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As I Begin To Close, In The Cemetery Of Tuskegee ...
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007 (message contributor)
As I begin to close, in the cemetery of Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee Alabama, there is a tombstone which reads: "GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER - Died in Tuskegee, Alabama, January 5, 1943. A Life that stood out as a gospel of Self-Forgetful Service. He could have added Fortune to Fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honour in being helpful to the world." George Washington Carver epitomized the saying, "If I can help somebody...".
Born about 1864, into slavery, on the Moses Carver Plantation, near Diamond Grove, Missouri, he started out his life already weakened. His father had died in an accident shortly before his birth and he himself was not expected to live long for his body was frail and sickly. He and his mother, while he was still an infant, were kidnapped by slave raiders. He was later returned to the plantation, being swapped for a horse; however, his mother was never heard from again. At the age of ten, he went to Kansas and put himself through high school.
In 1891, he entered the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now Iowa State University. He graduated in 1894, with a Bachelor’s degree and continued his education, receiving his Master’s degree in 1896. He was actively involved in campus life, making a garage laundry more popular than the College President’s Office. He was a leader in the campus Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) and in the Debate Club He was the first African-American student at Iowa State University and later became the first African-American faculty member there. Later in his career, Booker Taliaferro Washington, brought him to Tuskegee Institute, where he stayed and conducted his research until his death
It was his faith in Almighty God that brought him from an inauspicious and dramatic beginning to the point of international recognition as a botanist, educator and agricultural researcher - renowned for developing innovative uses for a variety of agriculutral crops such as peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. Multi-talented, he was an accomplished musician and artist - two of his paintings being displayed at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. With the help of Almighty God, he went from weakness to strength
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