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I. mm a it EKTJDITIO ET RELIGIO." Voli I J 1. i TRINITY PARK, DURHAM; N. G., AUGUST; 1896. No. I; : 'i. -i . .- ! . i ymranpn: dot MM U UM-iln 1 "" II I I I II II II U fill II 1 Sixteen to NoneA Pie, for Trinity . i ! College. I P. FITZGERALD BY BISHOP O. tion, and this religious education must be furnished by the various U religious organizations. I The The friends of Trin ty Co ege u , t, ! ; , - i A: - - , ' . tot churches have taken this matter in hand. Aggregate'what all the religious bodies in the United States are ' doing for education, and the result is a rand total 1 . 7 every seem to be readv for a united and enthusiastic movement, in its be. half.t 'All that can be needed i success are united counsels and . r ofc- vr uu...F thdt shouM fij,.the Q enthusiasm in carrying them into 1 L, - i 3 & . i T good man with joy i i - . J i A.. - I he Metnnnist Kni;rnnal enthusiasm I. heartily pray n.a.v church, South, has ahvayk felt a Let 1896! be" the most blessed now: be .exhibited by all con- . -1 j -1 ! - 1 ' - A n , f 1 ' . . n Ffr 1 r tprpcr otlH fib-on on o f i vo I'&'i r frr I -i nifi- I I Arrp lAnb '! i ... i cerned. It ought to be so for are ready if parties concerned are awake to the situation. . ji5- What has been done is a demonstratiorn'of what can be done now by the friends of Trin ity College. Doubt, would be as irrational as iit would be ungrate ful on the part of any intelligent friend 'of the College. . : :i6. The best time to do a good tiiine is when vou can do it EDUCATION OF THE manv ood reasons: ? i i. The first and general reason is, mat .ennstian education is. a necessity. we cannot sustani our republican institutions with 'out morality. .1 - ' 2.j It is equally certain that we cannot have morality without re ligionl . ! - 3. Jt is Just as true that reli gious education means denominal tio'nal education. Under our political constitution the . State! cannjbt teach religion. In thd language of I)r. Stephen Olin, of blessed memory: 4In a Christian ; - . " " I ----- ' i land morality divorced from rein eion is the emptiest of; all th deep interest arid taken an active year for Trinity College. part in support of education. In it. I' I . ! i the best b. doing Make your part 1 86 1 there were 167 institutions now. i t ' i i ft ot learning 'belonging to our I stop at these sixteen reasons church) with 17,504 pupils. ' The fpra united and vigorous move- war sadly crippled our church Jn ment now in behalf of Trinity this as in other departments of College. There are none against her work, but if I could give in it Forward, all along the line ! , Roan Mountain, July 29, 1896. President; John C. Kilgd - Observer. FREE; SCHOLARSHIPS DANGEROUS I prefer to send POOR BOY. in Charlotte Trinity, but he has t niy son to fie promise of ia' ;ree scholarship at ' , and I want to save all I cari.n So said a father who had a son ready for col lege, and whose selection of a school for his son was against his j judgment and pref erences, in J accord with but calculations. , There : ills money was in this empty names by which a deceit j for! obvious this paper the statistics showing the magnitude of the. educational work our church is now doing. some who read this would! be sur- prised and all would be gratified. 5. What has been done Idemon- strates what more can be done hereafter. iOur'ability has been t 1 1 - exhibited in such a manner as to show that what needs to be done t -1 " i ' H can be done by, us. Details can not be entered into in this article ful philosophy has blinded -and io corrupted the wor.ld.M This is a worth remembering just fl ' 1! -1 a J Keneious eaucpiion is a '1 truism now 4 recognized necessity 2. I Religious education 1 inearisl denominational education as mat ters stand witn us in this coun- try. me siaie cannoi ao inisi 5eenco ninrand eoin ever' since reasons. We are able i ' i ' V; " ' 1 .(.-... ' do all that needs to be done. There i it is in italics. Think of lit. ! , - "I i ' . - i . ; m 6J No pause need be made in the work of denominational edu- i ' I 1 - ; 1 ' cation anion? us. To wait for better times is to exhibit faithless- J ! 1 ness and folly. Better times have 1 r 1 . . r 1 - worK ior odvious( reasons, ton we have been ; a peoplej ! What ctitnf Intiol rocf r-rtir-fic o n rl miMiii !' . ov.v4n.. "'""" "i nasi been ione nas oeen accom 11 reil1 plished through ffaith in God and taugni ai an, ic steady, ; acreressive effort, rather uuojvivv.. 