The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-08-09
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
SPEECHES AGAINST THE STATES
APPROPRIATION
To the University Made by DR. Dur
ham and Prof. Bickett-As-
ISOLATION Notes

| ISOLATION Notes.
The Pilot Mountain Association,
| which was in session four days at Mt
Olive church, Stokes county, closed
| Sunday.
| The sessions were largely attended
| by delegates from all the SO churches
! in the bounds of the Association, and
all seemed to act with one accord on
| all questions introduced for discussion
or disposition.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
The proceedings of most general in
terest to the public was the positio "a
taken by the Association relative to
the University of North Carolina.
The standing committee on Educa-
tion, in their annual report, highly
endorsed the. recent article of DR..
Taylor, Wake Forests President, on
'HOw far Ought State to Under take
to Educate" and condemned the prac-
tice OF the State Legislature Of appro-
priating Sl48, 1000 to higher education,
and asked that that amount be re-
verified to its proper channel, the pub
lie district school fund.
Pending the adoption of this report.
which was enthusiastically unani-
nous, forcible speeches were made by
Il. w. Beckett, of Danbury, and DR..
9. Durham, OF Raleigh. !
Mr.. Beckett warned the people
against the centraliZing tendency of
the government (State and Nationally
and the growing discrepancy in favor
OF classes rather than the masses. He
said that the public treasury is being
treated as a. s'nubbin crib 2" He adyo-
Gated the demands made by the reso-
luton and declared the present con-
duct of the University and its State
aid as ruinOus to the denomina-
tional colleges.
He also presented forcible argu-
ments showing the advantages OF hay
ing several different colleges, with
two OF three hundred students each,
Father than one big one with one
Thousand. "Young men," said Mr..
Beckett, .s'should earn their higher ed
.ucation by muscle and Drawn and not
be taught to dead beat" the State
treasury from their very entrance in
to manhood" Mr.. Beckett asserted
that while he was reading law at the
University he heard prominent
member OF the faculty declare that
there was no room or need in the
State for Wake Forest, Trinity, Da-
Uuiyersity-tO which all public
schools and academies should be feed
erS.
DR.. Durham stated that the S148, 900
now appropriated to higher education
in North Carolina, If reverted to the
public schools of the counties would
give almost three additional school
months to every township of every
county in the State. Healso said that
II every student in attendance upon
the University was made to pay their
INT or q a nj
leges, the surplus, after paying the
entire faculty their present high sala-
ries, sand other expenses, would be
more than $4,000.
DIR. Durham also attacked the
Greensboro Normal School and it's
State aid, applying the same argu-
ments. He condemned the practice
of the State Of educating ministers
and their sons and professed teachers
free. The former interfered directly
with primal object of the denomina-
tional colleges and the latter opened
up highway to fraud, in that young
man or woman could and many did
go out and teach few weeks school
and then beat the people for collie
giate course. No appropriation, he
declared, ought to be made by the
State for higher education but all
funds should be used for the common
SCHOOLS.
ASSOCIATION NOTES.
The sessions Of the Association were
attended by immense gatherings of
people. They flocked in for miles
around. The hours of meeting were
from a. NJ to II M and from 1:3O to
p. M. ID. +. King, Of Leaksville,
was reelected moderator and j. t..
Valentine, clerk.
The reports from the churches were
Indicative OF general progress. Many
subjects OF Importance in Baptist
church work were discussed.
Three new churches, Hollow Springs,
Sharon and Walkertown, were admit
ted to membership.
The reports of standing committees
on State and Foreign Missions, Gen
eral and Ministerial Education. Sun
day schools, ETC., elected interesting
speeches. On Sunday a Presbytery
composed Of Revs. III. A. Brown, j. B.
Richardson and DR.. G. Durham, or
dained w. H. Sledge, of Leaksville, to
the ministry. Rev. j. B. Richardson
preached 10 the afternoon.