Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-03

institutions connected with the social system
called the state, the nation, the empire, the
world unless based on these premises and con-
Quoted in harmony with them, no system oil
education is rational, scientific, philanthropc,
! or adequately adapted to the real condition ana
cravings of our common humanity. Education
! is therefore n theme perfectly transcendental-
ipossessing paramount claims on the patriot, the
Iphilanthropist, the philosopher the chrlStah'
/ 1t comprehcndS in its premises the develope-
ment Of creator and creature, heaven and earth,
| time and eternity, in full and perfect adaptation
to all the cravings and capabilities of man.
True and lamcntably true it is, that few
comparatively very few, indeed--have the caPa-
city, the patience, the perseverance, the taste
and the means adequate to its acquisition ana
cOnsummation; and equally to be reSretteu Is
1 the fact, that larger and more liberal provisions
are not made for its extension and perfection
/ both by the State and the Church; as to both
lit is the greatest known Or conceivable aux
Hilary.
| There are no people in the civilized world,
known to us, that have Indicated Il higher eStl-
nation of the value and importance of education,
in its fullest latitude and longtude-in its height
and in its Depth in its length and in its BREADTH
than the citizens of these United States OF North
| America. We have more schools and acade
miles, male and female; more colleges ana uni
verSitieS, of all growthS and varieties, than are
possessed and sustained by the same amount OF
/ population unuef any one ISNGIdl SbNSl tl'i'S'N
whether or not SO denominated, or whether
national or imperial, Arstocratic or Monarch'aL
| We have more graduates in Languages, Sciences,
| Arts and Professions, annually issuing IRON our
numerous Literary and Scientific Institutions,
our Medical, Theological, and Legal Schools ana
| Colleges than can be shown by any people on
the civilized globe of the same numbers, means
and facilities.
We have, indeed, too many Colleges and Uni,
ycrsitics too many institutions so cGtted, in all
the religious denominations of our country
And we, as Christian people, have, IN one
sense, already Outgrown ourselves, as wen as
outgrown other denominations of religionists IN
the penchnnt for Colleges and Universities We
have the Missouri Canton Univcrsity--the IndI-
ana indianapolis University, and the Kentucky.
| Harrodsburg Unversity--Un paper and IN PRINT
in stones and in brick-aS well as in men,
women and children. We have, also, IN Illinois
no less than three STRIPPING Colleges-Ablngdon'
! Eureka and jackson; one in Arkansas, one IN
| the environs of Nashville, Tenn, and Know
not how many more in inception.
England has had her two great universities
| for hundreds ofyears; to these she has added
another two of recent origin. ScotlandS glory,
in this particular, for centuries hourlShed In
her Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen Univer-
| sitieS-Ireland in her Dublin, Mnnooth anu
! Belfast Universities.
Pennsylvania has sundry such Institutions
two of them within twenty miles of Bethany
College, in the bosom of the Presbyterian
Church. Ohio has one, twenty miles west OF us,
so that we, at Bethany, are living in conStel-
lation of Colleges This speaks loitly for
! Young America, however it may speak for the
cause of literature, sciences and religion but
\ College well endowed well furnished with
buildings, Libraries, with Apparatus, and with
a well educated corps of Professors, Is not quite
| so caSiiY reared and cOnSummated, as Young
| America dreams or inaglnrS. We have had
colleges OF the old world and of the new. We
have some volumes of theory, and few chap
tcrs of experience, which have been read and
studied with care; and the impression made Is
deep aud abding-that it is men and not $t""e,
| nor brick, nor mortar, nor charter, nora goou
code of bylaws, nor Il few ten thOH&an"S 81
dolIttrs safely invested in good banks, or loaned
on nortgugcd real estates; nor even board OF
annual or Sem.annual cuTatorS in attendance,
4 once or twice year, that constitute the essen
| tails of college, or endow it with claims on the
patronage of n discriminating population, much
! less make it fountain of blessings to society
! to the church or to the State.
| Ills mind alone that works on mind us
educated mind that cducateS mind lis living
men and living books that quicken, inspire de
velope, energize and polish mind. 1t is not
theory, nor dead letter that animates and ac-
| tuates the faculties of man. 1t is the animation
ofthe teacher that animateS the student. Hence
1
neither Moses nor Aaron. Paul owed much to
DIR. Gamaliel. Had there not been Demosthe-
mes among the Greeks, there might never have
! been Marcus Tullius Cicero among the Romans.
tits the present living generation that gives char
acter and spirit to the next. Hence the para
mount Importance of accomplished and ener-
Eetic men in forming the taste, the manners, and
/ the character of the coming age.
! Man never lives for past generation: lie
lives for the present. and the future. Colleges
too are for the present and the coming genera
uon might say for coming generations. The
GOOD or the evil that men do is not always in
tered with their bones Both the good and the
evil that we may do, not untrequently survives
us for several generations. Colleges are in every
| point of view the most important and inappTe-
ciable institutions on earth, second only to the
church of Christ in their Inherent claims upon
Christian libcrahty and Christian patronage
| If they be not worthy Of the smiles, and the
PRAYERS, and the contributions of n Christian
community, i know not beyond the church,
what is, or ought to be an appropriate and APP
proved object of Christian patronage and Chris
! tan liberty We must have educated mind in
order to the prosperity and progress of society.
! And needs there be, can there be question,
| or doubt, whether the educated mind shall be
christian or intidel? And can there be in any
seminary of learning a christian education with.
out the christian oraceS? But unfortunately
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