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an unfaltering devotion that is beyond all words of praise. The members of the faculty have tasked their noble walents in self-denving service which mere money can never compensate. The students. by a singular gentility <f conduct and steadfastness of appli cation have proved their devotion by their deeds. The town of Newberry proudly claims "our college" as the chief iewel in its encircling crown of hills. Our visitors prv e their friend ship by their presence. But of all .ur rinds. behold the leader there. When George Hli!an<i breathed his steroststregth im, Is dying" ,Prayer "Go:i bles Newberry Col lg." it Wa et orge Cr iner that straightway became the obedient in strunnt of the divine hlessing. At the cost or sacritice which l h.s ever been too modest to acknowlcdge. he quiebtly I-id aside the t-1ga of the iurist for the mantle that fel, trom heaven. And now when once more. with impaired strength but ennobled spirit, he enters tha: career which is evermore his debtor for his consent ing to adorn it. Newberry college will follow him with the fond pride which a mother bestows upon her favorite son: while she rejoices that he will continue to dwell close by her fos tering side, to cheer her by his pres ence. to inspire her younger sons with his own -high ideals. and to counsel her in every time of need. God-spe.ed to you. our best friend, tried and true. Friends of Newberry college. I pro pose without further ado to discubt with you the question this morning. Why should the college have friends? What is there in the character -of such an institution as New berry to deserve the loyal devo tion of right-thinking men and wo men? " hat reason has a college li!fe Newberry for continued existence and support in these days of the numerous vich universities? What makes the college worth while? And I think we ought to find an answer to such ques tion in the c,.isideration of the end which the college pursues. and of the means which it ought to adopt toward the end. Or. to state the subject in somewhat different terms, I shall try to answer the general question. "\Vhy should the college have friends?" by a discussion of the subject and the method of Christian collegiate edu cation. Observe that I am speaking. of a college as distinct from a university. The two spheres are entir-ly diverse. You cannot make a universi'y simply by dubbing a college with the name. A university is a collection cf technical schools for the purpose, of producing specialized workmen. The key-word of a university is specialism. But specialism, in order to flourish, must be grafted upon a firm and well de veloped stock. It is the function of a college to produce that stock by a careful process of general culture. The college does not stand for es pecial culture in one particular di Ttioj~n, but for that precedent gener al culture without which successful specialization cannot be achieved. It is not necessary that every educated man should be a specialist, but it is necer.sary that he be broadly cultured. a.nd the college is to assist him to this end. Let us proceed now to inquire as to what this general culture, in its esence. really is. I ask at once. is it not only another name for a culti vated. wvell developed manhood? Does not culture stand for character, and is not character just another way of spelling manhood? Then let me re mark at the outset, to begin with the physical rudiments, that the first foun dation of a sound manhood is a sound body. Manhood can exist without it. as many suffering heroic lives have proved. But the normal plan is sure ly for the body to be the keen,.strong tool of the soul, and the welfare of the average individual is vastly en hanced by the possession of physical strength. It is one of the primary <duties of a college. therefore, to pro vide for the bodily training of its wards. I believe in athletics. I do not believe in brutal sport, but as be tweeni two evils, if I had to choose. I wo.uld prefer the rough clown to the effeminate coward. Far better. let us have neither. Athletics should always be held in its rightful place. as a means to an end. The sole ob ject of bodily training is to provide a sotund body for a sound mind, a clean and wholesome temple for the soul. What is the soul? It is the spirit of which the body is the shrine. Hid fronm all earthly vision, veiled in a se ful, its essence forever an unsolve< enigma. we nevertheless can know it no,des of action. and the chief aim o eh:cationt is to make and keel) thes, modes of actio:n string and free. Tht ml is known t, mie as that inv-isihlt true self within me which thinks an< feels and wills. F-r ptirposeS of con venience we are therefore