The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-12-06

ruined now,"its principal and profess
ors sleep beneath the sod, and few arc
left who knew them, and none to tell
where the old house stood.
After remaining at the Academy
till the fall of 1922, I entered Transyl-
vania University, at Lexington, and
was put in the Sophomore class, the
second below the graduating class.
At that time DR.. Horace Holly was
the President, with an able corps of
professors, and all the chairs filled.
DIR. Holley was fine-looking man OF
great learning, a very accomplished
orator, with elegant manners land
pleasing address, popular with the
people generally, but especially with
the citizens of Lexington and the stu
dents in attendance, of whom there
were three hundred in the Academic
al department, including the prepare
tory school, over three hundred in the
Medical College and fifty or more III
the Law School. The professors in
all the colleges were very able men,
and the number of, students in attend
fance was greater at that session than
it had been before or ever was after
DIR. Holley left. The number OF stu
dents before and after he left we will
try TO show, also what the University
did under other Presidents.
| The city had never been so prosper
Gus as it was during DR.. Holley's adj
ministration. The merchants had a
market for their goods, boarding
houses had supply of boarders.
meats, vegetables and table supplies
met ready market at good prices,
and there was a great demand for
real estate in the city on liberal terms.
Notwithstanding all these benefits,
the result of DIR. Holey's successful
management of the University, there
were great prejudices existing among
certain religious denominations
against him, and the reasons assigned
for it was that his religious tenets
were unsound. Sectarian luminosity
against the Doctor was so great as &c
amount to persecution, in which the
Presbyterians were the leaders, and
some of their writers published Ger.
tain specifications against him, some
of which we take the liberty to insert
here: "That DR.. Holley did not be-
lieve in the evangelical tenet of human
depravity." These terms are general
and indefinite. No tenets are evan
gelical that are not taught by or are
inconsistent with the teachings and
doctrines Of Christ and His apostles
and while perhaps all Christians be-
lieve that human depravity exists, and
that all are sinners, some believe thai
by the death and suffering Of
Christ on the cross provision wa:
made for the salvation. of all. There
are others who believe even now thai
the great sacrifice on the Cross can
not save some. because they were pre-
destinated to be lost, and we have
heard such a sermon preached by very
jealous preachers, so that perhaps, j
there WIS or could be a cOnvOcation o
all the wise men of all the congrcga
tons Of THOSE protesting to be Chris
tons, they would not agree as to thu
meaning of the words in which tn,
charge against DR.. Holley was made
One of the other charges against DR.
l Holley was that he did not believe il
the real personality? Of the Devil
This word, as defined by the best lex
icographers is, ''that which constitute
an individual human being, consistin!
of body and soul" Those who mad
l the charge seemed not to have under
stood the meaning of their owl
! words. They certainly cid not con
! tend that the Devil is human being
! But we do not undertake to defen'
: DIR. Holley's religious views, for W
know not what they were. We know
this, however, that we attended tn
Academical department three consec
! utive sessions of nine months eacl
! over which DR.. Holley presided, an
: we have no recollection of havin
ever heard him either in the recitatio
room or in any public address, IAN
, we have heard him deliver many, eG
: press himself favorable to, or advocat
the Unitarian doctrine, nor did W
y ever know or hear Of any one Of th
: students at Pennsylvania Universit
. adopting the views or doctrines {
= the Unitarians. He certainly wa
u not a propagandist, and did not oil