The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-10
Our Endowment Fund.

Lear DISlHTcly aFen you Rla
that at last we are to begin our wor
for that one-half million dollars TO
our great institution? I am! M
heart leaps for joy to learn that tn
plans are ready. 1t seems that w
could have had them long ago an,
that we ought to have half tn
money raised by this time; but per
haps it's better not to be in too biz
a hurry, and still we have watched
the big things go lover the top" 81
many times thct we just like to DE-
big things and hear of big things
being done. For long time l have
wondered why our church could Oh
did not do big things end more OF
them than it does.
At this time we have q proposition
before us, and / wonder if we are
going to put it "ovcr the top" Our
plans are to raise six hundred thou
Send dollars to erect great insti-
tuition for our church, having both
literary and theological departments,
and no doubt this is what our church
needs and what we must have If we
hold our place among the churches
of the day and do what God would
have us do.
We have been anxiously awaiting
the program of the committee, and
now we are told that they have it
ready, and now we are ready to
work at it. After ell, our plans are
not for such enormous things; other
churches of far Ices means have done
greater things. The Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, has erected
number of schools for moro expensive
than the one that we propose to
build; and that same church is now
raising one hundred million dollars
for reconstruction work. If they
can do so many great things, surely
we can do one thing, and especially |
If that thing means tho. saving of our
own life as church.
Have we right to place in the
world? Are VIC going to make our
church count in the reconstruction
Of the world? Sure we have right,
but unless we do the work that God
would have us do, 1t will be taken
rom us and given to another. Do
We believe and ere we honest when
We say that we have the greatest
ystem of doctrine in tho world. We
nay answer in the affirmative. Our
ystem is, as we believe, thought
tut under inspiration and has the
Bible for its guide. But the time
las come when the world is demand
ng "action"-in other words, "prac-
ical Christianity" If we believe
hat we have such a precious system
I doctrines and that we should keep
UGH alive, why not prove it to the
,orld by erecting a decent place
here we can invite people to come
nd get their education under the
lfiuence of such wonderful system |
teaching? \
The trouble is not that we don't t
ave good system of teaching, not t
nat we are not able, not that we {
ont have the money, not that the 4
ajority of the people do not de-
re to have such an institution. We
ave the best system of teaching; t
e have the means; we have the n
lthusiasm of the people for such 2
institution, as was shown by the a
'ople at Dallas last spring when the Il
port was made and the plan sug-
,sted.
The trouble has been, in our n
lurch. that few, because they "
mt have things their way, fight n
cry move for advancement and SO n
Ill the energies of the rest that
ey can't push on and accomplish .,
cir aims.
Now, brethren, what are we going y
do? Are we going to let this
ain fail or arc we going to put It .
er the top? Let us get together =
d pull one long pull and stick to "
until the last brick is placed on
e building and the school of Cum
rland Presbytorianism is properly
q comfortably housed and the
nner Of the whosoeverwill doctrine in
ats high above it. o. how we long I,
see the day when we shall see this n
III done! Come one, come all, and n
IS do it. We can! Will we?-B. of
Covington in Cumberland Presby- 81
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