Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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The Endowment of Furman. For a number of years it has beer, seen that Furman University had to be endowed or suffer seriously from the lack of it. Friends of the institution who loved it as their own soul, had planned and prayed long for an opon door by moans of which money might be raised for a permanent endowment. It was during the year 1902 that many men begun seriously to devise ways and means for a forward movoment. But it was given to Bro. King, a member of Rev. Joel I. Allen's Church. Dillon, to suggest the plan that was adopted and which succeeded. This would have failed had it not been that a champion arose who was willing to pull off his coat, roll up his sleeves and enter the arena to win. At the State Convention which met in Greenville in December. 1902. Bro. Joel I. Allen submitted the plan to the convention for consideration. Some opposed it. others were cold and indifferent. But Bro. Allen showed that he meant business and so by his earnestness and his profound faith in the plan he won the convention to this place. Thus we have the birth and launching of the plan that saved Furman in an hour of great tribulation. A Samson, a new judge, had arisen to judge Israel. For a long twelve month this apostle of faith went up and down the State pleading with men to open their hearts and hands and pocket-books to Furman. Necessarily the work was slow and tedious, requiring long and careful planning. But slow as it was and dark as the clouds often appeared, when the convention met at Sumter in December. 1905. tho glad news was soon heard that Bro. Allen and his co-workers had landed successfully and one hundred thousand dollars were added to Furman's endowment. THE VENERABLE JUDSON. Some weeks before the convention met Dr. Charles Halleuc Juason. of the Furman faculty, a man who has given his life to the institution and who has been dean of the faculty, proposed that if the Baptist people of the State would givo one hundred and five thousand he would add to that a gift of twenty thousand. This great offer at once thrilled the hearts of the people and they rallied around Furman freely adding the other five thousand. To Dr. Judson and Joel I. Allen the students bare their heads in sincere thanks for the great gift and the splendid work that saved the institution. C. L. F.

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