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KG.Stacy. President. J. G. Waium.aw. Vico i'resldon THE HJTIOML BAHK OF GAFFHET. Capital $50,000.00. ' W1 i.t. Iniy county claims, rocelvc deposit ami make liberal loans on approved paper I). (J. Koss, Cashier. % The Gaffney Daily Ledger. J84r». TilK NKW l,niKSTO.,K. 181»». The l.lmestone of other days, the famous colleire of the Curtlsea undot Captain II. I*. Grlfiltli. has a larfte place in the history of Southern 1 duration, liven Greater Is the I.lineHtoiie of today. The blithest of stand ards, the best of work, the aldi st of I a. ulties, tlie finest of material ei|uipments all these txphiln I he spceess of the institution. I.imo- stone's door is open wide to all our Kuests. I.et them enter in. l-’or Information ats>ut the (.'olleir»> apply to the President. LKK IIAVIS I.OIMiK, A. Ph. II. A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. ESTABLISHED FEB. 10, 181)4. GAFFNEY CITY, S. C., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3. 1899. *1.00 A YEAR. THE THEQUiOI- CALSEKARy, It Was Started in the City of Greenville. A BRIEF HISTORY OF IT. The Rev. i.uhter Klee Little ThmiRht When He start. (I His Great Work that It Would Assume the Proportions that It Has Assumed. When Luther Rice began his mis sionary tour of the South to stir up zea! for Ihe support of Jucison and the great work of evangelizing the world, hesiw the need of trained factors at home. Then he threw himself into the project of building Wm fe ft p:' Mi W' ■**. . ■ a ... - ^ '*-r £ appointed to formulate plans for another educational Convention at Greenville in May, 1858. At this meeting the arrangements were pro- • jected for the New Seminary. Rut it was not till the fall of 18.)'.), after some difficulty securing the four pro fessors, that the institution was open ed for students. The faculty con sisted of.I. P. Boyce. J. A. Broadus, Buril Manly, and William Williams. There is not space to give a long synopsis of the Seminary’s history, how the war came and destroyed the fair prospect, how the professors struggled on in poverty. Now the Seminary was removed to Louisville in 1877, how it was saved from de struction by Gov. Brown’s timely gift of fifty thousand dollars, how at last success came just before Boyce’s death. Under Broadus and Whitsett the Seminary expanded into a large sphere of usefulness with students from all over the country. Under President Mullins a great opportun ity opens for the Seminary The col- j leges are in hearty sympathy with it and send tlmir men to the Seminary. A few colleges have L.'.dical instruc tion, but hsu ptvparait.m for, and not a substitute for, the Seminary cause. The add re s of lr •< d'i't ('iiarle.- L I Taylor, of Wake Foi -.t Onio^e. de livered on tin- i.e-M-iou of the inttug- j oration of Pn sident Mullins, ah!} I r. a«. lit s ' 'I he lb laUons of t .he St w i- ! nary to Our Sou!hern B.ipii.st t' u- ! leges.” I r Vl\i' Xcf'il.-, tJ::* w ; ! One of the beM and Min st signs <>f prosperity in any institutim of learn- ! mg is that, its needs increase from ' year to year. The Southern Baptist A third need of the Seminary is an increase in the income of the Stu dents’ fund. The State Conventions have been ready to co operate in al lowing the professors to take collec tions for this purpose, and it lias been a very great help in this matter. If the pledges can be increased a litte from year to year, it will enable us to keep out of debt and extend need ed aid to a large number of worthy young men. The fund is adtninis- tered as economically as possible. More and more the effort is being made to withhold aid from the un worthy and to limit strictly the amount given to the deserving and to inculcate tho idea that the beneficiary should in future years do all in his power to return Ihe amount received by him, that others in turn may be helped. TAKE OP THE OLD MANjSjyRDEN, An Appeal for the Poor Aged Ministers. TREAT THEM TENDERLY. A Beautiful Story that Should Enlist the Sympathy of Kyery Man Who Admires the Work that Haw been Done by God’s Servants l guess it is wrong to want to knock anybody; but there are times when it would be a great lying satisfaction to a< md grati- i.inister a J piped to me a word of thanks, and 1 toid me this was his dwelling-place. I I turned back into the crowd, unable j to repress the wish that some one would dare to try to run over me, or , rush me aside from my rightlul path. ! Now, as the apostle says, all this | is written in a figure. The old man | in my story is the old preacher—the trembling one whom I am trying to help. For months, his cause has of necessity been pushed aside, and relegated, to the gutter. All the Boards wore in debt, and the Negro, the Indian, the Chinese, tho Italian, the Creole—all had to come in for help. I could no nothing. It really seems to mo that the old preacher would be run over entirely, and I was compelled to move him out of the way. Within a month, the Southern Prof. A. T. Ko! >orD —r-*-* on. up !l gr. nt school for pro; ■ • | ichors at War. hinglo;: This wa 8 f i P' 1 idea will in him. n ml sii nvs the i i‘ 1 sight ed \vi>; om of J her Rice 1 !< > saw til at the ‘nine v. v to reach the in athon was t.