Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-04-24
ADDRESS OF DIR. PA YNE.

/ neSday, Kew. DIR. Payne OF New YORK
spoke upon education. He opened
| his address by a complime ntary ref
erence to the educational rank of sis
| ter denominations, but remarked that
| he should speak concerning Method
ism and higher education, and espec-
tally of the possibilities opening up be-
| fore the church to day He spoke of
standing in John St.church, New York,
recently and calling to mind the fact
that this church sprang from the eff
forts of Philip Embury and his wife,
and referred to the fact that the burn
| ing of a pack of cards by an indignant
woman lighted a fire that created
Methodism in America. To-day there
are more than 5000, 900 members and
three times that number Of adherents
in that church, with it's 200 colleges and
seminaries, with millions devoted to
endowments and school buildings, and
its II, 900 students. This is but the
briefest reference to the 125 years.
progress Of the church in this country.
But the mind, gratified with the sue
cesses of the past, is more perplexed
to know what the Board of Education
and the church is to do with the cent
ury to come. How are we to meet the
wants of the years before US? He
spoke of the false idea entertained by
some that different branches of the
church were only adapted to special
wants, and hoped that the Methodist
church would SO plan it's spiritual and
it's educational work as to meet every
demand in the line of spiritual and in
tellectual development. He scorned
the idea of caste in educational and
religious matters. Methodism needed
most in graphing with the questions
of the future to build educational in
situations that should keep abreast
with, or in advance of, the times. That
work of church or school or college is
best and greatest that builds true
manhood. The church and her sem
lnaries and colleges must create an
army of intelligent, consecrated young
men and women who will conquer the
world for Christ.
Methodism was born in college,
and whatever it has done and is do
ing, has been and will be accomplished
through the elevating, outstanding
influence of her schools. Bishop As
bury, himself an uneducated man, at
once foresaw the necessity of an edu-
cational ministry, and by sacrifices
and efforts, such as few men have
made, raised means to build college
near Baltimore; and from his day
the intelligence of this church has
speaker in comparing the educational
privileges of our fathers with those of
to-day, wondered that they attained
to SO great achievements, and he had
no patience with the young man who
sneered at his fathers ability or sue
cesses. His fear was that the men of
this generation might fall far below the
successes of their fathers.
We live in an age of remarkable
progress, of which two examples
were cited; Bishop Asbury crossed
the Alleghanies horse back, making a
journey of forty miles day. A few
days since the writer crossed the
mountains in palace car, spending
only an hour in making the forty
miles, eating meanwhile dinner that
was forty miles long : depth and
breadth not described-while seated in
a buffet car.
Recently he babe adieu to his son as
he stepped upon an ocean steamer
bound for Hamburg, himself starting
on a train for the West. A week later,
while stopping in an inland town,
away from telegraph station, some
one handed him telephone message,
which proved to be from his son, who
cabled from Hamburg. The message
came under the sea 5000 miles, across
the country 800 miles, out to the in
land town on TELEPHONE wire, and what
was more remarkable, it outsped in it's
westward flight the march of the sun,
reaching it's destination three
hours and half by clock time before
1t started from Europe. The thought |
expressed was that young men, not |
in their ambition to do the
in getting in advance of
the times, should do their utmost to
keep abreast. He argued that the ed
ucation of UNCONVENTIONAL schools |
gives the student all the advantages of |
the secular and state institutions, but |
that grander education, a Christian I
large per cent of stu
dents becoming converted men and
women.
The men and women of to day must |
be educated for leadership. The de-
mand is for men. OF the great enter
prises of to day, nineteen twentieths /
of them owed their being to some one
man behind them. 1t is the work of
the church and her schools to develop |
men. That pulpit is strong, where it is
telligent, and is weak if it is uneducat-
ed.
The influence of the secular press
was alluded to in terms not altogether
omplimentary, but it's influence was
rated higher than that of the pulpit |
itself. Unfortunately the devil was
free use of this great agen-
cy to carry on his work of ruin in
the world. Martin Luther awoke
in his reveries in his room and mag
med he saw Satan's Majesty in a corner
Of the room, and to drive him out let |
fly an ink bottle. The DR.. suggested |
that the proper use of printers ink |
was most efficient means for com
batting the evils of the world, and he
believed it to be the province of the
schools to educate intelligent, conse-
Grated men for the work of journalism
and literature.
Speaking of the matter of the Sun