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i The Christian Educator: wl I. CRANFORD, - - Editor, ROBT. L. FLOWERS, Ass't Editor, -AND BUSINESS MANAGER. i : 1 Published Monthly by Trinity College En ered as second-class matter" in post- office at Durham, N. C, . Subscription Price 25; cents a year. in advance. Advertising Rates One column, per year, 50; half column, 30; quarter col umn! iS; eighth column, io; one inch. t i r , . r. ' ai business communications should be addressed to ' ' i ROBT. L. FLOWERS. Bus M'gT Trinity Park, Durham, S. C. 1 t : . V Durham, N: C, August, 1896 i - - 1 - t . t The Methodist church in North ; ! i . i , Carolina boasts; a membership of a hundred and thirty thousand This is: an immense charge, and' a 'terrible .responsibility on Meth odism., I These; thousands are to be taught by Methodism the great lessons bf. God and the best lite. . ' ' - .1 ; Is the church meeting the obliga- EDUCATION OF THE POOR BOY IT COVTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE-' American colleges are developing socialistic notions in American college men. j , j THE FREE SCHOOL-TEACHER,! j ARGUMENT;' ' i Some colleges require thai those ; FREE COMMON SCHOO There are valid reasons for the ' - 1 t . 1 1 - - 1 " ) - j.:'.-. i .it free common schools, I in which boys. . Another gentleman told, me that he hah known hrrnselt of more than twenty Trinity) i . : "7 T an yn,iz.cu: nave an oppoirunity J " uc acxiuu. an) niciiuj Is - it meeting its educa- obligation? Methodism who get these public benefactions (Io they involvc tI; should teach two years "in the jVl The def1 In a few davs the old students well as from a love of whiskev. many new ones .'will start jto and college.' We earnestly request every student to bring as inafjy tion ? tibna dare not trifle with the interests public schools, and thus repay the of these! people. Tljey must be Justj debt (?).' Strange that a cpl- taiight the real meaning of Christ Ie&e graduate should be thus in- in' the home, the State, and in duced "to make a living! There relation.1 Yet Very few of are hundreds of young linen as eople are educating their well, it-not better prepared, who Tliis question ihasiiot will teach school without! this 1 monetary cost to the State. They are willing to make a liv ing as an honest demand and not as a civil reward. ' Such a scheme certainly should ! command' the legislative , genius of. its author and entitle him to a place oii the pension roll for 'past services. 1 for securing Jhat degree pf edu-- of the college' cation necessary to the intelligent its history wi uiMJiiarc 01 civic amies. schools do not rest on the basis with the State colleeres; uor e same policy. The defenders o misuse of public money jin giv adroit the free tuition), to a lew '4! ever Mi " our : ! 1 children. common higher whr line rnllnxcffl h any degree pf these closeness will recognize that theses same are not exaggerated statement. I had hoped to make a statistical es timate of the exact number of the old students of the. college that have been legislators, but I have civil he bre been unable.to; find the; necessary y striving td make pbblic Lta. If . our State authorities had required that all members of the Assembly should give short education and State education claims and necessity. identical fit I IS ieen put on the conscience of the Methodist people. It is time to bestir on rselS?s and save our peo pie from a love of ignorance, a old j trick of unloading a bad terprise upon a sound one- policy of claiming that the free s in tne ,1 -enr The statements of 1 their careers for dols the Ti -J --I In a few weeks man'v of our vOuntr men and women win start , , - 1 - - , - - i subscribers to The Educator as ff!i their1 home, trV ,t,Jv in rki." mit seriously,; it: is stupidity; stu- pmed. . ; I ;; -. - ; ; , . --.:; MINISTERIAL j STUDENTS I he can possibly secure. A little 1 !' M 1 11 f.xr- K effort 011 the part of each one will pastor from whose congregation enable us to reach a great many graded schools are Stata sen in an effort ; to make them servants of higher' p a result that wouia entau great harm on common riublic set iols. It will be a sad day for them when they are madd to rest 011 the fallacious basis of State;LcOl leges. These graded schools are no imore record in the journals of the two Houses, I could have had