. which, coming together, and flowing
in a southwestern course, empty into
the Mississippi a short distance above
the Louisiana line. The Amite river
rises just south of the headwaters of
McCall's Creek and runs nearly south
into Lake Maurepas. The Tangipahoa
rises a short distance west of Amite's
headwaters, flows'south and empties
itself into Pontchartrain lake. The
Bogue Chitto rises near the watershed
and flows east of south, emptying part
ly into Lake Potehartrain and partly
into Pearl river near its month. Topi
saw rises southeast of the Bogue Chitto,
and running nearly south empties into
the latter stream at Holmesville, in
Pike county. Pair river rises just
north of Topisaw’s headwaters, and
runs northeast, falling into Pearl river
several miles above Monticello, in
Lawrence county. The Bahala rises
north of Brookhaven and flows north
east, reaching Pearl river near the
Copiah line. Brookhaven is 5(H) feet
about the level of the sea. The high
est point iu the county is believed to
be about 560 feet, and the county is
higher than any that bounds it or is
within 2(H) miles of it.
I 111- Noll.
As a result of this topography and
the numerous tributaries of the princi
pal streams named, there is a large
proportion of the laud in the county
which belongs to the class denominated
“branch land.” It is fertile and the
seasons are as certain to be fruitful as
on any land anywhere: this branch
land possesses many if not all the ad
vantages of bottom lands without dan
ger from overflow. The ridge land is I
peculiarly susceptible of fertilization, j
The surface of the county generally is |
undulating and the soil is well drained. |
No part of the county of significant ex- j
tent but what is well adapted to culti
vation. and no country is better water
ed and the waters are pure and spark
ling. The water power of the county
is unsurpassed. We venture the asser
tion that no territory of similar extent
can l>e found with more water-mill
facilities and same population with so
many water-mills in actual operation.
ProductM.
The products of the county are cot
ton, corn, potatoes sweet and Irish -
rice, oats, millet, grasses, sorghum,
sugar-cane, tobacco, jute, indigo, and
almost the entire catalogue of garden
vegetables, and all kinds of fruits and
numerous varieties of the grape. Straw
berries can nowhere be raised more
successfully, while blackberries—a
splendid fruit—grow wild in abundance.
Our home raised tobacco is most ex
reliant, and H ta astonishing that its
culture is not more general. While
Lincoln is not reckoned as one of the
principal cotton producing counties in
this section of the State, yet the reason
is that her farmers hare learned that
they can and do promote their inde
pendence by devoting a larger share of
their attention to a diversity of crop*.
Various grasses grow to perfection
here, including the celebrated Lespe
deza, or Japan clover, which grows
spontaneously, producing from two to
four tons per acre: also white and red
clover. As a stock-raising and dairy
country it has no superior in the world,
and many of our people are turning
their attention in this direction.
Timber*
The territory of -Lincoln county orig
inally was heavily timbered in all of
its parts. Nearly four-fifths of the
land is yet so. The lumber industry
of the county is probably its most im
portant interest, there being no less
than 23 large saw mills and one large
lumber manufacturing company now
in operation, employing on an average
20 hands each, and turning out mil
lions of feet of the finest long-leaf yel
low pine lumber annually. The tim
ber of the county includes not less
than fifty varieties, the pine, oak, hick
ory and gum predominating. The fol
lowing varieties of the finest quality
are abundant: Pine, long aud short
leaf: white, red, black. Spanish, and
water oaks, early, late and curly hick
ory. pecan, maple, elm, ash, beach, red,
black and tupulagnm,persimmon, holly,
magnolia, bay. cherry,sycamore.poplar,
willow, ironwood, etc.
The Inhabitant**.
