The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1863-11-11

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on their predsstiaed way. upon the wheels
Of the frsest human choice, the merest cor.
tinEsnciss, the most unconstrained of Au-
man actions. The beautiful mythology
was forming in that four hundred SyesrA
The philssh phsrs were dreaming dreams
which, though they contained very little
objective truth, would yet enrich the ina.
giaatisns of.men forever. Stataes and picA
lures came into existence, which elevated
the spirit Of man, and have given it ideas
Of perfect beauty Of form in all subsequent
ages.
We desy the churches the right to legis.
late directly on the subject Of secular edu-
cation. But, so far as she can speak to her
people Us citizens, she ought to- Jet her vsice
be heard at this time, Cor as seen as the
dark war clsud may, in the good providence
of God, rell away Irsm u.s. calling aloud
for deeper infusion Of classical learniHg.
into the mind Of the coming generations.
There was an education meeting held at
Augusta, Ga; one evening during the ses-
sisns Of our General Assembly il that city
last December, to discuss the subject Of .
higher education among our people. Il was
not a meeting Of the Assembly at all, but
of such friends Of educa ton as might and
did willingly come together, chiefly csm-
posed Of persons brought there by the occa-
sions Of that body. Nsr was il meeting
held on the subject of the education sfindi.
gent students for the ministry. The plans
Of the meeting seemed to crystalline in the
form Of University for the South, of
non -Episcopalan type, and to givs . nero
Thorough education than those new in ex-
istence. The adjourned meeting was not
held, as appoiated, at our General Assem-
bly, 10 May last past, for obvious reasons.
We hope it will not be forgotten when fu-
ture opportunity shall effsr.
The PRESBYTERIAN church can say, with
lar more truth, and with far deeper mean.
ing than the ambitious poets:
Il must run stsring 10 the sunshine, Or Pam unblest
Learning must ever be her indispensable
ally. She has nevessu underralued piety in
the ministry. "The Bible, the Bible alsae.
the religion Of the Christians" has ever
been her maxim. She has maintained the
Importance of sound doctrine to . holy lite.
with faiihfalness quite as strenusus a.
has been shown By any Of her loved and
respected sister churches. But she has ns-
YER shishted the classics. She never dread.
ed that her children would be wiled away
from the great and dread Jehovah. and his
loving and dying and glori6ed Son. ana
all the holy grandenrs Of revealed trath.
by The beautiful roy Jupiters. and ApollOs.
and Miner,as, Of the classic nythslsgy.
She has ever nurtnred herself deeply and
richly with the Grecias letters. We trust
that she will contiaue to do so; that she
will make her escape from oil fanaticsl
ideas on the subject Of education. We trust
she nav revise several Of her plans in this
general connection; SO that when she pre-.
sents herself TO God for 4 renewed and
richer baptism Of the Holy Ghost, il may
be that both then aud thereafter she shalt
purpose and resolve deeper possession OF
all valuable and all elegant human learn
ing, with which to serve Him aud 70 adora
Ills doctrine,