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RET. J. . SLIGNIS ELOQUENT ADDRESS FOR THIRTY YEARS PRESI DENT BOARD TRUSTES. Ful Text of His Ad*em at Cole' bration on Monda.-Pays Deserved Tribute to Dr. J. P. Smeltser. The following is the address of Rev. J. A. Sligh in full. He has been- president of the board .for thirty years, and forty-one years pastor of 6t. Paul's church, this couinty, which has probably sent more students to Newberry college than any other one church: "Mr. Chairman, Gov. Heyward and the representatives of the various colleges of the State, and ladies and gentlemen: It is a fact well known to you all, but nevertheless, should be repeat ed here with emphasis, that this is a proud day for Newberry college. This institution has passed through some dark. and depressing days, but this is not one of them. Light and sun shine, joy and gladness break in up on us from every side today. This doubtless is the brightest and hap piest day the college has ever exper ienced. We are glad indeed on this the 50th year of our existence as a college, to be hailed by such a hearty welcome, and such brotherly and soul-stirring greetings from you gen tlemen, in your representative capac ity. This welcome and these greetings spoken by a few, but voiced and made unanimous by this vast audi ence and thousands of others not present, come to us; it is true when our sun has risen high in the heavens, when every cloud seems to have pass ed away-when the battle has been fought and gloriously won, but never theless they make that sun shine but the brighter on this glorious day, and render our joy and happiness more full and complete, and thus dis persing more effectively any and every cloud that might threaten to obscure our future prospects and this welcome and these greetings and the .happy scents that now meet our eyes, increase a hundred fold our joy over the great achievements we have made in the past. That which enhances the triumphs and victories of a soldier and makes his heart leap and burn with joy and gratitude is the rememberance of the hardship and privations endured by him and the fierce and terrible conflicts and bat ties fought and won by the gallant Army of which he was a part. And me thinks, my friends, if you will ex cuse me, that feelings akin to this are possessed by the soldier of the cross of Christ, as he eands on the everlasting hills of heaveay felieity and - looks hack and remembers the conflicts and tribulations throngh which he passed to reach the eternal city, where lie has washed his robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. A similar feeling comes to the friends of Newberry college today, and especially to those who so well remember the trials and tri bulations through which this institu tion has passed. For 50 years we have been meeting difficulty after difficulty, we have watched and prayed and labored for the success and growth of the college, and now on this bright and propitious day you must not blame us if the cup of our joy should run over. "Gentlemey, we from our hearts can say to you that we are very glad to have you with us today, and that your presence and the kind and cheering words spoken by you are not only encouraging to us, but that they bring us all nearer together in that glorious work: the education of the people, all the people-both male and female-of the State of South Carolina; whether that education tends to the beautifying and adorn ment of our homes, or to the cultiva t.ion of our fields, to the. gospel or to the law, to the body or to the soul, to the well-being of man on earth, or to htis well-being in the great hereafter. We all, as I understand It, aim at the betterment and uplift ing of onr fellow man. "Newberry college' has a history extending over 50 years. It is 'well to celebrate this day and look back over this half century. During these years we have had to climb hills and ', scale mountAins of difficulties. Let me for the sake of history and to keep the record correct, briefly give ~' an onitlne of the most important fa4tar and events connected with this lstory, for in' the short space of time ahtotted to me it is impossible to do ~,~ore than this. "To' do anything like justice to the '~ nbj4ectI must go back 25 years prinr to laying the cornerstone of ~he college. As early as the year I$8 the bangelical Lutheran synad of South Carolina realised that if she was to succeed in her mission as a church that she would h4vp to edu cate her own sons w W ew of'x tending her borders sing on several ooe enip rso d' A ye 0 d And 4J t. n r der at Leington op I was in the year ot 88, QQ " i proved to be a fine sio n it*.qy and was liberally supporte and pat. ronized by-the -church. The distin guished Dr. Bachman was the lead ing 4pirit in this movement. ''Many succestful and useful preachers of the gospel were .seni forth from this school to edify and feed hungry souls. They not onl3 kept the churches togeth6r, but add. ed strength and influence to thost already established and organizec and built many more. "The names of Wm. Barley, Mar gart, Stingley, the two Bernheims, G D. and C. F.; the two Hawkins Elijah and Jacob; D. A. Dreher, T S. Boinest, J. Austin and many oth ers will live as long as the church ol Reformation lives. But not only did this school send forth an educated ministry, but educated and qualified many laymen to take position by the side of others in the various profes sions and the business world. "From the very fact that thie school did such excellent work led the church to the thought of found. ing a college. The agitation of which began in 1855, and Newberry college was chartered by the State legisla ture in 1856. Among the localities bidding for the location of the col lego was the town of Newberry and the prize was awarded to it on ac count of the liberal bid and the great interest manifested in this matter by the citizens of the town and county. Newberry has always been loyal to the college