The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-15
THE WORK OF j. PIERPONT
MORGAN AND CECIL RHODES

! To the Editor Of The Dawson News:
/ Where no vision is the people
perish What hath God wrought?
And of Zion it shall be said, this man
was born in her, and the Highest shall
! establish her.
A friend, whom l value highly,
who is a product of the commercial
ism that would establish in our
schools only so-called practical
courses, writes Select for me
subject for my senior thesis. 1t must
be a practical subject, for YOU know
ours is a practical school Yet the
| most practical man whom the world
has produced to date, or rather the
two most practical men and the two
who have wrought most nightly for
the upbuilding of humanity and the
final dream of the prophet their
swords shall be beaten into plow-
shares and their spears into pruning
hooks, and men shall learn war no
more were the products of men and
a religion that could see visions.
Both Cecil Rhodes and j.. PierpOnt
Morgan's fathers saw that their i'm
aginations were developed. Both
were senior wranglers at Oxford,
England, and both were sincere and
devout christians. Rhodes united
by his plans and his money the leu
tonic races, for his scholarships at
oxford, open to German, American
and English, wherever born, whether
in colonies or in their fatherlands,
will finally bind these races into an
indissOluble bond which will say to
warning nations everywhere; Thus
oh a fur or
The lowering of flags OF all nations
when Morgan died was a tribute to
his learning-his benefcent life
not to his wealth, for while he was
the richest man of his day he was
also the most learned and belonged
by right of his learning to more for
eign literary guilds than any man
living And his ambition to make
his country the greatest creditor ma
ton on the globe was fulfilled, and
when he ceased his labors here Amer
lea could sell her bonds and get
money on easier terms than any ma
ton in existence; and the further
ambition to so fix values that no
mans going away would unsettle
them came to pass.
But he had other ambitions, and
they are being fulfilled-to place
where all men wanting to study the
things of the Imagination could study
the best in sculpture, in painting, in
all the best of everything produced
by the masters of all lines of thought
everywhere Carnegie is known for
his gifts to schools; Rockefeller for
his to hospitals, but without Morgan
both would have been naught, for
with his imagination he carved out
the way through which the streams
produced by these minor channels
should flow, and by his practical
sense he made them realities. And
while loving with all his might his
own and being one of the most HUI
man of fathers yet his mind made
him the greatest man save Rhodes,
and his equal, produced by the nine
teenth century of christianity. His
researches in Bible lands, and those
done by means furnished by him
have driven infideIity from the field
of intelligent thought and brought
to light irrefragible proofs of the
Bibles divine origin, and these will
until the Kingdoms of this
world shall become the kingdoms of
our God and Christ
ANDREW P. RIVES-
Cuthbert, Ga, April II, 1913. u
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