Arthur S. Colyar Biographical Files

incorporated institutions, outside of an incorporated town, could enjoy the same benefits that the University of the South was enjoying in this connection. So I say, that the Four Mile Law, the greatest anti-whisky law that has ever been put on our statute books, is indebted to this University for what it is today.

Connected as I was with the early steps which led to this great University, I have no words to express the pleasure to me of this occasion. It has been especially pleasing to me to learn, through sources not to be questioned, that the refining influences of literature, complete as they are here, are not all of what this school is doing for this country. One of our greatest thinkers, Mr. Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court of the United States gave utterance a few days ago to sentiments - thoughts rather - that should be appreciated in our institutions of learning everywhere: in substance, that they are doing much to produce - make - a public conscience, which in a religious sense by creating and disseminating the fundamental principles of Christianity - and these thoughts he enforced on a text of four words, -

The Good Samaritan - The Golden Rule.

Now if our great institutions of learning generally, will take up, as the University of the South is doing, and make the principles embraced in the suggestions a pronounced feature along with the literature, they will do much to make a public conscience, based on the fundamental principles of Christianity.

Some times an example is worth more than a sermon of principles. I am going to give you an example which you will probably not forget - a single act of the Good Samaritan.

My friends twit me by saying I cannot talk on any subject without getting Jackson in it. The instance I give you is taken from my "Life and Times of Andrew Jackson", as follows:

"When General Coffee checked the advance of the Creek Indians - the murders of 400 women and children at