While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
"Thy vows are upon me O God. I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the presence
of all his people."-David.
I. The Student's
Obligation
On being received as a student of this
institution, I do solemnly promise, God
helping me, that I will be obedient to the
rules of this institution and endeavor to
prove myself an earnest student and
thoughtful, faithful worker; that I will be
prompt in responding to every call, pay the
cost of repair to any furniture or glass
broken, as a result of thoughtlessness or
carelessness on my part; and that I will
refrain from the use of profane or angry
words to man or beast; and also from the use
of tobacco, cigarettes, snuff, dice,
gamblers cards, and intoxicating liquors as
a beverage, while I enjoy the privileges of
the academy.
II. Christian Endeavor
Pledge
Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for
strength, I promise him that I will strive
to do whatever he would like to have me do;
that I will pray to Him and read the Bible
every day, and that, so far as I know how,
throughout my whole life, I will endeavor to
lead a Christian life.
III. Pledge of Self-Help
Students
As long as I am accorded and enjoy the
privilege of a home and of a student at Oak
Hill Academy, recognizing the fact that my
time during the periods of work does not
belong to me, but to the institution;
I solemnly pledge my word and honor, God
helping me, that I will refrain from making
any engagement elsewhere, that might
interfere with the faithful and constant
performance of the duties devolving on me at
Oak Hill; that I will conscientiously keep
my word as to the time of my return, when
absent from my home at the academy; that I
will yield a prompt and cordial obedience to
all the rules and regulations relating to
the conduct of students at the academy, and
that I will constantly endeavor to show
myself worthy the confidence and esteem of
the superintendent and his helpers; and not
leave the institution until I have honorably
met all of my obligations.
"Abstain from all
appearance of evil."-Paul.
"With malice toward none and charity for
all, I the undersigned do pledge my word and
honor,
God Helping Me
To abstain from all Intoxicating Liquors
as a beverage and that I will, by all
honorable means, encourage others to
abstain.
An acre of government land costs $1.25, and
a bottle of whiskey about $2.00. How strange
that so many people prefer the whiskey.
The Intoxicating Cup
The Intoxicating Cup Within this glass destruction rides,
And in its depths does ruin swim;
Around its foam perdition glides,
And death is dancing on its brim.
What They Think About
It A curse.-Queen Victoria.
A scandal and a shame.-Gladstone.
It stupefies and besots.-Bismark.
The devil in solution.-Sir Wilfred Lawson.
The mother of want and the nurse of
crime.-Lord Brougham.
Saloons are traps for workingmen.-Earl
Cairnes.
Abraham Lincoln The following is the pledge of Abraham
Lincoln, the great emancipator.
"Whereas, the use of alcoholic liquors as a
beverage is productive of pauperism,
degradation and crime, and believing it is
our duty to discourage that which produces
more evil than good; we, therefore pledge
ourselves to abstain from the use of
intoxicating liquors as a beverage."
When Lincoln signed the pledge he was a tall
awkward youth, and the only one that went
forward at the meeting in the log school
house to sign it that night. When he was
president, "Old Uncle John," who induced him
to sign it, called on him at the White House
and Lincoln said:
"I owe more to you than to almost any one of
whom I can think. If I had not signed the
pledge in the days of my youthful
temptation, I should probably have gone the
way of a majority of my early companions,
who lived drunkard's lives and are now
filling drunkard's graves."
After reconstruction, the next great
question is the overthrow of the liquor
traffic.-Abraham Lincoln.
William Henry Harrison "Gentlemen I have now twice refused your
request to partake of the wine cup. That
should be sufficient. I made a resolve when
I started in life, that I would avoid strong
drink: I have never broken that pledge. I am
one of a class of seventeen young men who
graduated; the other sixteen fill drunkard's
graves, all due to the pernicious habit of
wine drinking. I owe my health, happiness
and prosperity to the fact I have never
broken my pledge of total abstinence. I
trust you will not again urge me to do so."
This noble answer was given to friends who
were dining with him at the old Washington
House in Chester, Pa., when he was a
candidate for president.
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Choctaw Freedmen and Oak Hill Industrial
Academy, 1914, Robert Elliott Flickinger
