The Durham daily globe., 1892-04-14
WHAT is BEING DONE
Our Special Report of the Educa.
tiUnal Convention.
Increased Attendance and All DOins
Coed Work.
BRAINS EMPLOYED ON THE PRESS
So Says Our Correspondent and He Calls
Upon Ministers to Work In Har-
mony with the Editors.


mony with the Editors.
| CHARLOTTE, N. c., April, 13.-The
session of the Methodist Educational
convention has been well attended by a
large company of educators, lawyers
and preachers, from the various schools
and colleges under the patronage of the
church.
~ 1eral of TIirity's professors a.c
/ here, including President Crowell, Pro-
fesfors Crawford, Kinds and Flowers
Two oflthe professors from Wofford col
lege, S. c., are here. From Greensboro
Fer,ale college, DR.. Dixon is present;
Prof. Andrews, from Monroe; Prof.
Claxton, from Asheville; Prof Themp-
son, of Statesville; Presidents Sherer, of
Davidson, and Winston of the State Uni
versity. The conventions attendance
has been Thoroughly representative one.
The men present show the high status of
methodism as an educational agency in
North Carolina
The the work of the convention has
been thorough and very helpful. DR..
Brooks, of Reidsville, has done an
able service in his paper on the relation
of high education to religion. Rev. w.
L. Cunniggim, of Henderson, made a
well prepared address on Methodism as
an agency for higher education. The
place that the Epworth Leagues should
fill in the church was practically set forth
by Mr. Fitch Taylor, of Asheville, who
is widely known as a christian worker
and an active singer in all religious as
semblies.
The question of restricting the granting
of honorary degrees brought out a
goc deal of humor at the expense of
the many doctors of divinity who wear
these titles. DR.. Crowell defended the
practice of the four leading institutions
of North Carolina, Trinity, Wake Forest,
Davidson and the State University, in
comforting honors. The swell college
was roundly criticised for exercising
this part of their chartered privileges.
Prof. Thompson, of Statesville, read an
r instructive paper, and DR.. Sheare spoke
Of his experience, The trend of the dis
cussion favored greater conservatism
for the future.
Professor Claxton's address on the re.
lation of the church to the public schools
was plea to the church to stand by the
public schools and thus accomplish the
enlightenment of the masses-a work
which no church nor all the churches to
gether could do, and which the state alone
could and must do if it be done at all.
Rev. T. N. Ivey, of Roxboro, who en-.
ters Trinity's faculty next fall as associate
professor in Latin, spoke tonight on the
necessity of higher educational ideals
among the Methodist ministry. The
speaker said it had long been held that a
Methodist minister needed no higher edu.
: cation; that he was to preach TO the
masses and needed no education ABOVE
his hearers But we might as well say
that there was no need of military
academy like West Point because the
common soldier had no need for it. We
need higher ideals of ministerial attain
ment because the ministers are our leader!
ir the march of intellect and spiritua
progress. The holy spirit which is es
sential to our ministry, must pass through
heart. Therefore heart religion, the chic
message of Methodism, is dependent OF
the intellect for its attainment OpeT
the intellect wide and you have the wide
range of growth for the affections.
The ministry to-day is in competition
with the newspaper. They can work TO
gether for good, if the preacher is tn
equal of the best editorial writer, in get
ting the attention of the people. Blu
there are brains in the press and ther
must be brains in the pulpit as well. On
! breaches the gospel of time, the other tn
gospel of eternal things. We must be
come teachers as well as preachers.
Happy and content is home with " The 70
chester; LAMP with the light Of the morning