and as the years go by that loyalty increases and grows. "In the fall of 1858 the prepara tory Oepartment was opened to stud ents, and then followed, during the next year, the opening of the college proper. The names of 175 students were enrolled. In 1860 and in the early part of 1861, the prospects of the college were promising to a sur prising degree. But it was during this year that the tocsin of war was sounded throughout the lenght and breadth of the 9tate, and many of the students laid down their books and donned the uniform of a Confederate soldier and went to the tent-fieldE and stood and fought the battleE of their Soubtland amid the roar of cannon and musketry. The war last ed four long weary years, years of suf fering, selfdenial and even death itself, and many, many of the college boys went. down to\ a soldier's grave And those who, in the providence of GIod, were spared to return to their homes, found nothing on their return but homes devastated, fortunes de mnolished and the entire countr inil a state of want and ruin. But dur ing the (dar-k (lays of the war and dunring 'the years that follo\ved-thie Reconstruction period-up to the year 1876, the exercises of the col lege wvere never suspended only foi a short time Our doors were kept ajar for such young boys as could at tend. ''This noteworthy fact is to be ac counted for by the faithful and self denying efforts of one man, more than to anything else. ''Here perhaps we have presented to us the most inspiring and lovely picture of loyalty -and true devotion to duty that ever has and perhaps wvill ever again be brought out in any inistitution of learn. A man in middle life had been put over the college as its president in 1861; the beginning of the Civil war and the days and years of trouble. He dear ly loved his work and it was his high est ambition and thought to see thai the college succeeded; that young men should be educated for the Chris tian minisitry and qualified to fill the various walks of life and carry to those among whom their lots should be cast a spirit and example that would be up-lifting and r:egen erating in its influences. ''A salary for teaching at such a time was scarcely to be expected, This good and noble man and his family occupied a residence that be. longed to the college. There with his family leaning upon him as thelh supporter and the church crippled in all her operations fondly looking up to him as the head of her Institution of learning. He determined by the help of God to be true and loyal to both, and that if he could prevent It neither should suffer. ''Under these most trying condi tions and circumstances he kept the college open and alnmost unaided by the church he sthpported his family. He put both brain and hand, t.,ork -he taught the youth of the church and preached the gospe I of Christ wherever he went. With hi' own hands he baked bread-the staf of life-aqO iold it to the citiens of this t h. This uaan - Otor year in rep'ng to a letter , m Dr. . W. H , says .don the dt. fieulti had to ceo with: "It was th.dd@t. se f y life. How I lived and kept my family and the college is now a mystery. Yet all the time not a hair of my head was hurt; nor did I want for any thing -necessary- to life and, omfort. I .ennot write the sketch .myself you ask for. It -would taste stiongly of egotism, which I cannot - endure in public print. Hence I do not wish you to publish the bare dates and events as I have written them to you. The facts and events you may of course use, but as not coming from my pen.' "This man would not write of himself and his work, but thank God there are those who are left that will do this for him. "The presidency of the college of this man, Dr. J. P. Smeltzer, for it is him of whom I speak, extended through the trying years of the war and the Reconstruction period of the South-the most trying time of all the times that this beautiful South land of ours was ever called upon to endure. No wonder that institutions of learning lagged and were brought near to death. Every other good cause lagged; the wonder is that any survived'amid such ruins and devas tation, want and hunger. "From 1801 to 1877, a period of 16 years, Dr. Smeltzer was at the head of the institution. Think of those years,- four of which were spent in bloody strife and 12 of which were during the Reconstruction period. Who could have done any better than Dr. Smeltzer and his noble lit tle band of self-denying professors? Yea, who could or would have done as well? Salaries unpaid, build ing in ruins, property nearly all lost, the friends. of the college stripped of their all, the church poor and un able to lift these heavy burdens from her institution. And many of the young men who should have been students in the army, or hard ot work to redeem the ruined fortunes of their fathers. "In 1860 the treasurer of the col lege made a report in which he esti mated the assets of the college and its indebtedness as follows: Supposed amount of bonds for scholarships .. .. .. .. .. $50,000 Value of professor's house 2,700 Cash on hand .......... 3,070 Value of college building .. 20,000 Amounting to.. ........$75,770 Supposed indebtness on build ing.. .. .. .... ....... ..$ 4,500 Dues of rsalaries .. .. .....2,500 Amounting to .. .........$7,000 Leaving for college...-... ..