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Remittances by registered letter, ntonej order, postal note. Important Notice. Brother J. C. McMichael gave the best years of his life to build ing up the Index, and in collat eral lines of Avork for the church and humanity. In the prime of his lift', the Master cahed him up higher jus! when he was about to reap some financial reward lor his labors on the paper. He left a AtidoAV and four bright sons. Over the home in which they live, then' hangs a debt. Will not every reader who is indebted to the Index remit the amount due at once by money order or other wise? Please do this. It will be a timely act. For th** Index. Dr. Gamrreil and Co-education Once More. I am glad to reciprocate the kind allusions of my brother as to my tone and spirit in this dis mission, and beg to assure him, and my readers, that if I press him pretty close, at times, it must not be mistaken for person al feeling: for I intend to be free from anything of that kind. He claims that I was not accu rately informed as to the vote ot the trustees at the lastcommence ment of Mercer University, stat ing that they did not vote on the general question of co-education, but upon extending privileges to women in pedagogy. I Avish to assure him that 1 was informed ui>on that very point, and a quo tation from my article must make it clear that I knew what I was doing 1 used this language, "In the meantime, at the com mencement of the University, a few* months later, he again urg ed the trustees to open the classes of the institution to wo men.- ’ Had they done this, is it not perfectly clear that Mercer would have been co educational? 1 should like to know what is the difference between opening the classes of an institution to wo men and co-education.' He says The trustees voted as they did because the Avhole question is to be settled next April. - ’ Exactly, they refused to make Mercer co educational, at his urgent re quest, but politely informed the President that he must await the action of the Convention. And this was the understanding of the matter, at least, by one of the trustees who spoke to me ot this action. Dr. Gambrell again charges me with a want of accurate in formation relative to co-educa tion in the University of Virgin ia, making the statement, "co education was never adopted by that school as a policy. Some young ladies took the examina tions without matriculation. ■’ That is just what I said, and to prove it I quote from the article he is reviewing, "The Universi ty of Virginia, the leading insti tution in the South, if not in America, admitted women, a few years ago, so far as allowing one or tw’o to stand examinations in some of the classes. But after careful study of the subject the faculty reversed this decision, and utterly refused to admit wo men in any shape or form.’ I then quoted extensively from the report of the faculty, giving their resolutions upon the subject, and some reasons for the change. I not only gave my authority but cited the page whence I obtained it. I must leave my readers to decide Avho is wanting in accu rate information Dr Gambrell or myself. Well do I remember when those w-omen were admit ted to the classes in the Univers ity of Virginia Avhat a parade the advocates of co-education made of it, but when a change takes place and it no longer serves them, they raise the cry, "Co education was never adopted as a policy by that school.” O, con sistency thou art a jewel! I must express surprise that Dr. Gambrell did not go to the heart of the question of co-edu cation as he promised, but con tents himself with claiming that co-education is in possession of TH® Cl 1 LUST LA N INI )EX. the field, ami makes a circle around the globe to prove this assertion. Grant that hisassump tion is correct, is this any reason for adopting co education in Mer cer University or does it proA’e co education to be right? This is an utterly false, ami untenable position. The world is going after satan; he is largely in pos session of the field, shall Ave fol low him? Romanists are said to exceed all denominations in strength, aggressiveness and growth, practically they are in possession of the field. Is this any reason Avhy Baptists and oth er Christians should give up and let them have the world? He quotes Dr Broadus as being correct when he said of co-edu cation "It is inevitable." Dr. Gambrell must excuse me if Isay. I can not accept that statement as coming from Dr. Broadus as he has made so many grave mis takes. as I have already shown, about the position ol this honor ed servant of God. 1 must think that he is mistaken. Well does the faculty of the University ol Virginia say. in their last annual report, page 18. of the Universi ty, "Let it not surrender to the Avild schem -?sof outside agitators Avho hold change to be progress, nor be bullied into a false posi tion by the insatiate clamor of a noisy minority of the public, thereby breaking irrevocably with and condemning its honor able past." And so I say of Mercer, be these agitators feAv or many. Dr. Gambrell tells us that his facts have been elicited by a series of questions address ed to some tAVo dozen presidents of co educational institutions in the South. He admits that the testimonials are not absolutely unanimous. 