The people of the county are largely
native, descendants in great part from
an aucestry who Immigrated here from
the Carolinas and Georgia. According
to the census of 1880 the foreign-born
population only numbered 140 as
against 13,407 natives, of whom four
were Indians. The inhabitants are
nearly all an agricultural people, and
they are honest , industrious .and hos
pitable. They are temperate and
moral, and a large proportion are
church-going. The Baptist denomina
tion of Christians predominates, but
the Methodist are numerous and pros
perous, besides a goodly sprinkling of
other religious sects. No better evi
dence of the sobriety and good morals
of the people could be given than that
they have voted the liquor traffic out
of their territory. They are law-abid
ing and tolerant, and a hearty welcome
will be and is extended to immigrants.
School**.
Fairly good public schools are main
tained in the county, and these are im
proving in grade. At Brook haven
Whitworth Female College is located,
an institution ranking in size the
fourth in the United States, and in the
thoroughness and efficiency of its
training surpassed by none.
It only remains for us to add that
The Health of the County
is most excellent. The character of
the soil, its altitude, its proximity to
flic Gulf of Mexico, from which during
the whole summer it enjoys a delight
ful breeze, renders the climate the
most salubrious, and is a guarantee
against all malarial diseases. In the
winter, owing to our southern latitude,
the mercury will not find its way to
zero once in ten years, the average
temperature during the winter months
being, we believe, 56 degrees.
Upon the whole, Lincoln county
offers to those seeking an independent
home, health and happiness, as many
advantages as any section to be found.
Lands are cheap and easily obtained
in large or small tracts, the best rang
ing in price from 82 to 810 per acre.
'Tile census of 1890 showed the |K>i>ulatlon of
Lincoln county to he 17,1)12. It is belived now
to lie considerahy alaive 2n,000.
+ The assessed valuation of realty in Lincoln
fur the fiscal year 1.897-'8 is $1,819,895; personalty.
•81,000.254; railroad property. $890,889; making a
grand total of $8,22:i,r.28.
RAILROADS ARE NOT ENEMIES.
The old feeling that "anything you
can get out of a railroad company, is so
much gain," is dying, out and people
are learning that the railroads are the
best friends any community can have.
In years gone by it has been the cus
tom to bring suit against the railroad
company on every occasion where a
suit would stand, no matter how trivial
tlu> amount involved, and it is an old
saying that "no jury ever returned a
verdict in favor of the company." It
is hard to convince the average jury
that there is any merit in any defence
a corporation may present, and be
cause of this well known and well
grounded feeling, it has heenthe policy
of the railroads to compromise every
action possible.
It is not the purpose of these lines to
take up the cause of the railroads as
against the people, only so far as
justice and mutual interest goes, but
The News believes that the change of
sentiment which is rapidly coming,
giving the railroads the same consid
eration and the same chance that is
accorded private individuals, will be
beneficial to the people and to the
country, as well as to the corporations.
No community can thrive without
railroad facilities, and the greater
these facilities, the better the, oppor
tunnies tor tnnlt. itivery town may
be benefitted by cultivating the ac
quaintance of the railroad people, and
getting them interested in the local
progress. This is not a difficult mat
ter, for the railroad men know what
ever goes to build up tjie towns on
their lines, helps their company also,
and in nearly every instance are ready
and willing to do more than their
share in co-operation with the people.
They should be known personally by
the business men of the different towns,
for a personal acquaintance has much
to do with fostering good feeliug. The
ambition of the towns in the way of
public improvements should be made
known to them, and in nine case, out
of ten the railroads will aid and en
courage the people.
In short, the railroads and the com
munities should get closer together,
and work for mutual good, rather than
along the old lines of antagonism.—
Brandon Netm.
The Nashville American sizes it up in
this way: “Spain gets a handsome
Christmas gift. We get a lot of islands
with a turbulent population, and we
do not know what to do with them."
EDUCATION OF WOM AN. J
Address of Mrs. Annie C. Peyton be
fore the Alumiur Association of
Whitworth College, June. 7th,
1898.
UtTbODlTToeV REMARKS.
