MESSENGER. fubllßhod every Saturday at Charlotte, N. C. ___ By W. C. Smith. Subscription Kales. —Always in advance. One Year $1 50 | 3 months 50 8 months.., 1 00 2 months 35 C months 75 j Single Copy. 5 Notify us at once of all failures of this paper to reach you on time. All money must bo sent by registered letter, money order, or postal note to \V. C. SMITH. Charlotte, N. C. Short correspondence of subjects of interest to the public is solicited but persons must not be disappointed if they fail to see the articles in our columns. We are not responsible for the views of correspondents. Anonymous communications go to the waste basket. / OUR FEMALE SEMINARY. A The subject of a female seminary (for Zion Church in the. State of North [Carolina was brought before the late Conference at Fayetteville, and dis cussed at a lively rate, we are told. Now we arc satisfied. The question is brought where we have endeavored to get it—in the hearts and mouths of the brethren. We arc satisfied be cause we believe we will have a semi nary iu the very near future. All admit .the “desirability” of it. but some fail to sec the “feasibility.” To those who fail to see the feasibility we would say, if we want and need such an institution, let us set to work to have it. We cannot see the feasi bility while there is prejudice against . it. Let us open our hearts and go to work as we have done before when the way was much darker than in this case. Let not the love for one insti tution bring about a jealousy against other good and needed efforts. The feasibility of establishing a female seminary is in our own desire and efforts for it. We believe we are going to have the seminary in the near future, be cause the brethren are alive to the interests of our girls and our race. A number of the young ministers pledge their efforts to the bringing about of this much-needed end—a separate high school for our young ladies, where they can be instructed in the doctrines of our own Church, and not compelled to be surrounded by the influences of other denomina tions. We arc told that the discussion upon this question was brought out on the report of the committee on education. All parties claimed to favor the idea, but the real enemies to the project contended that it is not yet time ; that we must wait till our institution at Salisbury is better cared for, and that the latter is not suffi ciently supported to justify the effort to establish another at this time. Such argument will not hold. Let us look around us right here in North Carolina. See how these same men fought for the establishing of a col lege by the State while it has other normals in different parts of the State. Let us refer to the strength of our Church and the feasibility of estab lishing any sort of school in 1880, when our now promising Livingstone was in embryo. The very men who are now the life of that institution were uuheard of students in some other colleges, but now have an occu pation iu which they can do great good to the race with which we are identified. The Church had no money then, but what has been done for us since ? There were men at that time to oppose the effort of establishing Livingstone because the “feasibility did not appear” to tfeeir dull intellect. At this age there are those whose in tellects are blinded by one thing and another, and for various reasons the '‘feasibility does not appear.” Now let us see where the opposition came from. In the discussion at Fay etteville, prominent among those on tho committee who favored the estab lishing of a female seminary were ltcv. 11. F. Martin, Rev. J. W. Smith and Dr. .T. T. Williams. Those who could not see the “feasibility” were : Prof. 8.