The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-04-17
Or. PtARSONS' BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION
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Song, Bcrea. Thy Sons to Thy Jubi-
lee Throng-Quartette
Some Other Berea Donors -Presi
dent Frost.
Music by the Band.
Battle Hymn OF the Republic by
the Audience.
DR.. Roberts reviewed the life Of
DIR. Pearsons, drawing many valuable
lessons from II and cloquently pre-
senting them to his interested hearers.
President Frost was not present
owing to a severe cold which he con-
tracted on his recent trip. but his
address was read by DR.. Hubbard who
presided throughout the exercises.
President Frosts address follows:
PRES. FRosTs ADDRESS
The longest and most strenuous
life is. after all, only one bright spccK
on the long river of history. The
building Of institutions requires the
piecing together of countless lives
and the joining OF innumerable hands.
One soweth and another reapeth, y
and Il IL only In the great hereafter
that they shall all rejoice together
We celebrate today the BIRTH, In
tne far away Vermont mountains. OF
the great and kindly man who for
sixteen years has been Berca's chief
benefactor. IL is well that with his
memory we should celebrate those
who built Tic Berea which he found
here In 1895, and those who have CO.
operated with him in the great work
Only a few such can be mentioned at
this time. and | shall select such as
have wide Significance I'm the his
tory of our nation rs a whole.
To begin with. there was q Mission
airy Association which provided the
mcagre support of 500 year for
Father Fee and Father Rogers while
they were laying the foundations Of
our institution. The story OF the begin
ming OF the American Missionary AS
ISOLATION reminds uG of one of Coop
cr's sea tales.
II was back In the old days when
the slave trade Lad been but recent
ly prohibited. Somebody sighted a
ship In Long Island Sound making
MI ngstn hsa~a rA
was found that strange things had
happened. A number OF bold men had
taken the risk of disobeying the law
and sailed the ship. Amsted, to the
coast u Africa. and taken on a cargo
Of negro slaves. had started for
savannah. Among the slaves were
some men OF great strength. courage
and ability. They did what was rare
!! attempted-they rose upon their
captors. threw the majority of them
into the sea. and, sparing the lives II
two or three sailors. took direction
Of the ship and commanded that they
be brought back to their native Afri-
ca. The white men disobcycd this
command and finally brought up in
Long Island Sound. Here they were
, seized by the L. 5. war ship and
taken TO u. $. Court in New Haven.
Conn. The white survivors were tried
az pirates. the ship confiscated. and
the U. S. Government undertook TO
return the slaves to their homes in
A frica.
The whole case aroused widespread
attention and interest. A committee
of Christian men was formed to send
back with these liberated slaves somt
missionaries who should begin the
work OF evangelization ON the coaJ
of Africa.
There is a curious incident connect
ed with this adventure which occurr-
ed In my own family. My great-aunt
G half sister OF DR.. Cady. the archi-
/ tect, now a member OF our Board Of
! Trustees, took three or four Of these
slave girls into her house at Brook
Ign to care for them until the shin
should sail to carry them back to
/ Africa. She had experiences with the
pure uncivilizcd savage which were
topic OF conversation as long as