The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-06

sight of all of them, for he hears from some of them regularly. They can not forget, to be sure. people of that cali bre don't want to forget.
 At the Camp Hill School they have A reading room and a. library, begun the first year with only few books, but now they have 2.000 bound volumes, besides magazines and newspapers not bound. They have just completed an additional building to the school known as the Alabama Hall." erected at a cost of s, 900, besides there are numerous out houses. barns and farm houses.
 The boys are taught practical and sci- entifc agriculture. dairying. saw milling and carpentering work.
 The girls are taught scientific sewing, cooking and laundering and are doing exceptionally good work under their in- structions.
 Dr. Ward told of one young man SO eager to learn that he picked cotton for the money with which to pay his rail- road fare to get to Camp Hill. and then how eager he was to work to pay for but the rudiments of an education.
 pr. Ward then paid . tribute to Montgomery lady, q member of the Mothers Union--Mrs. Pate. He told tine story simply. of how as she lowered over the bed of sick child some one put in:o Ter hand a copy of The Montgomery Advertiser containing the sketch of the Camp Hill School written by Mir. D. W. McIver. She had only time to glance at the article. but she laid it away, think ing that as soon as possible she would look into it, for in that school she saw hope for three girls whom she wanted to help procure an education. Her child was taken away from her and then she thought of her young friends in their distress. but could not find the paper. but she remembered seeing the name of one of Montgomery's best Christian men as being on the board of the school, and straightway took up the matter with him. She wrote to Dr. Ward asking for the three scholarships, but there was none of them there. Her letter was published m the Camp Hill School paper and was read by interested parties Tn a distant State and in answer to their prayers the three scholarships were forthcoming. It Is not always thus. It is not always that the need is so promptly met and supplied. but this was one of the re- markable cases that had como under his observation.
 They have now at Camp Hill a prop erty worth more than SoOOO. They have no endowment, but depend wholly upon the generous public for their support.
 Dr. Ward says he does not feel that 1t is his duty to go out in the highways and byways to ask for help but rather that hts duty Is there by the side of the sturdy youths who are trying to learn. He said, yesterday I was there sowing seeds and planting for vegetables; today I am here talking of my work there, and. tomorrow, God only in His infinite wis dom knows of what duties we may Do called upon to perform
 'I feel,' said Dr. Ward, "that thsre will come an answer to each-to all. I can not go and beg for them as the bog gar goes from door to door; can not ask that men and women should dole out charity to these blue-eyed, fair-slklnned sons and daughters of a race that has builded in excess of all other nations of the world"
 Dr. Ward expressed a profound faith that God will somehow do all things needed for the future of these youth who are destined one day to be the fathers and mothers of the future generations, and he believes with a faith strong and pure that God will open the way and make provision for them. one and all.
 He said that up there at the school they "could not plan to do things, but had 10 cut their garments according to tho cloth we have"
 They have now from seventy to seventy five pupils in the school. many of whom work all day and study at night, others of whom work a part of the time and study the other time.
 pr. Ward asked the question, ''IIavs you ever cried out in fancy, oh, Lord, how long, how long?'' and out of the over Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep" So it Is that He who watches over Israel will watch over and keep His own.
 He here brought in the story of how St, Bernard with his trusted followers went into the mountain fastness of the Alps and began modern farming that was an astonishment to the world. and of how Peter of Russia went to Holland to study and learn shipbuilding, and on his return to his home, so great was his fame, that he was called Peter the Great" of Co., lumbuss efforts and success in reaching the land of promise and of flowers.
 He told of a conversation of recent date with Senator Morgan, "one of the great est Romans of them all.'' in which this grand old Alabamian predicts that if, in the next twenty-five years, Alabama's re- sources are developed and Alabama youth are taken in hand and trained for the fu ture, that Alabama will go beyond his most sanguine hopes and be one of the richest and greatest States in the Union. Dr. Ward said he found it hard, with mere weak words, to say what he would like to say, but it seemed to him prophetic that the Mothers Union should call him here: prophetic that a better and fairer day for Camp Hill, when the mothers of the Capital City should be the first to ask him here. He spoke of one pathetic Instance of how a hoy went to work dur ing the summer in a saw mill to earn the money with which tc study during the winter. and how he contracted malaria and died, and of how faithful he had been to the smallest trIst confided to his care.
 Another instance is that of young woman, whose whole study Is to help others, wants to became teacher-to give her life to the school. and yet she is a very princess Of a Birl-fit to grace any home. Her hopes seemed blighted when consumption laid It's deadly hand upon her-but she wrote him, while in the North recently. not of herself of her body, but of her souls desire to finish her course and give her life to the service of the school-that was her one hearts wish: no selfish complaint on her part.
 Through a friend. the directress of home at Chestnut Hill. Philadelphia, Dr. Ward has sent her to Philadelphia, where there Is now every hope of her recovery and fulhllment of her great desire to do the Lords work in the Camp Hill School
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