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pressing for means with which to e<iuip and endow
tiieii denoiuiuatiouai institutions as to leave
no hope lliut lor years to come lunds could oc
obtained from thein, whereby the Assembly could
give aid to this, or to any, form of Christian
Education. 'llie power or the Uenerai Assenibly
to obtain luiuls was, and is now, limited to
the collections lor .Ministerial Education, and
to a moderate lund lor making small loans to
students of approved qualitications, winch is
also in tliu hands of the Committee in Louisville.
llence, ii' anything is to be done in the
near future for tne religious welfare of our
young people in State and other non-deiiomiualional
schools, it must be done as the General
Assembly has said, by the Synods.
2. But it is another and far more powerful
reason that the Synods should forthwith undertake
the care of these young people. And tkis
reason is found in the intrinsic and rapidly
growing importance of the work itself. iSo great
is this work, and so pressing is it for immediate
attention that it can be considered as nothing
short of a clear and loud call lrom the Providence
of God.
For surely one must be an inattentive observer
of the educational movements of our time,
who fails to see that it has become the hxed
policy of the American Commonwealths to furnish
an up-to-date Higher Education free of
cost to every citizen who cares sufficiently to
have it. fo this end millions on millions have
been, and are now more than ever being raised
by taxation. And to these millions other millions
are being appropriated by the Federal
Government, chieliy from the sales of public
lands. And to this vast aggregate other mil
lions are being annually donated from the
private fortunes of wealthy citizens. And with
these ample resources the very best equipments,
the most diversified curricula of studies, covering
almost the entire encyclopedia ot human
knowledge, and taught by large faculties of expert
instructors, are offered, for the most part,
without money and without price to all who
really care for the munificent gift.
And in response to this offer, literally speaking,
thousands and tent* of thousands of ambitious
young men and women are to be seen
moving out trom homes and schools to crowd the
wide halls and recitation rooms of Universities
and other institutions of higher education,
financed and controlled by the vast resources of
the various States, the Federal Union and the
fortunes of rich men.
(To be continued.)
In judging others we subject ourselves to
others' judging. And others' judgment of us
will be as to the same things in which we judge
Those who judge simply call attention to the
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judgment upon in others. It then becomes little
less than an airing and advertising of our own
shortcomings. The Saviour was both wise and
practical in his injunction, "Judge not, that ye
be not judged.''
One of Haydn's friends asked me how it happened
that his church music was almost always
of an animating, cheerful, and even festive
quality. The great composer replied: "I can
not make it otherwise. I write according to the
thoughts I feel. When I think upon God, my
heart is so full of joy that notes dance and leap,
as it were, from my pen; and since God has given
me a cheerful heart, it will be pnsrilv fnr*riire-n -mo
that I serve him with a cheerful heart."
The wants of povery are few,
Of luxury are more,
While avarice seeks all earthly good
To grasp in selfish store.
; PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SO
A Fundamental Factoi ir
\VM. J. MARTIN J l'KESJl
1 reler to the denominational college and 1
place it as second only to itic lioine. the denominational
college, like all the L/hurch's work,
jo uiiuci uuutiui 01 me courts ul tuc cliurcli and
must be and remain a distinctly Christian institution.
Denominational control, more than
anything else, insures its Christian character
and the permanence liiereoL 1'roperiy saleguarded
by the Church, the faculty, its strongest
iulluencing force, must be composed oi men
of positive Christian life. Otlicially nothing
can be brought to bear on the young student
to loose him from his niooriugs ol faith, and on
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iuc uniL-i uiuiu, uoui me rescuing oi the professors
and the iiiilueuce oi their lives (probably
the greater influence oi the two) must tend to
strengthen the faith and Chrisian life of the
.student.
There is never a time in the liJe of a young
man when he is so susceptible to the inttuenee
of unsound principles as during the years of
his college course. Physically just changing to
manhood, lie naturally is attracted by any proposition
that appears "independent" of the established
order, and error, new to him, but in
its fundamentals us old as the Christian religion,
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gvio iaoi I1U1U U1J iliiil.
It is the business of the Christian college to
prevent this and to do more than prevent, to
throw around liiiu the best positive influence ol
a truly Christian faculty and student body.
.Make him feel that intellectual and physical
development is greatly to be desired, but that
the growth of the spiritual lite is primal in importance.
