CHARLOTTE, N. C.,
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VOL. XL VII
IALL MAKE YOU FREE.”—John viii, 82.
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8DAY, JULY 30, 1925.
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NO. 31.
BY THE WAY
An Address Delivered Before the Faculty of Mefeenhammei
University
By Uncle Billie
Mr. President, members of the
faculty, and tutors of dear old
Meisenheimer:
The privilege it affords me to
return to this classic spot cannot
be expressed in trite language.
But suffice it to say that it is a
most coveted privilege that
comes to the few and not to the
many; therefore, it should go
without saying that to me it is a
joy unspeakable to greet you as
a faculty, men representing
such renowned universities as
the University of Memphis,
Moses’ Alma Mater; I see before
me today men holding degrees
from the University of Westen
dorff, Margenhoff, Essendorff,
Puckharber, Lodebar and oth
ers of no less fame and whose
names savpr of German, even
old Meisenfiammer.
i rememDer naving reaa years
ago that we Americans do
things in a hurry; the people of
England take more time td
think v and that the Germans go
about everything with patience
and with the most scrutinizing
investigation before concluding.
When they hands-off the job is
complete. This is no less true in
the class room and lecture halls
in German universities. But this
does not, cannot, detract from
the merits of the university that
painted Lodebar on the map of
thh world. In Old Testament
history, we only know Lodebar
as the adopted home of Mephi
bosheth, the little invalid son of
Jonathan, 4nd the grandson of
King Saul,' whom David sought
of the house of SauJLj&». adopt
4$to his family because of his
^OTpeesfrwi^nis'uhivefSity fe
? fleet the University of odebar
as being on a par with the
strongest universities of the
land. All honor to the Univer
sity of Lodebar! You send out
men with envied degrees and not
degrees without men. But, gen
tlemen, my object is not to tell
you in most pleasant words
what you really are as to your
preparation; but to suggest to
you a few things that may serve
you in your station as a guide.
Your object here is to make
useful men of the various kinds
of material as the products of
many homes that are as differ
ent as one star is different from
another. Your task is a tremen
dous one; for in the perform
ance of your duty, in making
men that will be useful, you will
find it quite necessary to prac
tice this text: “Watch ye; stand
fast in the faith/’ You must
watch your students while they
are under your supervision lest
you overlook the fact that cer
tain natural, worthy bents in
them must be trained that they
might pursue their inclinations.
Otherwise you destroy the stu
dent and break the hearts of
parents or devoted guardians.
Too often this is the sad case in
many of our institutions. To sub
scribe to this course is noth
ing more nor less than study
ing your business to see what
certain results will accrue in
your business under certain con
ditions ana pressures. J.XIC
farmer, in studying his crop in
its making makes certain appli
cations to his growing crop in or
der that it may make a more
healthy and rapid growth ; and
if it does not respond to this ap
plication, he tries another, and
•continues—if he wishes to suc
ceed—until he is certain of that
for which the plant is reaching
out or thirsting; then he pushes
the plant in its inclined direction
by applying the remedy discov
ered.
This requires at times a little
elbow touch with a student, if
only for four or five minutes in
a year. This elbow touch is very
difficult in a large university
like Meisenhammer. It is in the
big universities where you are
likely to lose sight of a student’s
individuality. But Meisenham
jner faculty is sufficiently large
to take care of this situation.
Think on it.—
Then, gentlemen, you must
watch yourselves most closely of
all. In making men you are
likely to become impatient and
socially blunt. You are likely to,
become as conductors on jthe
railroads or postal 'employees at
the stamp or general delivery
windows in the post office.,: At
times they are the embodiment
of gruffness because they have
so many people of different
temperaments and training to
deal with daily. A\poor fellow
calls at the .stamp window for a
postalstamp, but has not
sense enough to call ior the
'stamp he needs. Simon Simple
boards the train at a noif-ticket
station, hands the conductor a
piece of money] but ’does not
state his destination, or he dbes
not know the exact station for,
which he is bound. This has the
tendency to ruin a sweet dispo
sition in one about ripe for the
kingdom if h A overlooks the fact
that he is a workman to serve
the public with patience, love
arid sympathy.