an ex act estimate of the kind we here want-;' ' ' :V ' U should be said also that Trin- tate schools, itys contribution to -law-makers entail great has been as remarkable in quality 3 : that there are enough DatnotlC. - . I ---- - I Methodists in IXorth Carolilia to boys hped sustain Tier, arid enough who are capable -of being sh into useful and earnest Chriitiaii citizens to adorn as jewel! borders of her jhdndi work. , . , J. S. Christianising' Education. JKeniaps iioj irutn is taki ig a stronger hold of the. thought and consciences of men, to-day-than that Christian principles si ould be applied to lthe wliole do nain th of human life. It is not en for a Chfistiah to conform private life to the law of CI iigh his rist, he should conduct his btusuiess on Christian principles. . Hil cial and corporate and poll relations are to be dominatet tlie rule of Christ. We A pegun to see mat we art l ' I !'." Work for a Christian 'literal a i cnnstian- art. ana a en more people. this. Please attend to If j any subscribers have not re ceived their paper, regularly, . we hope! they will notify the mana ger at once. " It is possible that 1 - therej may have . been a few mis takes made in our Iargejmailing list, and if so we desire to correct thejn Sat once. ; . j J Trinity College-will begin ts next session September the 9th. The applications for admission : ! s 1 and information are such young men and women will go, to call on them, and where parents. have riot chosen a Chris tian college, talk with them and i ..'.', i i .. . !i ptay with them. , I here is too 111 lich involved in - the education ofiour yountr people IbriDastor to ... - 1 deny all pastoral obligation to ward it. ! - a city m ule as in quantity. H It embraces such men asVV. M. Rohhins V. A Allen i . . ) 1 rtr tv 3::: riP : ;- TT an '. eui ot h govcrnuieiH, vv. xv. rvnen, lvcc o. y veiJiiuiir n. B. Adams J. LeGrand, b. S. Bradshaw, T. R. Purnell, If.;M. Simmons and,; many more. I 1 ' well as for ChristiancoiK in purely personal ?' relations. so- ical by avc to ire. ist- A net; The use of public funds to give State schools than free tuition at a State college to and trash cart are State Iproperty. shall also ask . the: reader to note ministerial students and sons of The State gave the city a fight to that many of the most efHcient iinnisiers. is a ciass distinction, tax a small oonio municipal government, and have been trinity m It is not the business of the State ; ' i to make preachers, and it is uri just to confer favors on one class of citizens that the State 'with nolds from other classes. Aoune - r , .1 ' m en study i ng for th e l egal profess- .V nen a dozeni men unite tnilms- c Ives together in a business tor- .' i I ' 1 are just as much poration, they it .w uudi. iiid.iiy ji jtiic ij.iuj. ciuuiciu ii .. 1 i . -.1 . . ' . I f , bound to conduct that cnterj jens of the officers: t5f the Assembly I n I , ;- 1 - .1. "i . upon Christian principles and have been Trinity men.; In the -A ,. , ! ..1 they agreed by ballot tax for a community school. ,tax-payers and the school jpa are one this is cpmmuriisin. when the whole authority of greatly n Time of Entrance. Attention is called to this para- 8raP!l ! I "Patrons of the College are ! - 1 . 1 . earnestly requested to take care that their boys are present 'on the advance of previous years. iKverv- 8th day of September, wlen the thing, indicates a year of great entrance examinations are held, success, tiundredsol young men me classes organized j and me wonldl enter 'Trinity, but thev are recitations begun. Those who not prepared for colleire.. There enter after this vtime necessarily is a growing desire among parents lose ' some part of trie , instruc- to nave tneir sons educated at tion,ana are tnus at a disadvant- Trinity-I College. -The idea Jof age in comparison with their nnstian education is rapidly more punctual classmates, cstu- sion have as great a right to free tu- State is used to tax a poor negro free forejpays nothing to the support of the city schools and justly nas no right to any of their; free ben lefits and community all they the communitv schools. r paid Trinity Men in the General into growing, and is destined to sweep the State. Everv preacher should bet fully! alive 011 this question, j 1 - . - - ' r 1 , It is rather strange that Put of the large number of Methodist