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My Testimony (T%*),i :article was written by .Rev. b K . .'Y f I '. I* a. nd published v n v yBulletin Dr M " hell is the . . Six Mile baptist Academy.-klu.) The whole story of toy strugglc for an education is a story of friendships. I was born :in 1874, of honest, humble and rather exceptionally poor paren tsge. The first eighteen years of my life amounted to but little education s' ally. There wiat nothing in my envir bninent to develop and refine me. The chools were short and not the best. Above all, I was without ambition. I had neither read, traveled nor stud ied. So at the time of my conversa tion "I didn't know nothing." but when the sweet transforming spirit of Jesus came into my life, there be gat the slow dawn of a new day. How I wish I could sufficiently praise him or lay worthy honors at his feet! What I am or may be, I owe first to him. The first force that entered my new life was a desire to preach; and, in some way, I knew that in order to do so I must be educated. 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When he came home, v walked down to the spring togeth< I and he told me that he was glad know that I wanted to preach. T1 tears were flowing from his ey and his voiced trembled, but he ma aged to say slowly that I might d, pend on him to help me all he coul which was not much for he had large family dependent entirely upc his daily labor. In a few days, wit out any previous notice he Wrote a to go at once to Clemson College. I two hours after receiving his le't I had put my handful of beleng;nl into a small trunk and was on il way to Clemson. This was en ti twenty-first of July, 1893, just thre weeks after the College first opeit her doors.' I had made no arrange mncnts at all for my admission, bt President Craighead was exceptional ly kind to me and allowed me U matriculate. I was assigned to the preparator department, and having now a nev life and purpose, I applied mysel with all diligenceQ, so that when th Preparatory Department was divide into higher and lower preparatory, as assigned to the higher. I wa low in my twentieth year and jus beginning. In November I was take sick and after spending about fiv weeks in the College hotpital, wen home till after the winter vacatior I resumed my work in the highe preparatory class, having lost toe much time in my sickness to pass int the Freshman class. My father wa seriously injureld in March of thi .car, 1894, and it became clear tha his injury was permanent, and tha I could not look to him for help mue ltnger. He generously stood by im till 1 had finished the Freshman yea at Clemson. The two years and half cost him about $275.00. Th rest of the cost 1 paid with 'ark fo the College at eight and five cent per hour, By the time sclool close in I ?P5 (Clemson had vacation i winter for the first few years) it wa clear that I was in the wrong schoo and that my dependence upon Im father must stop entirely. The timrl sPent at Clemson was well spent an I think it a kind providence that ser me there. It was now December , 1:95. I was on my own resource .:d }ha'I to wait till the followir Fe ui'r for the opening of ti other schools. For something ovc .Atw amontlis I did night duty for th !dgemcore Bridge Company whil they were constructing a steel brid. over the FEnorce river at Enoree. Fo this work I receivedl a dollar per niigh and went hack to my father's littl farm at Switzer with $52 in cash This I dep'ositedl ini a Spartanhur ib:1nk till Sentember. In the men ti.e I helped my father and brothe make a crop and assistedl in gatherin; it till abonut the itddle of Septembei I acceptedl no compensation for th work t f this year, but let it go a a partal return for my father's pas5 favor. At this time Brother I. W. Wing had a flourishing high school ii Camipobello. A good friend directe my attention to it. 'I'hither I wer with my $52.00 and the promise c goodl friends at home to standl by m< This they did in every needed wvay Before my dleparture they met, th pastor and deacons and a few of th leaiding brethern ', of the Swit~ze church, and after consulting with mi it dleveloped that my pastor was nc very favorably impressed with me a a prosp~ective minister, and one of th deacons was not in favor of helpin any young man prepare for the miir istry. "Let him fight his own battle, was his theory, andl a very economi cal one it was. But the brethernit the main endorsed me and pledge ribout $30 or $60 for my support wvho it was needed. I want to record her my everlasting gratitude to Dr. J. I Stepp, wvho was at that time a men her of the Switzer church. He wa at this time perhaps the most valt anle friend I had, though it so bar pened that neither he nor the othe brothern needed to give me any finar cial aid. Soon after entering the Campobell .school, Brother WVingo generousl gave me teachi-ng to (10 which suppb mnentedl my funds and helped me ii tellectually. He gave me more an more teaching to (do as the way oper ii, so that in the third and la: year wa~h him, I