February 1, 1911.
THE WEEKLY DIEECTORY.
Burlington (N. C.) Business Houses.
Buy Dry Goods from B. A. Sellars & Sons.
See Burlington Hardware Co. for Plumb-
ing.
Get your Photographs at Anglin’s Studio.
B. A. Sellars & Sons for Clothing and
Gents’ Furnishings.
See Dr. Morrow when in need of Dental
Work.
Real Estate, Insurance and Loans, Ala
mance Insurance & Real Estate Co.
Barber Shop, Brannoek & Matkins.
Dr. J. H. Brooks, Dental Surgeon.
See Freeman Drug Co. for Drugs.
Elen College, N C.
For an Education go to Elon College.
Gibsonville, N. C.
Dr. G. E. Jordan, M. D.
High Point, N. C.
People’s House Furnishing Co
Greensboro, N. C.
Pierce Stamp Works for stamps.
Hotel Huffine.
Burtnej- Furniture Co.. for furniture.
THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY.
man's nature is also developed, for 5,-
220 study music and 1,304 study art.
There is time for oidy a list of women s
colleges affliatd with the universities iu
the United States. The II. Sophia New-
combe Memorial College for Women, af
filiated with Tulane University, was the
first college of this kind to be established.
It was opened in 1886. The college has
the same board of trustees that govern the
university, but its faculty, endowment and
buildings are distinct. Two years later,
the College for Women was established iu
connection with Western Reserve Univers
ity. This college has separate buildings,
though they are in close proximity to the
university. It also has a separate facul-
tv. The Graduate Department of the uni
versity is 0{en to the women of this insti
tution.
Barnard College was founded in 1889.
Ii is the woman’s department of Columbia
University. Its foundation is separate
from the University, but controlled by tlie
same board of trustes. All degi-ees here
are conferred by the University.
Woman’s College, affiliated with Brown
University, Radcliffe College, the affiliated
woman’s college of Harvard Univeisity,
and Colby College, affiliated with the Uni
versity of Maine, are other institutions of
this kind. These institutions offer to wo
men practically the same advantages as
they offer men. In this country there are
about 100 institutions of this class in which
there are near 20,000 students. A notice
able fact is that in all these institutions
the courses are as nearly as possible like
the courses offered in the colleges for the
men. Women do practically the same
work and receive the same advantages and
degi'ces.
The third class of higher institutions
for women in our country is the co-educa-
tional colleges. Oberlin College was the
first college founded for both sexes. This
was opened in 18.33. Twenty years later,
under the direction of Horace Mann, An
tioch College was opened as a co-educa-
tional institution of learning. The influ
ence of such a man gave the movement
for co-education a p-eat impetus, and other
colleges and universities soon followed her
lead. This was specially tmie in the
states west of the Alleghany Mountains.
The last report of the United States
Commissioner of Education shows that we
have 493 universities, colleges, and tech
nological schools in the United States,
and that of these 493 institutions, 321
are co-educational. That is, 65 per cent
admit men and women on equal terms,
and 3.5 per cent admit men only.
These facts and figures give us an idea .
of the trend of the movement for the high
er education of women in our own country.
As much as 50 per cent of all the students
in the colleges and universities of Ameri
ca are women. Women constitute 78.9
per cent of all the teaching force in our
country. Women are studying in our
I>rofessioual schools and are preparing
themselves for professional work. We
find her taking her place side by side with
man in positions of honor and trust. 'We
ask, what does this movement mean? To
our mind it means that the time has come
when woman is accorded the rights that
ha\e really belonged to her for the cen-
tirries of the past. It means that the pro-
jihetic words of the prophet and seers of
the ages that have past have been fulfilled.
It means that the struggles of the women
of the world foi- recognition, that their
f nd hopes, and their desires for a chance
to enter the aretra of the world's activity
are heiug rewarded and that they now can
exei'cise themselves in all good work that
helps to advance the civilization of the
world.
And the movement is still going on. We
believe it will continue until women every
where will have the privileges that of
right beloitg to them. Such a day as this
is comirrg for China, and India, and Japan,
and for the women even in the darkest
cortrers of the earth. We welcome the
time and feel that the sooner it comes the
better.
JOHN rOXE, HIS LIFE AND WOEK.
Among the most prominent of English
Reformers of tire Sixteenth Century stood
John Foxe, kifown as the great English
Martyrologist. He was born at Boston in
Lincolnshire, 1516. V'fry little, if any-
thirrg, is recorded concerning his parent
age and early lif^ At the age of sixteen
he entered Brasenose College, Oxford,
where he took his degree of Bachelor of
Arts, at twenty-one, and five years later,
the-degree of Master of Arts. From 15,38
to 1545 he was a fellow of Magdalen at
Oxford University. Foxe was a Protes
tant and did not hesitate to express his
opinion on religious questions. For this
reason, he was expelled from the UniVier-
sity in 1545 and deprived of his Fellow
ship. His stei>-father, upon hearing of
this misfortune, deprived him of his pa
trimony to add to his distress. loxe th>.-n
became the private tutor to the children
of Sir Thomas Lucy and was married
1.547, while holding this position. He
found himself in a very destitute situa
tion upon giving up this position but
soon was apointed tutor to the son of the
Earl of Suit;v. He held this positior.
foi- some time but fitrally became tutor
to the orphans of Surrey. While hold
ing tliis position Foxe preached Protes
tantism to the i>eople and made vigorous
attacks upon the Church of Rome. This
brought about a feeling of intense bitter
ness against him. and despite the efforts
of his old friend and pupil, the Duke of
Norfolk, to protect him, he was compelled
to flee with his family to Basel for safe
ty. While on the continent he met such
men as Knox, Grindel, Whittingham.