1 f H o n hir HTorrhitirr rho nrc otin downs of political parties and the fluctuations of the money! market. ly. Tne ; key-note of a ,livrely tune hjs ; -already been struck in Education and Crime. ifThe Atlanta Constitution of July 21st contains the following editorial, under the above head, wnich . .we commend to .the though tfu 1 consideration of all. Itjis in the line -with the Wesley- arts teachings for years past, arid we hope that the Constitution wilf give our country more onithe same line: - - . Mtty years ago it man triiner to near it said 1 education caused a falling off iri the percentage of crime, and this vipw is still held by a great-many intelligent people. In England this theory seems to. be supported by the facts of .thei'case. The number of chil dren in English schools has in creased from 1,500,000 to 5,000, was a com- that cible limitations forbid. giori is : to be - must be taught 'authoritative way. A religious school wholly undenominational J ooosince '1870. I In that period father a lack of. appreciation1 of the ftill meaning of Ml i 11 vol yedj in his , boy'sj It is avsad' hour , when the ; court ' at which fatnilv! questions ar? Somei thines are too the market, and certa rental decision in the .1 t .1 . j r of a child, an event tn futur4i sjiould be among This father made the that was education. money is such sacred adjusted. sacred Tor nly the pa- 1 jeaji cat tori I fixes his other alternative . than free, uni versal alnd CDiiipulsory education, and American liberty would go to seed iri paternalism. But with- out ureinirtiiis . - I accepiiuor tne Ogical res ul t, and limited scholar ships as, they exist, who is to de cide the iuiportarit question of dealing them "out to the indivici: ual from yhose education ', the public will detive the greatest good? To leave so important a question in tjie Iminds of the cbl- 1 1 jtablish an educational a thing that is riot far in mistake I ' .': . . of supposing that his son had met! with 7 reat luck. He them. never stop- boy, iri. tiis oed to consider that accepting this free scholarship, became a beneficiary of the tax pavers of the State, and tha't he saved fifty dollars a y ?ar, at the expense of the: public. .Parental pride, jif no higher riiotive, should have suggested a more' self-sup-portirg arid self-respecting plan. Fifty dollars a year was rather a small price . to set oil the mdej- pendence pt, n is dovl tor . com mon STatitude demands that "his lege presidents, as nqw, lis to es diicational pbpery-r a 1. a, the fu ture. There are some t more vital importance State than college education, i The destiny of the State rests upon lings of to the the character of its arid citizens when they have been taught les sons of helplessness,1 and when the stimulus ofj paternal duty to provide for their offspring has been smitten dolvn, all that gives national security has been . de- stroyed. it America ever comes to ruin, it will J not be through the invasion 1 ot foreign ' armies, oys and Ihcy ime x)y. be-j clp-, the! r is lose the Mil but through iron-blooded,; tlie decay of that in son recosrnize every fio:zv the jpow hand dn the number of persons in English er's plantation to the prisons has fallen! from i2,oc6 to turer fn the city, as h is; an impossibility. The so J called religious schools professing to be non-denominational grad-j ilally assume a practically' distinct! i denominational character, or the j cease to have any religious charrj ! acter at all worth- namine. ReH lijrlous schools 'and denomiriaH 1 3 . . ... I tionai' schools are synonymous. This is :the point of this.pferaij graph. The more closely thi matter is studied; the clearer this; . will be to all concerned.1 3 3: Our denominational schools have conferred the richest bless-j ; .- ...... . - ,. -- i I ings upon our - country. 14Th ; multiplication of denOminationa ! schools, like. the multiplication o - Ssects savs Dr. OlinV ts attended North Carolina as well; as else- with many inconveniences, which 1 . . f . i 1 arej however, counterbalanced by thef direct and efficient religious: -influence' which, is thus secured I This is the crowning glory of our, ! seminaries xf learnhigthe re I ward of the churches for all theif sacrifices in the cause 1 of liberal education. In no other Way f could tlie union ; of religion and ; learning be secured under suclj jpoliticalj institutions as oiirs. : I !do not hesitate to ascribe to this 'peculiar; character of our semi4 :naries o learning more than al other causes combined, whatever of religious restraints; ancl influj ences exist among the public ancj professional men of this country whatever of security our per- ' sonal rights and national interests may find ip the predominance of 1 Christian principles at the bar, on the bench, and in the halls of leg- iislation-whatever of the sub lime, purifying . agencies of. th Gospel have been infused into !our periodical and standard liter ature." -i'We" must all agree here ,We must have religious' educai . - . f where in the benefactions already bestowed jupon our educational institutions. 