was receiving e, penses and $3 per month. I was h "carpenter' and received seven conl per hour for that work. My vaci Lions were also spont with him. Du ing about two years of this time did al! my wvashing and ironing. F( Brother Wingo I did every kind work: scoured the floors, scalded bed ditched, built and repa'red house etc. At the end of the three years 1 was my debtor in the sum of $8 is I During the summer I taught Ut le Weeks at Gowansville. e. In September of 1899 I entered til rt Soplhomnore class of Furman Unive t, sity. This was the great day of ni 1y life--the day as it seemed and sti t- seems, that gave meaning to all t1 st rest of my endeavor. Myron I m Bruckman, one of the purest and14 ip e lest young men that ever lired, an , 1, ren'ed a room at a low pri-e r to a kind old aunt of mine, in ta w IQ set up "batch". I was "!k an * Brockman was housekeeper. 11. wa - a good one. 'T'he whole i(oiom wI L- alaiys neat and clean. lie said (1 was a good Cook. At. any rate w a kept well and both Pained in flesh t1 In addition to my duies as cook any Furman student. I carried papers fo e the Evening Times and made table which I sold to the furniture met r I think that dun hg the first year a 'urman I niade and sold about Y hundred tables., The total cost of ou oomi, board, fuel and laundry Wa from three to five dollars a montl each. If this seems incredible, I mak no complaint. I hardly bclieve it my, self, though I know'that it is tru On entering Furman I had a hundre and thirty dollars, with which I pai all my expenses except tuition, bougt some extra books and had enough lef to take me to my next task. rThis vacation was spent at variou kinds of labor for which I receive 1 from fifty cents to $0.00 a day. Thi large amount I received as cenlsu t enumerator. This sent me back with nearly tw hundred dollars. Father had move to Greenville by this time and boar( ed me for a small amount. So I wer through my Junior year in mor elegance, without calling upon an one for aid. The next summer Br 1. W. Wingo accepted work as trave ing agent for Furman and Greenvill Female College, and put me in chars of his churches as supply. This wry a helpful work, but not very lucr, tive. In consequence I had to ca upon the Board of :Ministerial Educi r tion for $25.00 and on Mr. M. C. Trei for $50.00. Thus through a somewh: ! rugged way, but pleasant and, ft the most tart, happy way. I came I the close of my senior year and r, ceived the B. A. degree. After teaching about three mlontl at Arrowwo(od in Spa:rtanbturg cou ty, I went to Colgate Theologie Seminary. The Board of Miniteri e ducation there generously suppl dmentcd my funds. I wa- able to en a good (eal of money there as barb for some of the seminary men, a by shoveling snow ol' the walks f one 'r two fa:ili(.s It wa a pler tnt and prolitable year. Son of t greatest friendships of my life we frimed here, notably that of [ VI Clarke who probably became the 1110 liberating and he!lful influence in n life; also Dr. A. A. Bennett. a mi sionary to Japan wvho was at lhon that year and( had a room niext mine for' three mombts. Inl spite a'll that .was good and helpful in thi 1eVar, I longedl for Louisville, and the face of the most Ilattering ot'e' of ad, Ireturnled to the good o S'uh.The summiner was spenlt A\rrowwvood teac hing as the last.] the. fall I wvent to Louisville with $4 This was supplemuentedl by the sti dent's fund and small loans from D Bennett and1( a friend iln Grecnv'ille. ''lThus for ten and a half years tstayed in school without a break oi ing less than two hundred (dollars: Sthe end. I had a oo many valuab I went along. My clothes weore always worn at faded, and frequently much and var ously patched by my own hand. I g my first overcoat a second hand CI at Colgate. Yet for all this the pe s 1p1e respected me and were helpf in a thousand ways. A's I look back now across the litt ~stretch of twenty years, it is perfec ly clear that through these and subs ~quent experiences, Jesus inspired ar 1led me all the way. It is a vei precious assurance. Without Jesu ' life must be a soridl thing indee< a with him, it is a great joy, and ft of wonderful promise. s IN MEMORY Of' ROBERT I). LUMI KIN. r Robert B. Lumpkin died at his hon - on Mile Creek <.n1 March 9, 191. pneumonia, and was buried the di~ o following at Mile Croek church. 3 y Lumpkin left a wife and five childr' - nesides a host ef friendU an.d re! tives to mecurn~ f(r himi. Ik. wasl d1 Rocd neighbo(r. The writer l:new hi I- 1 or years itnd always foundl him tbe a straight, up:-ight main, strict - honest in a~ll his iaa!ings. The niig s was never too (lark or' weather t< .s coldl for him to go in case of sickne~ -or distress to help any one. We b -lieve for such con-tuet as that the I is an eternal reward more valuabi ~r than gold, more pr'ecious than rubo >fM. s, Mr. Robert M. Welborn of no me Pickens visited his sister Mrs. A .3. thur Loonne in Charleston lait wee We Annonce That Our Sale Closed Saturday Night July 1st. 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