bovs who have been in attendance ; at Oak Ridge, that none have come from there to Trinitv in quite a number of years. This fact has beeii verv noticeable. Oak Ridge is a "non-denomina-tioiial' school, and it is to be hoped uiat' more of Methodist bovs will represent its work at i Trinity. ' Dr. Kligo has spent a large part ot ins vacation in . tne west ern Conference. He reports that the interest in-' education, and "I . ' i "especially Christian education,- is increasing. Everywhere he met many friends to Trinity, College. Tlie people are learning of ! the aims and j)olicies of the college, dents that delay their coming for a few! weeks usually find them selves hopelessly behitfd, and are .1 i. 11 .yi tiitis iorceo to .-drop into lower classes; Let it be especially uoted that the middle of the ses- 1 r sion is not trie! time- for entrance, for. as the classes are. then half advanced, it is almost impossible to classify those who at that time apply Tor admission., So far frorri '.' i ! '. 1 1 . i I gaining time.nme wnoie year is lost 111 tnis way.- ine vacuity begs that parents, guardians j and students give serious' attention to this matter.' i I ition in male state .colleges 'as in unsiow county to give young men studying for the minis- tuition to' Col. A. 's son 111 Mitch - try, and wily should the son of a ell county, it is socialism: preacher have greater claims on writer lives just outside the incor-i public money than the, sons. ;ot poration 01 Luirnam. and mere farmers, merchants, lawyers, me chanics, factory operatives or any other class? Certainly it is not a rie cessity, since the churches in this land are quite able to pay for the . ' t education of their preachers, and would ceci3edly rather do it. Meth odism Vis not so bankrupt that it must hang on to the public treas ure like a parasite. It is equally true of the other Clin relies." 'Be sides,;it is the most un-American doctrine that taxes one Church (to educate the - ministry of other Churches. Tlie spurious, un sought and undesired State char ity toward the Churches sounds a little insincere among so much State denunciation of "sectarian education. ' ' - advertises free tuition to ministe thoimh tlie hnsinrss ivrre tiir a : A. y . 1 property of any one of them. rpns Land the Principal CIdrk and the But Reading Clerk bf the Senate, were the from this college. It will not do to say that tliei : election- - of these cers, ' the most-fimportant of t , one man 10 uo. i -1 -J ---4 - - - ; clear moral vision repudiates maxim that corporations havtf souls; and the (public conscid is awakening jto .the fact th com bi nation of! to dO what it w carried because of the votes of Trinity 'members because there of rise as Me . A the no ncc it a men has no right oil Id be wronirl lor - 1 1 ms conception obligation ii steadily makjing its wav in thie . business wo were.in this Assembly orily seven j, ... . f J.. '. .1 r ). t 7 , 3 . and, in spite of all that is said of men from-that institution, so lar I U r i J i as I can ascertain without exact information. able that business, on the wh The patrons of the school It might be Worth while to en receive back into their own homes quirehow it was that th e . col 1 ege i has never been Assembly. on No educationai in st'i t u t i ought to be judged qntirely by the number of men it puts i into pol itics : , for it is conceivable that politics, may be ot such, a nature That they had that th,e . best menj will not I, be secured this influence. The an-' ser is threefold : by their train ing in college;; and by the re markable influence of Dr. Craven . That they had capacity was nec essary but not remarkable.! Other men have been capable arid have not been sent to the legislature. conducted in ii Hl, ore his i honorable wavs than it is in year of grace. ' i - . 7 But, strangely; enough, among some of those proiuiuent in ctlu cational matters, there lias blcri a tendency to make the influe even of the dcnbiiiinational io- 1 ege.) 1 esS; , 4 u u ecj u i vocal 1 y C 1 ljri s- icev tianV than it has been, and U thrown to the surface in? the rush its ot its troubled waters, it is true!, however, Jhait under ordi nary circumstances Jthe !choicJ:e of a c'fUfi An 4V.U 'the oeonle reoresenls the wPrth to be obtained out! of the ranks proper training is more noteworthy, i Trinity has always had good speaking. The Hesperian and Columbian Soci eties have been responsible for this. I The tongues that were to be heard in counsel in the halls to the north and south of the ro- this in spite of the fact that among large classes of our peopletl has been an insistant demand uiat i i the education furnished . by the Stae should be more distincthjely' religious than it has been. 1 not our present purjKxse to inqi concerning the causes of this d ere is ire ifL- (me ! 