The news & observer., 1896-12-27
d. KlLCO WRITES.
As GIVES Long QUOTA tor s
FROM BISHOP PIERCE.
re Calls the Et;itud Of His Opponents
Disc~edtable"- is That
Ghr,S ian Spirit?

| Ghr.~ ian spirit?
! paragraph from the address OF Bishop
! Pierce delivered at Oxford, TIA, Oh the
occasion of laying the corner stone Of Il
new building at Emory College This
paragraph has recently received much
attention at the bands of the secular
press in Georgia, South Carolina and
North Carolina. Taken by itself, it does
not represent the idea Of the Bishop. The
very next pare graph which l quote in
connection with the one in question, the
! Bishop specifies the indebtedness OF
. Georgia to Emory College for leaders in
education. etc. He did right to remind
the State of this debt of gratitude. Take
out of North Carolina the men who have
been educated at Trinity, Wake Forest,
Davidson, Giulford, Catawba, North Car
olna college, Lenior, and the women edu-
Gated at Greensboro, Salem, Asheville
Female College, Iittleton, Louisburg,
Oxford, Chowan, Peace, st. Mary's,
Caumont, Charlotte Female College, and
Davenport, what would be left? Let the
good Bishop speak for himself.
What will Georgia DO with her
schools without teachers? Where will
she find them? She must look to her col
leges. They have supplied her in part
and will yet do more. The common
school system Of New England has been
highly, perhaps extrayagantly, extolled.
But where would she have found her
instruments and agents but for Harvard
and Yale, and Princeton and Middle
town? These filled the land with edu-
Gated men, enlightened public opinion,
supplied her academies and schools with
superintendents and teachers, and sent
into every village and hamlet q man
competent to direct the ignorant, TO a
rouse the indifferent, and give form and
energy to the common effort This is
what we need and must have. And we
can have it; yet little while and we
will have it. Let the State foster her
University, let The Christian denomina-
tions, and these agents, with their an
nually increasing force, viii cultivate the
land, the wilderness become a garden,
and the Empire State of the South
set Kohinoor in her queenly diadem.
II cannot conclude without stating
a fact which illustrates and confirms the
preceding thoughts. Emory ollege, "a
Methodist college, though scanty in her
resources, and mainly dependent on tut
ton and receipts TO meet her necessary
expenditures, is dispensing education to
many who, but for her Kindness. could
never have known the benefits Of knowl-
edge She educates without charge for
instruction the sons Of all the preachers
of the Georgia and Florida Conferences,
and receives many more on the pledge OF
payment when they shall have graduated
and made the money by their own exer-
tons. Almost all this class-besides 9th
ers-resort to teaching as a vacation at
once useful, honorable land lucrative
Here are the materials out OF which So
ciety is TO be furnished with its active,
laborious, enterprising nlembers. O,
what a field for usefulness is here! The
privilege might be indefinitely extended
il the college were but endowed"
The good Bishop said in: this same ad-
dress: "A more yirtuous: and digni6ed
population will grow up under an econo-
my which springs from and is expanded
by natural channels, than under a sys-
tenn which invades-however kindly
and weakens the feelings of personal in
dependence. A great public charity
which provides indiscriminately for the
poor is a social and political evil, exerts
debasing influence on the morals and
habits of the people, and multiplies the
claimants on the distribution fund. An
established provision, under the authority
Of law, for the education o9 children cor
rupts the parents by diluting the sense
of responsibility, and defrauds the child |
OF sympathy which none but a parent
can feel Far better leave this great
interest to individual beneyolence; then
discrimination viii do its work, and the |
modest, unobtrusive, deserving poor
will find friends to aid them in such
way and to such extent as that charity
shall not offer temptation to idleness or |
& premium to voluntary pauperism, The
feeling of dependence canaot be engen-
dered, for spontaneous offerings Of an in
diyidual or community canI:ot be counted
on as the dividends Of thrifty fund set
apart by legislative bounty: alike for the
unfortunate and the dissolu:e, the poverty
Of misfortune and the destitution Of
crime"
Again he says: Born end reared in
this good old commonwealth, / love her
soil, her institutions, and her people.
Her progress delights me. Her growing
cities, her improving agriculture, her
thrift and intelligence, her bouyant steps
in the pathway to aggrandizement and re-
nown, as Samson said Of the Philistine
maid, please me we'll The ninth State
in the Union in respect to population, the
sixth in area Of her square miles, the
third in the number and length OF her
railways, almost equal to any in her
manufacturing enterprise, the first, fore-
most, best, ahead Of ALL her sisters in the
number and character OF her seminaries
of learning But how came she SO? Who
put her into this proud position as to
her literary institutions? 1t was not her
legislation, not her politicians. not her
mass-meetings or party conventions.
No; but her christian denominations.
They began the work By projecting