1 believe Dr. Gam brell truthful and honest, but as he is so liable to make blunders, I must insist upon his naming his witnesses and letting them speak for themselves. I pur pose letting some Avho know of the work of co-education in these schools tell, in their oavu words, what they think of it. Possibly 1 may use some of the very men avho are now being claimed by- Dr. Gambrell. Ido not want to make promises I can not fulfill, so I say possibly. But again Dr. Gambrell changes his position in tAvo or more instances. He says "Near ly- all the high schools and acad emies are co educational. The man Avho AA-ould noAv oppose co education in these schools Avould be an anarchronism.” Noav, Doctor, come back to the ques tion. You knoAA- that we are not discussing co-education in acad emies and high schools, but in colleges such as Mercer I niver sify, which is another and a very different question. lam no more opposed toco-education in such schools than you are. You may deceive the unsuspecting by such artful dodges, but the peo ple, you desire to influence, will not be deceived bysuch methods. Under this head, 1 desire to place Keachi and Mount Leban on, Ouchita, (’arson and Newman Avhich are nothing more than high schools bearing the name of colleges. Possibly there are others named by Dr. Gambrell which belong to this class. Co education may be the very best that they can do under the cir cumstances. 1 am forced tocharge Dr. Gam brell with reasoning in a circle or begging the question, and the larger the circle the more diffi cult it is to detect fallacies. His is a large circle, taking in the North and the south, and Eng land and Germany and France. Thus he goes round and round, and comes back to the point whence he started. I have neith er the time nor inclination to follow him, nor can I afford to tax the patience of my readers with such a performance. So I must enter his circle again and seek the center while he plays around the circumference. He mentions Cambridge and Oxford as being coeducational: but Dr. Gambrell is not accurate ly informed as to co education in these Universities. Does he knoAA that they have the annex system? Well, it is even so. "These annexes are homes, col leges, under the charge of mat rons at the distance at Cambridge of one mile and a half from the other colleges of the Universi ty.” lam not sure, but I think that the University of Chicago and Brown University have the annex system, and this is prac tically true of Georgetown Col lege in Kentucky-. This is far different from the plan urged by- Dr. Gambrell. Besides, in many of the Northern schools, where co-education prevails, and which schools Dr. Gambrell holds up to the people of Georgia as mod els for us to pattern after negroes are admitted upon the same terms as Avhites. Columbian University, Washington, D. C , has recently been called upon to open its doors to negroes. Who I SUBSCRIPT!©. w t *R, ...*2.00. ITO MINISTERS. V LOO. I ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21,1895. knows Avith the rapid changes, and Avonderful progress avo are making hoAV far ahead the day is when some reformers in the South will raise the clamor that it is unjust to close the doors of our colleges to negroes? The whole North is doing it, and it has passed beyond theory into the clear light of demonstration. Such demonstration may suit the North, but it will never demon strate anything to our Southern people, but a want of respect for a people who practice social equality. But in some of the very insti tutions which Dr. Gambrell names as co educational in tnis country, "In which co educa tion, on the plan of promiscuous association of the sexes in the lecture rooms and laboratories, has been alloAved grave troubles have arisen. A record of these troubles has been given with much candor by a NorthAvestern man at the meeting of the Edu cational Association of the Unit ed States which was held in Detroit in 1*74.” 1 understand that the institutions referred to are Antioch, Oberlin, and other coeducational institutions in < )hio. Another question raised by Dr. Gambrell aviis as to Avhether wo men ought to have the advan tages of higher education. Here again he changes his position. This question is not up, and if it were, no one would deny it. We all believe that they should, and ample opportunities are of fered them for higher culture. In conclusion let me ask Dr. Gambrell to do as he has prom ised, go right to tin' heart of co education, and demonstrate, as lit' claims hi' can the advantages which it will bo to Mercer and th<' generaPeducational interests of Georgia. Noav Doctor come down to business. Either you can or can not. So far, you have reminded me of what Arch-bishop Whatley