The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-05-11

this subject should be thorouahly ventilated
here, for the first educational society ever
established by the Baptists OF America wa:
organized In Charleston In 1855, and from II
and the society in New Jersey, which hat
originated Brown University, bad gone ou
| the influences which had so greatly promoted
the cause of education among the Baptists
If asked why zee should celebrate the cen
| tennial he would reply that the progress o
Baptssts In numbers, resources, and intell
gence within the last one hundred years, ant
the preservation of the purity Of their doc
trine, demanded some expression Of graft
tude to God for the past-some enlarged
plans for the future. One hundred years age
we numbered less than twenty-five thousand
IN the United States now nearly two mil.
lions. Then we had only one colege-now
we have nine theological semlnaries and
hirty:tour universities and colleges, besides
large number Of academies and female In.
sttutes Of the highest order. He deemed II
prominently appropriate that in reviewing
| the history of the past we should not only
thank God and take courage, but that we
should devise wise plans by which the
achievements of the future should be made
yet more glorious than the grand results Of
the past.
| lie ably argued that the best way to dc
this is to strengthen our institutions OF
learning and give 10 our people Qaymen as
well as preachers, women as we'll as males) q
broader education and more thorough cul.
ture. DR.. Cuttings address was an able and
| powerful presentation Of bis views.
Rev. DR.. Curry next took the platform.
With graceful compliment to DR.. Cutting.
whom he welcomed as brother beloved, he
boz bot o<1n m N n.
tennial should not be COMPOUNDED with the
political centennial of '76, though he for one
| rejoiced in the Declaration OF independence.
North Carolina is entitled 10 the proud honor
Of bavirg first proposed a declaration of IE-
! dependence from Great Britain, a Virginia
pen wrote the one which the Old Continental
| Congress adopted, and we Of the South
should not become monarchists or cease to
rejoice in that grand event; but, he ably and
eloquently argued, we have greater reason to
rej.;ice 10 the establishment Of religious free
dom, and to celebrate the part borne by our
Baptist fathers in the struggle.
Starting with this idea, DR.. Curry elo-
quenlly sketched the progress OF Baptist
principles and the success Of the denomina.
| ton, and Insisted that we should rear not
some perishable marble monument, but one
"built on the infinite capacity Of immortal
mind "-that we should seize on this auspi-
cious hour to endow all of our colleges.
The whole address abounded in elcquently
thrilling passages, but one Of the best was q
comparison between Casal's famous dis.
| patch, "Veni, vidi. uici." and Stonewal Jack
sons announcement. God blessed our arms
a1iM Uictory to day."
| The whole of the audience seemed thrilled
and carried away by DR.. Curry's brilliant
| effort.
Rev. DR.. Z. T. Winkler, of Alabama, fol
lowed in one Of those chaste, scholarly, and
eloquent speeches for which he Is so noted
aud Of which regret have not space fol
even brief report.
The discussion was closed by one OIL
DR.. John A. Broadus's telling teu.miuute
speeches, which brought tears from every
eye, and made all feel like going home to
work for the grand enterprise Of placing al
of our denomlnationai colleges on firm Pc
cuuiary basis.
At 2 O'Clock the Convention adjourned tc
allow the committees time TO meet and make
up their reports.
We are having splendid entertainment and
most delightful time. FlAToR.