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Kfttti tta v< by registered letter, money orier. postal note. Important Notce Brother J. C. McMichael gave the best years of his life to build ing up the Index, and in collat eral Hues of work for the church and humanity. In the prime of bis life, the Master ca’led him up higher just when he was about to reap some financial reward for his labors on the paper. He left a widow and four bright sons. Over the home in which they live, there hangs a debt. Mill 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 the ISUKX. An Open Letter to Dr. Gardner Con cerning Baylor University. BY B. H. CARROLL, PRESIDENT OF BOARD OE TRUSTEES. okar Index. —I have been noting somewhat the running discussion in your columns, con ducted by Drs. Gambrell and Gurder, relative to the proprie y of making Mercer University co-educitional. Whatever may be my own convictions on the general proposition of co educa tion it is far from my purpose to thrust myself into the pending controversy looking to a special, local app i cation in your State, i'liai: 1 regard as a Georgia affair. And as I know no people on earth more competent to at tend to their own business than Georgia Baptists, I would be dis tinctly and particularly under stood as not presuming to med die with what is no concern of mine. i may be allowed to say even more: That 1 have not directly or indirectly, furnished any thunder to either disputant, with or with out a vie .v to its (<7m in 7kr'/*. 1 propose keeping strictly within the limits of my rights and privileges. In modestly as serting them, however, I shall loyally and conscientiously re frain Iron) even a constructive reflection upon our l exas Sepa • rate-edueal on school, Baylor Female College, at Belton, or up on any or its trustees or faculty, past or present. It may usually be taken for granted that a present, or ex em ployee, or trustee of either a separate or co educational school will likely think his own system the better and more conducive to denominational harmony. But su :h an cr-parte think will hardly >e counted proof by the wise. Hence Ido not inflict, on your readers any “ think ” of mine. Quite another object induces this communication. I merely rise to a question of privilege. My point is that Dr. Gardner, in your issue of Dec. sth, has given currency, under quotation marks, to a damaging misrepre sentation of Baylor University,th.it in my judgment, no exigency of his discussion with Dr. Gambrell will at all warrant. Ido not raise the point that his statement in quotation marks seems too unfriendly in spirit to pass for disinterested testimony, for with its an irnus I have noth ing to do; but that it injuriously misrepresents Baylor University in matters of fact. This unnamed correspondent of Dr. Gardner after rebuking Dr. Gambrell for “ assuming all and knowing noth ing.,'' himself proceeds thus to assume: “ I think they have'ar rangements with the city to get public funds.” Having put forth this unchari table and damaging statement as athink,” this as yet un veiled writer, with marvelous facility, immediately assumes it as au established fact and makes it the predicate for the following sweeping accusation: “If Dr. Gambrell wants to get the thing open so as to include the public schools of Macon, Mercer will be able to count as Baylor does.” For the present I pass over less objectionable matter in or der to submit some pertinent ob servation: TJ11: CHRISTI AN I\ DEX. 1.1 do not charge intention al wrong doing on Dr. Gardner in giving publicly to the forego ing anonymous excerpt, whoso author, as the Doe: or frankly states: “ asks me not to use his name.” I am inclined to think that over-zealousness in contro versy unconsciously clouded his usual prudence and fairness. But as an inquiry on a postal card, addressed to any body here in i position to know the facts, would have saved Dr. Gardner from being self-placed in an embar rassing situation which gravely discounts his prudence, it is re : gretable that bechanced toover- I look so simple an expedient of I giving information. 2. Nor do I charge Dr Gard ner's unnamed witness with in tentional wrong. Quite likely, when the veil is lifted, it will ap pear that he is some genuinely good man, who though au “ed "Ciilor." has forgot ten lor the time being his own class-lect- i tires on the unconscious distor ! lion of vision, super-induced by partisan zeal. 3. But I do say that bis being “an educator himself, a gradu ate of a literary school ami a full graduate of our Seminary,” will never make his statement relia ble testimony. Ido say that it is wit true that Baylor University “has an arrangement with the city to get public funds.” It was never true. It can never be true. Never at any time has it derived a nickel of financial support from the public school fund. 4. I do say it is not true that Baylor University makes her ag gregate by counting any student of any public school. And I do say that if Mercer should stoop to include in her enumeration of students the public schools of Macon it would not "be counting as Baylor docs. ” And I do say that- if Dr. Gard ner’s correspondent ranks as high as an angel from heaven, he ought, over his own signature, to publicly apologize, through the columns of the Index for so unjust an imputation on a Bap tist school. That the re t iers of the Index may get a fairer view of Baylor University 1 here quote its hon est, stringent law of matricula tion. ‘ Mutricul tim consists of three things: Ist. Exa nination and classiti cation. 