says of the skillful sophist. He says: “He will often by the promise of a trium phant refutation gain attention to his own statement; which if it be made plausablo, will so draw off the hearer’s attention from the objections that a very inad equate fulfillment of that prom isewill pass unnoticed and due weight Avill not be allowed the objections.” If you do not do some demonstrating in your next, I shall be forced to bid you adieu, and in one or two articles present my objections to co-edu cation. Besides you are going to disappoint many who have been led by your threatening at titude to expect that you would make it as clear as daylight that the only mistake that our fath ers made in founding Mercer was that they did not make it co-educational. G. W. Gardner. Jackson, Ga. Speaking of Pastor Coalson of Chapel Hill the New’ South says: Rev. A. J. Coalson, the pastor of the Baptist church has been with us for four years and the rela tionship of pastor and people lias been one of the pleasantest. He is a brave and faithful de fender of the principles held by Baptists, and has won the con confidence and co operation of his church and his appreciation of this is evidenced in the fact that he has decided to purchase a home and reside in our com munity. The associations are now over for this year and in summing up what has been done we find that nearly S3OOO or more has been paid in than at this time last year. The Board is still a little behind in its finances. Many of the churches are taking regu lar monthly collections for mis sions. This is the only safe an proper way. Remember we need money every month. A meeting of the State Board of Mission is called for next Thursday afternoon at 2:30 sharp in Dr. Hawthorne’s study at the first church, Atlanta. AU Bap tist preachers and laymen inter ested in colportage work, for Georgia,are affectionately invit ed to attend this meeting of the Board. J. G. Gibson, Cor. Sec. Dear Bro. Ward.—l am glad to note increased interest in Sun day-school ard church work. We have not yet organized a “ Young Men’s Prayermeeting;” but hope that the interest now manifested may increase and ripen in it before very long, as you know it takes no little inter est to run a young men’s meet ing successfully. There is suf ficient material here and I hope soon will be utilized in the pro mulgation of Christ’s kingdom. Pray that the church may be alive to the work. May the In dex, as it has already done, brighten the hearts of those who are weak and shine where there has never been any light. W. H. All. For the Inpex, From Beirut to D :mascus. If you will look oZ the map in your Oxford BTGIe. you will notice a toAvnabout 2btniles north of Sidon, called Berytus. This tow’n was probably mentioned by another name in the Old Testa ment, but its mode m name is Beirut. It is the principal sea port town in Syria, and has a population of about 150,000. The city in some respects, is truly oriental, but in othbr ways is European. We came into the town on Sun day morning and saw the people as they appear in public places on that day. Here is seen diver sity of costume, many of the men wearing* garments that look more like a lady's dress than of a man. It is Sunday but the Moslem cares nothing for that, for Friday is the day his religion requires him to observe. The Christian cannot do much work on this day for fear of the Mos lem, and he cannot do much on Sunday because of his conscience. In this way he is kept from work two days each week. The Americans have a consid erable mission work atthis place and appear to be doing fairly Avell, under the circumstances. But they are subject to many petty annoyances, and all of this because the American minister at Constantinople is a Turk rather than a Christian. The Turk is not friendly to Ameri can missions because there is an air of freedom about their teach ing that he does not relish. Mis I sionaries from other nations do very well, because their inter ests are looked after by their consuls. It is just to say that our consul at Beirut, Mr. Gib son, of Georgia, is in no way re sponsible for this as he holds a, position inferior to Mr. Terrell and cannot do anything without his help. In all that 1 have heard of Mr. Gibson, there has been nothing but to his praise. All our Georgia people may feel proud of him as a representative of our great country, hailing from our own commonwealth. Some of our party went to the home ot Mr. Gibson, but while' he was away, they were shown through the w’ell ordered apart ments, andexpressed themselves as being well pleased r--- finding there a large portrait Guihe Hou. Hoke Smith. An item of inter est to our Baptist people is found in the fact that an encouraging Baptist mission has recently sprung up in one of the nourish ing suburbs of Beirut. This is due to the influence of a young man who Avent from here to the United States to be educated. While there he was converted and since his return he is full of zeal for the Master’s cause. There are several converts, and atari early day, there will be a church organized. A number of preachers went out to see this young man and learn something of his work. By the authority* of the Third Baptist church, St. Louis, Mo., to which church the young brother belongs, he was li censed to baptize. It seems that this was the best that could be done under the circumstances, as it was not thought prudent to or dain him at this time. Passing Beirut, we go up the Lebanon Mountains until we reach an altitude of .