, 1866-11-16

viz. To establish mn Agricultural College,
admitting Christianity aid excluding sccIa.
riarism. For you err. imputiue to me the
Thought that sectarianisn is iuseparable
from institutions ct learning" On the con-
trary, claim to give plan which does ex-
ciude, and the only one which cf1cctually c1-
cludcs sectarianism from our Agricultural
College. Let US see which Of us Is in error
MS to the way to do it."
Yenr Plan is to make our Agricultural
College like our. common schools, twholly
free from sectarianls1n." But You overlook
the grand fundamental difference between
single college and our common schools,
which is this: that our common school chill
onght-with their mothers while, If you
put our. Agricultural College in Mo,g gan,
Champaign, Washington or Mclean County.
You put Zip great building in which our
young men are tc live and study through the
te5n.tline Of years, either with no religious
lego officers, or compelled to attend worship
or hear instruction In churches near by, or
left free to do as they like, and the jackson.
vil1c address ,id,,e proposes to Put one tLous.
You cannot there teach them religion by
your college officers, for then you must
unite religion and State, at least, und
'.Church and state'' in fact; for you must
then require your officers to lc OF The Chris
unite Church and Suite In the person OF
every such officer
Y0u cannot require skcptIcal agricultural
students to attend worship nnd hear instsuc-
churches arc ttstetaridn, +" and If you condemn
! my plan Of putting An agricultural professor,
paid and governed, continued or dropped, by
the Agricultural College Board, made up OF
farmers through the State, intoa ''sectarian''
college, much more must you, and your plan
In
! students TO 20 to sec.arian churches! What
| then remains
! Why, you n,i1st put zone thousand" fr
less, young incn into blg agricultural col
| lege, ,etth no religious instruction through
The week, aud leave them free 10 play cards
and seryc the devil generally on the Sabbath !!
This is your plan ln practice! white tue
| thousands Of our common school children
are Under the sacrcd influences Of home !!
What then becomes Of your Argument
mon schoo1ss How now do you proposes
What Is hccomc of Your plan for putting re-
ligion in, and leaving sccta rianisln out Of our
Agricultural college? Does not your rlan
involve The old practical fa'lacy Of putting
salt Gu birds ta!1s ! TO catch them: !. e.a
But your ptan excludes Christianity IN
heory Us well as In practice, from our pro-
posed Agricultural College.
What Is your theory: Simply that "Church
| uhA HtulC huASk w
and 60 sectarianfsm shut out Of our college
US from the common schools. Very
good. Then the State must
make an agricultural college for atheists Of
tho Abnrr knce}and stamp, and for pagan
Chinamen, AZ well as for others. 1f''a Yonng
nun is to receive neither lnure nor less nd.
vantnges for believing in tile Pope or not be-
licvius in him." as yon properly eay, the
| same IL equally true uf the COolie who wor.
Ships Conllncius at San Francisco, and the
Dgist and jew, who despise Christ,
fou will "ttrcnuously OPPOSE" yon say,
''discardine Christianity from our AE1icultu
r1l Collcse.' But if you put Christ into oul
a1.d Delst out Of ity They have the samt
right Gf they pay taxes) In the State institu
And il you admit atheists. worshippers o
the spirits Of the dead, Dcists, Jews and othc,
1cjecters Of the Bible into our Agricu}tuta
COLLEGE you have no rlgnt to Insult them by
putting Christianity into, or. 10 >yonl
..dscardiug Christianity" from that college
| On your plan, You must discard it aud vol
| 'riN discard it. mean In theory. ALI Of til
Christian religion which gets in will 70 IN il
violation Of your plan by tue state-suppor
i, by others from without! il Is simply Of
d"csS % adults a persons s' wbo ,a hate ~ Chris
, and his religion, to all its advantages,
"nrfther more nor less !" then your psa
must in theory discard the Christi iau religion
:. and st, you are bound by your Mondays a.
ticlc to ''strcnuously oppose'' that plan!
| This is mot mere thcorizing. Unless gel
t1cnleh who inform nc are mistaken, We no
haze professors III two VI our Western Stat
Universities who make no secret of the
!. utter disbelief md rejection Of the Sacre
C Scriptures, and who worship nowhere au
4 no Goa, not even Jupiter or iauilia
: spirits!