2nd. Paymen’i to the collector, i r treasurer, of all required dues, o' whi< h fact- tha; ofliier’s re ceipt, with coupons of classitica tior. attached, is the only proof. 3rd Registration. Any teacher receiving into his class a student without legal evi dence of matriculati m shall be Held responsible for al. bis dues.” Quoted from catalogue < f ’94-95. I have vainly puzzled my brain in the char itable endeavor to dis cover ome fact that, might, by careful stretching, suggest to a fertile inriginition n plausible sh-dow of excuse for the damag ing reference to Baylor Uni ver sity, upon which I have been pai ifully Compelled to animad vert The only possible thing that occurs to my mire as likely to mislead an uninformed mind is Baylor University’s Summer Normal. This special institu tion of the University, as its name import.-, is a training school for teachers. Its faculty consists largely but not exclu si zt Jy of Bay lor professors doing vacation work. The teacher pu pils themselves, without help from city or State, pay for their tuition. The University furnish es buildings and grounds gratu itously, but derives no financial income whatever from the Nor raal. It is, perhaps, the most popular Summer Normal in the State and does most creditable work. For historical informa tion, and because it is an institu tion of Baylor University, the number of Summer pupils, so taught, is reported in our ar nu al catalogue, but as a separate and distinct item. For instance last catalogue, 94-95, after enu merating all the classifications and summing them up, adds the statement : ‘ This does not in clude the Summer Normal.” Then it give s another total in cluding the 124 students in the Normal. There is not only no effort to mislead, but pains are taken to prevent Ihe simplest folk from being misled. I do not krow whether Mercer re stricts her matriculations to reg ular col ege classes only, nor what is the custom in Ihe school of Dr. Gardner’s correspondent, nor do I stop to inquire into the bearing of this fact, whatever it may be, on the merits of co-edu cation as a system. I am con cerned just now in showing that Baylor University practices no fraud in her emuneration of students. It publishes the facts in her annual catalogue. These facts as cited in the last cata logue I now give: I SUBSCRIPTION, PIR Yr ar,-.. *2.00. I (TO MINISTERS, 1.00. I ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 2, 1800. 1. There was a small primary class.. 43 2. There was a large sub collegiate class, mostly grown up young men and women not prepared tor strict college work 227 3. The regular college classes 257 4. Specialists 39 Total 5(15 5. Summer Normal 124 6 Students taking full and Bible course, not in other University classes 14 This last item not in catalogue. Grand total . 703 Average monthly attendance (not considering Summer Normal.nor Bible Department) 415 Os the 5(15, first total given, fe males 223 I venture to say that no oilier school in the South was more rigid in making its enumeration correspond to actual facts. When Southern religious schools become endowed, and academies are provided which do not leave ()od out, then doubtless our col leges will coniine themselves strictly to regular college-class work. There remains for this article only one other duty, to wit: To remov s from Dr. Gardner's mind a v ron? impression as to the age o' co education in Texas, which judging from his comment, was evi lently fastened on him by his correspondent. Here there is some excuse fora stranger’s get ting a little mixed. To avoid tedious circumlocution, expres s ons have been used about co education in Baylor University that are not strictly accurate. If the Index will kindly ] ermit one who loves the paper and Geor gia Baptists, to use a little more space, 1 will try very briefly to cite the facts: 1. Baylor University, at In dependence, Texas, was estab lished in 1545-- fifty years ago and was co educational. 2. During Dr. Burleson’s pres idency (and he says at his in stance—-I don’t know personally —it was before my time) the male and female departments were separated—with different grounds and building, trustees and faculty. And so remained throughout all the school life at Independence. When I entered the University there in 1859 they were separate, the female de partment bearing then its present name: Baylor Female College. The beginnings of this separa tion were in 1851. ■>. So tar us the title “ Baylor University” goes, historical ac curacy requires us to coniine it s coeducational features Io its initial period, from 1845 to 1851, and the period since consolida tion, from 1880 to 1890. 