> prr :u •li the mini stry at home. Mr. Ui *c dii i not succeed in his im- T: ‘oological Fern mi ry wit li it 1 t t * - hi * begin ni' igS ori v j 1 h r - ago in | Greenville, 8 . C. until the ere t.t j tir ne, is no 0 xe< \ Don to t he nei •al 1 ru le. Its m -r V ' * “ iiive incrcn -i d fn m ! \i ar to } e:i r. and this will (l Oil. dh „ 1 CO V ntinue to i 1* t r ie for many ye 1 rs to or: ni-.'. Whil e i i is true t hat the I m'mnry ha s a gvmi p ■ J < X e •lie nt buildings for I lie ooniiuet of bs work, an 1 while it has n niiuU r bi-ly go< (l i em low merit, nevertheless it i< a fad thut there i- ne(d b.r a huge increase in its income in order that its work may be done in the most effective manner possible. First arid foremost , then, among its needs is a large increase in its en- . ^ j % A -."■vv ?■ ^ •.. • '-v- Rev. A\ r . 0. Carvo.i’. mediate purpose, but ho greatly stimulated interest in theological v-uucatiou. Fchools for ministers sprang up in Virginia, North Caro lina. South Carolina, Georgia, an 1 oilier states. Then state schools took in others than ministers as a matter of course and wore enlisted in the work of general education. When the Southern Baotist Con- vention was organiz'd in 1815 at Augusta, there at once arose a de sire on the part of many of the lead ers for a general theological school for all the South. Most of the col leges now had departments of theo- '*1 ,, f; . Q A ~ $>v- 4*. , i 1 rM-i ,'.jr A'k r ?jGL A — " Prof. E. C. Diirtian. logy which were mund to be inade- quate for u comprehensive theologi cal training. A series of educat ional Convent ions were held, independent of, but with the sympathy of the Southern Bap tist Convention. Finally at Louis ville in J857 the educational conven tion formally accepted the plans of Rev. J. 1*. Boyce to establish the Seminary in Greenville. S. 0. A com mittee, consisting of J. P. Boyce. J. A. Broadus, R. Manly, IS. T, Win- Jder, and William Williams, was dowmeut. For a number of years past there has been a deficiency in its income to meet current expenses of several thousandJJdollars. Apart from the salaries of professors, and the us'jal expenses of any school, there i. a large item of expense in the matter of repairs on the buildings, and this will doubtless be greaL'-r in the future than it has been in the past us the buildings become older. It is of course absolutely necessary that the Seminary property shall be well cared for and all needed repairs attended to promptly. Besides these things, there is need for more teaching in the Seminary than is now being done. The school has become quite largo, and the work imposed upon tiie present faculty is exceedingly heavy. There are direc tions also in which we might to ad vantage extend our curriculum. Wo ought by ail means to have a fully endowed chair of missions so that this great subject which lies so close to the hearts of God’s people and is so vitally related to the highest wel fare of the churches shall’receive due attention. \\ ithin the next two or three years, therefore, there should ho an in crease in the permanent endowment of the Seminary of not less than $100,000. and if possible a larger amount. It requires $50,000 to en dow a school and $50,000 to endow a chair. Here is an opportunity for the wealthy and the liberal hearted to place their means where it will tell through all coming years for the ad vancement of the kingdom of God. One of the immediate needs of tho Seminary is a guaranteed fund of $5,000 per year to cover tho next four or five years to meet the defic iency in current expenses until the endowment can he increased. A special effort is b<i ig t tnade during the present winter to raise this guar anteed fund in pledges and subscrip tions of amounts ranging anywhere from $5 to $100 or $‘200 each per year to cover three, four or live years. The earnest co-operation of tho friends of the Seminary is solicited in raising this fund. - r- . . ‘ : - - i-:- t- -■ ; - V;; •a- U " ; ( > ' ■ <S . A ' t? ; / / . . < H l-A"' ' <• ■;.*m ■’•r, ■ jMlU * - A m v v^- ' ' - . A# P i Ib.. I r ■ . . • > '.. ■ - ; - £ i ' • y ' • Au if ** / , . i® A p ^ ' *. Y ■a * ■ 1 ‘ -..." ■ -iV : «r» v< i - -- v K-,' m *ti P - - - r mJ: ■ • '•••■ . - —^ ?w:/ NKW YORK HAI.i,, TilKOLOHlCAI. SKMIXAUY, I.nl’ISVII.I.IC Another need of the Seminary is more students. The Sombtary does tjot make its chief effort bt the dinc- tion of an increase in numbers. \\ e attach far more importance to qual ity than to quantity, and we seek to discourage rather than to encourage men, wliofor any r nson seem un worthy, from entering tho school. At the same time, in the great Bap tist body of the .South there ought to be an increasing numberof thorough ly worthy men entering the minis:ry from year to year, and these men ought to receive tiie best Equipment within their reach for the work de manded of them in an age of widely diffused education such as is ours. The President would bo grateful to any friends if they would send him the names of young men who ought to attend the Seminary, or place him in communication with them anyway. Finally, and most important of all, the Seminary needs tiie