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

rate working order.
The cost of reaching the Univer-
sity OF the South, say from Calves
ton, New Orleans or Mobile would
be but one-half of the cost of jour-
rey to Harvard, Yale or Column
bia under ordinary circumstances f;
but as the Southern railroads give
us half rates, the cost falls to one
quarter that of going to the North
ern schools and to one-half of that
in going to schools in Virginia. The
cost OF living at Sewanee is not
more than that of residence at any
of the better class of Southern
schools.
The location of the University
upon the Cumberland plateau, at
an elevation of 1000 feet, surround
ed by primeval forest and amid
springs of the purest freestone water
makes it locality in which mala-
ria cannot exist and in which conta-
giOuS diseases soon run their mildest
course. 1t vies for the supremacy
in healthfulneSs with any place
North or South.
Hens SGIl0 IN cOrpOre SdRo is q
sisted upon by earth's Wisest men ;
and we believe that TO Sewanee will
eventually be left the solution of the
problem of producing the most re-
spectacle average of alumni thor
Oughly developed both in mind and
physique, and when your committee
comes to add to this order of men,
tai and physical training high
standard of moral and religious
culture it feels that it has completed
the list of advantages which the
University of the South presents as
plea for general patronage.
Truly secular education has been
a failure all over the world. The
education even that pretends to
morality but is agnostic in regard
to religion is just now sapping the
better life of our country wherever
it can gain hearing. This is what
that which is called culture In New
England is doing; its boast is that
the higher education does not recOg-
niZe God at all, because it has no
means of knowing positively about
him. This 'Culture" is fast teach
Ing men and women thus to forget
their plainest moral duties because
these duties can only be enforced by
| the religion of one God. Statistics
show and magazine articles from
Northern pens harp upon the cor
ruptiOn that is rotting the heart and
purity out of the New England
that it is jauntily alluded to as le-
g0Iized poLygdnay. We do not refer
to this with any hostile animus at
all, but simply because we know
that it is a dangerous sign of the
| times. This frequency of divorce
has been known to several periods
of the worlds history and it has
ever preceded civil dissolution. In
New England, statistics show that
there where the degree of illiterdcy
is smallest on account of its public
school system ii. e. its secular edu-
cation) there an average exists OF
| one Divorce to every nine maria
ges. This does not prove that edu-
cation is bad and that ignorance is
good; but it proved that secular
education has no power to restrain
| the bestial natures of men and WO-
| men.
If Christian men and women
| there recognize this truth, what
right have they 10 entrust their ten
der children to the training of others
than those whose first object it is to
instil into the mind a sense OF Chris
tian obligation and of the true end
| of life both in time and in eternity
State pride in sending a son TO a
Goddess State University or poor
economy in sending him to a cheap
er school than the University of the
South may save a few dollars but
it will be no excuse in the sight of
God for not giving that boy every
advantage in spiritual matters, SO
that he may take a position in the
kingdom of heaven as high, yea
higher than that which our near
sighted ambition desired for him
| in this world.
But your committee must now
speak of the work accomplished by
the University of the South, and OF
its present condition.
As a fact, this University has,
since its organization in 1868, edu-
Gated large number of young men.
Its annual attendance is about two
1 hundred. 1t has ever given Chris
tian education but has used no un-
due influence to make them mem
4 berS of our church. The ROmaniSt,
the Methodist, the Baptist, the
Presbyterian and the Jew have sat
side by side in its balls and among
the students now there present all
these denominations except the last
are represented.
Very few of the students there
have ever taken any of the degrees
of the University. These degrees
are marks of such high standard
that in ten years, only ten have
taken the degree of Master of Arts.
The young men who have com
pleted their education at the Uni
versity of the South are now, in
every Southern State, making a
good record for their Alma Mater
and a marked impreSsisn on the
communities in which they live.
Such is in general part of the
University's work; she is toO
young, as yet, to have sent many
into the ministry, cher theological
department having been organized
only four years agO); but this Is
good fruit almost ripe and not yet
! gathered.
The following was, and is now,
the condition of the venture at Sc.
vance: Fifteen years ago when
the affairs of the University were a
practical wreck in consequence Oi
the war, the Jealous Bishop of this
diocese, to save the domain, under
the charter and at least to begin the
good work, assembled around him
a few Cody men at Sewanee, erect
ed a rough cross and began the
peaceful crusade against Infidelity
and secularism by fervcnt prayer
in behalf of the undertaking which
assembled from that mountain tOL
to the throne of God. Events have
shown that that prayer was answer
ed and has been answered day by
day since; for in human judgement
the enterprise had no right to live
upon means so inadequate for its
support. In human eyes it wa:
simply impossible to accomplish
the great work which that UniVer
sity had to do with resources sc
meagre. At that time there was
nothing at Sewanee but the forest,
around and the skies above; but as
soon as it was known that thi,
school whose idea had been so deal
to the hearts of the Southern people
was to be opened, students began tC
flock in, and money was furnished
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