You are a stumbling block to
your disciples if your manner
makes them feel that they are
a stench to your environment
because they cannot grasp and
master the subject like a stu
dent of the first water. Cultivate
tolerance with the ignorant and
less brilliant^ The late Dr. Dan
iel Jackson Banders, who was
President of Biddle for sixteen
years, in the class room, in bus
iness convention, in conten
argument with a student about
to be sent home to return no
more, never grew the least
gruff.
Woodrow Wilson was expelled
from Davidson College for haz
ing, I was informed ten years
ago by an old student of David
son; but he went to Princeton
and graduated and cut his swath
through the world and left ad
mirers in his wake. Davidson felt
proud of him. The faculty of
Davidson invited him to come to
Davidson and address the stu
dent body after he became the
Chief Magistrate of this coun
try; but he found some reason
(?) for not accepting the invita
tion, notwithstanding he was in
Columbia, S. C., at the time he
was invited to Davidson. Per
haps he deserved his punish
ment as a Davidson insubordi
nate. But evidently the under
standing between him and the
college authorities was not mu
tual. Allow no student to leave
Meisenhammer, if possible, un
der a misunderstanding that is
likely to lead to a breach in the
friendship that exists between
the faculty and the subordinate,
if there was any friendship.
Watch yourselves, lest you find
yourselves making the path dif
ficult for some of your disciples
because you cannot agree. Such
may drive your boys from you
only to cut off their future use
fulness.
In my baccalaureate sermon to
the graduating class of Meisen
hammer, my text was: “Quit
you luce men; be strong.” Today
while not in the order written in
I Cor. 16:13, I am speaking to
you from the other two exhorta
tations: “Watch ye; stand fast
in the faith.”
I exhort you to stand firmly
in the faith, which is growing
alarmingly weak in some of our
orthodox universities. You are
considered archaic now when
you make an exhibition of your
faith in the old college curric
ula, Greek, Latin, mathematics,
and philosophy. No doubt this
is because of the rapid develop
ment of scientific investigations.
In fact, this is an age of the ap
plication of scientific investiga
tions. Man is employing more
each day the assistance of na
ture in most scientific ways to
■ By Rev. Yorke
Author “Gold and Incense/
Johnson C. Smitl
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“And when the people saw tl
Delayed to come down from
The people gathered together
And said unto him,
sv, Up, make us gods
Which shall go before
For as for this Moses, the man
That brought us up out of the
We wot not what has become*
Aftfer he had made it a molten
These be thy gods, 0 IsraeL”
No! Never what is made is trut
Moses is. God is. God’s truths
Is never made. Man can makej
Whoso makes a somewhat
And, unwilling to await
Revelation of what is,—
Whoso maketh, maketh a lie,
0, idol makers! . 4
The Mother Idol-Maker.
D. D„
School of Theology,
diversity.
ses
bunt
to Aaron
of Egypt,
m.
, they said,
32:1-4.
The stork left in a. home
A boy whom doting parents naihed Ben.
Ben was a male entity. h
All his ancestors were in him. Jp
Long clothes boy, though he wojs,
Laced, fleecy, frilled, his mother
Hadr'him, as is custom old,
Christened in. f'
f‘0, is not he cute?” thrilled the mother*
He was. 4 1
“’Tis time he had on pants. I
’Tis five years since Ben I
Was held ih arms in long clothes
And Christened.” u
“No! I don’t want pants oh him
So that he will play in the dirt
With rough boys,” stud the mother.
“He is so cute in skirts
And long curls, my darling!”
In like manner his mother,
Until he is in his teens,
fsrffirtftrtir—^
Ignores what he is,—
A male entity:
Seeks to make him,
Will not allow him to be,—
Until Ben is coddled,
Girled and shielded into what?
Into what God did not make him—
A two-legged male creature
To curse God’s earth!
0, idol-making mother!
I The Maiden ia«i~MaKer.