prayers, gym- on the pate, when 1 state man by the weak, lean- mild and moderate tap You will agree with me my case. There stood an old wayside, harmless and ing on a stall, and trying to discover his way through eyes 1 hat long ago had failed him. Now and then, he took a step forward, but baited and seemed uncertain. The hand that grasped his staff trembled much, and it seemed that lie would surely’ fall to the earth. As he toiltdslowly on, the crowd grew denser about him. and then it was I had a desire to knock some one; for really it seemed that the old man would be run over and trampled upon. A Chinaman and an African, in rapid succession, ran against him, and sent him stag gering to one side. I caught him just in time to prevent him from fallii.g into the gutter; but hardly had I righted him in his way before churches have sent fifty thousand dollars to Dr. Willingham, and while this was being done, the contribu tions to tiie old preachers in South Carolina almost to nothing. While doing nothing, I have said nothing; I simply consoled myself by’ retnetn- bering that ‘ they also servo who only stand and wait.” Now the summer has come, and the small-pox, and the Spaniards and Mr. Wheeler's cavalry, and tilings begin to look like they did a thousand years ago when I was a hoy’, and I am begin ning to wonder if the old preachers must just he run over and crushed by tho crowd or pushed aside, and told to wait, with no one offering a helping hand in their distress and time of want. I pray the brethren to remember tho wards of our Board. I recived an appeal recently in be half of a brother who has been shut in for nine long months, helped only by fortuitous gifts, unable to work, and barely able to pray because of •Oj'V- 5 ■ ■c> . , - ' \ » > ' T V • • A .•••'.‘YV'U ■ * - NORTON HAhL. pathy and hearty co-operation of all Southern Baptists. It is our purpose to make it deserving of that sympa thy in every possible way in tiie fu ture as it lias been in the past. To exalt Jesus Christ; and the spiritual Ideals and standards of his gospel in the personal life and in the churches is the aim and ideal of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. And while we seek to pursue the truest and highest Christian scholarship, and render the school second to none in this respect, we remember ever that unconsecrated scholarship may prove quite tho reverse of a b!o.-s- ing. All learning is directed towards its true ends when it is made the in strument, under tiie blessing of God, for the regeneration and the spiritual growth of men and women. For this ideal the Seminary has stood and will continue to stand. a big, burly Indian brushed by. ac companied by an Italian, and the two crushed tiie old man between them, till his piping voice asked for mercy. Ry this time, I had de termined to keep near to his side, so as to pn t cfc hit) if occasion arose again. With my arm in his, we walked slowly on, and the next diffi culty that faced us came from a most unexpected source. A finely dressed preacher ran up against us, and. seeing what he hud dune, said, ‘■'lake the old fellow away; he is a nuisance.” i guess, if 1 had a stick, there would, that day and at that time, have been a bard-hearted preacher with a soft place in his liead. But I led the old man on, until we came to a place of refuge and retreat. He called it home, it was cold ami cheerless, and seemed to be the abode of poverty; but he his failing energies and perishing body. His name being now added to our list of beneficiaries, runs the number up to twenty-four, and the good souls in the churches who read The Courier must pirdi n me and no! grow weary of my importunity. The summer offerings will come few and far between, and the churches which send in contributions now will show forth the life of God within them. Everything militates against charity and represses our noblest ambitions. In the summer, there is no money. Times are hard and the weathei hot, atid our best desires grow dull and drowsy. In tho fall, liens are to be satisfied, taxis paid, store accounts adjusted. In tiie winter, we all freeze up, body, eoul and spirit. In the spring, wo have to go fishing and plant tho garden, In the midst of all plant the garden. In the midst of all these things, no time is left for | God and nothing for charity. Surety ' God could have helped us to divide j up our time better, and could have so arranged it as to enable us to have something left for him and his poor. If, then, wo live and die without making ourselves felt for goed, it will bo manifest to our survivors that the fault was not ours, but God’s. This, at least, is the way we would make it appear. Growing Old. There is a way of living which makes each day something gone from the life, and there is a way of living which makes eacli day something added to the life. Life may go on as a continual subtraction, or as a con stant addition. If the things we do and get are such that, having finished them, they are forever gone, there is no lasting quality in them, then is life all a losing in its progress. But if the things we do and gut stay with us and bring with them that which shail henceforth be with us always, then is each