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

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ors sleep beneath the sod, and few are
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, aud
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, very accomplished
orator, with elegant manners iand
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 in
the Law School. The professors in
all the colleges were very able men,
ard the number of students in attend
ance was greater at that session than
it had been before or ever was after
Dr. Holley left. The number of stu
dents before and after he left we will
try TO show, also what the versity
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 great demand foI
real estate in the city on liberal terms
Notwithstanding all these benefits,
the result of DIR. Holley'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 that
by the death and suffering OF
Christ on the cross provision was
made for the salvation. of all. There
are others who believe even now that
the great sacrifice on the Cross cam
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, il
there WIS or could be a cOnvocation oil
all the wise men of all the congrega-
tons Of THOSE protesting to be Chris.
tons, they would not agree as to the
meaning of the words in which the
charge against DR.. Holley was made
One of the other charges against DR.
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 constitutes
an individual human being, consisting
of body and SOUL" Those who made
the charge seemed not to have under.
stood the meaning of their OWL
words. They certainly Gid not con-
tend that the Devil is human being
But we do not undertake to defend
DIR. Holley's religious views, for W.
know not what they were. We know
this, however, that we attended the
Academical department three consec'
utive sessions of nine months each
over which DR.. Holley presided, anG
we have no recollection of having
ever heard him either in the recitation
room or in any public address, (ant
we have heard him deliver many, ex
press himself favorable to, or advocate
the Unitarian doctrine, nor did W,
ever know or hear of any one of Iii,
students at Pennsylvania Universit.
adopting the views or doctrines o
the Unitarians. He certainly wa
not propaganaist, and did not OBJ