accustone< t, divide the indivisible :.nd recogniz th-: three soul-faenlties .f the inte! lee:. the sensibilities. and the wi ! It is the chi-f oftice of the Christh c cllege t l ciltivate llarmnious!y thi hpiritual man. It teache hli;m tknow aright in -rder that h may r ightly fcel. t the end that ii r'.tht-:u will may vtraightway in well balanced actions that serve thc hil'hc-t welfare of tie world. I1h - c 27!e eaims t' l>roducte a sain a ndl venyhalanced manhn.)d. -teady !!iwllCed. w%here head and li-ar and will act in a perfect unison o mtsical .ervice. No other educati-m ai truth is so important as that w( mvuist always be on guard against th< ,over emphasis of any one of the,; three faculties. or the neglect of any one of them. for the result in either case is sure to be a discordant cul ture which means a deformed devel ;Opment. an inharmonious character a manhood that falls below its possi ble maximum of harmonious excel lence. No less a witness than Charles Darwin gives startling testimony t< this all-important fact out of his owt experience. In his latter life he bit terly regretted that his purely scien tific training had causd his -sensibil ities toward music and poetry. his higher tastes. as he says, -to become "atrophied." "Up to the age of thir tv"-I quote from his life and letters --pbetry of many kinds gave me great pleasure. and even as a school boy I took intense delight in Shakes peare. especially in the historica plays. I have also said that formerl3 pictures gave me considerable, and music very great delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry. I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine foi I grinding general laws out of large collection of facts. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the incellect and nore probably to the mora! char acter. by enfeebling the emotiona part of ur nature." When too lat< to draw personal prolit from the les 0son. this great spxialis: in natura law d-zovered the he himself had violated the great law ot spiritna harmony. and paid the penalty. 1 is not that we have no need for sin tific specialists. By all means let us have all the specialized scholars w< can get. for only upon the basis of rigorous division of labor can the rac, make progress towvard the acquire nent of truth. But a man's shar< in the large full life of the worl< should be so firmly and so permanent lv secured ior him that whether hi be preacher or scientist, farmer .oi college professor. he should still be man "for a' that" with sensibiltes at keen as -his intellect, and sympathie: no less profound .than his knowledge But there is danger equally grea on the side of the cultivation of the enmotions at the expense of the intel lect and will. The annals, of poetry and music, two noble arts which ap peal chiefly to the sensibilities fo1 response-are not those annals stain ed on many an otherwise gloriout page with the emotional excesses o: genius? Nor have the musicians anc the poets alone a monopoly of thit fault of emotional excess. Common place men suffer from it constantly In one man it takes the form of .2 mandlin sentimentality which hindenl justice in the pursuit and punishmen1 of crime. In another it begets an un governable temper. which degradet him in his own sight and in the es teenm of his fellows. Still others be come libertines and sots. In any case the result is a defective and inhar monious manhood. because the educa tion,. the development, of the man has lacked even balance and propei proportion, full manhood being noth ing else than the resonant music o the well-attuned soul, with its three fold chord of intellect, sensibilities and will. Last, but not least, no man-building can be anywise complete that ignore: or- neglects the will. For the willi (f the very essence of manhood which implies above everything els ust strength. -Tnl the fact of th I hinian will there is a grandly ma je4tic suggestion that compels us to ith'nk about God. as though in the S-,t wai of this wonderful power of h..ie- I e h ad given tZ 1s somewhat .. HimslfI. ungli v. gr:tlde-r 1- t)ur dust. S . near - Go(l to man. When duty whisper w. Thou must. The y-lth replie-. I can. : \' a rea: lritish p.-: ]wh- clici pci7:rc tle i ue st f pv i-.t , r t :at wecet spir:.ial citV t- r.w! all truith and purity and w," r h:Il wh'-e will -itrong: Suffers. but h! will iot sifftr long: e elut h I canIo: suffe F - him nor mov-es the loud world's randinm mock. N ai! Calamity'- 1 gest waves co nfoundc. h seems a promiontory oi rock. That. c;npas,'d roun! with turbulent sound, i middle ocean meets the surging shock. Tempest-buffeted. citadel-crown'd. Bit ill for him who. bettering not with time. Corrupts the strength of heaven-de scended Will. .