The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-27
CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION.
What the Indiana Methodists Have Given to
the Support of DePauW University.

The meeting of the Methodist ministers yes
tsrday was devoted to a discussion of the rela-
ton of indianapolis Methodsm to DePauw Uni
versity. paper was read on the subject
by Rev w. F. Sheridan. He said that since
Wesley had established q school for the higher
training of the young st Kingswood the voice
of the Methodist tinerant had been for Chris
tian education BY class instruction he meant
not only such opposed to atheistic
and rationalistc teachings, but also to '1ati-
tudinarian compromises and Mohammedanized
Christianity in general" Asbury. De
PAW, University had been established by the
prayers and sacrifices Of early Indiana Metno
dism. Not only had il since then steadily
furnished ministers for Methodist pulpits in
almost every section of the country, but it had
furnished more than its quota of men who had
become distinguished in other lines of service.
From It's halls had gone United States Senators
Harlan, Booth, Mcdonald and Voorhees,; Gov
errors Porter and Larrabee, and Lieutenant-
governors Cumb and Hanna a large number
of Congressman and many others who had filed
were filing positions Of high rank. Mission-
aries had taken diplomas from the institution,
and spent the remainder of their lives in India,
China. Japan. South America and Turkey.
He then proceeded to show how the university
had been kept alive. and what portion of the
State had contributed the most largely to the
were three ways of supporting the institution,
By sending students from the congregation, by
1t. Regarding the first he said that while
Indianapolis had one-twenty-sixth of
the Methodist population of the
State it furnished but thirty fifth of the In
diana quota of students attending the univer-
sity. This showed that either Indianapolis
Methodists were behindhand in the matter of
university. He said that there was evidence to
show that student who desired to learn could
obtain as good an education at DePauw as else-
where. He might not become so proficient in
foot ball, rowing, haziug etc, be able SO
easily to mp $1,000 year expense &C.
count. but he would obtain just as much
practical Instructions was shown by the COM
parative rank OF students from DePauw with
those of Yale, Harvard, and other institutions.
who had gone to t-grad uate courses like that
at Johns Hopkins. Indianapolis Methodists
should therefore, send their boys to DePauw.
The lLumber now at DePauw belonging TO
Mel hodist churches in this city, was eleven,
while there ten from the churches in this
city attending other institutions. Methodist
ministers should try and put the students of
their congregation into DePauw.
Mr.. Sheridan then showed that Indianapolis
had also failed to do it's share in the financial
support of the institution, sayings ''South Bend,
with a Methodist church property of $40. 900,
has contributed about S.. 900 the university
in the past twenty-five years; Terre Raute, hav-
ing church property of 100000, has contributed
cry cry of $40, 900, has has contrib pe
$1,000; Shawnee Mound, with $500, has given
$4,000. Montgomery county added $50, 900;
Lafayette with property of S106 00O con-
tributed $50, 0O0 Indianapolis. with a church
property of $500, 000 has contributed less than
$4,000 She, with property ouetwelfth the
value Of the whole held by Indiana Methodism,
has contributed almost nothing to the universe
TVS support" He urged she pastors give the
university prominent place before the PEOPLE;
they should place it on Par. at least, with be-
nevolenees
The paper elected a lively discussion, and the
figures relative to the comparative support
given the institution were O great surprise to
some of the ministers present All agreed that
the institution should receive the steady sup
port OF Indiana Methodism. DIR. Gilbert thought
the fact that the university bad refused an offer
fifteen years Of $4,000 to remove here
might have had some effect on the support from
this city The panic of '74-'75 was also thought
TO have affected the contributions to the school,