Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-10-05
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I'LL you kindly permit il 4 10 ray
/ g few words to opr brethren r 81 d
Furman University is now, In my
Judgment, about to enter upon q
career Of wider usefulness thanithas
ever had. The hopes OF sits founders
are, / believe, soon to $be realized,
This bright future In part the xe-
suit Of earnest, patient, faithful work
on the part Of Fnrman, Manly, and
others who laborcd here in the past ;
it is in part the result Of thGlabors Of
Or. Jpdson and the other professors
who are nowhere and who ha, s done
conscientious and thorough work.
If ! should name the man who has
done most for our Institution, whose
high and distinguished services are
telling now, I should Of course, call
the name of @. III. ,Judson, and this,
too, without invidious distinction. Il
should simply state q fact, known to
all mon.
But this great career will be post
poned and the bright future made
distant unless our people over the
entire State realize their duty to
their Institution, and give it such
support as their intelligence, their
warm hearts, and their loyalty shall
suggest. We need the support Of
our people right now, and this sup
port can be given best by sending
boys to Furman.
We do not plead for boys on the
grounds of mere sentiment--though
believe in high and pure sentiment ;
life without sentiment would be very
barren--but on that of worth and
merit. Furman's standard is as high
as that of any other institution in
the South. 1t is n college in the
true sense Of the term, and, more
over, it is Christian College. Fur
man is manned by professors who,
college men themselves, are imbued
with the spirit of tho college, who
know the needs, the design, the pur-
pose of tho real college who, with
college training and college teaching
within the range of their own exper-
ience, can rig ntly weigh the problems
of higher education and advise the
student as to the studies and re-
searches which will make his course
symmetrical and preparatory for USE
fulness and success.
Then recognition abroad is worth
something. Far beyond the bor-
ders of our own State Furman is
known as strong, progressi, @ col
loge, whose diplomas mean what they
claim to be, certificates of high grade
work performed and of preparation
for lifo's duties in the world at large
Again, Furman is the only Baptist
male college in our State, the only
college in South Carolina, manned
wholly or in part by Baptists, which
can justly claim to give young mon
college training.
If the $4,000 Baptists of our
Commonwealth give Furman the
support which it properly and rightly
asks at their hands, the future of our
Institution is assured and grand sue
cess will crown the efforts of fifty
years. ..,...r
Let our boys obtain at Furman o
thorough, general education which
will fit them for business, for the
various professions, for technical
studies. If a boy goes into life with.
out the foundation of sound cdu-
cation, he is simply limiting his
opportunities and setting bounds to
the possibilities which might other,
wise be his. The demands of oul
age, with its wide-awake, educated
men, imperatively require broad
general training. Special study
must follow this as surely as house
must have foundations. The young
man who fails to recognize this fact
will, when it shall be too late, see his
mistake and then he must be content
"to take back seat"
For the sake of your boys, for the
sake of Furman, in behalf of SOUND
learning, in the name of Christian
Education, ask you, Baptist par
ents, to send your sons to Furmar
and to have all who are prepared a
the University on the morning O.
September 9th.
A. p. MONTAGUE.
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