Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-05-26
WHOLE NO. 2,475.

qulred money and money came
from England and from the United
State, North and South. In 1871
the Bishop of Vermont, then in
Liverpool, the Archbishop of Can
terbury, the Bishops of Oxford and
Armagh sent friendly greetings and
subscriptions of money to the Uni
versity of the South. The Univer-
sity of Oxford sent books for the
Library. The enthusiasm of the
movement drew devoted and tai
ented men to it who were willing
to labor almost for nothing. So the
work, of which human foresight
could only predict failure, has gone
| on.
Beyond the current expenses of
the schools, perhaps 100000 has
been spent upon the property OF the
University; this represents in part
the opening up site of the Universe
ty, which was a necessary though
expensive outlay making but little
show for the cost. Itrepresents also,
temporary and permanent buildings
we now possess. The permanent
buildings, st. Luke's Hall and the
Hodgson Library cost 500, 900. These
were special donations. The tenn
porary building in which the Aca-
demic work is now done may an
swer their purpose in Il way for ten
years to come but we hope not, as
liberal completeness in school APP
pointments is now everywhere re-
garded as common necessity. OF
$500, 900 thus spent, about $25, 900
remains upon the property as first
mortgage debt at six per cent.
Enough money was subscribed by
the trustees and friends of the Uni
versity last August to add another
permanent building to our estab-
iishment, viz: Chemical and
Philosophical Hall. This will be
completed this summer, giving the
best facilities for practical study in
these schools.
The very life of the University
has SO far been preserved by the
self sacrifice of few men. Some
of its trustees and all of its officers
and instructors have given their
hearts and minds to it; they have
! developed the school perhaps to the
greatest extent in their power, yet
they do not despair of doing more,
nor are they disheartened. Provi-
dence has too long and too often
sustained the work when all looked
hopeless to the eyes of men. There
has been progress and organization
in the enterprise more and more
perfect year by year; and now its
trustees, its officers and instructors
deem it an auspicious time, at this
period of our sections unparalleled
prosperity, to ask for fitting en-
doWment for this school whose in
come shall be appropriated only to
the payment of salaries to its pro-
fessOrs. They do not ask for hand
some buildings. These are grace
full tribute to God by those who are
able to erect them and are efficient
promoters of refined taste in stu
dents, but still may be dispensed
with at present. When our faithful
professors are provided for by an
endowment against the carhng
cares of poverty, these will come as
a matter of course. Men will then
be proud to cast their wealth into
treasury that reflects worldly credit
upon them; it is still as true as
when the blessed Master first ut
tered the words "to him that hath
shall be given"
Leaving out of question the debt
of $25, 900, Gas there are assets enough
to meet and liquidate that in time)
the University now asks OF the
Church in the South an endowment
of ten chairs in the sum of $4,000
each or a gross sum of $3.50, 900.
This is asking $25, 900 of each Dio-
cese represented in our coalition OF
the ten Southern bishoprics.
Cannot twenty-five men or women
be found in this rich diocese of Ten
uessee, who in the next five years,
if not at once, could pledge a thOuS-
and dollars each to be paid at once,
or at the rate of 5000 year for this
great work ? Or if this be out of
the reach of some who desire to aid
this venture in the cause Of Christ,
| may not associations be formed in
twenty parishes to contribute this
amount each year for the next five
wears? This $25, ,000 is no great sum
that is asked, there are men in the
diocese who could give the whole OF
1t: will no hearts be touched :?
Will no purse strings be unloused ?
The University of the South does
not come to you as a beggar. This
view of our appeals has been too
often the excuse for our church peO-
pie not coming up to the full meas
ure of their duty in regard to this
institution. They are too fond Of
dismissing the subject with the flip
pant remark, "Oh, the University
of the South is begging again."
This is enough to make those zeal
Gus and faithful men Of Sewanee
1 who are more than earning the
pittance they receive blush, not for
shame themselves, but with right
eous Indignation at the church peo-
pie who can utter such calUmny.
This University is the child Of this
people, they brought it into exist
ence. 1t was at their desire that
those forests were cleared at Sewa-
nee; it was at their desire that
those earnest, devoted men were
collected there to carry out their
wishes as instructors; and until
the members of this church in the
South can forget the admOnition Of
the beloved Timothy "if any man
provide not for his own and special
ly for those of his own house, he
hath denied the faith and is worse
than an infidel"-until, your COM
mittee urges, they can forget this
Cody admonItiOn, they cannot re-
fuse TO support and to rear to its
complete development this their
own child. Until churchmen can
call their own wives beggar5 when
they ask money for their household
expenses, until they can think of
their idOlized children as beggars
when they ask money for reasona-
bile wants, let them not insult this
University, the healthy offspring Of
which they should be most proud,
with such thought or epithet.
Theappeal your committee makes
to the Church Of this Diocese in be-
half of this noble work at Sewanee
is only an opportunity offered to
sinful and dying men and women
of coming up tOsOme small measure
of their duty in trying TO extend
the kingdom Of that Christ whom
they profess to worship.
If the people to whom God sends
this opportunity fail to support this
his work, and if that work fail for
want of such support, which God
forefend, then must the all-righte-
Gus Judge Of the quick and the dead
pass upon the result, then must he
Judge those who abandon their own
. | oH-nrino We laaVp he result i'm