The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-25

ing the boys of Alabama. and 1t will not be long now before every boy who has the ambition and the grit can work his way to skill In any industry that he may choose and at the same time cultivate and train the mind and heart correspond ingly. say to President Ward; '.~ "where'er a noble deed is wrought: where'er is spoken noble thought; Our hearts in glad surprise.
 To higher levels rise "The tidal wave of deeper souls
 Into our inmost being rolls, Tl And lifts us unawares
 Out of all meaner cares. {, Honor to those whose words or deeds Thus help us in our daily needs
 And by their overflow
 Raise us from what Is low"
 Rev. Lyman Ward.
 Rev. Lyman Ward is. now. S4 years. of age. He was born in Houndsville,, Jener- son County, New York. When Il years old as his parents being opposed to edu- cation and he being very anxious for an education, bought his Freedom rom ms parents and went to live with an aunt. who, allowed him to go to school. lie at tended the common schools of the State Y.' and finally entered St. Lawrence Uni yersity N. T., from which school sen o,,,ds de
 
 of theology but strange experience turned him aside and he studied law for three months. In the meantime ne preached more or less in the country dls- tricts till he was called to be pastor or the Sawyer Memorial. Church of New York City. There he heard Becker Wasn- ington sneak of the importance or work among both races and Of the irnpossl- bility of educating the colored peopisa agsa sS1 among the white people. MT. Wardf was then unmarried, full of energy and anx- ious for a great work that should be al together worthy or & man stTSrhs ana cspnot me take hold of this work for s?i white people ,le and devote my life to it?" The thought dWelt with him. but he took no positive stems toward it's execution till in short time he heard Booker Washington again, this time at Saratoga z,
 In a very short time then he started south. He preached through North and South Carolina and also Tn Georgia; and ana was a Universalist. though not secta- rlAn, he naturally expected help from ms own people, though he neyer sought to establish a school to be for any part or the people but for every needy boy ana girl At Camp Hill was a Universalist church. grown old and needy, where pr. Burruss of Notasulga, and Dr. Clayton; travelling Universalist preacher had held meetings more than sixty years pe- fore Mir. Ward came.
 He began this school in an old private house and soon began to make prepara- tions to secure ground and to build. He travelled very extensively. especially among Universalists of the South and finally bought 400 acres of beautiful land and built the building now in use.
 MT. Ward has a beautiful and accom- plished wife, an only daughter of a wealthy and cultured family of smith Basin. N. Y. She is college graduate and thoroughly In sympathy with her husband and their lives are fully devoted to the great cause of the white boys and girls of clouded brains in the South. MT. Ward knows nothing of failure. He has had very hard struggles In the his- tory of the Sahool so far. but has never entertained the thought of failure. He Is attracting friends and inc South is be- ing drawn to him.