The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1917-05-03
Hall, | have spoken.

VIII anu WiloSe SURVIVING DfOtnef
proposes to complete the payment
ON that building for which we are
still in debt.
The Bruce Printing Building COM
mcmoratrs the man who invented
the standardized form of type.
And the Fay Forest. Miss Fay
has visited Bcrca once and has given
most Of the money for the purchase
# the Fay Forest.
We have just raised an efficiency
Fund Three years of effort, in
which Mrs. Frost and | have been
banished from home. We have the
names Of 3ii persons who have sub
scribcd and as Miss Smith, my Sec
rotary, said. That is q carefully
nurscd list" Those are people we
have met, talked with, visited in
their homes. Probably twenty of
them died this last winter. but there
are over 800 Of the living people
who made pledges toward this Fund.
Here is one of the promoters of
the Ladies Hall. This is William
Thaw, the creator of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad System. He was Mr..
Fees friend. He believed i'm Berea
in the early days and they built
that Hall, when Berea was wilder
ness. They had to make the brick
down here in the garden. A sur
veyor working on the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad years after saw
the building through his transit and
said, MY God whoever put up a
building like that in this wilder
ness must have had faith"
Here is the lady who gave the
money for the free text book library
for the Foundation School.
Here is Mr.. Wilder, one of our
present Trustees, the man who gave
the money for our little YM.CA.
Building. Last winter when | fear
ed we could never raise the Elf
cheney Fund, we had come TO the
last days of il and | went home dis
couraged from my Office one night
lacking about $4,000, | was called
to the telephone, and | heard
voice from Boston: II will be re-
sponsible for $4,000" Mr.. Wilder
could not make himself heard so
his daughter spoke for him.
| cannot show you all, I have not
the pictures of many, but want to
show you this lady. She kept
students boarding house at Yale.
She barely had earned her living.
Her brother was minister and mis-
sionary in the west and when she
died she left Berea all she had,
81 900.
And now let me speak of one OF
our living donors. Very few peO-
ple may remember him, but there
was a man named Short who came
here for a few years to educate
son. He bought little piece OF
land from Professor Dodge and built
little house which we call the
Gardeners House. Mr.. Short built
that house and lived there with his
wife and one son and little daugh-
ter. He spent his own time going
around repairing the fences and the
buildings of Berea College. He gave
his time. He built the fence around
the Parish House and bought all the
material for il. Under the seats in
the Parish House are some little
Stats. He did that as labor OF
love, with his own hands. never
put my hat on one Of those racks
without thinking of Brother Short.
When he moved away he said, II
think il would be well for Berea
College TO own this land. II cost
me $500. | would like to give that
to Berea College but | can't just now,
but | will give half Of ii and you
will pay the other 5000 whenever
you can"
Such are a few of Berea's donors
Now wish you TO see what a found
er is, and what donor is. They
are men who believe in the invis-
ible. The founder sees something
that does not exist. He believes
that il ought to exist, and says in
the spirit of the song we have sung,
~ ought, ! will Then a donor is a
partner of founder. The donor
is a man who says "Yes, you found
or, you want TO do something. I
can't come and do it but | will help
you"
Now, friends, what are our hopes
and our responsibilities? Each of
these donors is a gift Of God, an ey-
preston of God. He sent them. sent
them at the right time, never too
many, but always enough.