‘>ooofeet. It is about 90 miles to Damascus, by rail, and about the same dis tance by diligence. Here is one of the very best macademized roads in the world. This road was not built by the Turks, but by the French, who seem to be getting a strong hold in Syria. The company which built the pike has also built a railroad and this was put into operation last July. So the cars are now running regularly to Damascus: Much of interest appears as you cross the mountains, but you will see no trees. The country has long since been bereft of its forest and the olive is almost the only tree you will see. The plain of Cele-Syria is very beautiful and fertile, its fields being watered by the head waters of the Leon tes. Passing over the water-shed you begin to descend and direct ly find yourself on the banks of the Abana Its waters are clear and beautiful and no one is sur prised that Naaman, the leper said: “ Are not Abana and Phar par better than all the waters of Israel?” Passing through the great waste you comeinto a Avide plain Avhich would be a desert, if it were not for this river, but as it is the green foliage would make you think of Paradise. But if you should think so, as you look from a distance, you will certainly change your mind when you walk along the streets. This is the oldest city in the world, and it has a population of more than 200,000 souls. The houses are all of stone, or mud, and the streets are so narrow that one, at times, can hardly make his way, on account of the people, j camels, mules,donkey s and dogs. I The latter belongs tone-body and I lies in the streets for every one to get around him without doing his dogship any harm. In this city Abraham's servant lived, and its streets have not been changed from that day to ! this. Consequently you can re ly more fully in the tradition I which locates objects of interest, here or there. 1 stood by the Avell on the outside, where Paul was let doAvn in a basket 'hat he might escape his persecutors,and felt pretty sure I was standing near the exact spot. Then I stood by the reputed home of Ananias, who was sent to Paul by the Lord. Others went to the reputed home of Judas, who entertained the apostle at that time. But the people of Damascus are in sin, squalor and shame. They need the gos pel of Christ, Avhich neither the Greek church nor the Moslems Avill give G H. Carter. ' Rev. John Guion Polhill, M D ON LA’ A FEAV LEFT. The Aviso man said, "One gen eration passeth UAvay. and anoth er generation cometh. ’ Yester day it was McCall, today it is Polhill, tomorroAV which one of ns it shall be, God only knows: but the last one of the genera tion will soon be gone. May we be also ready when the Master calls. In 1*39, Avhen I was but a small I boy, the above named brother came over on a social visit to ray fathers house Jin Richmond coun ty. We Avert' neighbors. He was then a student ot' the "Mer cer Institute - ’ at Penfield,- just changing into "Mercer Universi ty" —a bright young Christian enjoying his vacation. He had much to say about tiie "Insti tute” and Billington Sanders, t he president, and the young minis ters. and the twilight prayer meeting and the baptism of some of our neighbors sons there at school; he was ! nil of the subject. I kneAV him intimately till he Avas far past his three score and ten, and he was still talking about the brethren and the churches and the Masters cause. It is a year since I last met him, but I feel sure that until his lips were sealed in death, he did not change his subject:—What is in the heart Avill be sure to find a place on the lips. But then this is not strange. Ho came of a line of men who were very much given to the same thing: his father was a preacher, his grand lather was a preacher, and so likewise was his great grand-father. As far back as 1 ever heard of the fam ily there was a preacher: the prophets mantle rested upon Na thaniel Polhill, and as lie passed up it fell upon Thomas Polhill, and as he passed up also it fell upon Joseph Polhill. and when lie was called up it fell upon John Guion Polhill. He has departed, but the mantle rests upon the shoulders of none of his sons. Yet this is not the only case, alas, where the line of succession is broken. God knows Avhat is best, but if left to us one Avould order it otherwise. I have been told that our brother was born in Twiggs county, but I know that he was reared in Richmond and Burke. His father and my father work ed side by side in the Master’s cause for many long years, and now their ashes rest