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TRINITY PARK, DURHAM; N. G., AUGUST; 1896.
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Sixteen to NoneA Pie, for Trinity
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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exhibited in such a manner as to
show that what needs to be done
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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
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do all that needs to be done.
There i it is in italics. Think
of lit. ! , - "I i ' . -
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6J No pause need be made in
the work of denominational edu-
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cation anion? us. To wait for
better times is to exhibit faithless-
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!
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
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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
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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-
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jtablish an educational
a thing that is riot far in
mistake
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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so very valuable, then t
It is tri
lere is
THE ! POOR.
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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
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