1 j . N 8: The linen who have already given can give again (They must do so. They will. Mark the prediction. , 9. Others' not yet heard from are, able ito take, up the tune; The sooner they do so the better tiiey wilU feel, and the better it will be; for the cause which is dear to 'their, hearts. : 10. The men -who have hith erto given liberally are the men who will yet devise more -liberal tilings. The love of giving grows on men who give from right mo tives, and God has a way of jhelp ing such 10. uo greater uiiiigs from time to.time. i 11. Tlie men who cannot give l U 1 ' '-1 ) much must give what they can. The imperative mood, is j used rightly here: Mitst is the. word. The 1 compulsion " of duty,' the privilegeof bearirig some part in this great work; ought to bring thousands of- willing helpers without i delay. I Thousands, I said," and I said- it thoughtfully and beJievingly. I -N12. The faculty of Trinity is composed of live men! who are abreast of the. times, men worthy ofj the j confidence and sympathy and support of our people. M13. The Board of Trustees are men who love the church and who know how to cypher, men who know something about both religion and arithmetic. 14. The way is as ojkn as the need is urgent.' Every day of delay is a double loss. All things prisons 5,-qqo; the yearly average of per sons sentenced to penal servitude has decreased from 3,000 to. 800, while juvenile offenders have fallen from 14, ooci to s,ooo. Naturally the enthusiastic ad vocates of gelieral education will point to England j as an illustra tion of their theory that education diminishes crime. They will quote Victor Hugo's declaration that when you build a school house ' you need one jail Jess. The taxpayer, his fath- i .1- manufac- is personal 1.1 t iridependetit 'and self-supporting type of manhood that wrote her consti tutioii and opened her bosqnf vvith v manly toil. That type of manhood is already too scarce for. the future to be all hopeful . Pauperism, in all its varieties, -grows rapidly in America in these last days. A pauperized niatihood is a poor sub stitute for a college diploma.' Let the young men of , this country be taugh t that , fhey can secu fe Ver- riiany" of these poor wear patent leather shoes, ride on the train as though owned the road. . It is aboul to. quit this cant about poor There is a large difference ' I I s ' 1- tween the poor boy and the J less boy, and it is a fact tha majority of the helpless bpyi are ' not among the poor boys, ri ine largest per cent.: among t who have not been to college. Tlie poor boy is not afraid ofj sun, nor aslramed to jxxldlc dling pine if it will get brent him. He has made the world; and will not accept the patrojiiz- ins of these benefactors t Rub- i: J ----- .: - . i -' jic expense. . " A TRldK OF TRADK. 1 he -defenders -of these tree- lolarships find it an casy jvay to secure students, on what ap- pears as benevolence," but ij a mere trick of trade. An iustitu- . 1 tion. that secures patronage su'cii a basis acknowledges to public its lack of inherent -worth J arid is unwilling .to risk its dstiJ 1 for sc on the ny upon its merits. Jjut naving bought a lane patronage public fitl 1 I nr. ! tot answer found iri his to Hugo own will be Country. In, r - -; France the-' criminal statistics show that with the increase in the r umber of schools and pupils the prisons have been more rapidly filled. The progress of education has been followed by an increase of criminals, and espe cially of juvenile offenders. Ac-1 cording ;tp a French newspaper, this is the result jof intellectual instruction. In England the pu pils ;have --not only intellectual instruction; but moral arid relit gious training under the proper influences.' ' Leaving England and France, let-US see how it is in the United States. We spend more money for education than any other peo ple, and yet our statistics shqwf that crime more than keeps pace! with instruction. j Is not this re sult largely due to our educa tional system? Do we not pay too much attention to intellectual instruction and too little to moral 1 and religious training? It is to be feared that we are following the French rather than the Eng- lish. and this explains the unsat- isfactdrv results of bur system. v. -r Keep your conduct abreast of your conscience, and .very- soon. your conscience will be illumined by the radiance of God. -m Af. Taylor 1 D. D. . 