Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-05-30
NEW DEPARTURE,
The Board of Aid for Academies and
Colleges

| lhe board OF AID Tor Asademies ana
Colleges.
| To the Editor Of ,hs Free Press ana Times
The Christian church is authorized to
teach, to train, to feed and TO mature Christ's
redeemed. 1t is under the highest obligation
to exercise to the utmost this authority, for
it was granted to secure the highest end, the
NANTES tation OF Christ as exalted over all,
God blessed forever and the perfection Of all
his redeemed 90 tearh,' 'feed my
sheep" "feed my lambs" are equally conf
mands Of our Lord. To fulfill these COM
m,nds and TO be independent and self-pro-
pagating as well, the church must provide all
the means and agencies Of instruction, and
when provided we must guard them with
jealous care, least by any means they become
secular and not Christian, and so thwart the
very end for which 1t has been commission
ed to teach and train. 1t will
not At all do for the church
to leave the function OF lustruc ion
and nurture TO any outside Of herself ami be-
You'd her control, certainly not to any one
who has not her spirit and does not live and
work for her Redeemer and Lord, free
thinker, unbeliever or agnostic. Clearly
controlled by these reguative principles aud
sensible that much ground has already been
lost by delay, the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church at Saratoga last year
inaugurated new board-"The Board of ,
Aid for Academies and Colleges" This
board is taking quick and strong hold of
the churches. They see more and more the
need IF such an organization and the scope
of its work, and rejoice in the success
already attained. Not until january last
did the board organize so that the,
little rils began to flow into
Its treasury. In January 1t was able
to report only $27S "a but now on the first
of May &sS ,0S6. Sympathy has been shown 7
with the board in all parts of the church by |
contributions to its treasury, for the main I
part of the amount has come from church
Contributions This amount has been dis ]
tributed smeng nine institutions, all colleges |
1t is expected that the board overlooking |
the whole COUNTRY will exercise wise dis |
crseson and controlling influence IN the |
location of colleges and academies 60 that all
parts Of its wide territory will be equally |
supplied.
The secretary of the board, Rev. DR..
Ganse, formerly of ST. Louis, but now of
Chicago, presented with many facts and
much force the aims and claims OF
this new organization at Saratoga. Its
object is one well defined and
easy to state. 1t is to luild up acad-
emies and colleges on the basis of distinct
lively christian Instructions and for this
purpose TO equip these with qualified chris
tlan instructors, presidents, professors and
tutors. Under secular and state control the
unqualified skeptical aud agnoslic instructor
may set side by side with the truly qualified
and christian one and counteract both his
teaching and example. DR.. Ganse in his
address, sketchlng the history and influence
Of our New England colleges, asked with
great force would the church have u Web
,ter to make his mastery defence of the
christian religion il there had been no
christian professor at Dartmouth where he
vas graduated ?" A. ID. b.