The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-06-15
!THE HERALD AND NEWS.


up around her, and we' loys them
with all our hearts. didsnot know
when I. came exactly what Sto talk
about; I scarcely know now. have
not, given great pains to preparation,
largely by reason Of pressure Of
work, but chiefly because Of mental
laziness to which I am subject. I
wish to speak, however, Of the mar
velous period of history followed by
the last so years. Just prior to the
breaking out Of the Civil war, this
institution was erected to represent
great church. Scarcely had she open
ed her doors when the country was
drained Of its strong manhood and
almost every institution of learning
closed. At the close Of the war the
millions Of property which, had ac-
cumulated through centuries, was
swept away. Nothing but natural
resources were life. From 1865 to
1876 there came the men who took
delight in still further draining the
country Of everything they could lay
their hands upon. Then institutions
like this opened their doors to the
most poverty-stricken gang of boys
the world ever looked upon. Think
Of the conutry today, of its marvel
Gus development.
"With all her property swept away
in less than SO years she has accumu-
lated wealth vastly greater than the
accumulation Of centuries before.
What the source Of this prosperity.
Here is volume in the history of
Christian colleges that has never been
written. The mind gives values;
the mind makes values. We see
here these institutions standing by
our youth when the black man was
on every other institution and no
white man admitted. Here were the
men of today prepared. No debt of
gratitude is greater than that which
we owe to the institutions of THE
church during that dark period. Our
greatest debt of gratitude is always
to the past. This is true everywhere,
true in everything.
Here DR.. Daniel pointed to the
great manufactures dotting all the
to the network Of steel
bars crossing every state, to the
development of the great
cotton industry and the Harvesting
of our waterways and contrasted
the present with the past and demon
stratcd the power Of human thought
in bringing to pass these wonderous
He continued:
"Back Of the throb Of every en-
CINE lies thought and thought alone
gives it value. We do not appreciate
our schools as we should; God is a
great being, but he did not stultify
by making man complete.
God did not make everything. Do
not be carried away by that heresy,
even though the preachers do tell
you so. God made embryonic things
and left it for man to complete them.
[ once read history of dogs. Once
all dogs were wild; man developed
them; he developed the bulldog aud
the terrier and the flee. He develop
ed the graceful pointer and the in
telligent setter; the dog in which
nan put an idea and the dog trans
nits the idea that man put into him.
We can't even have setter dog with
out thought.
"Do you like flowers9 the botanist
ellis us that God made one flower
;he wild rose. Man took this annual
md brought it up until it blooms
every month in its beauty; what is
t but wild rose into which man has
out his thought. Everywhere we see
mans thought and Gods power.
Under the cultus of Christianity
is impaired that speaks
out through the eye but is not pres
ant in the eye Of the heather. Is not
this perfectly naturalq AS a matter
IF course, if man can put an idea in