Mr*, rrwlilnnl. my *l*tcr* of the Ahmuur
A*«nrtalton. and friend*:
It given me great pleasure to be here
today, to renew former associations, to
see these sweet-faced girls, and to meet
this cultured audience componed so
largely of residents of Brookhaven.
Twenty-flvo years ago I left Brookha
ven under very happy circumstances,
and In all the intervening time I have
not ceased to feel an interest in Whit
worth College, and in Brookhaven and
her people. Twenty five years have
brought many changes, and Brookha
ven has demonstrated that she is no
mean spot upon the map of Mississippi.
Twenty five years ago Major Millsaps
was a prosperous merchant here, and
since then he has Inaugurated a work,
that, in the lives of our young men, will
live forever. Then Hon. R. H. Thomp
son was a rising young lawyer, and in
the Annotated Code he has left his im
press upon the jurisprudence of the
State. Judge Chrisman was a leader at
your bar, and he marched into history
that memorable day when he faced
the “white caps,” and said, “You may
kill me, but you cannot intimidate the
court.”
The mantles of their fathers rest
worthily upon Hon. H. Cassedy and
Hon. A. C. McNair. Oscar Crosby's
brilliant career at West Point was a
source of pride to the whole State.
Among the senators of Mississippi
none stand higher for probity and pa
triotism than Hon. A. Lewenthal, and
only recently Brookhaven sent to the
front the best drilled company of vol
unteers in the Ssate.
I am indeed glad to be in Brookha
ven again, and I give a heart-felt greet
ing to the friends of long ago.
If the surface of the earth was com
pletely level, and all the water which
comes from the clouds in the form of
rain and snow in one year should stand
it would be everywhere about forty
inches deep. This would amount to
34,480 barrels on every acre. What be
comes of all that water? Part of it
runs off, part evaporates, is afterwards
condensed and rained down again,
while some of it sinks beneath the sur
face of the earth and percolates through
layer after layer of sand and gravel,
settling toward the bed-rock. Sheets
of impervious clay intercept the de
scending waters,and here they accumu
ulate, forming the sources of springs.
Suppose all the water basins should
cease to exist, the wells and springs
would dry up. the streams would cease,
of ponds and lakelets there would be
none. The sands being so dry, uoevap
oration would take place, no dew would
condense, no clouds would form, and
so the rain would stop descending, and
the earth would become a desert.
flow beneflcient then in the economy
of nature are clay beds, and how far
reaching their importance.
When I. reflected upon the lowly
office of these beds of clay, these hid
den sources, they seemed to symbolize
the quiet, unobtrusive, yet important
WORK of WOMEN.
Following back the current of ceutur
ries, when Augustine and his band of
monks advanced to the spiritual con
quest of England, it. was the influence
of Bertha, wife of the King of Kent, who
prepared for them a favorable recep
tion. When Ursula Cotta, touched by
the sweet songs of a friendless lad,gave
food and shelter to Martin Luther, she
little thought of herself as one of the
promoters of the Reformation. In the
reign of Edward III, when England's
commerce was limited to the shipment
of fleeces, it was the influence of
Queen Philippa who brought skilled
workmen from her native Flanders
and established the manufacture of
fine woolens in England. Caroline
Herschel, Elizabeth Fray and Flor
ence Nightingale, Susannah Wesley and
Mary Washington and Francis Wil
lard their works do follow them, and
demonstrate that through all the ages
woman has contributed to the material,
and mental, and moral upbuilding of
the world.
The Scriptures teach that women
were made to be helpers, and today the
problem that most concerns us as Mis
sississippi women, is to consider the
work that lies nearest us, and that
most needs to be done for the uplifting
of our people.
This is a
CENTENNIAL TEAR
in our history. One hundred years
ago in April, 1798, the territory of Mis
sissippi was organized, and without
stopping to review the past we find our
selves now occupying one of the best
of the forty-five States that compose
the American Union.
Mississippi is a God-favored region.