Inez has met Walter.
Inez is a marriageable maiden.
“0 girls,” gushes Inez, “Walter
Has asked me! Tis to be in June!”
Three years after the marriage:
“0 Mary,” Inez, Mrs. Inez wails!
“Walter has broken my heart!”
“What is the matter, Inez?”
Mary asks.
“0, Walter is so different!”
No, wife, not different!
Walter is, as Walter is.
Inez, you made a Walter—
Set up an ideal—
An ideal which is an idol.
Now, child, set yourself a task—
Set yourself the task to learn,
And love, and live with
The real Walter,—
And away with your idol!
Agnostic Idol-Makers.
There be who say:
“Up, make us gods!
§ Who can understand
| The God of the Book
g Or the Book?”
8 How busy are some,
8 Making gods, understandable gods!
8 No mysteries about reason-made gods!
» “Up, make us gods!”
§ Don’t insult our intelligence—
§ Don’t ask us to believe
8 WTiat cannot be explained!
facilitate the means of transpor
tation, communication, and com
mon labor. A few years hence
and there will be, perhaps, a roy
al road surveyed to geometry
to which the philosophers de
clared centuries ago that there
is no such road.
I realize with you that it is a
herculean task to balance college
currucula with the rapid devel
opment of science and a thirst
for that which is materialistic.
The presence of one seems to de
stroy the existence of the other.
Rut in reality they do not under
normal conditions. Be it borne
in mind that there are certain
fundamentals which must not be
placed among the archives of an
cient dust lest we undermine
our moral, intellectual social,
and religious foundation. These
phases of one’s life suffer and
become dwarfed and narrow
when one’s life has been spent
specializing in one subject at the
expense of some one or two of
the subjects as majors in the old
curricula.
I may be stepping on danger
ous grounds to say that special
ists find it very difficult to fit
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WEST TENNESSEE CONVEN
TION. J h
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The West Tennessee Presby
terian Sunday School Convention
convened in the Green Leaf
Presbyterian church, Keeling,
Tenn., Thursday, July 16, at
7:30 P. M., Prof. Chas. G.
Hutchings presiding.
The program of welcome by
the local committee, under the
direction of Mrs. Carlton, was
very inspiring. The response
was made by Rev. G. E. Cooper,
of Atako, Tenn., in behalf of the
convention.
The opening address, “The
Presbyterian Sunday School: Its
Scope and Opportunity,” was
made by Prof. C. G. Hutch
ings. ! f
“The Sabbath Schools of the
Presbyterian Church,” an ad
dress delivered by the Rev. J. B.
Barber, was a vivid exposition
of the work of the Church.
Devotional exercises Friday
were a very unique feature lof
Maclin.
Addresses were delivered by
the Revs. H. L. Peterson, D. D.,
G. E. Cooper, and M. J. Nelson,
and were very helpful and in
structive.
The Round Table discussions
were a very unique feature of
the convention since most of our
intricate problems were dis
cussed and solutions given.
The popular meeting of the
convention was held Friday
night and addresses were deliv
ered by Rev. P. A. White, D. D.,
Rev. G. E. Cooper, Rev. J. B.
Barber, Profs. A. M. Dobbins
and C. G. Hutchings.
The business session of the
convention was held Saturday
morning. >
The following officers were
elected for the convention:
President, Rev. G. E. Cooper,
Portersville church; Vice Pres
Alberta Maclin, Green Leaf
church; Asst. Secretary, Mr. D.
H. Powell, Carroll Mission;
Treasurer, Prof. C. G. Hutch
ings, Sabbath Schodl Mission
ary.
A model Sunday school was
conducted on Sunday morning
under the leadership of Prof. C.
G. Hutchings, followed by the
convention sermon by Rev. J.
B. Barber.
The convention was highly
successful and helpful not only
to the immediate community in
which it was held, but to the en
; tire field, and will doubtless re
| suit in a greater activity in the
work.
WILSON AN D DOTHAN
CHAPELS AT MAXTON.
