The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-18

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work that it has yet to do in the building
no Of Christian character and the de-
vrlopment Of useful young manhood
They love It for the work it has already
one; they commend it for the thousands
well trained young men who have gone
out from it's campus into every part OF
the State and by precept and example
rmuated the virtue and lofty patriot
ism that have characterized the
management Of the institution from the
very beginning.
Wake Forest has sent into the ministry
Ii North Carolina hundreds of self-sacri-
ficing. gOdly men. 1t has sent into the
professions many of their most worthy
nd successful members. 1t has sent into
the school room hundreds Of competent
and useful teachers. 1t has sent into Of
fees and counting rooms many young
men fully equipped for efficient work. 1t
has sent to the farm young men with
thorough scientific knowledge of agricul-
tnral problems ready to apply this knowl
edge to practical and profitable planting.
For these many valuable men the State
owes a debt of gratitude, as well as the
church BY them commerce, business, So
tltlA. humanity ana IUe CuuTCH NAVE All
been b1ided up, benefited, elevated adj
vanced. But the church is naturally the
most appTeciative because it was the
church that established the college. 1t is
the Baptist church in North Carolina as
body that has heYn this structure out
of a knotty and resisting situation.
1t has been tedious work, at times al
most hopeless, a half century and more
of earnest, ineessant toll, of determined
and at times diseouraging effort. The
presidents of Wake FOrest-great men
mong them-the professors, able and in
dustrious; the trustees, patient, careful,
conservative and devOted-none of them
have had fowery paths to tread in the
management Of the institution. 1t has
taken years for the best thought in the
church, the ablest men in the church,
the most industrious and the most ener-
getic to build up Wake Forest and make
it what it is today-the leading Baptist
college in the South. 1t is not a wonder
that the men who have worked so
earnestly in season and out of season to
build the institution should love and
cherish it. 1t is no wonder that the sons
and grandsons of its founders should
cherish the college that their sires plant
ed, nor is it a wonder that the great
Baptist heart in North Carolina should
beat higher and faster as the grand old
Institution grows and prospers with each
assing season.
In a recent visit to Wake
Forest I had the pleasure of meeting
among others Of the faculty Prof.
harles Brewer, one Of The youngest but
ne of the ablest members of the faculty,
| he grandson of its real founder and its
first president. In Prof Brewer the coll
lege today has some of the blood, the
rains, the courage, the hope and aspira-
ions of that hero of it's earlier existence,
he Rev. Samuel Watt, who more than
ANY other man may be regarded as the
founder of the college. l find here, too,
REV. w. B. Royal, whose father was one
If the institutions most devoted friends
II its earlier days. His distinguished
sou-one of the finest teach
ers in the land-in charge
OF The school of Greek Language and
Literature Those two-son and grand.
son-of an illustrous parentage, must
find peculiar comfort in the thought that
they are permitted to cultivate where