The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-08
a true mother is deserving of such an
act.
The seminary a Spiritual Rose.

true mother is deserving of such an
act.
The Seminary n Spiritual Rose.
I'm real sense the seminary is spir-
itual mother to every alumnus. 1t has
furnished to him the stimulus and in
centive which has contributed largely
to his success as a minister. The SEM
mary, of course, cannot claim all the
credit for the men she sends out and
the work they do, but she can claim
a large part, and my observation is
that the alumni of the seminary are
most generous in their recognition of
what the mother has done for them.
Shf furnished them with noble ideals,
with strong incentives and with in
SEPARATIONS which abide to the end of
life. She has furnished ideals which
have been the making of many man.
George Elliott somewhere expresses
pity for the man in whose life there
has been no experience of moral ele-
walton from which there can be sense
of falling. Truly that is a pitiable life
which can look back to no great nights
which can give rise to such sense OF
falling and which can forever beckon
back to those nights"
Influence of the Seminary,
DIR. Mullins referred to the forma-
ton of lasting friendships at the SEM
irary, the building of character by 1t.
81 have noticed" said DR.. Mullins,
that the red ink of the professor
pen, in his ruthless cutting and slash
ing of exercises and homiletical per-
formances of the student. usually be-
comes a pleasant joke to every student
after he leaves the seminary. But
this red ink renders a very valuable
service to the average young minister.
One of our bright editors recently told
of a preacher who prayed this prayer
concerning revival: % Lord, if
these services have kindled any spark
of life, we pray that thou wilt water
that spark, and of another who said
to a church which was welcoming an
incoming pastor: With his hand upon
the helm the church will soon occupy
the ground. No one can hear such
things without being convinced that
there Is a place for red ink in train
ing the young theolog in sacred rhet
ORIG
Things Not to Judge Seminary BY.
Some people Judge" said DR.. Null
Inns, 1.-THE seminary by some poor spec
linen OF student that has spent a few
months with us and gone forth pro-
claiming loudly that he was a seminary
man. ! was told recently of a certain
neighborhood where the opinion of the
seminary was not very high, because
of sorry specimen who had appear
ed and had been preaching or trying
to preach. Those who have read the
two recent books of our gifted Louis
vile woman will remember how, when
Lovey Mary was about to start to
Niagara Falls, Mrs. Wigs of the Cab
bage Patch said, Bring bottle of that
| Niagara water with you when you
come back. always did want to know
what them falls looked like You can
not judge of Niagara Falls by a bot
tie of Niagara water. You must have
some adequate reproduction of the spir-
| it of Niagara if you are to know any
thing about the grandeur of the falls,
or else you must visit them. The sem
| mary cannot change the fiber of the
men who come to it. 1t can only i'm
prove it and strengthen it. l have seen
pool of clear water in the woods, to
which all the birds came to battle, but
l never heard the pool blamed because
jaybird that washed in it's waves did
not come out a lark. A jay will be a
jay as long as he lives, whatever the
illogical pool he may nathe his plum
age in. And sometimes the jay that
has simply flown over the pool without
bathing in it. is loudest in what ne
has to say about it,
DR.. Mullins explained how the alumni
can aid the seminary, what the semi
nary Is doing for the church, and what
some of its needs are.