4. But in 1801 Dr. Burleson, with al] the rest of the faculty of Baylor University, at Indepen dence, resigned, and established here Waco University on an out md out coeducational basis. Here then, within my own knowl edge, and on a large scale, co education has continuously pre vailed for 35 • years—with ever inc reastng success. 5. Now, in 1880, Baylor and Waco Universities were consoli dated, one yielding the name, the other the place and faculty. Waco University would never have consolidated at the sacrifice ol' co-education, which they had even then verified by 25 success ful years. Its representatives, however, did agree that co educational feature might be reconsidered as an open question at the end of ten years. Not at all because they considered co-education an experiment, bit to satisfy the scruples of the advocates of separate education and because they were willing to risk a ver dict at the hands of the denomi nation. Thus Waco University, itself co educational from the be ginning, projected co education back into Baylor University which had abandoned it. Now I leave this question to casuists: Since Waco University is now merged into Baylor University does not the latter name cover the history of the former, so as not to leave its alumni and alum nae without an Alma Mater? Hence is it, in college parlance, a grave offence, when to avoid a tedious circumlocution, one speaking of co-education in Bay lor University should include with the initial period, and the cor solidation period, the inter vening gap of 25 years supplied by Waco University? Let the casuists decide as they may, my province is to give the facts. One thing I know, co-education in Texas was not born in 1886. Long before that date it was a grown man. Allow me in conclusion to give your Georgia people one more fact, necessary to our thorough vindication : The co education people in Texas have never de sired to destroy separate Female education. They honestly and sincerely desire that Baylor Fe male College, at Belton, remain forever a separate education school. And right loyally and lovingly have they helped to fos ter it. We know that a large number of our people prefer separate education for their girls and will have it because they want it. It is equally true that another large class prefer co-education and will have it because they want it. And when either de sires the other to die that it may live, it betrays a fear of being unable to stand on its own merits. Again I assure you that I have nothing to say about your Geor gia case. Settle it your ovn way and it will suit me. But let not eager disputants there' be be guib d into a misrepresentation of Baylor University in order to score a point against each other. And when Bro. Gardner furnish es the name of his correspondent, 1 venture to say he will frank),v admit, on sober, second thought, that his statement about Baylor University should not have* gone to print. Very truly, B. H. Carroll. Pres. B >ard of Trustees of Baylor University at Waco, Tex. For the Index. Christ, Our Advocate. BY’ .i. s satchwill. Gracious and abundant are the provisions which God has made for his intellectual but sinful creatures, and one of the items of these provisions is that he has vouchsafed to us an advcc tte to stand in his presence as our rep resentative. Now an advocate is one who pleads the cause of another, like an attorney at law who pleads before the judge and jury in be half of some cue who is guilty of transgression of law. He is the offender’s counsel of defense or aid, so Christ is the sinner's counsel of defense before the high court of heaven, for “If any man sin. we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” Christ alone is eminently qualified to fill the of fice of an advocate because of divine appointment. He glori fied not himself to talk with God for us but GoJ glorified him in that he elected him to Ibis office for “No in in taketh tb’.s honor to himself, but he thjnn- called of God, as was Aaron. Christ was man as well as « -o(? conse quently ho ui-1 ously assume the work of plead ing our cause before God, but was divinely chosen thereunto. The wisdom of Christ also fi's him to advocate the sinner’s cause before the tribunal of an holy and just God. In Christ dwells all the fulness of the God head bodily, so then he is not ig norant of the law being made under the law that he might re deem those who were under law. He is also thoroughly familiar with the nature of each sinner’s case which he represents before the Father, for he was in all points tempted as we, yet with out sin. Christ’s knowledge of the law of God and of