Wilson chapel and Dothan
chapel which are pastored by
Rev. R. C. Scriven are two de
veloping fields in Cape Fear
Presbytery. Especially should
we note the fine Sunday school
at Dothan chapel in Maxton, su
pervised by a competent and
qualified superintendent, Mr.
Lee Smith, with able teachers in
all departments. Prof. Guy
Leach is a real teacher of expe
rience and is devoted to the class
which he teaches. His son, Mr.
David Leach, is also a very ac
tive young man in church and
Sunday school affairs and makes
one feel at home when at Max
ton.
That the Daily Vacation Bible
School is an asset on the fields
this summer has been clearly
shown in the increasing num
bers that have come into ourj
Sunday Schools in the various
places where the D. V. B. S. has
been held. Dothan has had the
D. V. B. S. and great results are
Reverend and Mrs. Scriven
are doing fine in promoting a
wholesome and high influence
in the community and church.
The people love them and they
are working hard for the build
ing up of the Master’s work.
Mrs. Scriven is an exceptionally
fine woman. They have a beau
tiful home and a nice family.
May Wilson chapel and Dothan
prosper under these forces.
1 “ONLOOKER.”
C.S.C.&S.M. NOTES
(From the Office of the Dean.)
THE NINETEEN TWENTY
FIVE CUKKICULUM.
Two courses in Bible Study
will be offered. These courses
will take up the entire first class
period, and each delegate will be
enrolled in one of the two groups.
The following courses will be
of special interest to delegates
from Missionary Societies and
Westminster Guilds: The For
eign Mission Study Book, The
National Mission Study Book
and Missionary Education (In
cluding Missionary Society
Methods). Every Missionary
Society in the Synod should have
a representative present to get
the wonderful messages that
Mrs. Snively and the other in
structors in this department will
give.
Sunday schools that have or
ganized Children’s Divisions
should send delegates from that
Division to take the Course in
“Children’s Division Methods”
that is being offered for the first
time this year.
Those who have special inter
est in the Junior and Intermedi
ate Departments will find the
Classes in “Girls’ Work” and
“Boys’ Work” very interesting
and helpful.
Sunday School Superinten
dents will be attracted this year
to our new course on “Sunday
School Organization and Work.”
Delegates from Young People’s
organizations such as Yoting
People’s Societies will find in the
course on “Young People’s Meth
tods” much constructive informa
tion in this special field.
elementary and an advanced
class. These classes will be of
interest most especially to pres
ent teachers.
A course that should have a
special appeal to all the delegates
is “Stewardship Methods,” and
it is hoped that many will avail
themselves of the opportunity of
attending that class.
In ordfj* that we may get a
greater grasp on the Project of
the Daily Vacation Bible School
there is available again this year
a course in D. V. B. S. Meth
ods.”
Registrations are coming in
fast. We appreciate very much
the response the. patrons are
giving. One “Old Guard” writes
that he does not think he can get
Here cilia yeai as nc win uc
called away about that time; but
he says that is not going to
keep him from registering. That
is a fine spirit and we commend
him for his interest. Let oth
ers who can’t come do likewise
land we will be sure to raise our
Budget of $328.00.
Don’t forget the date—Aug.
24-30.
DR. RUSSELL AT BELMONT.
Dr. I. H. Russell, our Synodi
cal Evangelist, arrived in Bel
mont July 26th for a five days’
meeting at Love’s Chapel
church. His sermon was from
the 7th chapter of Judges and
the 21st verse: “And they stood
every man in his place, round
about the camp: and all the host
ran and cried and fled.” The
services were very inspiring and
many expressed themselves as
having been helped by this ser
mon.
At 7:30 P. M. a warm prayer
meeting was conducted by Bro.
G. W. Leeper, after which Dr.
Russell took the pulpit and
spoke from Malachi 3:1, “Be
hold, I will send my messenger
'and he shall prepare the way,
and the Lord, whom ye seek,
shall come.” We are certain that
there was not a single person in
the house that did not enjoy this
sermon. We thank God for this
good man that He has sent to
take charge of our meeting.