The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22
RUTLAND DAILY GLOBE THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 22 1875

which shall in the least impair the bond of |
anion between the college and her gradu- |
ates, everything possible to us shall be |
done to put power and nerve into that |
band. The trustees of the college and her
administration unite in soliciting whatso- |
ever the alumni have to impart, that is
profitable for college doctrine, that this in
stituton of the God of our fathers may be
perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good
works.
A .fourM condition of success of the col
lege is found in the fidelity to her original
mission as distinctively christian college.
From the first she was set apart from a
common and consecrated to sacred use.
The motive that prompted her founders
and gave to them the sympathy of the
community when they undertook the en-
terprise, and that sustained them in it, and
carried them through it, was the convic-
ton that the world was in need of educat-
ed christian men, for ministers and law
yers, for missionaries and teachers, editors
and statesmen, and that the raw material
for such men was found in rich abundance
in Vermont homes, and that a college
among them was needed at Middlebury, as
the instrument to bring out and work up
and adorn with culture this material and
out of ii make these men. And it stands
as one of the facts of New England history
that Middlebury college has continued true
TO this original idea Such has been her fl
deity to it that she has been accounted as
| one of the foremost of our colleges in the
| positiveness of her religious character, and,
| IN proportion to her alumni, in the abund-
ance of her christian service. So true is
this that the mention of her name carries
with it. TO the general christian mind, the
| iIoo Of n biblical IIar
work for the Master has been an ointment
poured upon his head, aud, incidentally, it
has filled the world with the fragrance of
her name. Bat this Characteristic feature
of the college has not only drawn To her
the material supplies upon which she has
subsisled. 1t Is because of it that her
treasury has been replenshed with gener-
Gus gifts, and not only from large-hearted
men of wealth who have learned to know
and to love her, but from the common peo-
pie as well, for, in this impulse of graft
tude, the gifts OF the poor, and widows
mites have been lavished upon her.
And now ! wish TO affirm 1t to day, and
have it reailrmed by You, that if Middle
bury college has any mission for the future
it is accomplished by moving directly for
ward in this line of her historic march. For
her to belle her record and forget her trust
imbibe n PHILOSOPHY falsely so.called. or
become in the least vitiated with doubts
and platitudcs of modern skeptical unbelief;
for her not to stand firm in The faith of an
undoub,ed Christianity. defending her
AGAINST the vanid rant If illitcrate fanatics
and mot9lin sentimentalists. ON the one
hand, and the assaults of infidelity enrObed
ia the CARDS of erudition and science on the
oiher for her IN disclose n tendency 10.
wards orcanting tho wisdom of men If mo
birbcr value than that species of fungus
known as mink nhosnhoresent irradia,ions
omitted from decay and illuminating il for
The wisdom of God is n mystery or for he,
IN initiate the eyamnIe Of Nero and take
no nositiyc stand and active mart. and show
herself at,ltent in m works and service If
the defence and nromotion of ibe RELIGION
Of the fotbers / saw for tb,s college 70 dis
cIosc onv faltnrinr here or evasions ia fo,
her to rive ND the breath that she breathe.
and TO gather upou her. in her apostacv
the character of n monumental infamy lik,
that which belongs to the pillar of salt b,
the sea of Sodom.
If Middlebury COLLEGE Is not clear
christian college from the centre out to
, every mathematical noint in her circum
, ference. she is no COLLEGE at all. This il
not saving that she is. or is to be. hamper
, ed by a narrow denominat;onal zeal Sh,
, il, and shall be. no more intent mo,
STRENGTHENING her christian stakes. tina,
, she is upon SO lencthennr her christia,
, cords. AN TO embrace. without a sense n
difference. all who accent the faith ono
delivered 10 the saints. Nor is this sayini
that she will not foster spirit of inouir,
: and boldly interrogate every question O
| philosophy, or science, or history, an
l finding the Truth, follow it, as the re
r deemed ia the apocalypse do the Lamb
= whihersoever ii goelh
S Accounting honest doubt not inimical blu
G conducive to, genuine faith, and, beley
1 ing truth to suffer more from the timldit
$ of her friends than the assaults of her enc
mics, this college shall evermore exult t
i 60 forth into every department of know
= edg, the Frank Investigator, AS well as tn
: Valiant Defender.
! A ffM condition of success to the co
n ege is, that she put herself into iniiuentis
3 contact with the people. In these times @
: aggressive activity and onset, when thing
: move because they are made to move. til
/ college cannot shut herself into clostere
o stiffness to enjoy by herself the luxuries c
e academic life. She must come forth an
, be abroad in her representatives among tn
i people rs in sympathy with them and j
Il service for them She must make it know
t that she exists ia Il thing of life ; and i
C ailluent of ideas of practical wortl
r Through the press, in the pulpit, on tn
c platform in associations, ministerial, et
L ucational, agricultural, political even /
y school examinations and public gathering
IS she must make herself felt as an upheavin
$ and ameiorating power. And Mddlebur
d college must do this, do it more than sh
: ever has, because our present times an
y modes of life make the necessity imperious
/ This IS not saying that she is to obtrude he
G wares Extensively upon the community, bu
b so to present them to public view as to le
t it be known that she has in her stores trea
c sures of wisdom and knowledge Tor tn
r people and all the people.
G And notice that il Is THROUGH these av,