$68,770 ''In 1868, when the college was moved to WaIhalla, the only proper ty it possessed was a college bell, the remnant of the library and a few black boards and benches. What a loss and what a glowving outlook for o college I But notwithstanding all this, during thell years of its stay at WValhalla, seven classes were gradu ated with 22 yong men. We give names of only a few of these: Rahn, Stoudamire, Efird, Cromer, the two Wingards, Hughs Holloway and others of prominence. Dr. Cramer, one of the number, in after years became the president of his alma mater and served in that eit pacity with marked distinction and great usefilness. During all these years of uncertainty and discourage. ment the people of the town of eNw berry, ever faithful anl loyal, never lost their first love and at the first opportunity and rising above the ef fects of the war, went to work to ahoy the college returned to them. This was done in 1877, the year after Hampton was elected governor of the State. New light was beginning to shine all around, driving away the clouds that had for som any years darkened the skies of the South. New thought, no* inspirations, had entered the breast of a downdtrod. den, but gallant and brave people. ''The result has ben that Newberry college instead of having on'e build ing and that in ruins, has two large college buildings, one other not so large, .but ladsome and valuable, a gymnasiums about complete, three professor's houses, a technical de partment well equip'ed and manned, and will have In thae .very, near future a large and, aplenidid building for this departmient. -Ini all, including the lands and library, a property well worth upwards of $100,000. The in stitution has a1 o a considerable en dowment .fund wtith the hope and al most assurance that 7o,000 -will be added to the same In not a very di tant day-also, a sutfielent complete professors, happy r tented, with salaries paid .-nW with a few students'.4. anee'aq a P* ss but enrolIm tte la e t het"A to ev th lassg l g ese s0 yea4 of her 4. istence, the present, the fiftth' is greater in results, in imi6VnA and in any and every respeet 4OM any other single year. The)O 100 for the future.is 6imply. glorius. "It has ben about 20 years since the college *as moved from Walhalla to its present location, Dr. Geo. -W. a Holland of blessed memory, was Its president for about 18 of those yeaM, t Dr. Cromer for eight years and Dr. Scherer has entered upon his third year. r "All of these gentlemen deserv6 P great credit and the well done of the y church for the wise, prudent and a skillful managment of the institu- F tion. Dr. Holland was a professor d in the college for three years before his election to its presidency and was one of those who made many sacri fices in money and otherwise to'keep the college open during the hard times of the Reconstruction of the State. His knowledge of the wants and condition of the college admir ably fitted him for the position he so gracefully and acceptable felled. Under his administratoin the college took on new life and the grand and good work accomplished by him was regarded by all as an achievement that scarcely no man but him could have brought out of such ruin and desolation-the results of which are greater a ndmore for-reaching than the most ardent friend of the college could have hoped for or expected at the time his ideas and plans were in augurated. Dr. Holland was a true and noble man-one of nature's models. "Dr. Cromer was also a profqssor in the college before his election to its presidency, and on this account with the tact and skill with which nature has endowed him, was well fitted in every respect, and the very man to carry forward the great and good work begun by Dr. Holland How well he succeeded in doing this is well known to every friend of the college and if he should die soon or never accomplish anything more in life his work so well and faithfully performed for Newberry college will live and live on and on long after we who speak of it today shall haVe passed to the great beyond. "Dr. Scherer has proven himself a worthy and fit successor fo Drs. Hol land and Cromer. In the brief per iod of his administration he has t shown himself to be a workman that needeth not to be ashamed of -his labor. Quick, tallented, energetic, intelligent and industrious, he goes y forth to over'come-to conquer. He ~ could without embarrassment ap- ( proneh a king crowned and robed g and seated on his throne aind impress ( that king favorably wvith his own in dividuality and of the important work being done by Newberry col lege, and if he did not succeed in ob- ~ taining the king's crown as 'a gift E to the college, he certainly would suc ceed in putting that,king in a posi6 tion never to speak a word against the institution. ' 'But, my friends, I have omited one thing from this address that should find a place in it. In army parlance, I am a friend and admirer of the subofficers, and high privates -the men who stand behind the guns and- do the shooting-who stand and guard and watch for the enemy who'drill the men and inspire them with courage. that- Drs. Stork, 8meltaer, Holland, 'Cromer and Scherer standing alone could have never reacher the great leights to which''they have ascend ed and accQmplished the grand work justly attributed to them without loyal and trained band of professo s to back them up. Newberry college has been signally blesed with good and wvorthy men to fill its professor ships-men loyal and faithful-ready to spend and be spent in the good cause they chose to espouse. ''Please listen to me while I run over their names-and -God: forbl - that a church loving her institutions of learning,~ and grateful for their achievernents should ever leave their names fromn the tQll of those who so nobly assisted In briging suecess to th~ same--Whittle, GIArlington, Pifer, Strk ehreekhe, EItehelbrger, I S11ab, B3owerp/ Dlerriek, X'owell, Set. sle*,Cannon, Attington, Klokligh-. jt. If a'y nans.e has been left off 4f thie honorable roll, it is .not in trtional, 'Some of thest deserve s3ieqal credit, but this is not the place nor the time to make discrimn - insting' distinctions., 4Now a few words more and I am 20thi( Making T US Ad W 3est p 3est 3est Mea 3est Grits - 'S Don't pay any more, don't be swit< long, save money and buy from us. Our immense stock of apring goods ,es and faaOy goods and staples, our I ig novelties in millinery. , Come and, ight thing in prices, style, quality, & ly cannot beat us, we don't make a ou up on balance, people getting ad looking out, more for No. i. 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