The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-09

A Professor Ia the a. N M. College
Takes Issre With Him.
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A Professor In the A. 81 M. College
Takes Issre With Him.
RALEIGH, N. O., Oct. 8.
To the Editor of the News and Observer:
AS a member of the Methodist Church
| really hope that your Wake Forest cor
respondent has misquoted DR.. Kilgo in
the report printed in your Sunday issue
of his address at Wake Forestt. | can
hardly realize that President of Col
lege could indulge in language that be-
trays either gross ignorance, or reck-
less disregard for truth. ''The industrial
and practical education about which so
many are so wild. in reality debauches
man and degrades him from Christ's high
ideal to a beast of burden, and vac
uity to be filled with bread"
If this language had been quoted
from the lips of some polit
ical demagogue, it would have been
bad enough, but for presi
deIt of a college, supported by religio
people, 10 indulge in such trashy talk is
utterly incomprehensible It is so evil
IDENTITY aimed at the college of the faculty
of which am member that | cannot
allow it to go unnotieed. Do you know,
Doctor, that the course of instruction at
the North Carolina College Of Agricul
ture and Mechanic Arts is fuller, broader
and more thorough than yours 10 every
thing except the language, which
hope soon to see placed In our
course2 But after all, does the
reading Of Horace's, and Anacreon's
odes, and the Greek dramatic poets tend
to make students more Christ like
Then to cur more complete course, we
add the handling of things as an essen
tial part If 3 complete education. The
Bible enjoins us to get wisdom, but with
all of our getting to get understanding,
and ia 10 way can a real understanding
of subject be had except by the doing
and handling of things, which 80 far
from debasing a man gives him broad
er ard firmer foundation on which to
build real success in life. Will you kind
ly tell US what ''Christ's high ideal' VAST
He taught men how to fish. He provid
ed food for "the vacuity to be filed
with bread" He went about do
ing good to the bodies of men, and in
trying to elevate them to cleaner lives
here and hereafter. We are using manual
labor as means to higher and broader
mental development. in what way does
this ''debase a man from Christ's high
ideal? How does the full development
of mans mental powers deba9e him to
the level of beast of burden2 Did the
use of the carpenters tools debase the
Savior OF mankind2 Did Paul's tent
making debase him more than what he
learned in the church school at the feet
of Gamaliel2
"A Christless education, in the
speakers view, was the peril of our
civilization. and, of much that was said
it was the clear implication that insti-
tutions supported by taxation could give
no other" Goddess is the name that
Romish priests have for generations
applied to our American public schools
The disciples Of the Savior condemned
those who walked not with them, but
the "high IDEAL of Christ was different
from theirs then Should it be different
now3 Cannot an education be Christ
like, even if it is not carried on within
denominational bricks and m0rtar2 Is
the truth only found within ecclesiastic
walls, and does it require a denomina-
tional patent right to find it!
/ was in hope that Trinity would keep
clear Of this jealousy Of the State col
leges As loyal Methodist ! am per
fectly willing that the church should
have college, though personally | can
not see why a college should be demon
national, except as a school Of theology
and | fail to see wherein our college is
more Christless than Trinity or any
other denominationaI college. We have