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...Turner, the chaplain, spoke briefly of the work done by the Institute in helping to alleviate the condition of the southern negro. The problem is the four fold one of the church, the schoolhouse, the home and the industrial life. Six millions out of the eight millions of negroes in the South live in the one-room cabin, and Hampton, through its trade school and academic department, is trying to transform the one-room cabin into the intelligent, self-supporting Christian home. Mr. T. B. Williams, a graduate of the Hampton Institute, and also a graduate of Harvard...
...well in Samaria, to the fishermen by the sea of Galilee to the thief upon the cross. He knew that of the seeds he scattered so lavishly, though many fell amid rocks and thorns, some would fall where they would yield fruit, "some thirty, some sixty, some an hundred fold;" through his prodigality of gift he saw the possibility of the prodigality of return. Marvelous words he uttered often went to deaf, unheeding ears, but once his "follow me" entered the heart of Simon Peter on the shore of Galilee, and the lowly fishermen became the saint on whom...
...last speaker was P. C. Hoyt 4G., the president of the Graduate Club, who addressed the men on the purposes of the club. He said they were two-fold--that of instruction, and for the advancement of social life. The social life was the point he dwelt on, as this modifies the tendency of the advanced student to stay most of the time by himself...
...Brown writes of his character charitably but without bias; he does not attempt to diagnose his faults or condone his vices, but he does not dwell upon them with distorting emphasis. The Creek and Seminole wars, the battle of New Orleans, the history of Jackson in politics are entertamingly fold and one comes partly to understand that influence which he held over so many in his time, and which softened even his enemies, to their consternation...
...used the word "Baptism" always in its spiritual significance,--"I have a baptism to be baptized with." "Can ye be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" But He sanctioned its use before His ascension, emphasizing the point that it was to be in the three-fold name, and to be accompanied with Christian instruction. It is the sacrament of incorporation, of cleansing and of a new birth, which must issue in new and cleanly surroundings, outward as well as inward...