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PRESIDENT SMITH'S ADDRESS.
Marks of Christian Education in Recent
. Years It Gim Breadth not Narrow
ness Church Schools a Necessitf
Davidson's Fine Location and Noble
Work-Makes Little NoiBe but Keeps
Up to Date. . - '"'
Dr. Henry Louis Smith, the
learned president of Daridson
College, " addressed "the First
Presbyterian congregation Sun
day morning.
He prefaced his address by
noting the aggressiveness of
secular newspapers within the
last five years in discussing great
questions relative to the church
which indicates' the growth of
Christian education. He repudi
ated the idea that Christian ed
ucation is narrowness. Schools
under the care of the govern
ment must be without religious
features largely, as Christian ed
ucation cau be giyen only uudei
the construction of some denom
ination. 4
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It is Christian education' re
ceived in denominational schools
that is furnishing our churches
with preachers.
"Within the United States last
year there were 1915 graduates
that chose the field of the min
istry. ' Of those one hundred and
ten graduated from nou-secta-rian
schools, the other eighteen
hundred and five were the prod
ucts of the denominational or
Christian colleges. -
The Church Schools take the
raw material and train it into
the finest fabric of advanced and
purified thought. The church
institution is a necessity and that
churches which does not foster its
own schools is courting its own
extinction. It is a fact learned
years denominations that were
indifferent, formerly, have
nwaked to the due appreciation
of an educated ministry and
church scools. These are nfak-
ing the greatest strides in church
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upbuilding.
The speaker does .not take the
most roseate view of the Zrift to
industrial schools to the neglect
of a more liberal Culture. Ve
are educating loo much for mak-
ing money rather than making
men. Davidson should now have
four hundred students instead of
'one hundred and seventy-five.
He presented the merits of the
institution forcibly
What Princeton is for Presby
terianism north, Davidson is for
Presbyterianism, south. David
son, however, though she hasno
theological , seminary attached
and never has had, excels Prince
ton in the fruits of Christian ed
ucation. She has sent out three
hundred and seventy-five minis
ters whose influence is felt all
over our south land. He re
hearsed a testimonial to the
great work of Rev. Will Hunter,
in Georgia, who was reared with
in less than twenty miles of this
place. "He was recognized by
one in the community as a man
sent of God to : build up the
church and the community to its
splendid "development.
; ' In presenting the claims of
Davidson College he said it was
wisely situated in one of the
State's most beautiful regions.
It is the piedmont section.
Students may safely come from
unknown and distant ones, an ad
miration based on distance and
ignorance, but not on facts.
Happily enough this splendid
lecture was deliverod on the 65th
anniversary of the opening of
the college, . . . ,
The Burlejson Land Sold.
Two tracts of land belonging
to the Benjamirt Burleyson estate
were sold at the court house door
today (Monday.) The Earnhardt
tract brought $400 and the In-
the mountain regions of the West gram tract brought $500. Both
and students from the East may
were bid off by W M Smith.
return home at the dose of tho!Hdt0QetoirteTraIlftl8tl!llbliry
session without f a: of too great
climatic transitions.
What's the matter with the
Southern, and our town ? It has
It stands on the height of land beetl 3ompiained of that tho rail
between the Yadkin and the Ca-' roa(j nas not fulfilled the letter
tawba. The comb of the roof of j not tn0 spirjt 0f tue compromise
Biblical Hall divides the rain, 1 fixed upon -'some time ago when
giving half to Yadkm and half Col. Andrews was here. The
to-Catawba. j most flagrant act of violation" of
Davidson, said the speaker, ' the spirit at least is reported on
has no money for show but she has ast Saturday, night when Miss
money for the best of Chemical Sue Richmond cpming froni Mil
and Physical apparatus and for ton, "bought a ticket in Danville
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her choice and modern library and boarded the train that ar
Her laboratories include the'' rived at Salisbury about 9 o'clock,
latest inventions such as the She wasliot allowed to come pn
Roentgen rays and Marconi's in
s tr u m e n ts f or w i r eless tel egraphy
Her library has 15,000" volumes
of well selected books bougtitby
special committees (not inherit-
but had to get off and wait an
hour and ten minutes for the
next train. She is a young lady
of 15 or 16 years and being un
accompanied found it quite a
ed, aud antiquated works of lit-i comfortless ana inhospitable
tie worth). From $400 to $j?Oojstay. We do.not know what train
worth aref purchased evary year, j she came on but having bought
Davidson has water worksfor j her ticket in Danville and gotten
the whole town of" tho purest wa- 0n the train it is a very unsatis
ter sent to tho station at Raleigh 'factory' arrangement that made
for analysis. The moral tone of : her get off at all.