Our delta lands are capable of produc
ing cotton sufficient to clothe the civ
ilized world. With the rice, sugar and
molasses from our southern counties,
the lumber from our pine forests,
flocks of sheep furnishing wool and
mutton, grains, grasses and herds of
cattle, poultry, fruits, vegetables and
other fowl products, with health-giving
mineral springs, our natural resources
are unsurpassed. God has surely done
His part tor Mississippi and it but
needs for our people to live up to their
opportunities and develop our match
less heritage. We need factories near
our Helds*of fleecy staple, so that the
song of the shuttle may blend with the
whirring machinery of grist mills, oil
mills, lumber mills, ice factories and
sugar reflneries. We need good roads
in every neighborhood, and that every
road should lead to a comfortable
school house and church. This would
insure material prosperity. Then we
need good schools in Mississippi, and
conscientious men and women cap
able of conducting them.
PLATO ASKS
“Is there anything better in a State
than that the men and women be made
the very best ?”
It is easier to form, than to reform.
A far-seeing philanthropist once ad
vised, “Put your wealth into the arte
ries, store it away in the brain cells
and heart-flhres of your children.”
As mothers theu we need early to in
calculate lofty principle*. We need to
teach our son* the meaning of the
words
TOt'TH AND HONOR. OfTT AND PATRIOTISM.
Unless we do, Mississippi will become
a byword and a reproach among her
sister States. A commonwealth where
Greed strikes hands with Selfishness,
and Selfishness bargains with Debauch
ery, and Debauchery leers at Incompe
tency. and the pitiable picture painted
by the Prophet Isaiah will be realized
where “Judgment is turned backward,
and Justice standeth afar off, for Truth
is fallen in the streets, and Equity can
not enter.”.
Before the public conscience can be
reached the private individual con
science must be aroused. State pride
will be dormant until the sentiment of
patriotism and pride is awakened in the
individual. The way to make young
people truthful is to train and trust
them. We must look to the
MEN OF MISSISSIPPI
to fight our battles and solve the polit
ical problems, but if the homes of Mis
sissippi were what they should be, the
political problems would be of easy so
lution. The Christian home is the
hope of the nation, and the Bible is the
chief corner stone. Arm our women
with the Bible, and they will not need
the ballot. In the last analysis the re
generation of Mississippi is to be ac
complished through her homes,
through the efforts of the women who
preside over these. Nor need we be
discouraged at the magnitude of the
task, “It is ours to do, the results are
God’s.
John Ruskin thus testifies: “All
that I have taught of art, everything
that I have written, every greatness
that has been in any thought of mine,
whatever I have bee in my life, has
simply been due to the fact that when
achild, my mother daily read me a part
of the Bible, and daily made me learn
a part of it by heart.”
Dr. Beeman once wrote, “The higher
classics, and the heavenly classics are
presented in the Bible. Christ is a
truer teacher than Plato: Isaiah a
sweeter poet than Virgil, and the sub
limest strains of Homer cannot com
pare with the book of Job, and the Ro
man Horace never gave from the
chords of his well-strung lyre such
melody as David swept from his old
Jewish harp which had been tuned for
him in heaven.”
It was the Bible that shaped the
character of
England's great commoner,
William E. Gladstone, and if the
standard of citizenship is to be elevat
ed in Mississippi we must first exalt
the Bible in every home. Daniel Web
ster said the most momentous thought
that can enter a human brain is that of
personal accountability to God. The
Bible makes men and women feel this
accountability aud quickens the con
science to demand faithfulness in all
the walks of life. Show me a home or
a school where the Bible is taught and
honored, read and memorized, aud I
will show you a well-spring of virtue
and good citizenship.
The best way to elevate the home is
to elevate the women of the State. I
do not know a more potent influence
outside of heaven than that exercised
by
EDUCATED CHRISTIAN WOMEN,
and the time has come for united ac
tion, for organization of women for
women.
