Excerpt from The University of the South: An Address, Delivered at Beersheba Springs, August 19th and Also, by Invitation

The South, often, no doubt, unjustly regarded as being backward in the cause of education and of intellectual refinement, has projected, and is now boldly and triumphantly maturing, the grandest scheme of education, yet shown in the annals of the new world. All who desire to see the minds and souls of men lifted to that height which they can reach ; all who would have American communities informed throughout with the spirit and the appreciation of the noblest culture ; all who would gladly see the tides of demoralizing influences restrained by the strong bulwarks of Christian education, will hail with joy the promise of that great work, the establishment of the University of the South ; and they will rejoice yet more, when this great enter-prize, undertaken in religious faith and fear, shall be brought to a successful consummation. May God bless the University of the South, and inspire all its friends with new ardor and vigor.

The proceedings of the Board of Trustees of this Institution, recently assembled here, were marked by the same earnest, yet calm deliberation, which has distinguished every step of this great undertaking. The States represented in this vast work, are Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas.

The progress has been sure and rapid. It is but three years since a circular letter, proposing and unfolding the design of a comprehensive institution, was addressed by the Bishop of Louisiana to distinguished citizens, clerical and lay, of the ten States above named. The response was immediate and cordial.

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