Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-05-26


longeth.
Such a training and such result
is proposed by the University OF the
South, an education as much need
ed in the country IFS ever. This is,
and is to be more perfectly, thor
ough home education of our youth
under Christian and refining in
fiuences; an education pursued also
on site remarkable for Salubrity,
upon a mountain plateau 1900 feet
above the level of the sea. Besides,
it must be remembered that the do
main of the University, several
thousand acres in extent gives to its
students wide and healthy range,
and furnishes them with the pureSt
air and water in the country. The
institution has absolute control over
its landed property, extending four
miles in every direction. Hence,
it is enabled to guard its pupils from
many evils common to most other
schools; While its remoteness and
isolation free it from the temptations
and affectatiOns which haunt the
great centres of population.
The education proposed by the
University of the South is as good
as any in the whole country, and it
is to be had at cost far below that
offered at the English and German
universities, and even that of our
Northern schools. The cost is ap-
parently, but not really, more than
that Of our own State institution.
The reason of this seemingly greater
Sc hat IIrf nf
South is just now dependent upon
its tuition fees, and the excess of
these fees over those of the State
schools about make up the differ
ence in its schedule of expense over
that of the schools which receive
subsidy from their State govern
ments.
But this excess of expenditure for
a boy at Sewanee is only apparent,
when we come to consider that its
isolation presents fewer temptations
to spend money outside the regular
charges OF the University than the
location of every other school in or
near a town of some size, which has
it's saloons, billiard rooms, &C., &c.
But even the larger fees of the Uni
versity will be reduced when we
secure the endowment of $3.50, 900,
which we are now seeking. And
with endowment of the chairs of the
University, the expenses of stu
dent will be, to say the least, no
greater than at any of our Southern
colleges.
But it is not so much a thorough
home education which cOmmendS
the training of the University of the
South as the fact that it is Christ
ian and refining education. The
school succeeds in making Christ
ians of large proportion of its stu
dents; and its chief reputation, over
and above it's thorOughness in study,
is that it makes gentlemen and
manly all the young men who en-
joy its tuition. Hence, the school
at Sewanee has justly deep and
abiding support in the hearts of
Southern matrOns. Women and
especially mothers recognize more
quickly than men the value of such
culture.
AS members of the Protestant
Episcopal church, and as descend
ants of the Church of England,
which has trained such a host of
wise and good men, and whose uni
versities are the models of the
world for culture of the best kind,
we naturally esteem ourselves as
competent to conduct such an educa-
tion as any of the great bodies Ofour
brethren around us who profess and
call themselves Christians, and who
have SO distinguished themselves
in this broad land and especially in
this Commonwealth, as enlighted
and efficient educators.
1t remains then to be seen
whether the Episcopal church in
the ten Southern dioceses which
the University represents, is willing
to bear its full burden in advancing
to the utmost the spiritual interests
of the people who are committed to
its care.
The University of the South is
one of the most important means of
disseminating the moral and spirit
ual culture of this church, and it is
of vastly more Importance, if right
ly supported and used, than any
single one of its dioceses or any
score of its most important par
iShes.
Beyond the general Christian cul-
I'ture the University furnishes to its
pupils (thus being a great mission
in ITSELF it appeals to the church in
the South and Southwest in spec
ial manner, not only as being its
only child, but the only source
to which that church may look for
a long time TO come for supply of
ministers, certainly for its smaller
parishes and mission stations. 1t
makes the heart ache indeed to see
how these places are visited by the
feet OF gospel messengers only now
and then, or are abandoned alto
gether. The South cannot hope to
draw supply of ministers from
any section but her own, at least
! for long time to come. This is
the case because the church at the
| North, the West and the North
west is growing SO rapidly.as, not
only to engage all its own material,
| but also to absorb the best and
brightest of the Southern youth
which may be educated for the min
istry there. There is no doubt but
that the green pastures and still
waters or its well organized paro-
chial life are great temptation to
the young mind, when contrast
ed with the rough work and arid
wastes of church life in the
South. And as the rich church life
at the North is just as much the re-
suit of numbers and industry as are
their well kept villages and farIns,
so, in the South, it now becomes
the duty of church people to see that
numbers and industry in church
work here, in city and hamlet and
vale, shall keep pace with numbers
and industry in the factories and
machine shops, and on the farms,
all of which are outstripping in inn
provement this sections progress in
| religion.
The theological student at the
University of the South, not know
ing perhaps any work other than
that which he has left at home, not
blinded by a glance at social luxury
nor confused by the garish light OF
great cities, thoroughly trained in
the under graduate department be-
| fore he becomes "a student in theol-
ogy, as a matter of course, Is alb
sOrbed in the only work he has ever
| known, and goes back to his native
diocese eagerly and with a solid
| preparation of heart and mind
which enables him effectually to
build up the waste places of the
| 7 OrdiS TpmnIp at home and fO ra.