Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-23
THE PIERPoNT INSTITUTE.

A school of Eloquence and Philoso-
 phy-An Institute Church-On a
 Purely Ethical and Humane Basis
 An Institute Which Rev. E. 0.
 Towne of This City Projects.
 Warner hall has been leased by Rev. E. c. Towne for the purpose of school of eloquence and philosophy, to be known as the Pierpont institute, and a new church enterprise, under the name of the Institute church. MT. Towne sets forth the aims and object of the new project as follows:
 The purpose of the institute fig. advanced instruction in matters of special importance
 to writers and speakers. It will include literature under eloquence, and science un- der philosophy, and will deal broadly with the chief lines of advanced knowledge, in connection with instruction in writing and speaking: Its broader aims will be, to promote
 and the pnps Soness and independence in politics, and CD sound sense and As an independent school, contiguous to Yale university, the institute will emphasize the new knowledge and advanced demands-the better knowledge and higher ideals-which espec- the university Influences and instruction do not always sufficiently promote.
 In addition to his own lectures MT. Towne will secure eminent representatives of advanced ac- | ing scientific research and journalism to speak | for the ideals which they have found most sug- gestive and inspiring.
 l lectures Mr. Towne will undertake the demon stration of new system of nature and natural evidence that all motion, activity or energy, in the entire universe, are due to electric agency, l animal and plant lfe of function and structure | in living things, and of evolution, is entirely A special short course will be devoted to the application of this new knowledge in demon stration of the physiological conditions of phys l ical exercise, and the extreme unsoundness of | the system of competitive athletics.
 In another line of special research MT Towne
 Biblical ideas of mankind, with special reference to present questions of Bible church and creed" :"
 the object of the survey or all the sacred cred books | of the Hebrew and Christian as part of natural 1 human system, without other than human char Another series of lectures will study the great
 steps of modern culture in religion, in literature
 in historical progress and in science, with view 1 to their significance in a system Of universal l revelation.
 Christianity of Christi critically separated from l whatever was added by Paul and the other New
 9e writers ey hom nd h hrosdv M5 1 teaching of Christ was greatly corrupted, to l make, in his name, system of special revelation
 and special salvation, on Judac and ethnic lines, quite contrary to his pure doctrine of God and
 The design of the institute church is to provide l a service of worship instruction and communion, l broadly based upon modern knowledge, and rep
 resentative of the full scholarly recovery of the Christianity of Christ, irrespective of creed re- | strictions and church limitations
 l The opportunity for such a church is thought | to be threefold CD the want felt by many in the | community at large of ministry based upon | ethics and humanity rather than creed and | church and dealing freely with matters of ad-
 vanced knowledge, religious, scientific and prac- tical CD Sheffield scientific, graduate and pro- l fessional students for whom the university makes no provision whatever; and C3) members of the l academic department, who would gladly escape | attendance upon the compulsory service in the | they at once find a genuine Christianity and con 1 stantly gain increase of interesting and valuable ] knowledge.
 | The personal name given to the institute con- l memorates the Rev. James Pierpont who a principal originator of Yale college and his l great grandson, Rev John Pierpont, who reached l high rank as @ liberal preacher, and was in his l last years one of Mir. Townes most loyal friends.
 Of the first Pierpont it is said that among the l clergymen whose names belong to the early his | tory of New England he was the most distin- I guished for nobility of character, the purity of | his aspirations and the spirituality of his tenn l per-
 These qualities made his great-grandson one of | the notably free, faithful and advanced preach | CTS of his time
 MT. Towne's plans, he adds, contemplate
 also, a new weekly publication entitled
 Culture, and designed to be journal of
 new knowledge, the best literature and the
 highest ideals and most advanced ideas in
 religion, politics, journalism, education
 and whatever closely concerns human wei