Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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The I ' fe of Dr. Cline is a concrete example to the -oung of what can be :lone where there is vision and landab ' .e ambition backed up hv persistent, relentless toil and sacrifice. Beginning life at the close of the war nnder most serious handicaps, he wrung an education out of apparently impossible conditions and l.)uilt h ' mself into a man of prominence and great usefulness. His work as teacher, preacher and leader has been largely pioneer work — organizing, founding, Ijiiilding. Xever satisfied with present conditions, he was always ready to spend and be spent for what he conceived the best interests of Church, town or community. Hardly another man in our Southern Church has done so nnicli haril work for so little ] )ay. Well informed as to history, govern- ment, law and ])olitics. Dr. Cline has always taken a wholesome interest in such matters. 1 Through h ' s work as teacher, as organizer of congregations and builder of Churches, as founder of Lenior College, of the Lutheran F ' ublication House, and of the Lowman Home, h ' s life is being nniltiplied ami his inlluence will be k ' nown and felt from generation to generation. He that loscth his life for iiiv sake — shall saz ' e it: MvB. m. p. m m JULIA CATHERL E CLINE, wife of the Rev. Prof. W. P. Cline, D.D., and daughter of Major Joseph and Mary Bost, was born near Newton, N. C, August 22, 18. 4, and departed this life September 16, 1916. She was the mother of eight children, three of whom died in infancy. ( )ne son, Kemp l.Sattle, died at the age of four years and eight months. The four still living are : Jul ' a Ethel, now Mrs. W. E. Kleckley, Columbia, S. C. ; the Rev. William Preston, pastor of the First Lutheran Church, Birmingham, . la. ; Erances Xaomi, living with her father; and Robert Benjamin, student in Lenoir College. During her married life .Mrs. Cline was the devoted and pat ' ent help-meet of her husband in all the arduous labors and obligations of his educational and ministerial work. She was the highest type of the faithful, courageous Christian mother — never losing an opportunity to comfort or help. She gave herself unsparingly and most unselfishly to her home dut ' es, to the boarding of students and to the entertaining of friends, always taking a deep interest in the work of the Church and the school — exemplifying in her daily life a beautiful blending of the characteristics of Sarah and Mary and Martha of old. She was a kind mother not only to her own children but to the many students who were so fortunate as to board in her home in those early days of the College. She, too. was one of the founders of our College, and is worthy the honors and appreciation due the noblest of these good souls who consecrate their lives to the service of their fellow-men. . s pastor ' s wife, as professor ' s wife, as friend, as mother, She hath done a ' haf she could, and wherever serve the lives she has touched and blessed, wherever goes the influence of old Holly Grove Academy and Lenior College, there will be the fruits of her faithful life as a memorial of her. Pa r . ' •iix

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