The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1916-11-30
UNITED CHAPEL
United Chapel was Addressed Thurs-
day Morning by Bishop Bdwin
Holt Hughes. Of the Method
ist Church

Bishop Hughes said in part:
IN have been asked by college
students three questions pertaining
TO the financial side of a college edu-
cation.
where shall I get the money 10
pay for college educations
IF take a college course will I
be losing four years from the wage
earning period'of my life?
III take college course will I
increase my ability TO be wage
Garner?
Answering the first question: In
the first place ] advise you 10 get
all the money you can from your
father and mother. The fact that
so many Of our great men have earn
ed their way thru college Is no
reason that we should sacrifice just
in order 10 do the same. How
ever. there is no able bodied young
man in our country who cannot get
an education IL he has the other
prerequisites. For instance, grit
is needed as much as money. n
you have grit. the fidelity. the cour-
age. etc. and health you can get an
education.
Answering the second question:
What IL you lose four years from
the wage earning period OF your
life9 One Of my friends in Boston
was working at six dollars week
In Fast Boston. Little. Brown & Co..
the great Boston publishers, offered
him three dollars week. I'm
mediately the East Boston publishers
offered him n raise 10 nine dollars
week. In consideration OF the
two positions he saw that the best
salary paid by the East Boston firm
was fifteen dollars a week, while in
Little. Brown & Co, there was no
limit 60 what could be earned. This
young man had the foresight N
look ahead and accepted the posi-
tion with Little. Brown 4 Go. Only
month ago I rode in his limousine.
and at present he Is a member OF
the firm Of Little. Brown 4 Co. II
may he a similar sacrifice % lose
four years from your wage earning
period Of life.
answering the third question:
BY accepting certain professions Of
educated men you forever stamp
your foot on the ambition 10 be a
millionaire. shall assure the
members Of the faculty that
they shall never become wealthy as
long as they stay in their profession.
The young man who enters the min
istry forever turns his back on the
largest salaries. May I ask you .
few questions in History Who was
the wealthiest man in Greece at the
time when Homer was writing his
immortal Iliad, not considering
kings9 Who was the wealthiest man
in Rome at the time st. Paul was
laying the foundation for the great
Christian Church? Who was the
richest man in Germany at the time
Luther. the great reformer. was at
tracing the attention Of the world
10 his religious zeal and truthsS
Coming down TO our own history.
who was the richest man in the
American Colonies al the time
George Washington livedf Some
may answer George Washington
HIMSELF: others Peter Faneuil, and
more. Robert Morris. However these
men do not live in our memory
Of Americans. because OF the wealth
they accumulated, but because OF
their noble and unselflsh deeds. No
man has ever, or will ever, stand
on the pages OF History because OF
riches.
However, let me give you few
facts on the third question. The
average boy, with a grade education.
earns 800 year. The average boy.
who completes high school course.
earns siiOO year. The average
man. who holds a college diploma,
earns $500. You see that each step
gives an increase OF 500. n the
students work for forty years with
this gain per year. his high school
course DR. college degree will be
worth $4,000 10 him. In other
words every year that you spend In
the Academy or College you earn
81, 900. and you do not know what