every in dividual case put into his hands, together with the eloquence of his pleading, certainly qualifies him in an eminent degree to be the sinner’s advocate. The absolute purity of Christ is another characteristic that qualities him for the high office of advocate. He is the Lamb of God without spot and blemish, and in him is no sin. Pilate found in him no fault at al). He is described as Jesus Christ the righteous. The purity of Jesus Christ is unquestionable. Even his enemies could not convict him of sin because in him there was no sin. The Jewish High priest had to be holy before he could enter the Holy of Holies and there talk with God in be half of the people; to this end he made an atonement for himself and house, thus fitting himself for representing his people be fore God. Christ had no sins of his own to be purged, hence he is a much superior advocate to the Jewish High priest. If there were any trace of sin in the char acter of our Lord Jesus Christ he would have enough to do to plead his own cause before God, yea some other being perfectly holy would have to stand advo cate for him inasmuch as God cannot look upon sin with any allowance. Christ’s divine appointment and wisdom, purity and obedi ence, both passive anti active obedience, are the essential qual ities of Christ our advocate. Christ is not only qualified to plead the sinner’s cause before the court of heaven, but he is al so a successful advocate. He has never, through ignorance, lack of diligence, or eloquence, or from any other cause, lost a single case. During his earthly ministry he was confident that the Father always heard him, and after he completed the scheme of redemp tion to the full satisfaction of the Father, surely he would be no less willing to hear him in behalf of those for whom he died. The success of Christ’s I advocacy is grounded upon his atoning death which was in pur suance of the covenant (See Isa. 53: 10, 11, 12) made between God the Father and God the Son. lit* poured out his soul unto death as an offering for sin, and because he is the propitiation for our sins, all that the Father giv eth him shall come to him and none that come to him shall be lost except the sons of per lition. He is also impartial in the bless ed work of aiding those who be Hove in him, for if any imm sin he has an ndvoc ite. Ho is no respecter of per.-ons. The poor man's case is as duly and ddi g< ntly attended to as the rich man's, provided both are believ ers in him. It- is also a gracious work’ Like the water of life, it is without money and without pr ce that Jesus uubrlakest > plead for us before the Father. The only condition of being as sured of his effective service is that we wholly commit our c iso into his hands. Certainly the graciousness, impartiality and success wit ’n which ho plea I < are sufficient inducements to us to seek liis assistance. Campbellsburg, Ry. Canton. China, Oct. 2*, 1*95. You ask me to toll you about my work. May 1, instead, tell you about some whom I have met in my work? 1 have met them but once or twice, so I can tell you ■ nly a little, but they seemed to be photographed upon my memory. Shall 1 try to help you to see them? It is a dirty house. A half blind woman is mending a torn garment. A blind singing girl, who has led a sinful life, sits near her. Suddenly, a lame boy, with the swiftness of a cat, crawls acro-s the room and crouches at my feet. He is a veritable Ishmael, his hand is against every man and every man’s hand is against, him. He isij knocked at as if he were a dog and, in turn, he does his own striking at dogs and children who come between himself and me. From the moment I begin to speak, there is an earnest look upon the upturned face. When I tell of a God who loves and pities win;, <t« Lis gr(.Ub h; \’i • i ~‘t tliom nail Him to a cross for us his dark eyes grow ten lor with the thought of a love like t his, and he seems to drink in every word. “I thank Thee O Father Lord oi Heaven ami earth that Thou h ist hid these things from the w ise and prudent and hast revealed them unto the babes" that*ven this ignorant, crippled heathen boy has had some glimpses of that love which “passeth all im derstanding.” In a heathen home, a woman is listening for the first time as I tell of Jesus. “Are you sure,” she asks, as if her soul's salva tion depended upon my answer, “that if I pray to Jesus ,/>/s7 <k you said, are you sure He will save me?” I turned silently to the Helper of the helpers and breathed the prayer “Lord teach her how to pray” realizing that even this earnest soul may be lost, through faith in her prayers, instead of faith in a (Iriwifed Christ. Again, another heathen home, and another earnest listener. “How must I believe," she asks, “I want to, but I do not under stand it.” “Teach me how.” Ah ! Sisters in a Christian land! it is a solemn thing to be a missionary in a heathen land a solemn time when one, groping in heathenish darkness, stretch