day adding something to our lives. There are those from whom the years us they go are always tak ing something wit h them. They leave them minus some beauty or grace or pleasure; they take away friends or labors or joys. Their lives are al ways growing less. There are those to whom the years are always bring ing something ns they go; they leave them with added power, or added gifts or added friendships or added hopes. And tiie first of these are not the old, and the Inst of them are not Ihe young, but the first of these are those, young or old, to whom life is but a fleeting vision; they see no eternal qualities, and they lay bold on no eternal foculties in it; and the second are those who find the eternai years of God before this human life These add unto themselves through days of youth and days of age that from which neither life nor death nor any power shall he able to separati them. There is, thus, a growing old which is u constant and regular losing, a subtraction from lib', and there is a growing old which is u perpetual gain, an adding to life. What shall we sry to ourselves? “My life is lengthened out into three score years and ten according to the measure of a man— upon the operating table, and when at length all was in readiness, one of the physicans approached with chlo roform. Tho old man raised his hand and said : “Wait a moment.” Then, folding his hands and closing his eyes, he began repeating the prayer which he used to say at night, at his mother’s knee: “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die.before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take; And this I ask for Jesus sake.” The doctors bowed their heads reverently and waited, and when he had finished, he looked up calmly and said, “I am ready.” Skilful, tender fingers did their work, and after a time the eyes of the old man slowly unclosed again. As he took in the familiar surround ings, a look almost of disappoint ment crossed his face, and then he said, softly, “As thou wilt, Lord.” 7- r— : ter 7 • ' fif* '-’A - a'.’-’SfrJfia Prof. \Y. .J. McGlotlilin, PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. IVople You Know :uitl You Don't K now . Among the conv Mition alteudnnts that. The L' ligcr wns 1-mi chilly proud :0 n:e< t was .1. W. Kludor, one of tl 0 eMtors i f tho Keowee Courier. Mr. Shelor gets out or.;.* of ihe best week lies in the Stale, with tho assistance K '--oyrTL '- r V s Presidont E. Y. Mullins. that is of a beast?” or shall it be: “My life is measured out into endless years, according to tho measure of a man—that is of an angel?” As thus we reckon it, so shall life be a contin ual loss, or a never failing gain in its going. Take up the old man’s burden! The prophet called of Heaven To preach the blessed gospel By Holy Spirit given, Has feeble grown in labors Well rendered for his Lord. Ye strong, lade up his burden, And thus fulfil the Word. Take up the old man’s burden, Imposed by Heeling years; Old age has crept upon him, And filled his heart with fears. The meagre pittance doled him, For faithful service done, Supplied, with scant provision, His deeds from sun to sun. Take up the old man’s burden! ’Tis little he doth ask— And yet, for him to hear it Is well nigh hopeless task. A cup of water given In love, for Jesus’ sake, In heaven shall he rewarded, When Judgment morn shall break. Take up the old man’s burden! Speak out a word of cheer; Reach forth the hand of soothing, And brush away a tear. Companionless and weary, He treads his way alone; For those who toiled beside him Have on before him gone. Take up the old man’s burden!. Make glad his closing days; Brighten his sky at sunset, And fill his lips with praise. O sweet surcease from toiling. When, burdens all laid down, The veteran saint shall triumph, And wear his golden crown! Take up the old man’s burden! It will the Master please; The every deed of kindness 1 lone to the least of these, Will meet the welcome plaudit For blessed ministry— ‘Whate’er ye’ve done to e’en the least, Ye’ve done it unto me.’ The Old Man’s Traycr In one of our city hospitals, re cently, the physicians were getting ready to perform an operation. The patient, an old man, was stretched of Mr. Jaynes, and both find time fc an extensive practice at the Keowe bar. Rev. G. M. Webb and wife. Mil Madge Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Dougl erty, Miss Alexander and Dr. W. 1 Andrews have been the guests of Mi and Mrs. T. Davenport during th Convention. State Treasurer W. H. Timmei man. Joel E. Brunson, the head of th Prohibition party of this State, ar the guests of Dr. and Mrs. W. C Hamrick. Mrs. J. C. McKenzie and Miss Ar nie Watts are visiting Mr. and Mr J. B. Beil on Race street. Rev. J. E. McMaraway, of Greers was one of our former acquaintance in Charlotte. We remember his strut Prof. J. R. Sampy. gles to get started and the renewal of acquaintance brought back sweet memories of the past. Mr. and Mrs. J. N Oudd, of Spar tanburg, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Carpenter. MDs Emma Hudgens, of Converse College, was one of the charming young ladies that attended the con- vention. She was the gui st of Mrs. 13. K. Humphries.