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

We begin our centennial celeprat'CIi
today with an act Of worship-with an
uplifr Of the heart to God in song and
prayer, reading and meditation. Inc
speaker would wish to be impersonal,
a mere voice. speaking the sentiments
and heart Of the 5000 men, the 5000
t,u.1lni of the college, living and dead:
q voice speaking the sentiments OF the
l,4OO, 600 living citizens OF South Caro-
lima. and of the dead Of three genera
tiOnS gone.
The speaker would sink his own per-
sonality. and let his voice be the cnan-
mel through which are proclaimed the
religious faiths and hopes, the ideals
and aspirations OF a people. In pro-
found sense our worship today is the
official act Of a people, State, stand
ing with uncovered head, upllfted
hands and reverent heart before Al
mighty God and pouring out to Him
petition, Thanksgiving ard praise. We
thank God for Ills mercies past we
invoke His continued help and guld-
ance, as we sit at the feet OF our hun
dred years or history TO learn the les
sons it may teach.
1t is a day Of review and menlorE-a
! day of hope and anticipation. We look
: back in order that we may see forward,
and above all that We may strive on,
wiser. better and rnightier. We recall
the past and link it with the present
in order that our future may excel the
glory Of the past.
Century of Stewardship.
The college gives account today OF
it's century of stewardship. 1t calls the
long roll Of it's alumni professors and
trustees. six thousand ,strong! Their
spirits hover over US as We stand to-
day reviewing our work for them, and
their work Cor the world. From all
parts of the earth, from the tombS IN
many lands. they gather in spectral
forms; yet visible and glorious to the
eye Of imagination and faith, to pass
in review before the great Master of
Souls, the Lord of Truth, and through
us, the living who represent them, tell
what they have been, and what they
have done to make the world better.
We call the roll of the dead to glory
in them, and thank God for them,
and to live worthily of them, by COM
pleting their work. The only true
appreciation Of the dead is the catch
ing from them inspiration, and high re,
solve. They tried to make the world
better, wiser and stronger. One aim
Of their work was TO enable us, their
successors, to excesu them. we may
not surpass their faithfuiness. We
may surpass their achievements.
Truly the works Of past generations
10 follow them when they spur their
descendants to higher living.
The joy and business of life are not
to get ahead OF other people but to get
ahead of ourselves, to break our own
record in we'll doing, that our todays
may outstrip our yesterdays and our
tomorrows our todays. Bear trial
more bravely. resist temptations more
completely, put a nobler spirit in duty,
and a finer touch on work. Only such
living helps the worlds work and light
ems the worlds burdens.
Every noble life leaves its fibre IN
terwoven forever in the work of the
world-thus adding it's strength to the
power of the race" The history Of the
world is vast fabric, an ever-weavins
network whose strands are human
lives good or bad, weak or strong
rough or smooth. A true man, though
among the myriad fibres of the finished
fabric, adds to the beauty and strength
of this web, endlesSly woven on the
loom OF time.
We stand aside to behold for mo-
ment the woven web of century
work. It gives heart and cheer to see
the whole of what was done IN parts
Here the work Of one man, there the
work of another. day by day, year by
year, little by little has the wondrous
pattern grown. Thank God the work
of each and all does make a pattern!
A master mind coordinates and
master hand fits into His own mighty
plan each mans work, like the cathe-
dral Of Milan, each stone a separate
work of art, and yet the whole unit
May we not idealize our hundred years
cid college as great temple OF char
acters, radiant in marble of manhood
and glorious in stone Of virtue?
From each days work and each mans
deed
An unseen whole at last doth grow;
great.
We come, we see, we iinger and we
pass:
We weave but single thread in wet
of state,
Or give the field a single spear of grass
We sound one note in the worlds re-
frain,
We lay one stone on the growing pile
The mass seems planless, huge anc
vast;
But 10! when all is done, through al
an Had rings,
In all temple shines, DER all an an
them sings"
The States Conception.
Beginning the celebration of the
centennial of a State institution witt
religious worship, our minds naturally
turn to the relations between religion
and education. Reviewing the histor!
of the State and the college in thei1
relations to one another, the views o.
our forefathers on this subject stan(
out full and clear. The fathers Of oul
State had very decided opinions as t
the relations between education ant
religion. In 1910 the general assembl!
passed an act to found a free schoo
ITO teach grammar, other arts ant
sciences and useful learning and th'
Christian religion In 1872 an &C
was passed (to complete the act o
1870 establishing a free school IL
Charleston Ito teach the classics ant
the principles Of the Christian religion.
In Gov. Bulls day, Jonn Rut
ledge framed a bill for the College o
South Carolina, TO teach the classics
Hebrew and divinity
In 1901, when the leading men of tn
State began formulating the plans TO
= State college, a controlling nlotiv
that Influenced their conduct was tn
fact that our young men had to leaV
the borders of South Carolina for
college education, and they though
that it was the duty Of the State t
nrovide for all the educational want
-6f our people within our borders. an
- finally. in 1905. after the college ha
been chartered IN 1901. the doors Of th