The Man Who Talks with Flowers: The Intimate Life Story of Dr. George Washington Carver
By Glenn Clark
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The Man Who Talks with Flowers - Glenn Clark
The Man Who Wore a Flower in His Buttonhole
I smiled at the way Jim wore his fedora. Something about his hair, possibly something under his hair, prevented a hat from ever sitting straight on Jim Hardwick’s head. It always stuck out at a debonair angle. His broad shoulders, energetic step and serious Spartan face suggested a football player—which he ardently had been— more than an ordained preacher of the gospel—which he ardently was now. The moment he began to speak with that soft Virginia tang of his, there awoke romantic echoes in every youthful heart within hearing distance. It was like following a quarry over fascinating terrain to listen for one hour to Jim Hardwick lead young men back to Christ. It was like picking one’s way down a gunflint trail toward inviting sunsets when Jim began speaking of the power of prayer. Everywhere he went he left changed lives behind him. I rarely have met a man, in all my going and coming across the continent, who could inspire young men and women who were earnestly seeking God, like Jim could.
Naturally I asked Jim one day how he came by this hidden power of his.
From an old Negro in Alabama,
was his instant reply.
An old Negro!
I exclaimed.
It was the most amazing experience in my life,
he continued. Have you ever heard of George Washington Carver of Tuskegee? One day he came to the town where I lived and gave an address on his discoveries of the peanut. I went to the lecture expecting to learn science and came away knowing more about prayer than I had ever learned in the theological schools. And to cap the climax, when the old gentleman was leaving the hall he turned to me, where I stood transfixed and inspired, and said, ‘I want you to be one of my boys.’ That was the way it began.
You must have felt honored by his selecting you out from the rest of the audience that way.
No,
drawled Jim, "just the opposite. It came very nearly spoiling the lecture. My grandfathers were owners of slaves. I came naturally by a strong southern prejudice against the Negro. For a ‘nigger’ to assume the right of adopting me into his family—even his spiritual family, as in this case—was brazen effrontery to my pride. I recoiled from it.
So I went home and tried to remove Dr. Carver entirely out of my mind. But try as I would I could not erase the effect of the lecture. A few evenings later when I seriously needed help, almost unconsciously I found myself turning in thought to this simple old scientist who had found God in the hills and fields, and instantly it seemed that his spirit filled that room. And his spirit was white, mind you, as white as any saint in heaven. A peace entered me, and my problems fell away. Since then I have found that merely by turning in thought to that dear old gentleman creates an atmosphere about me in which God can come very, very near to me. That is why God is as close to me as He is now.
So that was the source of Jim’s power.
The following year Jim brought Howard Frazier to a summer Camp which I was directing. Soon I became aware of the sweet spiritual quality in Howard. I soon learned that he too derived his inspiration from Dr. Carver and also had been admitted into his inner spiritual family. Since then there hardly was a year when I did not meet one or more of Dr. Carver’s boys.
The weaving and interweaving of his influence upon my life through these friends of his continued throughout many years, until it finally awoke in me a great desire to see this great spiritual saint whose influence spread far beyond his little town of Tuskegee. But as this privilege seemed to be indefinitely postponed, I sat down one day and wrote him a letter, instead.
By return mail I received a letter saying, I was praying that you would write to me when your letter came.
From that moment I knew that I too was one of Dr. Carver’s boys.
It so happened that a few weeks after receiving this letter, I was called east to give a series of talks to a group of people in Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick’s church. I wrote to Dr. Carver to pray that God should speak through me. I was on the train when the letter reached him, but I knew the hour and the minute