only two or three miles apart. In early man hood he engaged in the practice of medicine and after he was or dained to the work of the minis try, the want of proper thought on the part of country churches, compelled him to rely for the support of his family upon his knowledge of medicine; first as a practitioner, and afterwards as a druggist. His first wife was a Miss Sharp, the mother of the children he has left behind him; his second w’as a Miss Moore, and she with these children now mourn his departure. Brother Polhill was an educa ted man, affable in his manners, social in his disposition, gener ous in his nature; Avith a kind word and a friendly deed for every one. As a Christian, he lived mostly in the sunshine, and died at three score and sixteen in the full triumph of the faith. It Avould almost seem as if the eye of Eliphaz, the Temanite, Avas resting upon such a man when he said, “Thou shalt come to the grave in a full rge, like as a shuck of corn cometh in his season ” W. L. Kilpatrick, Hephzibah, Ga. I want to begin work in our church and and comunity for the Orphans Home. Will some one favor me with informa tion concerning it through the Index, or by letter? Chas. Sikes. Gardi, Ga. Co-Eduecation and Other Schools. Once more I insist that facts in the discussion of any question must take rank above theories. In this article, a large number of facts bearing on several phas es of the subject is given. We naturally want to have answers to such questions as these: Is Co- Education good for Colleges and Universities? Does it further ed ! ucation in general? Does it hurt I or help female Colleges? What do I the men Avho give liberally to education think on the subject? I All those are pertinent question. We begin with Texas. More than forty years Baylor Univer sity has been co-educational. Baylor had between seven hundred and eight hundred students last year. The Tex as Baptist Convention also owns Baylor Female College, Avith property Avorth s!'><),eOO. That school now has 25( • students. I would like to see things big that Avay in Georgia. Gov. Hub bard, an Alumnus of Mercer, helped to organize the great Tex as University. It Avaa done while he Avas governor. It Avas made co-education al, and is a great success Avithout a doubt. The Universi ty of Georgia is a baby by it. Ouachita College, Arkansas, our Baptist school for that state, is less than fifteen years old. and last year had about four-hundred students. There were two schools at Georgetown, Ky., male and fe male. Three or four years ago, the female school merged into (ieorgetoAvn College. Last ses sion they bad 39b students; 25(i males. Fri< nds are building an elegant dormitory for girls on the Campus and everything is up grade. Stetson University in Florida, is less than fifteen years old. In equipments and nieney it stands in the front rank of South ern Baptist Institutions, with an attendance in excess of Mercer, Wake Forest. Richmond College or any male Baptist in stitution in the South. If it be said that one man, John B. Stet son gave most of the money,l re ply that there is hardly any large money given now to any’ but co educational schools. Mr. Rocke feller, Avho has just given an ad ditional $3,(100,09!Ho the Univer sity of Chicago, conditioned h s original gift on t he school’s being co educational. I Avas present and heard his offer read. Leland Stanford gave *20,000,00i> to a school and made it coeducation al. Columbian University, Baptist Washington, D. C., struggled along much as other institutions, for ti long time. About the year I**4 women Avere admitted, Last year more than a thousand stud ents were matriculated. A great many people think co education originated in Noav Eng land. where it is reputed all isms are hatched. This is not true at all. Twenty-live years ago the young Michigan Uni versify,after a bitter tight, admitted Avomen, following Oberlin in the North and Baylor in the South. All the New England Universities were closed against Avomen It was not long till Michigan led every thing. Last year there Avere six hundred Avomen and about tAven ty-iive-hundred men. Theold in stitutions began to come in,but it was not till 1891 that Brown-Uni- V( r sity Rhode Island, the oldest of our Baptist schools,admitted Avo men. President Andrews writes me that it was with great diffi culty that he could get Brown open. Many of the Professors took the same view that a major ity of the Professors in the Uni versity of Virginia did. But Dr. Andrews says they all are of one mind now. He testifies that Brown has been greatly beaetitted. The highest number matriculated be foi e women were admitted was 4< >4 This Fall he writes,in answer to an inquiry, that9(i(l have matric ulated and still they are coming. They have a Freshman class of 2(H). There are 770 men and 130 women. In answer to the question: How has co education affected the fe male Colleges? President An drews replies “Good every Avay. - It has elevated their standards, created a stronger and healthier