Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-14
FUTURE RULERS.
INFLUENCE OF THE STANFORD UNI
VERsITY ON THE NATION.
Dr.. Ollie Pays Glowing Tribute to the
Wisdom of the Great
Philanthropist.

lined the church work of the future in un-
sparing terms, expressing the fixed belief
that the time has passed when the church
can live on its reputation. The church OF
the future must work; it must do what 1t
processes to do, becoming saving force IN
society. There is great need of evangelic
work on this coast, and if the church hopes
to live and thrive here it must go into the
field with its sleeves rolled up and the ener-
getic exercise of its religious Drawn.
DR.. Ollie spoke in the highest terms Of
tie grand educational work Leland Stan
ford is doing at Palo Alto. The closing
portion of his sermon on this subject will
be read with the utmost interest:
"The church cannot live any longer as it
has in the past on traditions and sacer-
dotaIism and ecelesiasticism. 1t can only
live as it proves itself the bene6cent and
helpful and saving agency that it claims
to be. 1t will 60 to the wall, and it ought to
90 to the wall, if it does not satisfy the
utilitarian spirit of the age. 1t will go
down unless humanity learns more ard
more to look for its colors at the head of
the advancing column of human progress,
and to know that where they float are its
best friends.
I'm the history ef the Pacific coast yet
to be written, the years 1887 80 will be put
down ss the second era of immigration to
our shores, as 40 81 comprised the first !;
and to day we need the foresight, the con-
secration, the lberality and the self denial
of the men and women of the pioneer day
the pilgrim fathers and mothers Of the
Pacific coast-to provide for this tide of
immigration as they provided for that of
'49. Our religious and educational insiitu-
tons must be on a scale commensurate
with the empire that is being founded
here.
And what we want is a broad philan-
thropy that shall deal with the problems of
the hour-a philanthropy that shall not
content itself with giving bread and cloth
ing to the poor-with helping them in the
lower things of life; bat will help them in
the higher thiags, and thus enable them to
help themselves in the lowest things. The
uuest philanthropy is an education and a
religion that saves men from their ignor-
ance and their sins, and thus enables them
to save themselves from the pauperism and
misery and vice that ignorance and sin i'm
poses. The true philanthropy is not con-
tent with ameiorating a condition; it goes
deeper and removes the causes of that con-
dition.
at is better to remove the causes of our
social evils and miseries than to provide
temporary relief for them. Philanthropy
never reaches its highest expression until
it ceases TO content itself with the mere
ameloration of misery, and puts forth its
efforts TO relieve humanity of its ignor-
ance, superstition and vice, and so of its
woes,
The progress of humanity may be meas
ured by the character of the monuments
and memorials erected in every age, to per-
petuate the memory of the builders or of
their departed friends. The desire to per-
petuate our own memory, or that of our
loved ones, is human but TO do so as to
bless the living is divine. From the days
that the pyramids were built to hold the
dust of forgotten kings to the noon of the
nineteenth century piles of cold granite
have been heaped above the dead to crafty
a narrow and selfish affection or ambition !;
but these monuments fail of their object,
and are powerless 10 rescue those who
sleep beneath them from oblivion. Here
in our Mountain View Cemetery rises
sky-piercing shaft which cost $100, 600
enough to have endowed college or an
observatory, or to have founded score of
Christian churches. l know the builder of
that monument has many worthier ones,
but leave it to you to judge whether in
its golden opportunities and pressing needs,
with the elevation, education and salvation
only question of dollars and cents, such
use of money is either wise or benevolent.
Look at the Lick Observatory, erected
to perpetuate the memory of man, and
for the yet nobler purpose of revealing the
stellar universe. Look youde- at Palo
Alto where lies the dust of Leland Stan
ford, Jr, a native son of the Golden West,
where those valuable acres, with millions
of dollars TO beautify them, have been ded-
icated to the education and uplifting of the
sons and daughters of California, as well as
TO the memory of an only and gifted son.
81 have recently had the privilege of
reading the MSS of Senator Stanford's in
structions to the Trustees OF his university
fthey are not yet published) and of a brief
conversation with him as a. his plans con-
corning it, and am fully convinced that
his princely gift is of more cal value to our
people than twice the same enormus sum
would have been if applied to the erection
and endowment of hospi ais, asylums or
other institutions of an eleemosynary char
acter. since it tends to obviete the need Of
charity.
at is conceived something on the plan of
Cooper Institute aud Union, though on a
far greater scale-though the latter institu-
ton has given free indus rial and techni-
cal education to 40 900 Young men and
women, 600 of whom stfeTed flowers on
the grave of Peter Cooper, its noble founder,
when, full of years and honors, he was
borne to his burial.
"As to the moral atmosphere that is to
pervade the Palo Alto University, its
founder gives a sufficient guarantee when
he says: l desire that the pupils shall be
made 10 realize the evils of intemperance
and the economic burdens it imposes
he then refers to the fact that more adult
males are Engaged in selling liquor in this
country than are engaged in filling the
soil. and estimates that the loss to society
BY the traffic in distilled liquors is twenty
five per cent of the nations production. If
he would include the traffic in fermented
and brewed liquors (which is equally de-
structiye) he might add that the two to-
gether, directly or indirectly, destroys
nearly one-half of all that is produced.
There are to be no saloons at Pslo Alto,
but there is to be church there, which the
Senator says is to be the costliest building
there, seating l 200; for, says Mr.. Stanford,
of all buildings, that devoted to divine
service should be the best
There is to be religious instruction, too,
in the Stanford University. While the ar
ticles of endowment most properly and
wisely prohibit sectarianism, they provide
for religious teaching. The great truths of
the Immortality of the soul, aud of the de-
pendence upon, and responsibility to, the
Creator are to be studiously ineulcated.
'Of course this secular institution will
not, in my opinion equal our Christian
schools for Christians, nor will it surpass
them in the literary and scientific training
il will give; and as for cheapness of board
and tuition the Senator says that with all
its vast endowment it will not be able 10
make a students expenses as low as they
are at one of our Methodist colleges on this
coast.
But the gift of that great university to
our highly favored commonwealth places
I,elsad Stanford as the foremost benefsctoT,
not only in this State but of the nation.
"If doing a great deed with a lofty mo-
tive constitutes greatness, then he deserves
to be called q great man. What grander