1 lie other. son to at- people pay hoped that the people, and colored, for thisbend in col leg benefactor, and he should be as humble in the presence bf the one as in the presence of" Tins father allows his tend college while the the bill. I It is to be he will at least thank white factiori. Free scholarships are an unjust and dangerous use of public money,' arid there should be enough true patriotism anion the vouns-' men and i Women the5 land to refuse all s ilch offer Tlierc ; is . no principal pf justice upon which it can be j vi iidicated , and its (patrons have; never d fended it upon a rational basi It is the creature of a sickly sen timentalism, and is popular ber cause it appeals to the insatiab nnvetousness of the aje. A fa- tlve luxuries of education with- Out any personal expense, and vou have raised fa set of men the set that procluces the lead ing ideas of the people that will look to get. everything fbrnoth ing. They will want carpets, homes, horses, sdrvants and wines expense of the that doctrine or 1 public -money an money, 'straightway grows proud and parades its j chase roll before the puhli eyiaence 01 insimuionai succtssj The Church college can neveJ lx a competitor on these lines, fo high integrity restrains ju strangest part ot the whole mat ter is the large liiimbcr 01 ljoys and girls, on the 'cducatioua iriarket. They go -at $ixty aol lars apiece. ' j , A MENACK TO FRKK INSTITU TIONS. ' . ' ' 1 j A young man provided at the public. Woe to party that makes unholy thing ! ft ther finds that he can unload the money side of his parental duty on the public, and he even ln'bipad daylight is any just lie should reason w pay the white man a young the same reason shou tiy does it, If thefe the pub- tuition iivcolleg IT . t Ids make in I more nCcessar' for the same pu lid tolpay for his clothing, tray i ng expenses, wash i ng a rid board J as these Jare the larger expenses incurred,, and hinder the majority of boys j from attending college and if these expenses: can transferred from 1 the? indi vidua x to the public, then all necessary expense of the individual shoijh by the public logical 'resujp if be paid no other ihvl li ! j A PUERILE ARGUMENT. : It is puerile to talk of the great value higher education a$ k Therd sufficient explanation. ling with the intelligence of the ' j ' - if" ' r 1 ' I ! people, or assuming that they are no idiots; 1 If higher education 1 r . -1 - so very valuable, then t It is tri lere is THE ! POOR. ; .-.I ';; --,' I - ' The Ppor boy just reason for ship fad, I have purposely watch ed some of these BOY PLEA. is pleaded as a the free-sch ol ar- great apostles of the gospel of poor boys to meas ure their sincerity. I have never seen one of then! stop and shake hands with a jagged country boy peddling eggs or kindling-pine Would have been regard cd ak A alone: the streets.) This -poor boy beirtrar. ; How else should ' he Jb isVood icaiiipaign thunder, but t retrarded when he asks ten ulen dcliberatcjv v rites to a college president What inducement can you (rife irie to attend your colIci!e?l( I llave been offered Ja scholars lip 'I . ' 1 at' At least the edt ca Uorial sentiment has gotten djwn this low . and some folks tall ojf iLs irrOwth. Ko doubt the vui ml I o , V . . -i"t inen exjected the college prfsi dent to add something to the trth r bid, perhaps three: buiscuits nd a chroino ; butunfortuiialely that president was not in ihe k 1 V I he irst bidder. ; .Hut, seriously, hat mail had asked a negro cook for him free of -charge, (C i 1 oor negro woman to give him a' hi poor practical ethics. It islabout time that some of these colleges that use public money for free tu ition of poof boi$ were publish ing a list of their names that the public could liaVe tlie grditifica ti6.ii of nowingj those who have been so poor asV toj 'need' help. Why have they inoti been so gen erous towards thse whose money they use ? Has educational prop erty already begun to operate ? The public know tlie inmates of the poorrhouse, he asyluins, and theschools' for the afflicted, and they have the right to know this other crowd of other unfortunates that are dee.ndent on .them. The poor boy j is; generally an holiest fellow, and will not object to such publication, and if it would disgrace himt then a dis gracing work sliould be stoppb free; wash-tub scholarship, (to teach him a year for nothing r He was a beggar likewise. ..!h it shoiUtl be humiliating to beg bread and not etjually humilLit t ' . j t . nng to oeg ail efiucaiion, is a uis tinction that only' an American genius can draw. When colltt'ci pander to this ,tyje of beggrn-y tit -I i they siiouui ue Known as euueaf tional . pauper-houses.-. It is timi tliat educators should strive put down instead of build u spirit in the young, of this line that admits" their J helplessness desire for 'lart'e numbers i' " : 1 icriiniiial when it will sacrifice the noblest elements of character to gratify itsejf. : j When colleges and he college inen do not present highest tyje j of self-supjwrt manhood, tlen theyjio longer servC public respect. With doctrine practiced b them, tl: le- Qua Some of these poor- boys who tare becoming the greatest menace ' -Til'.. t ' J ' 1 . . .H" '! . .' ''- -- - . I get these j scholarships answer to j names that figure largely in soci-j ety. Their home-folks' put on ; t-isT-t'i tit 'fiirc fie flii.. tilllr I' of the boy they have sent to college.' to our iree institutions. It useless to pass Jaws to save An ica from the socialistic"dangeri Eur6iean immigrants, so long is cr- of. as x 1 . I - " i t w
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