\nd ever weaker grows thro' acted crime. Or seeming-genial venial fault. Recurring and suggesting still: He seems as one whose foot-steps I halt. Toiling in immeasurable sand. And o'er a weary sultry land. Far beneath a blazing vault. Sown in a wrinkle of the monstrous hill. The City sparkles like a grain of salt. The true Christian college must shun as it were death, because it does truly mean miasma for the soul. whatsoever teaching may impeach in any form "the strength of heaven-de scended Will"-whether it be the blind determinism of a materialistic evolution. the insidious fatalism which pervades a certain pessimistic school of literature, or the distorted doctrine of an abortive creed. These must be supplanted by a wholesome inculcation of the godlike doctrine of choice, and the Will must be prac tically trained in the noble discipline of self-control. without which charac ter can never begin to be. And yet. on the other hand. the will may be overtrained at the expense of the head and the heart. at the ex pense of a musical character. The man who is purely practical. and nothing more. is not the ideal man for whose building the college should labor. I imagine the famous Dr. Fell to have been a type of the purely * actical man-pilloried forever in those four quaint lines: I do not like thee. Dr. Fell. The reason why I cannot tell: But this I know. T know full well. I do not like thee. Dr. Fell. In these dayc, however, he is usual ly a business man. whose motto is success. whose world is his petty lit tle. trade. and whose only god is his wimll. Hard. unfeeling, dominant, un reasoning. the purely practical man is possibly the greatest menace that confronts society today. with his con tempt for the intellectual and the hu inanities. with his stony determina tion to beat and hammer his way, at whatever cost to others. straight to his selfish goal while the blind world stands by and applauds. The fact is. that while you hear men talk of the intellectual type of man hood. and the emotional type of man hood: and the practical type of man hood, there is only one type of man hood, after all, and it is none of these, but it unites them all into one. The true man is he whose brain is clear and sane. but not self-worshipful: whose heart can feel true pity. but 'harden itself against sham sentiment: and whose will is at once a noble agent for his own control and an engine in the work of the world. The true gentleman is one in whom the ele ments are so mixed that nature can stand up and say, Behold a man; and whose true epitaph might be. "He saw life steadily and saw it whole. "The true Christian college is a man builder:" therefore should the college have friends. But the friends of the college musi see to it that the work of the schoo: (Continued on Sixth Page.) I ittle touche. of sorrow deepen our I - iraze into lifC. All other suffering is mild and pleas and compared with that of a woman who has paralysis of the tongtie. Take Notice. June 8, '04, at 10 a. m. Fach and a!l par:ics who are hold a key or keys to the box of mon er exhin:d in our show window. are herebi notiied that they iust call -n :re sp'ciled date and hour inl or .e that they may try their key or ler a ee whe:her they wil unlnck kc,- an L' fiv % flc thle b')x. The col.:win. enitions mus: be utrikl c. mpiled wvith: Ti.h party -elected to conduct the trial of keys shall be in absolute control at all times of said box. Lock and permi:: n r,ugh usage or break age of lock oi box. 2. No kev shall or will be allowed to be used to unlock the box unless key is accompained by the original card. 3. No key will be tried more than once or alowed to unlock the box more than once. and will be taken by the party in charge of the box. 4. The party whose key unlocks the box the first time will be entitled to ten dollars ($io.oo). 3. The party whose key unlocks the box the second time will be en titled to six dollars ($6.oo). 6. The party whose key unlocks the box the third time shall be en titled to four doll, ..; ($4.oo). 7. No money shall be paid to either of the three (3) parties unless each has signed a sworn statement. testifying that they are the prope owners of the keys and that every thing appertaining to the trans action was fair. honest and legiti mate. 9. Every owner of keys must fall in line and await his turn. 9. No further notice shall be re quired or issued. Please act accordingly. Respectfully. O0. KLETTNER. Duf ys Pure LOOK FOR THIS TEADE-N MEDICINE FOR At aHl druggists or grocers or direct, 8 Malt Whiskey Co., Bochester, New York. For Sale in all South STOP AN * Wanted purchasets at our ste $and up-to-date fu,rniture and 4 opened in this city. 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