The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-21
COLLEGE LAUNCHES
WEEKS CAMPAIGN
Bishop Hendrix Delivers
Sermon on Youth
J. II. MCCOY PRESIDES
Value of Youth Theme of interest
ing Sermon by Bishop Hen
drix-The Blessings of
Civilization
]. H. MCCOY PREsIDEs

Civilization
The weeks endowment campaign for
Birmingham college was lannshed yester-
day afternon at the First Methodist
church when Bishop E. r. Hendrix ad-
dressed a mass meeting in preparation for
the active work today. The meeting was
presided over by Bishop ]. II. Mccoy,
who introduced Bishop Hendrix and spoke
briefly himself of the plans for the col
lege.
In the 30 years that he had lived in
Birmingham, he said, he had seen every
church edihce either built or rebuilt. He
was disconnected, by the lack of regard
for the source from which the church
drew her ministers, he said In going
over the roll of the North Alabama con-
ference, he declared, there was but 'one
man who was a graduate of state in
stitution. The church required trained.
leadership. he pointed out, and he was
glad to see that the people were waking
up to the necessity of providing place
where they could be trained. He paid Il
graceful tribute to Bishop Hendrix, who
spoke in part as follows:
"A great statesman recently said that
as the young men were thinking today
so the nation would be tomorrow. 1t is
great thing to see nation saved by
its young men. And it always occurs.
Who makes the armies? The young men.
Who won the revolutionary war? The
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the nights at Valley Forge and who
crossed the Delaware. Statesmen always
keep an eye on the youth of the nation.
Bismark has said that what the young
men are planning determines the nation.
Who elects the. President? The. young
men. Did you ever know a young man
to forget to vote the first time he was
able? When we grow-older perhaps we
may forget that privilege, but the young
man never forgets. The nation is saved
by its youths If the youths refuse to
serve in the army. where would it be?
Who run the railroads? The young men.
The railroad like the army has no use for
the man over 49, Who fill the manufac-
turing plants? The young men.
Importance of Young Men
'"rhe young men give nation moral
tone, They determine its attitude on mo-
mentous questions. 1t is of vital moment
what the young men are thinking.
Edmund Burke said that education is
the chief defense of a nation. Educated
men wrote the Declaration of Independ-
ence. Educated men wrote the constitu-
ton. They were all young men, by the
way. 1t was young men who commanded
are armies of the nation in the revolu-
ton.
1.-THE nation looks to the young men.
They are studying diseases, searching for
germs, striving in all ways to make the
world better. DIR. Alexis Carol, who was
awarded the Nobel prize for medicine, is
young man. Young men are inval-
liable The whole map of the world has
been changed by young men. What young
men are thinking today determines the
morrow.
God thinks of young men. All the
disciples were young mer:-wisely young
men. A great life is lofty purpose
formed in youth and seasoned and car
institution of learning that young man
gets the vision that is to determine his
after life.
ut is a great thing to work for God.
1t is a greater thing to work under God.
But the sublmest thing in the world IS
to- work with God, side by side; to mingle
the sweat of man with the sweat OF
God.
Christ Called Young Men
This was what Christ meant when
He called young men. He gave them a
sense of companionship. They We're work.
ing with God. There are not II names
in all ancient history better known or
more honored today than those II. VINO
do we name our churches for?
..The most wonderful monument in all
London is not to wellington. not to Mel
son, not to naval or army hero 1t IS
the magnificent edifice of st. Paul, named
for one of these. 1t is there that the
great events of the nation occur
.It is the worship of God that works
that has made gerat nations of the world.
Ueathen gods do not work. They sleep
or fight. Christ disclosed the only God
fhat is not satisfied with the world as it is
and to whom the world was not yet nm
isbed. Man has been more worker
since his redemption than before his rail-.
.The test of the man is what he loves
10 do. The great things of this world
have been done by men who formed a
lofty purpose in their youth and as sea-
soned men carried it out. When man
has reached so lie has just begun to learn
what he can do. | want to i've 10 pc loo
wears old. !, There is SO much going on
that II cannot have part in II want
to see 1t.
1.-THE test OF the man Is hot nv" Aioi -
serve him, but how many he serves. Ma
poIeon is no longer esteemed as the qrs'
Frenchman but Pasteur. who served ~
whole nation by the discoveries he WaQe]
s.God is the greatest worker heQ3420
God is the greatest thinker. WorE3
matter of brain. God is the gfA
architect. the greatest mason. then
est chemist, the greatest buud6l
greatest ieweler And in the mates
pect God is as marvellous in pre4fr
as in creation 80 ~
Man is honored by being; ;1c4
Gods side as a worker. The 3iN(
classes are always the da1}94
They are the ones that hurl
Ana shall man be unemplq
works of God? Man works
il is mans world and God's 90
gave man the raw materials an@ - LA
developed them. Let man wttbdraw MS
hand and the beasts of the Forest the rep
tiles of the field resume their sway.
blessings of Civilization
"Where are all the pestilences, bubonlc
plague. asiatic cholera and famines'
They are in heather lands.
! "It is the man that God masters that
| masters men. So God wants to know
what the young men are thinking. And
| we can't work with God unless we have
| the spirit. The world must be saved by
| love and self sacrifice. The church wants
trained men. the men of the spirit.
Get ready for the work. God needs
trained men. Christ prospers in colleges
! Christian colleges. and ii is the safest