tho students is unexcelled The complaint is .very bitter
The classes take a laudable and promises to precipitato tho
pride in the dignity, honor and original trouble and Cause the
morality of their members and 'stopping of all trains at Corbin
will not tolerate gross immoral-' stroet.
ities. As for cheating on exam
inations it dare hot bo indulged
in. The perpetrator will find
himself sent home in the shorest
of order by his own classmates.
The college has eight full pro
fessors, chiefly young "men, who,
the speaker thought, can more
nearly enter into close and influ
ential touch.with young men. It
has also a trained Physical Di
rector and four Tutors and Lab
oratory assistants.
He advocated athletic sports
as developers of physical man
hood and thinks the few dangers
connected with them developers
in themselves' "for life's varied
encounters and they do not weigh
equally with the great benefits.
He threw out a gentle hint to
Presbyterians before him by il
lustration of parties going many
miles and laboring with extraor
dinary vigor to scale Pilot
Mountain, wnile at its very base
were those who had never availed
themselves of the bounties of the
landscape seen from its heights.
So our people often undervalue
a great institution at their very
doors and give an admiration to
Card of Thajikn.
I wish in this'public wTay to ex
press my deep gratitude to
friends and jiejghbors for their
sympathy and aid in this seasorf
of sorrow and almost unbearable
grief at the terrible calamity that
has befallen me and my children,
in the death of my devoted hus
band, "and I trust that the Great
Rewarder of all good deeds will
multiply the joys of those who
come to share some of our sor
rows' and bear s6me of 'our bur
dens. Mrs. Jno. R Brumley.
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SCHOOL SHOES.
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And, if moving time is delayed much long
er we will not have such a job 'after all.
For the next few days untill, our new
quarters are ready, we are going to make
prices that will sell goods if
Low Prices Will Sell The
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Thanking you for past favor and asking you
to pass over our mistakes when it's possible,
we will try and do better in the future
Again thanking you and asking you to call
and see us we are yours to try to please,
The Bell & Harris Fur. Co.
Ilev. Sticklty to Leave.
Mr. A Van Pelt went to China
Grove this morning to meet Rev.
V R Stickley and consult with
him about ulans for a house
which he will build in Virginia, j
Rev. Stickley has resigned the ;
pastorate of the Enoehville Luth
eran church and will move to
Virginia in the spring. Salis- j
bury Sun.
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Good Job Work !
C substantiate this statement
t with the real stuff, and leave it to you
to say whether our work; is al! right or
not; and if it is not we guaiantee to
make it so. We are here to make a
profita livingalso to do justice to ;(
.y our customers. v
Some Nice Gola Ore.
Mr. W W Wilhelm has shown i
us some impressive specimens of ;
ore from the Di. bolomon Furr;
place.' The yellow metal shines,
l -w.niit . fn 1 1 tt i-.nt rf thn ruin rt7 otiI I
Ut.U Util U1IJ WWU VJ. lUW Vj UU1 L J C4.L-H.Aj
promises to be quite valuable. ,
Snmo nf th ore is from 40 foot
deep and part from the surface. fy.rZy'JiCj J.3C&J
The Standard Job Office.
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