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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