The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-01-10

ped building-the most attractive ION
the campus, and make il the centre tot
the community life and spirit.
BY these means God can be prouSf IT
TO the students and the students 10
God. il
You remember Mr.. Pages TWO H9tl"
CollfedcraIes. how when "ut foragFnG
with Two little negroes 10 support il9eir
; families. they We're once arrested sIN0
commanded 10 tell where the CS't-
federate general was. How the yplS-
tol was drawn upon one Of them, ana
how he wondered where the pufi
would hit. whether the wound "oiuiu
bleed. whether they would leave iFiln
out there in the dark all night, Pha
whether his mother would come ana
kiss him. fainted: then came 100
and asked: Am I shot?" How the Eeo-
! era soldier. reminded OF his own !lttle
curly-headed boy in far away Df'!d
Ware, took him up in his arms. k'sseo
! him and set him free. Then thai al
| by the skirmishing battle lines. tfel-
! ing their way along the hillside. tneE
heard IL cry: Water. Oh some water!
and found their young Federal olnFer
sit ing 1t the root of u tree, si4o'
! through. They took his canteen, ran
down TO the creek. filed il: one OF them
took OF his coat and wet it, and tney
ran back. gave him water. and batheG
| his face. Rallying moment ana
! catching the word home from the
| frightened remark of one Of theEl aDout
going home. he ina gined himself OH
! the Brandywine, his curly-headed BOY
on his knee, and said: ''kneel oo"ii
now, and say your prayers for father'
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! to sleep" which the two little Conieo-
crates and their two little negro com
panions repeated after him 10 the end:
And then he said Kiss me goodnight;
| they kissed him, all four. Then ne
! wandered among the old scenes TIL
he passed away. 1t was these Hltie
| boys that tenderly carried him IN
! Imagination back home to die.
Let the service of these boys Suggest
the spirit Of the rejuvenated South
Carolina college, henceforth to De a
real university. Rescued from a perl
lous past she has now to enter upon
the greater mission of new century
On a thousand hillsides III upper Car
olina, where far away mountains open
up visions Of the Infinite, along ,tne
midland plains. where low murmurlnls
streams call to deeper musings on the
mysteries Of life, beside the soundlns
shore where the symphony OF the sea
answers back the ceaseless requiem OF
the pines, inviting to measureless
reaches Of dominion, there will be many
a young man-nany a young woman
crying: water! oh for some wafer!
Some will be dreaming, longing, strus-
Cling, fighting, almost despalring'
some will be shot through, oleedms
and dying. They will be cry!ns tMol M
help to achieve themselves-crylng 1ol
help in the art of living; for thar mas
terry over things, forces and condltlons
which is the souls true Wea!th-1oI
that recognition in their integrlty aHo
that their true worth, which is the
birth-right of US all-for that knoWl-
edge which marks ont eVer-Wldenlng
areas for the souls conquest, and
martials ever new forces for victory;
for that sense Of the beautiful, which
fills the desert wastes Of the World
with Sweet birds, sweet prospects ana
sweet flowers" for that balancing OF
the souls elemental energies and mas
ter-pa ssions which secures our rlght-
full place in the larger content OF Whlch
we are a part, crying for lmmedlate
contact with the whole range OF rea!lty
which is the genuine life; for that
pushing out Of their apprehenslVe linn
itations which produces the expanding
life; for that total inheritance be-
uueathed by our Father which gives
the full life; for that Symmetrical self
command which brings the complete
life; crying for that responsiveness
to the whole environment which is the
abundant life; crying, above all, for
that communion with God which alone
can quiet the restless spirit, Quench the
deepest thirst, and bring peace at even
tide.
The Palmetto State, old and new,
commissions this university, a veritable
-priestess, to hear these cries and
go fohth Respondent with supernall
glories and clad in the official robes of
a formal priesthood, but in the plain
garments Of the common people, to
help bring the answers.
In the name of a thousand precious
| memories, we bid her go.