cs out the hand helplessly ask ing that you lead them out safely into the light. In a Christian land, you fail, and another may do it for that soul. Here, to fail may be to leave the soul to grope it’s way down to darkness and to death. How often in my “seek ing days,” 1, too, had longed for some one to teach me how to be lieve. Now faith seems so sweet and simple that I longed to be lieve/br her But it could not be. So I prayed, “Lord teach her to believe,” and then tried to make her understand that it was simply trusting an unsaved soul with an unseen but a pitying Sa vior. In still another heather home. A woman listens silently while the other ask questions. The face is very sad as if all joy had passed out of her heart and life. She has heard of Christ’s powei’ and compassion. It may be that He can help her. So she asks: “If I pray to Jesus is he willing to change my evil destiny?” She has had much sorrows and the explanation she gives of it all is, that she is ‘ ‘fated. ” Her great est sorrow is, that she has lost her only child, a baby, by death. I tell her of how Jesus blessed little children when on earth, how he loves little children now, and has taken hers to Heaven. “It is even better for the child,” I said, “than if the Emperor had taken it to live in his Palace." To make it more real I said, “Jesus said, 1 will take this baby to my own home where it will never be sick; never have any sorrow; never sin, but will be happy forever more." Then I told of David who said: “I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me” that if she loved Jesus she would meet her child in heaven. The burden was being rolled off the woman’s heart. Hope came instead of despair peace (if not joy) in stead of unrest and the heart crushing sorrow. Perhaps her life, after all, was not to be con trolled by fate, God had been dealing with her in the past. He might help her in the future which had, before, seemed so hopeless. It is a blessed privi lege to bring even a little s-un shine into hearts and lives so dark as hers had been. This time, it is at the back en trance of our chapel. Passers by have been invited in, and a feeble old woman accepts the in vitation. “Sit down grandmoth er,” I said. “Don’t ask me to sit down,” she replied, “1 am only a beggar.” “Even a beggar has a s nil that is very pr- cions," 1 remarked. At first, she said she had no heart to listen she ivas so sad. This was the story she told. “I am not a profes sional beggar though lam beg ging now. I had an only son who died last year of “the plague.” He was on the Hong Kong Steamer, had good wages and gave me half of what he earned. Some time when 1 have crossed the river in a ferry boat, the sight of it made ine think of him and 1 have been so sad that I have been on the point of com mitting silicide by drowning my self, but I have been dissuaded from it by others.” She told us, between tears and sobs, of the good faithful son. She went on to say: “I was never covetous, 1 gave to others when I had it to give. I have tried to be kind to others. Toe other day I led a blind beggar over a slippery place, fearing he would fall. I have usually .begged enough food. The gods have been kind to me. But, somehow I seem to have losi their favor during the last few days. 1 have gone out and come bad; with scarcely anything. I have not had enough alt >gether lor a single meal the last three days The woman who le s me live will) her is very poor, so 1 have not let her know how hungry I was for fear she would share her food with me. \Vhen she has asked: “Have you eaten your rice?' I have -■lid: ‘A’es’ 1 have eaten plenty." (She thought her motive being good, justified her in telling an untruth). 1 told the sorrowing old wo man of Jesus’ sympathy with the Widow of Nain that lie did not give us back our dead: Ha com forts our hearts so that it is not so hard to do without them. “Tell al! your sorrows to Jesus,” 1 said. "He alone can help and comfort." .A very earnest listen er she proved. The following Sunday she was at church. 1 asked if she had been praying to Jesus. She exclaimed: “Yes. I went home that night and knelt down and said ‘Jesus’, the for eign lad y that I met to-day told me to tell you all my troubles and yon would comfort me." Like a simple hearted child she talked to her unseen friend, feeling sure of His sympathy and His help. She added: “My heart is not so sad now. •It is comforted and at rest ” Another burden which rests too lightly upon her heathen conscience-—her sins—has not yet been laid upon the Great Burden Bearer May the Holy Spirit lead her to Christ for par don and salvation—then will her sorrowing heart know, in its ti u est sense, the.