Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-04

rearing not a pillar Of decaying marble; you
are building not a monument that shall throw
Its morning and evening shadows athwart the
land, but you are building glorious Pharos
that shall be a beacon to all truth seeking
souls Throughout all the stretch of the coming
years. May God help you to build wisely and
we'll"
WHAT BISHOP VINCENT SAID.
Bishop J. II. Vincent, who was the next
speaker, started out with the assertion that the
institution must be a great one. Not an ordi-
| nary school, nor even ordinary or extraor-
binary college; it must be q university. 1t
must promote advanced education, professional
| education. 1t a fitting thing that the
Methodist church should start out to do this
great work. The Methodist church was uni
versity church; ii was born in a university; its
| early infancy was passed within the walls Of
old Lincoln College, in Oxford To prove that
| the higher education was not an idea of modern
Methodism Bishop Vincent read an article
adopted in conference more than a hundred
years ago in which higher education was ar
gued to be necessity. 1t was fitting and
proper that the university should be in this
city, and il must be remembered that although
twenty years OF time and labor might be re-
CURED to complete it, it must be nothing less
than the grandest university on this continent
He favored the location on University Heights
OF the Methodist board of education and would
make that place the center Of educational in
formation.
DESOMrSAT1oSAL BUT STILL NATIONAL.
In conclusion Bishop Vincent said: Il am
glad of one thing and that is this-that the
national university may be UNCONVENTIONAL
and still nationals that it may be denomina-
tlonal and catholic. and national; that il may
be loyal to the last thought which it holds as a
distinct religious organization and yet open its
doors TO peoples OF all faiths and place the flag
OF our country above every symbol that the
church or the educational institutions of the
land may suggest; and while we are most loyal
to our own church we are at the same time,
without the slightest compromise, thoroughly
loyal to the land we love. and while we
train every young man and every
young woman who may come to
our courts. to our halls. TO recitation rooms,
in Christian faith and in loyalty TO the church
under the auspices of which the institution has
been established. we shall not teach
thought nor pledge them to loyalty to one idea
incompatible with the most complete patriot
ism; and that end attained great end has been
gained for this goodly city of Washington and
for the nation 1t represents"
Il will now" said Bishop Bowman, 'intro-
duce TO you Bishop Warren of Denver, who
lives under the shadow of a university"
WHAT BISHOP WARREN BELIEVES.
THAT university, retorted Bishop Warren,
as he quickly took his place before the
audience, lis a sun that emits light and casts
no shadow" and while the people were yet
laughing at his words and his bright snappy
way of Ut:ering them he went on to say that
the Methodist church had more colleges, more
students and more money invested in edCca-
tional institutions than any other church ON
the face OF the globe. The school was always
the first thing established at a mission of the
Methodist church. Extremely interesting were
the bishops remarks on education and on the
possibilities which were in man, as in other and
less consequential OF Gods creations. He be-
lieved in the drawing out of latent possibilities,
a something that could only be done by educa-
ton. He believed in educating clay into brick
and into aluminium; he believed in the educa-
ton of sand into glass-into the lens through
which might be more clearly seen the glories
of other worlds than this; he believed in the
education of zinc and acids into fire that
would go under any sea unquenched and over
any land bearing a burden of thought and
language; he believed in the education of coal
into power and of water into steam. He wanted
the highest possible degree of educatiOn; that,
and that only, could develop the slumbering
mental powers
MIsERLINEss AND LIBERALITY coNTRAsTED.
Pointed reference was made to lives that
were devoted to low ideas, and especially
strong was the satire on miseriiness; on the
striving to get that there may be more to
grasp. sit is" said the bishop, ga reverend
Ing round OF raising a little more corn to
fatten few more hogs to sell for little more
money to buy a little more land to raise lit
tie more corn to fatten few more hogs TO sell
Tor little more money to-and so on" This
illustration brought laugh to the surface and
then, with his audience In the best of humor,
Bishop Warren talked OF liberalty and the
good 1t does. He stated that in ten years in
response to his personal solicitations he had
collected 100000 for educational purposes in
the church; 1t was a common thing nowadays
tor IT to rain gold. Instances of Denvers gen
crosby toward the university there were cited
a N thn 1 hon H. 4
dream OF comparing Denver with Washington
Notwithstanding this he challenged Washing
ton to so aud beat Denver If it could. The
bishop then called to remembrance the plan
A. i. Stewart once had for disbursing So
100000 for the public welfare. plan that van
lshed III thin air because it was neglected until
death came. Bishop Warren closed by asking
the conundrum. where Is Stewards wealth
now" That provoked a ripple of laughter
across the faces of those who knew something
of the famous Stewart case. The address was
frequently applauded.
MAJ. II. o. CLAUGHToN TALKS
Two verses of My Country, IT'S of Thee"
were sung and then Bishop Bowman intro
duced ii. o. ClaughtOn of this city and mem
Der of the faculty of the National University
in existence here. Mr.. Claughton was enthu-
slastIc and quoted authorizes from George
Washington down to the present time TO show
that there should be in this city a great ma
tlOnaI institution OF learning. There was no
division of opinion on that point; the only
question was who should build it. Even ma
tlonal legislators had been stirred mp on this
subject-stirred as much as they possibly could
be on any subject which was not political Mr.
ClaughtOn declared himself n Presbyterian
but he would be delighted if the Methodists
would only establish great national university
here. When they did that he could assure
them that the present National University"
would yield up its honors and its title.
BISHOP NEWMAN NOT PRESENT.
Bishop Newman was down on the program
for speech, but he failed to resp ond to Bishop
Bowman's iocular appeals. Then the venerable
presiding officer talked pleasantly, charmingly.
Of the pleasures Of liberality; told how he had
yesterday been promised a five hundrcd-dollar
subscription for the university; promised to do
what he could in the subscribing line: wished
and then closed the meeting by calling upon
the congregation to arise and sing the dox-
ology. DIR. Corey pronounced tho benediction
and that ended a most enjoyable occasion.
Many of the bishops held iIApromptu rcccp-
tions and nearly all of them had an opportunity
to shake hands with Sam Small. who had been
an attentive and unobserved listener from the
melodious Alpha to the prayerful Omega.
A Verdict for 800 Damages.
In the case of Mrs. Arnold agains. the Dis
trict OF Columbia for $4,000 damages resulting
to her premises by the overfowIng of a defect
i've sewer in 1854. mentioned i'll yesterdays
STAR. the jury IN the circuit court rendered "a
verdict OF 500 tor the plaintiff.