educational sentiment and the result is that "not one of the fe male Colleges can find room for the women who Avish to attend them.” To assure myself on this point, I addressed the following letter to President Taylor, of Vassar, the greatest female College on this continent: “President J. M. Taylor, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Dear Sir and Brother: The ques tion of co-education is very much discussed among our peo ple now, and I am anxious to get all the light on it that expe rience has brought to those Avho are in the midst of its Avorking. Will you have the kindness to answer, on this sheet, the ques tions below?” VOL. 75-NO. 16 Question 1. From your obser vation, has co education helped orhinderel female education? Answer. "It has helped it by increasing the number of the educated, and so the interest in education. - ’ Question 2. "Has co-education, in the great Universities of the North hurt the female Colleges?” Answer. “Notin the least. The growth of the woman’s Col leges has been remarkable. Not one of them can meet the demand* on it for rooms: Would it might be so in Georgia. I should hat’e been great y as stonished if these answers had been different. Nothing better could happen for our female colleges than to open the Univerisities to women. Competition. A dozen men fish ing in Atlantic ocean are not i® competition. What we want is a free play of educational forces,, with proper co-ordination. It is certainly true that coed ucational schools are everyw here leading the male schools of the same class, and they are getting' nearly ah the money. I offer no explanation of this, though I think 1 could explain it. Let is come to Nashville. Tenn. There is Vanderbilt, the great Methodist University of the South, and University of Nashville. Both admit women and they have the latter,bet wtjen joi! and I>oo students and the former probably as many. But tins is not all: there is a brilliant cluster of female schools in Nashville thriving on the ro liust educational sentiment,large ly made by the Universities.. There' is a nearer and very practical question for us t< de cide: Will Georgia people patro nize coeducational institu"’.n ’.w*. Here again Ave need not theor ize. Facts speak and settle the matter. While little lias been said, practical educators all over the state and practical parents have built scores of co educational schools Avhere males and females? from five to tAventy tive years of age go to school together. The largest schools are co-educational They’ take the boys and girls at the trying age and carry them right along Avithout any trouble. And these students, hundreds of theni, board in private families. Capt. Bradwell says that in one year 41<* students left Georgia to go to schools out of the State It is certain that approximately 300 of these were women and half of these were Baptist Avomen. They all went to co ed ucational schools. Again, the State Normal Col lege has more than 150 students. It is in its first year and is co-ed ucational. The Alhambra Nor mal College, according to the pa pers,opened with nearly' 20<> stu dents. It is located at Griffin and is co educational. This is its first year. We need not shut our eyes to facts. There is a new educatk n. I am clear in my mind that we must graft the ucaa’ onto the old or be hurt by the new and left in the shallows as the tide (tows away from us. There is hardly an indoirwjeil man who Avill care to dispute- she conclusion reached by' th®- Na tional Educational Association in I*9o. The report of the- com mittee says: "We thiivk we should be safe in saying that the question of co-education grade of schools in this in its practical aspects is* settled. Individuals may denyOthe sound ness of the theory, but i*>u.t>- lic mind is made up and fe likely to be skaken in ite corcrie tions.” This is the off the greatest body of edacaCon’ sb America. It speaks* a; troth Avhich Ave will be very uaw’ise to disregard. I have not undertaken to dis cuss or elucidate these- fa«ts.: I could do it with success I think; but the explanations are- to.be found in tw’o great central Ideas; the naturalness of co-education and the tine spirit of economy, exhibiting itself in all the activi ties of life, a spirit which is rul ing the age. Now because I especcially wish our Baptist schools to grow and because I wish to put Mercer in touch with the strongest,health iest and most progressive spirit of education, and because I fore see that if others give our peo ple Avhat Mercer Avill not, we must suffer in all our interests— for these reasons I wish Mercer opened to Avomen on the plan set out heretofore. If, however, the Brotherhood disagree with me, I have no pride of opinion to* make me unhappy. Let us all be thoughtful and whatever is done let us do it unitedly. J. B. Gambreix. Dr. B. F. Riley’ has been elect ed one of the Board of managers of the Baptist Historical Society of Georgia. Dr. Riley will the position Avith honor, to hina self ami the Baptist denomin tion