At a recent meeting of the Federa
tion of clubs at Selma, Ala., the women
of that State deplored the illiteracy
that prevailed aud it was suggested
that every member pay annually a fee
of one dollar, and that sum would be
sufficient to send each year eight girls
to school. In every neighborhood
in Mississippi there are bright girls,
earnest girls, to whom a practical edu
cation such as may he obtained at
Whitworth College, would be a verit
able fortune. Could not our women in
every town aud county organize asso
ciations aud raise funds to provide
these girls with the means of educa
tion ? I commend this to you my asso
ciates as one way to benefit our sex
and our State. Let me tell you of the
PRACTICAL WORKING OF THIS PLAN.
In 1885 a loan association was formed
in one of our counties, each member
paying a dollar annually, and the
money was loaned to two deserving
young women. One of them continued
at school until she was prepared to
teach. She taught school and repaid
the money, married a young Baptist
minister, taught and helped him to
finish his course at the Seminary, aud
today he is the pastor of a flourishing
church, and she his efficient helper.
Was not that money well invested ?
Again I recall a graduate of this col
lege. With limited means she stopped
school after her sophomore year,
taught school and made the money
with which to pursue her junior course.
Another year of teaching and she re
turned to enter the senior class aud re
ceive her well-earned diploma. Just
then her mother died and left nine
younger children. With rare self-ab
negation this heroic young woman sent
these sisters and brothers to college
until all are now about educated, and
she herself is principal of a school in
Texas which pays her $225 a month.
That is what a practical education
will do for a woman, and that is what a
woman will do with a practical educa
tion. That is a specimen of the mate
rial sent out by
WHITWORTH COLLEGE.
And young ladies, you, who are tomor
row to your diplomos,what are you go
ing to do with your lives? God forbid
that you should go out from this col
lege to participate in card parties, or
round dance, or alas! that woman ever
should!- to preside over the punch
bowl. You will not bring such shame
upon our Alma Mater. Mississippi
took a long step forward when in Gov
ernor MoWillie’s administration Whit
worth College was founded. It has
been a boon to all of Mississippi and
Louisiana. Year after year, for forty
years, Whitworth has performed her
mission magnificently, and earnest,
consecrated women have gone out
from her walls as workers, mothers and
teachers. They have beeu a large fac
tor in our civilization and progress,und
they have made the waste places of the
stricken South bloom like a watered
garden.
And, oh! as I stand here today what
»
• flood tide of memories sweep over
me I recall Dr. H. F. Johnson, one of
the grandest educators of this or any
other State, who may be fltly termed
the second founder of Whitworth Col
lege. All honor to Rev. M. J. Whit
worth for his benefleient gift, but H.
F. Johnson widened and multiplied its
usefulness and gave to its upbuilding
the best years of his noble and useful
life. I recall now his earnest voice and
manner as he preached to his graduat
ing classes, and plead with his pupils
to live for God and humanity. His in
fluence still lives in the lives that he
touched and uplifted, and this institu
tion is what it is today largely as the
results of his efforts. I am glad that
his mantle falls so worthily upon the
present head of the institution, and
that with his efficient corj* of assist
ants our Alma Mater is still doing
a grand work for Mississippi.
And now
IN CONCLUSION.
History teaches that the world has
made progress just as man has had a
better weapon. The hatchet of pol
ished stone was superior to the club
or rough-tipped arrow, and the man of
the Stone Age was subjugated. The
Bronze battle axe was inferior to the
sword of steel, and the man of the
Bronze Age was overcome. The pomp
and power of the mail-clad knight was
prostrated by the cannon ball, and the
civilization of today is to be maintain
ed, it seems, by the roar of artillery,
the armoured cruiser, and the torpedo
boat. The sunset glories of the dying
century are dimmed by the smoke of
battle. God grant that in the sunrise
of the coming century the world may
witness a sublimer civilization, when
martial multitudes will be subdued by
the sword of the spirit which is the
word of God. In that bloodless war
ware woman may engage: with that
weapon they, too, may become “more
than conquerors,” and thus through
the Bible, in the home and in the school
the whole world may be brought into
the battallions. and under the White
Banner of the Prince of Peace.