*it is the spirit which quickeneth;
the llesh proliteth nothing."
It will not answer to be simply indifferent to
the spiritual development of our young, it only
teaches them olliciully that material concerns
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life tome first. ic is the old mistake of "pulling
first things last and last things iirst."
Now, whether necessary or not, whether desirable
or not, the fact is that in most of our
non-denonilinational colleges these m|att4rs of
spiritual interest, if handled at all, have to be
bandied as a side hisue. The institution cannot
officially teach and influence the student in the
interest of his religious life. This in itself,
possibly unconsciously, but more or less strongiy,
gives the young student the wrong impression
of the relative importance of things that
are most worth while in a man's life. Many
of these institutions have forces both official and
unofficial influencing the students which are
positively antagonistic to Christian i'aith and
life. A young man trained through his college
course in such an atmosphere is not apt to be
of any force in his church. Test it and find,
as has been done, that a large majority of the
graduates of the denominational college are
lound active workers in Christian service and
that the reverse is true from other institutions.
The denominational college is fundamental to
the Church because it, more than any other
agency, provides the leadership in every form
of Church activity.
Trace it out. Our Foreign% Missionary workers
largely come from the Church college. So
do the vast majority of our Home Mission leaders.
And what of our pulpit? It is reliably
stated that 35 per cent of our ministers come
from our Church colleges. Most of our Sabbath
school workers, our elders, deacons, and consecrated
business laymen, come from tbis source.
It is time the whole Church was recognizing
this fact, that the Church college is its greatest
single source of efficient Christian leaders and
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i the Work of the Church
>ENT, DAVIDSON COLLEGE.
workers; and llien, recognizing that, to realize
that there is imperative, immediate need oi her
rallying to the help ol her educational schools.
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mey are matting toine progress, but not 111 proportion
to those of political or private character,
it is a sad fact, but a Jact that the thing that
they most need is means, and large means, to
compass the vast work the (Jliurcli colleges are
called 011 to do, and lor which opportunity offers.
Prayer and God s blessing must underlie
and crown it all, and i earnestly wish more
universal prayer were made the Church over
for our Church schools and the work they art
tying to do.
Jiiglic, euueation is expensive; the Stale is
recognizing tins xuci, una tuc increasing auiuana
for education, and is pouring its. iuiuis into its
schools and colleges. There is and will be a
uvalry for students and every tiioughtlul parent
is going to consider well the advantages
offered to liis son by the different institutions.
The Church college must offer hini us good as
the best intellectually and for the physical care
and development 01 his son, and then must offer,
what the other will not and olten cannot, a
strong Christian influence in teaching and life.
Further, a diversity of courses must be ottered.
Courses preparing a boy for entrance iiito the
schools of the "learned professions.;' such as
the ministry and law, must not be neglected nor
weakened in the least, but the Church has no
right to say to the young man called to a "practical"
life, "you must get yuur education outside
the Cliurch school and its strong Christian
influence." This is jitat what we have been
doing and the result is the vast body of practical
college men have been trained auay from
The Church and its work, and are now, as successful
business men, disposed to support nonChurch
enterprises rather than the Church acl
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thinking Christian lueu and women devoting a
considerable part oi' their olferingn to tlie rough
establishment of strong, broad Church colleges
fundamental to every continued activity of the
Church.
No one who knows the writer will doubt his
interest in Foreign Missions and his belief that
this great task can be accomplished speedily;
but after it is done, what? Home Missions are
still with us. New churches are needed, additional
ministers and a vast army of consecrated,
Christian leaders to advance the cause of Christ
in face of the mighty opposing forces of mate
r.alism arid godlessness. We do not so much
need leaders, as leaders of great spiritual vision,
and whence shall they come save from the Christian
college?
All this applies to every denomination, but
there is a word L would say to the Southern
Presbyterians.
For years and decades you have boasted of
your zeal in Church education, and your leadership
in this work, but even a cursory examination
of recent years will show you that others
are going ahead of your Church. Look to your
laurels, for they are in the hands of others. Are
you willing to let it rest so?
I plead not for pride, but for the young life
of our Church and its future leadership?for
our service for humanity?for our share in the
preserving of our nation?for Christ and hi*
crown.
The colleges you now have should be immediately
strengthened until they can rightfully
claim your sons and daughters as being fully
prepared and equipped to prepare them for the
best of service.