The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-03


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go out of the business altogether. If any
one else can do it better than the church
or so well, ii would be well for him to do
it. There are three sources from which
the education of the youth of the state
might come. These sources are the priv
ate individual, &the state itself and the
church. If the private individual could
do it, why lei him and let the others get
out of his way. If the state will do 1t,
the others should get out of its way and
let it do it. If the church can do it let it,"
DIR. Gambler said that il is more than an
individual is capable of doing. 1t takes
money to run a college, he said, and II re-
quires it in much larger sums than the in
dividual would be able .QE would care TO
pay.
Laughter was elicted by DR. Gamblers
recital of story of an experience he had
had with wealthy man, aspublican, as
ne called him, from whom he had asked
subscription for the college The publ
can told him he held him in high regard
as he had held his father before him. Dr.
Gambler said he was very much Obliged TO
him for this, but he did not get subscrlp-
ton, the publican explaining that ne really
did not have the money; that he had just
been put to the expense of building two
houses thst had cost him $4,000 and that
it would not be possible for him to give
anything to him for educational purposes
DR. Gambler took up the question of the
states ability to conduct the education or
the youth. Can the state do it as well
as the church," Before I answer that
question: he said, Il should start with
the presumption that nobody can do it as
well as the church. This is shown by the
fact of all the churches having adopted
the plan of providing EDUCATION for the
youth. If all these tdenomlnations that are
directed by brainy men see the wisdom OF
it, think there is no doubt about the wis
dom existing. They viii quar-
rel about other matters, such
as the amount of water necessa-
ry for baptismal purposes but upon this
one fact of the necessity for the church
furnishing education Tor the young peo-
pie, they all agree. Seventy-five per cent.
of all the students in the country are at
denominational colleges. Occasionally
some little fellow who does not know what
he is talking about is jumping up and
saying something against the denomina-
tionaT colleges. The great bulk Of the ed
ucation of the youth of the country Is re-
ceived at these denominational colleges,
and I believe that such will continue to
be the case for long years to come" y
DIR. Gambler gave something of the his7
tory of the Methodist educational move
ment Education must be religious o. 1t
will be dangerous, he said. The words
of the Apostle Paul were quoted when
he said that religion should be considered
in such every day acts as eating and drink
ing, and DIR. Gambler thought il is all
the more to be considered in matters Of
such vast Importance as education. Re-
ligion. he said, should be in the educa-
ton; and it cannot be put there by the
state unless the state have an establish
ed church, and an established church he
would not advise. When boy is at coll
Iege it is usually when he is between the
ages of Is and 81; the age, said DR.. Cand-
Ter, when the passions run riot and there
is but slight experience to hold them In
check. Then is the time that religious
environments is needed, and the teachings
of home should be continued as far as
possible.
In 1785. DR.. Gambler said, his great grand
father was one of a committee appointed
by the legislature to draw, up the charter
of the state university. This committee
embraced a clause in the charter that pro-
vlded that none but a Christian should
ever be allowed upon the board of instruc-
tors. In 1877 bill was introduced by Maj.
Moses of Columbus Jew, to have the.
clause stricken out on the ground of ats
unconstitutionaHty. The bill was carried,
as it should have been In college where
all have to be pleased.
The very life and hope of the country,
DR.. Gambler said lies to-day in its denomi-
national colleges that preserve the religion
of the homes They are not only the bull
wark of the country, but they are its safe
ty. He said 1t would be much better for
the state to lay out its money in providing
better common school facilities for its chll~
dren and to pay its teachers monthly sala-
ries instead of per diems than for it to
continue devoting the funds to higher edu-
cation that can be given by the churches.
individuals give their money for the sup
port Of the colleges and the education is
bestowed at the same time religion Is nour-
lshed
DIR. Gambler touched upon the question Of
the education of the negro, saying that
the safeguard is to be found in keeping
the grace Of God in his mind at the same
time it is ladened with knowledge. If this Is
done, the doctor said, there will be no fear
of the results.
ut is not less education that is needed, ,"
he said, but more of the right sort" He
did not agree with recent writer's who have
said that there is too much education be-
ing bestowed upon the people now. 1t
tends to make them dtscontented and to
arouse ambitions that cannot be gratided
the writer's say DIR. Gambler said that II
he is to go into FOOLS paradise he wants
to fall from grace and be cast out where
there are some sensible people.
He closed with some admirable views
upon the dignity of labor upholdings the
hewers of wood and the drawers OF
water, and his sailies Of wit and good sto-
ries drew frequent applause.
Upon the conclusion of the talk by DR.
Gambler, Or. Bowman introduced Rev.