A SHORT SERMON.
By the Parson of Sleepy Hollow,
Jackson, Miss.
[The following bit of exquisite satire,
written in negro dialect for the Vicks
burg Po6t at the time the late yellow
fever panic was at its height in Jack
son, though a little out of date, is well
worth its space in The Leader :]
My Belcbed Brederen : Dis am a
united meetiu ob all de different per
swashuus, fer dar am not enuf ob enuy
one to make a quorum, an I is been
called on to speak to you ou de great
questslmn what have so discomforted
de people.
It was jist on a Sunday afore de last
dat I passed by de Baptist church, an
dar was a big congregation, an dey all
seemed to be happy, and dey was er
singin’ dat sweet little hymn, “I is Only
Waiting.” Whar am dey now ? Done
flew on de wings ob de mornin’ to dat
great city ob Chicago where de water
pribilege am great, an whar dey is still
singin' “I is Only Waitin’" for de frost
to cum.
Whar am de Mefodists 1 Dey is de
people what am always er shoutin’ and
er singin’ “I'm Redeemed.” An dar am
a whole lot ob dem what sits up in de
amen corner ob de church and dey
sings :
“When I can read my titles clear,
To maushuns in de sky.”
And dey cries out to all de sinner
men, “Cum and go wid uS for we is
journeying to a better land.” And
whar is dey ? I guess dey must hav
foun sum flaw iu de titles, and dey hav
changed dar minds and dun journeyed
to Chicago long wid dem Baptists.
What am de matter wid dem Presby
terians ? Dey can tell you de whole ob
de shorter catechism by heart, and all
bout de fession of faith, and dey say,
“We am de children of de covenant,”
and dey boldly declare dat before de
foundashun of dis old world was lade,
dey was foreordained, and predester
nated and elected, and now when de
fever cams and dey gits a chance to go
up yonder and fill de posishun to which
dey have been elected dey dun and
run too. What's de matter wid dem ?
I is a feared dat dey aiut so sartaiu
i bout dat elecshuu. Dey come to de
conclusion dat maybe dem votes aint
done all bin counted and dey had bet
ter skip. And dar dey is away out in
de country or waitin to hear de final
results of dat elecshuu, or fer de cold
wedder to cum.
And den dar is de Piscerpalions.
Dey never did perfess to have enuy re
ligion, and de Lord knows dat dey live
up to dar perfesshuu. Dey love de
good eatin and de fine clothes, and dey
love to float on de top of de society pot.
Dey knows good licker when dey sees
it, and sum of dem seize it purty oftin.
Dey have gone to a more serlubrious
climate and I hope dey is happy.
And now, my brederen.de great ques
tion dis mornin am, what am gwine to
becum of dat part of de flock what am
left berhiud ? One thing am sartin,
though our faith may be weak, our
pockets am er heap weaker, and we is
er bound to stay right here. Dis am a
sad hut a solem fack. Dis am a sad
time. A time when de people am er
giviu mortgages and deeds iu trust for
to git away on, and dey don’t know
whar de money am er comin from to
pay it back.
I is bin er preachiu to dis people for
dese many years, and you all know dat
my pay is bin mighty scant and sum
times do rashuns have bin short. But
I is kept on er workin and er strivin
and now I is er gettiu mighty tired. It
am a mournful fact dat I is hound to
gin up dis job. I is gwine to quit de
perfesshun of preachiu and I is gwiue
to jine the State Board of Health, for I
does belive dat dey is got de best job I
is heered of in many a long day. Dey
don't do nuthin but keep on de lookout
for de spishus case, den dey puts de ac
Cordeum around de house to keep de
gems from floating around, and draw
dare pay.
My hredereu. we is mighty |ioor.
None of us has auy wealth;
l'» gwine to quit dis |>reachtu,
And jine de Hoard of Health.
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