Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-12-08
OUR FEMALE SEMINARY.

lOalOAih" was DAVuSHp USlOAC UhC A"VO
Conference at Fayetteville, and dis
cussed at a lively rate, we are told.
Now we are satisfied. The question
is brought where we have endeavored
to get tin the hearts and mouths of
the brethren. We are satisfied be-
cause we believe we will have semi
nary in the very near future. All
admit the sdesirability' of it, but
some fail to see the feasibility"
To those who fail to see the feasibility
we would say, if we want and need
such an institution, let us set to work
to have it. We cannot see the FEAST
bility while there is prejudice against
it. Let us open our hearts and go to
work as we have done before when the
way was much darker than in this
case Let not the love for one insti-
tuition bring about jealousy against
other good and needed efforts. The
feasibility of establishing female
seminary is in our own desire and
efforts for it.
We believe we are going to have
the seminary in the near future, be-
cause the brethren are alive to the
interests of our girls and our race.
A number of the young ministers
pledge their efforts to the bringing
about of this much-needed end-a
separate high school for our young
ladies, where they can be instructed
in the doctrines of our own Church,
and not compelled to be surrounded
by the influences of other denomina-
tions.
We are told that the discussion
upon this question was brought out
on the report of the committee on
education. All parties claimed to
favor the idea, but the real enemies
to the project commended that it is not
yet time that we must wait till our
institution at Salisbury is better cared
for, and that the latter is not suffi-
GENTLY supported to Justify the effort
to establish another at this time.
Such argument will not hold. Let
us look around us right here in North
Carolina See how these same men
fought for the establishing of col
lege by the State while it has other
normals in different parts of the State.
Let us refer to the strength of our
Church and the feasibility of estab-
fishing any sort of school in 1880,
when our now promising Livingstone
was in embryo. The very men who
are now the life of that institution
were unheard of students in some
other colleges, but now have an occu-
patton in which they can do great
good to the race with which we are
identified. The Church had no money
then, but what has been done for us
since There were men at that time
to oppose the effort of establishing
Livingstone because the feasibility
did not appear" TO their dull intellect.
At this age there are those whose in
tellscts are blinded by one thing and
another, and for various reasons the
feasibility does not appear"
Now let US see where the opposition
came from. la the discussion at Fay
ettoyille, prominent among those on
the committee who favored the estab-
fishing of a female seminary were
Rev. b. f. Martin, Rev. J. w. Smith
and DR.. J. r. Williams. Those who
could not see the feasibility" were :
Prof. S. G Atkins, teacher at Liv-
ingstone College Rev. Prof. w. II.
Goler, teacher at Livingstone College;
J. c. Dancy, Esq, editor at Living
stone College, and Rev w. b. Fen
derson, student at Livingstone Col
lege The gentlemen would naturally
oppose anything that looks like les
sening their numbers at Livingstone.
1t is their right to do 50. We will
not discuss this objection, but if any
man is too blind to see through this
without discussion, he viii learn bet
Ter some day in the future We are