1 and are becoming- enthusiastic I - - ' i' over it. In the Franklin, Mor- ganton and Shelby districts' j tlie preachers are prosecuting vigor ous campaigns ill tlie interest of education Their example should be followed by all the districts. . 44Vhat is' the outlook for stu- - i ' dents next .year at Trinity ?M asked a preacher of tlie' college nfesiderit. ! No one. should be rw . - i" . . better able to answer that ques tion than the preachers. Trinity "will Ini-p mst as many students . i r i -ii will pay all the fees charged by as the work of the pastors, will V - . . , , to nroduce. Thb attendance at the i Admission for Women. While Trinity College is not co educational, yet the .Trustees have determinedx to admit - to the courses of study young women who have graduated at ! some fe male college, and who desire to. take advanced work. There is a large number of young women in the South : who go yearly tp riorthern colleges and uniyersi- ties, because they are notadmit- ted to southern i colleges. ; Their ability L for "acH'anced - work has been vindicated in the leading universities of the world, and it is i i 4 but just that they should be giv en these advantages in' our col leges. Young women entering Trinity will be Iield responsible for the "work given young men, and will- be admitted to all the advantages of;the college. They 1 . I . - I S .. i I in ortMOlt 1 An 1 I itinHnrc r rial students as a specialty,: should ' ''MaJn he .cfpltal aV Ralagl, it,v lmcha ril 1,, aml ttnjus , we be) ieve, traced to .i nd i flerc h cc on the part of educational autllor ities to the things of the spi the third floor of the 'college by others to the'endeavor of th building in old Randolph county, leaders to Jiroaiden the Consti It will be a sad day for Trinity ecy xf their institutions, and hush its wild ravages against sec tarianismy or else quit paying pub lic money to educate the leaders of these sects. I Such a cheap bid for the ministry of the Church is humiliating to every noble im- th ist fact that Trinitv College has always pointed with such pride to the record her soils have made From in our the. end; learned their t hrst lessons in peech-makirigj in the halls situ ated in the east 'and west end of State legislature. of the first! decade after the Close of the war the nut ber pulse;of the true ministry. The pi" Trinity -men thqt were thus when these twei societies lose the the institution. -j Board, can be rnllerre deixrnds upon the faith in o- t -. . : j Christian education that has been developed ineach charge by the pastor. Some pastoral charges obtained in private.fami ies., Churches are not just quite ready to accept any such generosity at the expense of the taxpayers of the State. .' It is time for the Leg islature to stop this wild misap propriation of the. people's money. f - f ! INDEPENDENCE. All .that ary man can justly claim is an opportunity. If he can;meet all his other expenses, tliei! let him give his note for his tuitiouand pay .after he- leaves college. If he is unwilling to do this, then there is no encourage ment to educate him. If his ed ucation does not enable him to do - . ! . , V it, then education is a fraud and a calamity. Having done this he is independent and the college has no ring in his nose to lead him as it may choose. - This plan ob tains in all Church colleges, and the spirit of mdepencence an end to be greatly, desired by true education is our law; makers became so extra- ordinary as to excite comment. It is not too much to say, i exceeded fof many years they number from any other inst i-. ' tion It vvmicn tins time' when a hat the ltu- r was I . ; of a in the State. is well jto note the timei at his occurred. It was a I . i : nr TMlit-ir'll ni-Atr shaping L itself, A time when, t- i i - t - ; 1 times, 'publid offices were chosen Slavery for I indivipual worth. strong support bf their members. The