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Uhe Hoteard Payne MWonthly.
"Add to Your Faith Virtue and to Virtue knowledge."
Entered April 16, 1902, at Brownwood. Texas. as Second Class Mail Matter, under Act of Congress March 3, 1879.BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, DECEMBER, 1902.
NUMBER 7
COLLEGE ENDO WMENT.
$62,000 Were Pledged in One
JMeeting.
The work of endowment of Baptist
schools in Texas, began auspiciously
when the report of the Education
Commission was read by Dr. B. H.
Carroll before the great body of Texas
Baptists at Waco Nov, 7th. An-
nouncement had been made previously
that Mr. Rockefeller through
the Baptist Education Committee had
offered to the Commission $35,000. on,
condition that $125,000. more be raised
prior to January 1904. After reading
his annual repe-t which showed that
the debts on all the schools had been
paid or provided for, Dr. B. -Lar
- TRf-trned over the meeting to the
r-wty elected secretary of the Com-
m ission, Dr. J. M. Carrol. Then fol-
lowed a magnificent address showing
the necessity of endowment, endow-
ment for all the. schools, first for Bay-
lor and then for the other schools in
the correlation. He explained the
proposition of Mr. Rockefeller where-
by January 1904 was given as final
limit for securing pledges for $125,000.
and whereby it was further agreed by
him to pay his pledge of $35,000. in
whole or in part according and in pro-
portion as the former sum shall be
paid in whole or in part, the latest
limit of rime for which any pledge
might be paid to be 5 years from Jan.
1st 1904. Mr. Carroll reported that in
fifty days he had collected in pledges
$32,000 and now he declared it would
be a noble thing to pledge the balance
right there that night. Tellers were
stationed throughout the great au-
dience and the work began at once.
For perhaps one hour and a half
pledges came in as rapidly as the tell-
ers and secretaries could record them
and there is little doubt but that the en-
tire amount of $93,0039. would have been
raised had time permitted. $62,000.
was raised and at this point owing to
the hour, it was thought best to stop.
Amounts varied from $15 up to $5000.
Of the $32,000. raised before the
convention, $15,000. were given by Mr.G. R. Freeman of Hamilton. Other
large gifts were made by men living
in Midland, 'exas. The names of
these gentlemen we are unable to re-
cord.
Thus has begun, under most fav-
orable conditions, one of the greatest
and most far reaching works yet under-
taken by Texas Baptists. The im-
mediate results of this work will be
to endow Baylor University and this
is pre-eminently just and proper for
this great institution has magnanimous-
ly waved her rights before the commis-
sion until all the schools have been
freed from debt. To do this patiently
has taxed even the marvelous faith
of that LIiaL-hh: leader, B. H. Car-
roll, and his younger, though hardly
less faithful and efficient brother, J.
M. Carroll. Let all honor and praise
be given to this noble pair of Godly
men and may God raise up others like
them.
We, the friends of Howard Payne
College, can ill afford not to do our
share in this work for Baylor. The
commission has paid, so we are in-
formled, as much a $25,000. toward
wiping out our debt. Several hundred
dollars were pledged and other pledges
will follow. Let the good work go on.
Rockefeller needs only to be convinc-
ed that Texas Baptists are in earnest
before he will repeat many times his
liberal gift to Texas. His method
of giving is to induce others to give
also.
Uhe Waco Convention.
President Grove accompanied by
Profs. Humphreys and Truett and Mr.
Clayton Anderson attended the State
Convention last month. They brought
back glowing accounts of the work of
that great body of Baptists. Clayton
says "I felt glad that I lived in Texas,
that I was a Baptist and that I was a
student in Howard Payne College."
The great work of the Education
Com-mission has already been discussed
elsewhere in the Monthly.
Dr. Gambrell read a great report
of the State Mission work. $$0,000.
were raised in the month of Octoberfor this work alone., Dr. F. C. Me-
Connell, secretary of Home Missions,
located at Atlanta, made one of the
great speeches of the Convention on
the Home Mission work. Dr. Wil-
lingham of Richmond, spoke on the
work of the Foreign Mission Board.
He said if every Baptist in the South
would contribute one egg, the board
would be enabled to send 300 mission-
aries to the foreign field. Let us all
average one egg next year for Foreign
Missions. Missions and Education or
Religion and Education is the great
work in which the Baptists of Texas
are interested and how any mortal
man can oppose this work is absolute-
ly unintelligible. In as much "as we
can not bring the Convention to us,
the Monthly moves that we take all of
Brownwood and Howard Payne Col-
lege to the convention next ;14ar.
Who will second this motion?
President J. P Greene: When a
young preacher tries to get around the
college by some cheap quick-meal,
six weeks' thing, and tries to go to
preaching, he ought to be headed off,
if we Baptists have anything to head
off with. I am afraid of the young
man who has a little education, far
more than I am of those who have a
full education. A full education lifts
up and makes strong, :especially .iF
there oloes with it a great deal of re-
ligion.
The great thing that the best
American institutions are doing in
their collegiate courses is to lead the
student to value some other ideals
than the commercial one. Young men
are far too apt to overvalue the com-
mercial as compared with the ideals
of civic duty, of religious earnestness
and unselfish devotion to causes
which promise them no personal ad-
vancement. To effect this combina-
tion will take the best efforts of the
leaders of American education, but
they are destined to accomplish it.
For its accomplishment the fullest in-
terchange of mind and ideas between
different localities and different sec-
tious is an essential.-Pres. Hadley.0
VOLUME 1.
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