The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-10-28
DR.. KILGO
UNCOVERED.
Dr. Cyrus Thompson Exposes The
Purpose Behind His Plea For
christian Education"
"A PLEA FOB IGNORANCE" !"


DAnKerens-He says khse Would Have
Sought to ausn The Reforma.,on had
he Lived In Luther's Tims-Thst he 4, =.
Variance with and Opposed to The
Fundamental Principles Of Personal
Liberty.
Rev. Jno. c. Kilgo, D. D., Presi-
dent of Trinity College, preached a
sermon Sunday morning at Central
Methodist church on "The Resur-
reetion," and at night leetured st
Edenton Street Methodist church on
Christian Education"
He began with a tribute to the
Christian religion. No religion could
supercede the Christian, II this is
a failure, the problems of the world
would be a failure. All other pro-
cesses had failed.
"pm tired of this going up and
down the country crying out that
this nation is going to the bad. Any
body can criticise. It takes neither
brains nor character to find fault
with existing conditions. l want
somebody who can give T. remedy.
I'm sick of men bowling calamity
and stirring mp the people. If you
can't solve the problem quit making
them. Quit this eternal mourning
and crying hard times.
"These are not ignorant men,
either, who are doing this wailing;
they are educated men. They are
not fools. You never find dynam.t,
IN the hands of a negro
Here he took q whack at calamity
howlers and labor agitators.
He spoke of North Carolina and
its ilhteracy. and he said he pre-
ferred North Carolina with her Tilt
eracy to Massachusetts with her
loose morals and catalogue Of crime
He was not afraid of illiteracy SO
much as education without Christ.
He considered the swamp negro and
the ignorant mouutaiueer less dan.
gerous to the body polite than q
sharp, shrewd, educated bad man
No educ alton was better than a nor.
Christian education.
Ignorance is not the cause OF
crime, it s meanness. Your education
will not get rid of the meanness. L
may develop it unless the education
is Christian education. Christian
education cannot be got from 81 / 90
whose teachers are simply Christians
1t is to be had only from schools
whose teachers are Christians anl
whose foundations are laid for the
sole purpose of giving Christian ed
ucation.
DR.. THOMPsON'S CRITICISM.
These sentiments and others IL
the lecture were much discussed yes
terday-Secretary of State Thompson
Attorney General Walser, Superin
tendent Mebane and others belnl
especially sharp in their criticism.
Asked what he thought Of tn
lecture, DR.. Thompson, Secretary o
State, and leading member of tn
Methodist church said,
II went especial y to hear and to de
termlne for myself whether the crit
icisms which have been made to m
upon DR.. Kilgos lectures on Chris
tian Education were just or upjus
to him. l listened to him carefully
At first thought he had been mis-
represented. As, he went on an
concluded, I was convinced that, a
had been reported to me, there wet
four things in his address, to wit, Il
| A covert plea for monometalism; e
a somewhat bolder plea for monope
ly; (3 a heartless attack upon th
university and public education
(D a very eloquent and masterfl
plea for ignorance.
mo other conclusion can be d,
rived from his address than that b
is at variance with and opposed t
the fundamental principle of perso
al liberty, which is the very germin,
idea of all this great American n
public. He finds fault with the r.
ligious liberation of our constit1
ton, while at the same time he al
peals to Methodists to stand by Tril
ity, to Presbyterians to stand by D.
wilson and TO the Baptists to stan
by Wake Forest.
eff he had lived in King Jane
time and could have preached befo1
him, the king would have wanted I
better advocate Of the divine rigl
of kings, and would have made I
him not only a bishop, but an arc
bishop. If he knows, he seems
: care nothing for popular oppressit
or human misery. He pleads f
( every existing political evil, omi
t ting the liquor traffic. Any cry
, burdened humanity, l gather fro
! his address, awakes in him only t
: ennui of the well fed churchman, VI
! would cry peace when there is
: peace. In the face of all that [
Josiah Strong has said from t
s standpoint of loving and broa
]. minded Christian soul, DR.. Xii
: cries out: 4 am tired of men, wi
: their hands upon the fevered br,
and pulse of this nation predict
{ evil
q "With all the elcquence he c
J. command he cries: (Hush!( in t
% face of every wall of human bitt
l. ness. He damns the spirit Of d
J.. content with present attainment
k discomfort which alone gives biz
it to progress and prophesies bet
% things whether in affairs spiritual
n temporal. It was discomfort Il
% wrought the reformation. 1 tax.
1t that DR.. Kilgo would have qael
Of it. It was content that threw
British tyranny. take it that
Kilgo would have cried out at Il
time that all is we'll.
n AT Kinston at the last annual G.
r ference he wanted the Conferel
I'd to adopt q resolution favoring an
nt crease of taxation sufficient to !
IL Il the public schools six or el
IN months in the yes-; the argument
% his address leads logically and
evitably to the complete destruct
of the Whole fabric of public edu
of ton.
he His position upon this quest
lat cannot differ from the position
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