<peace that Jesus gives. Again, at the back entrance of our chapel, a sad face, almost heart-broken, woman tells us her story. “Truly lam an ill fated woman,” she said. “Seven chil dren died in infancy. Two sons Jived. My home is with the old est, but he grudges me the very food I eat. The second son ran away last year with a theatrical company. I had no clue to his whereabouts, but one day I saw him on the street and called his name, delighted to see him once more. He would not recognize me, denied even his name.” The poor woman’s cup of bitterness was full. All we could do was to tell her of “the God of all con solation,” feeling that “earth has no sorrow that Heaven can not cure.” I have tried to tell yo i of some whom I met who have be gun to grope their way towards the light—pray for them. Pray too for the thousands here who know of Jesus, yet care nothing for Him or His salvation. Pray VOL. 76-NO. 1 that in dealing with all I may be taught of God. 'i ours with Christian love, Lula F. Whilden. For the Inkkx Mercer University. This is our institution. It be longs to us. It all belongs tc each Baptist in the State. What are we doing with and for our property? Is it answering tc the ends for which it was found ed? Is it proving to be the right hand of our denominational pow er in Georgia? If not, why not? Mercer needs, needs now and needs badly at least $100 ; (X>0.00 endowment. Who doubts this? The State University and Emory College are to some extent in the nature of things in competition for patronage with Mercer. There are Baptist boys now in the State University that ought to be in Mercer. They are where they are because of the advan tages granted them through the “Brown Fund." Money has a drawing power. Alas! Mercer has no Brown fund. Emory has ti large fund out of which she makes loans to help the boys along. There are many boys that can not get on without help. If we cannot stretch out our hands and help when help is called for, and somebody else does, somebody else will get what we ought to have, and then what will we have? and where will we be? Glasgow and Edinburgh made Scotland Presbyterian Oxford and Cambridge made England Episcopalian. If we love the truth, and we claim to de so, surely it is a precious heritage; then among other things to be done by us to promote it it is to endow Mercer University and thus put it in a commanding po sition. We have a great way of thinking and saying that “the truth is mighty and will pre vail ’’ Let us not b? betrayed into a “false security.” “The truth is mighty and will pre vail." A'es and my knife is sharp and will cut. So it will when I take it out of my pocket, open it and applv to a stick. If we say “the truth is mighty and will prevail” and then be still to see it prevail we will be disappoint ed. A good way the best way to show our loyalty to Baptist principles to-day is to endow Mercer University. A good way to show our folly and be rele gated to the rear is not to do this. Last April the convention at Waycross recommended to the churches the adoption oi a Reg ulation Schedule." In it Mercel University wtis provided for. We a re glad that so many church es have adopted the schedule and have thus given Mercer a home under their roofs. The adoption of the schedule by all rhe churches would secure no little promotion of Mercer’s in terests. And now brethren let us not wait one for another, but let each Georgia Baptist go to work and do what he can. Some of the brethren country breth ren, poor brethren, have been at work already on schedule lines for an endowment of Mercer and we have in hand and at interest three million two hundred thous and mites. Interest on this is one mite per day. This is some thing to start on something as a foundation, so we will say the endowment has begun. We have some money and it is growing. Now if a few poor Baptists in the small county of Oconee can make a stat I. are there not enough good Baptists in each county in Georgia to do similar work? Now brethren in the 3200000 mites there is nothing from the learned or the rich. If poor country Baptists make a be ginning, can not our wealthy city brethren join us? If unlearned men make a beginning what may we expect from the Alumni of Mercer? The year of 1896 is upon us. Let us make it a nota ble year for Mercer. Let the rich give. Let the cities give. Let the country give. Let us all give, and to be sure that noth ing is forgotten. Let all the churches adopt the Regulation Schedule and then-work upto it. This will bring a measure of suc cess. H. R. Bernard. Milledgeville. Someone, yes many, must be praying for the work here. We see it in the way God is blessing us. We feel that God is going to do a great work here through His people. Largo crowds yesterday, many asked for prayer and several professed conversion. Yester day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock we held a service at the jail and preached for the colored people at 3:30 o’clock. So you see our hands Avere full! Am generally kept up to my ears in work, but praise God every day that He has called me to the glorious work. May God bless His servants who are laboring in this State! Pray for us! J. A. W. ■Dec. 16th, ’95.