Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-04
SPICY SPEECHES
ABOUT RANDOLPH-AACON y
RICHMOND COLLEGES.

| was discussion OF the suOJeOt Vi bu"
cation. Rev. S. A. Goodwin, ID. d.,
| of Danyille, said "If had but one
dollar in the world and wanted to make
| it do the most good possible, would
use it in helping some good young man
to get an education. The man who
helps to endow Christian college pro-
iects his influence through time and
eternity. That Baptists who have mo-
ney should be so slow to put it into
their schools and colleges is one oil
the straugest of all the strange things.
If you want to see how money tells
when given to a college, go to Rich
mond and see how proud the whole
city is of Richmond College. They
used to call it the Baptist College, but
now they call it the Richmond Col
lege, for they are all proud Of it-proud
of it's magnificent grounds, its build
ings, its halls, its library, and its pro-
fessors. Richmond College ought to
have a million dollars endowment, and
for one will never be satisfied until
II has tnat mucn.
DR.. A. E. Dickinson: "We don't
lack but nipe hundred thousand dollars
of having the million; that's all we
lack. but fear it will be some time
before DR.. Goodwin is satisfied. Take
out few dozen elect souls, the Bap-
lists are giving themselves no concern
about projecting their influence through
coming ages. They are doing what
they consider is best for themselves and
leaving the coming generations to look
out for themselves. Talk to them about
posterity and some Of them will tell
you, POsferity neUer hid anything for
me- They can find money to buy land
and mules and guano and other things,
but very dismal look comes upon
their faces when you ask them to help
endOw a college.
1.-The Virginia Methodists are ahead
Of us in this thing as in some others.
Look at that wonderful Professor, W.
W. Smith. lie raised in Lynchburg
sos, 200. and almost as much in Nor
folk, and $4,000 in Danville. lie will
do as well in Petersburg and in other
Virginia towns, and the Richmond
Methodists will be sure to finish it up
to an even one hUHdred thousand dbl
lars. There are MethodiSts in Rich
mond who are watching every incOm-
ing train, so anxious are they to grasp
Professor Smiths hand and help to
make his agency complete success.
You cant make the average Virginia
Methodist happier than to ash What's
the latest from Professor smith II
you wish to hear a real old-fashioned
Methodist 'AMEN " express to Metho-
dist a desire that Professor Smiths Ia
bOrs may be crowned with abundant
success. But how can we Baptists
be sincere and truthful in any
such expressions ; Don't you know
the Methodists are enjoying very
keenly the fact that they have gotten
80 far ahead Of us in raising college
money here in Virginia: You can see
that from the way a Methodist will ask
a Baptist, How are you Baptist
brethren succeeding in raising money
for your college, lie knows with
out being told that we are doing next
to nothing. and he knows, too, how
mean he makes you feel asking such
cues ton. When Brother Latlerty or
other big Methodists in Richmond
come my way | always introduce
some other subject of conversation, or
! tell them that am too busy to talk.
or | cross over to the other side of the
street when see them coming. 1t
may be wrong to feel this way about
it. but the Virginia BaptistS have led
for one hundred years, and to see them
so far diStanced now is little more
than can stand.
This is not merely sentiment or
prejudice. If the Methodi,ts carry out
their plans about dolph-Macon, they
will send an army of trained Methodist
preachers over this old State who will
make these old Baptist preachers sweat
when they tackle them. While the
Episcopalians and Pre>byterians are
doing their best-and | pray Gods
blessing upon them-stlll outside OF
the cities the masses are pretty equally
divided between rs and the MethodiStS,
and we ought to hold our own in the
struggle but we can't do it unless our
men are as thoroughly trained as theirs.
Some one-l don't youch for the cor
rectness of the statement-tells Of
an old sister whose nervous sys-
TEN was so upset that she could not
sleep. The doctors tried their best to
soothe her and put her to sleep, bat
they failed, and when 1t seemed that the
old woman must die from insomnia.
she sent for her pres, her and asked him
to preach her one Of the old sermons
which had never failed ofputting her to
sleep. lie did so, and during the ser
mon. it is said, she tel. asleep, and
awaked after Neutrality-suspicious. nap
much refreshed. That old preacher did
good in his day. doubtless but his day
has past and gone forever. We need
bright, educated men in pulpit and pew.
who will keep you awake when they
talk to you.
After all. the Methodists had better
not be too sure that they are going to
put all the Virginia Baptists on the
mouIners' bench. Baptists believe in
the final perseverance Of the saints, and
while we may go slow, we are going to
keep at it until DR.. Goodwin is satisfied
at seeing Richmond College have its
million. One reason the Methodists
give more than the Baptists do is that
they have more ready money than we
have. The MethOdists Of Lynchburg,
Danville, Petersburg, Norfolk, and
Portsmouth have four times as much
wealth as the BaptiStS of those cities.
But in the country around we have
more than they have, but it is not 50
easy to raise money from country peo-
pie. And yet these country BaptiStS
are coming up. There sits Deacon John
d. Glass, the best farmer in Pittsylya-
MIA county, who has just given fee hun
bred dollars to Richmond College, and
those who know her best think that his