Foxe’s principal occupation while at Ba
sel was correcting press-material.
Upon the accession of Elizabeth, Foxe
returned to England. Again he attacked
the church of Rome and exposed the evils
of Popery to the people. He took a per
manent residence in London and there
preached the true gospel of Protestant
ism to the English people. Also, he stud
ied Anglo-Saxoir and with the assistance
of John Day, as printer, he taught the
Anglo-Saxon language. He is considered
the first student of Anglo-Saxon.
John Foxe died at London, April 18th,
1587, and was buried in -the church of St.
Giles, Cripplegate. In him England lost
a fearltss advocate of Protestantism and
one of her greatest religious reformers.
Foxe published numerous controversial
treatises and sermons besides many La
tin plays. The most important of his
Latin plays was his “De Christo Tri
umphant” which was published in 1.556.
The work that has immortalized his
name is his History of the Acts and
Monuments of the Church,” more popu-
Tlarly known as “Foxe’s Book of Mar
tyrs.” The first part of this work was
published in Latin at Strasburg, 1554, but
was reprinted while Foxe was at Basel
in 1.5.59. The first English edition ap
peared in 1563. The bishops sanction d
H and before Foxe’s death in 1587 this
immortal work werrt through four edi
tions. “This book is a noble monument
of English” say Patrick and Groome in
Chambers’ Biogi-aphical Dictionary.
Thomas Fuller-, in his “Worthies of Eng
land” compares “Foxe’s Book of Mar
tyrs” and contemporary works, to two
servants, one of which said 'that he could
do nothing because his fellow-servant did
everything himself. So with Foxe, his
contemporaries could do nothing and
write nothing because Foxe had left noth
ing unsaid and rrnwritten or even un
done.
(iilbert Burnet, in his “History of the
Reformation of the Church of England”
says; “Having compared his ‘Acts and
Monuments’ with the records I have never
been able -to discover any errors or pre
varications in them, but the utmost fidel
ity and exactness.” Such criticisms came
from dozens of other men of high stand-
irrg concerrring “Foxe’s Book of Mar
tyrs.” Every criticism of Foxe’s works
goes to prove that he could have been
rrothirrg other than a man of honesty and
a devout ser\ ant of (lod. e always find
him standing for the betterment of his
coirrrtry arrd the up-lift of his fellow-
country-men, and fearless in his denunci
ation of evil. A pitable scene it must
have been to see those devout servants
of God, Dr. Ridley and Master Latimer,
tied to the stake and being burned into
a crisp. Such, though, was the messasre
that John Foxe, the English Martyrolo-
gist, had 'to bring to the people and he
did not hesitate to speak just what he
felt.
D. C. Holt.
arrother. Everywhere there is a sabbath
like stillrless, so that the leaves
above and the rippling waves beneath
venture to whisper only very softly. In
your own hear-t there is a feeling as if all
this were outside this world. Neverthe
less, listen to what tlie waves say:
“In olden times there arose out of the
midst of this lake a high pointed moun
tain. Upon this stood a castl^ arrd in this
castle dwelt a coirnt, whose name people
prorrounced only with fear and trembling,
for nowhere was there anyone who had
not experienced injury from him, and no
one could reach him in his high castle on
the lake.
The count became sick. In the long,
sleepless nights irr the fear of the possi
bility of death, there awoke in him, for
the first time conscience, so that he re
solved to confess his sins and do penance,
if the priest would only make it light
errough. W here the cloister now stood
th re dwell in those days a hermit, a poor,
modest priest who was not a little as
tonished one day as the frightened count
with humble mien stepped into his
lurt.—“Ar'e you surprised?” asked the
count.
“Indeed, I am, for here in my hut you
you know well—there is nothing to plun
der.” “I do not wish to rob you; I wish
to confess before you, then you shall give
me absolution; and I will do penance, if
it is not too difficult.”
“The greater the sins, the greater the
penance. Thirrk, gracious Lord, my mouth
is only the implement of God and what
I say to you is his holy will, not mine.
Then kneel down.”
Now when the Count had ended his pen-
arrce, the pious man said: “My son, God s
grace is endless, and his mercy is shown
also the greatest of sinners, if the sinner
only repents with all his heart and re
turns to him with his soul. Go away to
the virgin Mary, barefoot and barehead
ed; you must travel in penitential dress.
If you see joy upon the way, turn aside
and remain far from all that rejoices your
mind. There offer the holy virgin the half
of your goods, and return praying and go
to the scene of your sins praying and when
yorr reach your castle, tear it down with
your own hands and ”
The fjuick-tempered count could not
stand it any longer; burning with rage
and gr-ieving in all his boly, he sprang up
—and when he came to himself again
there lay before him tjre poor priest in
his own blood, the sword of the count
had been threst through his heart. The
HEAVEN’S REVENGE.
Translated from the German by Dr. W.
C. Wicker.
Among the mountains there nestles a
clear, deep-blue sheet of water into which
the heavens smile and into which the
darrcing sunbeams mockingly play with
orre another. All around the green moun
tains, covered with dark beechwood, lov
ingly embrace the beautiful lake. On the
opposite shore is a scene of rest and peaoe
—a cloister. Here and there are varie
gated butterffies, which seek to catch one
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