The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-06-17
THE TRANSMISSION OF IDEALS
Continued from page i.)

THE TRANSMISSION OF IDEALS
Continued from page i.)
boarding hall, and pay higher price.
for work in the laundry. and buy
a beautiful bouquet for every grad
uate. Berea College is rich, il ha:
siO,OOOr'
Now the youngest child here car
see that these things are not true
Berea College can never spend the
same money twice. That $4,000
belongs TO those 1000 students, and
Berea College is their guardian and
trustee. II Berea College lets any OF
that money go in any way some
student will suffer. Suppose the
College is careless just for one mo-
ment, and spends $40 for flowers,
beautiful flowers, or is cheated out OF
$40 in a land purchase. then the
pile OF silver dollars will be short.
When the 1000 students come to ~
their education. one hundred get in,
and five hundred, and nine hundred,
and nine hundred and ninety-nine;
but one student is left out. Her
money was spent for flowers, or was
wasted in the boarding hall, or the
College was cheated out Of it. And
that money thus gone can never be
given out over again-it is gone. One
student is disappointed, defrauded
So I charge you, and | charge oil
my successors, to remember that the
money that comes TO Berea College
be il much or little, is a sacred trust
You are bound TO use it for the larg'
est possible good. Berea College
never can be rich as long as anybody
in these mountain is poor.
And this is a religious charge
God hath made Of one blood all
classes, he is the father Of all men
and he is the especial guardian
OF the humble. Almost all educa-
tiOnal institutions sin in rObbine
the poor to indulge their taste for
architecture. Or music, or flow
ers Ior just plain self-indulgence
OF easy living. Berea College is
precious in Gods sight because she
belongs 10 the lowly. And Berea
College never can be rich as long
as anybody in these mountains
is poor.
There is also a Latin motto ON
our seal. The Romans had several
such mottOes-palma non sine pull
vere-vincit qui perstat-but this is
the noblest, the one that is most OF
a paradox, vincit qui patitur-He
conquers who suffers.
This is a cosmic law@No achieve
ment without sweat, no birth with
out agony. The Romans knew 1t,
and Christ approved it. He became
the captain Of our salvation made
perfect through suffering"
The name Berea stands for true
religiOn-readiness to receive the
truth, and searching the word OF
God as a loving, obedient child.
The scripture motto stands for
love TO our fellow mn-God hath
made them all OF one blood, and we
must have like His an impartial love
and sympathy for those most in
need.
And now this Roman motto stand:
for that earnestness that presses
forward regardless OF consequences
self-forgetful beyond the bound;
Of comfort, into the martyrs field
This motto is the glorious one
after all. Its precept was so i'm
poFtant that God could not wait fol
the New Testament, and he reveal
ed il TO the Romans before the New
Testament was published. Victory
achievement, the thing worth while
comes, and comes only TO those
whose desires and efforts amount L
agony.
lie that received the seed int
stony places, the same is he tina
heareth the word and at once will
JOY receiveth il. Yet hath he no
root in himself, but dureth for I;
while: For when tribulation or per
seeution ariseth because Of tn
word, at once he is offended