Which then will you aos Will &c
u put The christian religion inl
r by requiring them TO he hypoc,ites III ord
y to get its instructions: Or will you
:. suit Christians by asking them 10 put the
sons, during the passionate yca's. into &C
c lcge with the Christian religion left GU
!. Ono VI the two your plan must DO, for the
d is no third. Or will you adopt the only pc
j. siblc. rational, nop-scctarian plan OF hayil
:, IL farmers college. governed by board wi
:. large perpetual majority OF farmers Il,
q mechanics, In whose meetings and lr:.nsa
II t;ons wc fAalf know each other simply
IL gentlemen, fh1mers and mechanics, al
\, teachers Of mechanism and agricuitul
- u uhicll Is the plan propose.
Then, also, your plan Of single huge A
n, ricnltural College without brauches, is !,
" only infldrl or scnli-inf1dcl In its theory a
ID pr;cticc, as have shown, but It Is also S.
ID tnrian as well, and will prove bone Of C
III tvntion to tfr sccts.
~, You make frequent meuiion Of tho Mic
-, ~ gan University at Ann Arbor, as your idea
Ill i non-sectarian State College. And yet Il
ly University is to-day presided over by
o, Methodist preacher Who is . regular nj t
he Der Of Conference, aud WHO would not Ct
~, slider himself com plintcnted by being rep
-. scutcd as Indifferent to his sect. Now subj
III that. In the person Of Dr.. Haven, the ''StAi
III. "Church!''' What is uuitins !" Church {
OIL State II the State praying from the Ia
H. tho religious teachers oi that church, Is
'9 such unlen. Every time President Ha,
of Michigan University prays In the Coli
Of Chapel the State Of Michigan pays lin
,3, Of ordinary understanding, If that is
~ "4uoa.l hot" uniting Church and State;
ZEE not ouly so hut sect aud state! Aud is I
the ,on.sectarlan p11n which you praise
propose to us III Illinois as our model!
Iou cannot fairly. turn the argnnl
ost against mc because in my plan the 81
Ar may pay some sectariau professors In
ocr branches, for they are not curpotators of
~ proposed Agricultural College; aud the $
- will hire them to ttaeh, Us you hire au IT
~ man to practice agriculture, not KNOWN!
III caring whether he be Papist or Protest
His So that he does his work well. And,
sin your plan OF single locality cannot incl
r,- all the sects; but mine eau and does, au
' is non -scctaIian. As white light il color
ua. | though containing all the colors In 1t.
cir Then your plan OF a State College Is
Us day, was yesterday, and II sects were etes
In. ctcrnallY must be bone Of contention
~, tween sccts.
tne ! have heard, in Chicago. Arm Arbor.
rs Other facts quoted to prove that .
,eld Of the State educational inanences.'
! of since they havc far the most votes,
Of fhcm his 3nflncncc ;Tclsctcd ~ - ren,1rc r,yl
tici- ident Edwards Of Normal University,
Ar put in a Mcthodists
pcd risn and m,re the non.secta1ian +
wv and TINT your College. when givct
OF us, must either exclude the Chrt
religion, aud so far be Atheist or Pasal
hon include the Christian religion, and so
hard Church and State; or else be as the prt
Ihan nnter;ar;s;,, ~ ;nsSoi,Ir ent hoti,
law ported By law!
I So need not assure yon that am profou
en- sincere and earnest In this. 1to]d Prcsit
e In Burroughs aud Munsel that would III:
an Homogeneous and hcr1naphrodite in:
tion, If l knew the only result Of mr
asas, I would be to make the State College Ba
} his or Methodist; and certainly would
man wilt.
nuu / eau respect a Papist or Unirersall
tne only he is sincere In Ills error. I am W
gned to receive either or both, and act with
hing | in our State Association of Colleges, q
there should be one, In our State Agric
, n. rni College. There Is no danger Of ows
~ ing our State Fair into prayer or pro
ing meeting. nor the annaai meeting o
Agricultural College Board In connc
4. II. But / am NOT willing 10 sec 5000
aged Of land converted into huge halfir
AN halfscctarian concern, set up In rvs
X as Of cxittinE colleges, using our text
lcrn- OF botany, geology and mathematics, {
who hos mt on his fathers boots to kfcl