influence of Dr. Craven was, however, more powerful stUl. Almost any boy of good mind has the capacity for great: things. Happy is he if he can find'some great soul to draw his own soul out to the greatest extent. Dr. Graveri's great? iriincj pervadeqt the very campuis,' t The- students were impressed with it from the it; se iat te Southern society was shattered. in iits ran naq puuea down the whole striicture of the past ' Slave owner$, plantation lords, poor whites ill lav a" mass of unorganized ruirjs. Who of all this class will fifist begin t Mani Every man n his own is not in builtrUp by them. Their students have not learned the way to the public treasury, ,V - The hope ot America its army, its navy, its administra tive never: sent a boy to college, tion, or its public schools, but in and do not know an insatiable -" ! . I . : ' ' J LI' 111. I l . - V and will never send one, till a- private yinue anu puonc raorai- hunger tor public pmces and new conscience is preached into ity. Bishop Neivman, at Asbttry them. Suppose each ; pastor ask rarR, unaay, jmy zu, ioyu. himself, 4tVhat is the outlook for work of reorganization?! . . i i o ... festly, the strongest. Mir." i must now stand I I 5 - i ...... . strength j At such a no njatter of chance Col lege, With a grea for a leader, patroni others still to the conviction t the aim of a college is to prom learning, and not'eharacter. ; The point ' wjiich we- wish! to enforce is that if it is a worthy ideal to' Chrisliariizef commerce: and politics aid ' literature and a rt, i t is pre-em n c n 1 1 y a wormy local to nnsuanizc education. Our colleges ate fashioning the leaders' of the 'future. Their In fluence is not a all measured by ' the nuliiber of tjiose they train in proportion to the whole popti a- i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 r v i in ilium :n iiini time they saw hum in CVtU great ambitionsj were at qnce be- department of Ijuman effort. L; fore them. Especially was he a We elb not claim that Chris- - great speaker, j AVhen ! lie spoke tianity shoufd be taught in iirfi-;f for his' boys they had the purest wiions pupponei oy puonc ua- and most exalted model,- and to tian churches dnd .sustained ,y ; imitate it but slightly was sure tp Christian people fiave asuprciie. "e m alee them leaders in Rebate and duty to the kingdom of God and that Trinity ..1.- IJ big; genius re d distinct ivelyby brawny, brainy , Trinity in my charge?" Answer that question. The college will take care of all you send." easy salaries, and the growth (of such" political ambition among our young men is already an nlnrminfr feature in our natinnal f Ionciago W e hope the students will not nc It is thJ spirit that finauy Craven, not long before his death forget to bring to college some put up the Roman Empire for said that in the legislature then relics for the Historical museum. I sale to tne nignest Diaaer. siumg mere were uyuy i t . i men.' snouia nave General 'Assembly a tion: bf its membersq I happened to be a gentleman about He told the Ghristianization of oijr civil- This , is a view of Trinity's ,zauon Pt I,iaKT u 1 n,uc f c : . . Ii , Ci not simply unicqui vocally, wit nst in law-making. She4 hns .. j . 1 7V f r . j -i T . - . j distinctively eupstian. i guides of j thought. tim?,t done itj as she always does things, , We are not ready !to accept t without any bqasting and with position which President Harp out any expectation of reward.) maintains, that! a' university sent Although she has had the oppor young j tunitV she has never; turned her heacKagainst the interest of any to the large frac- n t other educationai institution. She - i has served the' State faithfully, on half pay, yet occurred to her to ask a reward af the State. In her simple purity she will con- - s - . of his i tinue as she has begun, kiiowing speaking to Dart of the time tt r . . 1 -i i , mis iact not - - 1 . III UitS .UCVC1 me tnat ijr. r - not under the sdme obligation is the college to train iLs students character; , HutL however th mav belf our colleges are not contribute their direct and'cuor- motis quota toward propagatit Christianity; then in i our psciKl liberalism we ate ,bot only ne lecting our own resources, b handing tjiem ojier to the opt T s o tm It nents man. of, Chris tianity. Watch do V 1 Vf
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