The news & observer., 1897-03-07
ELON COLLEGE NOTES.

Elon College, N. c.. Feb. 6.-+(Speciall
President Kilgo, of Trinity College.
delivered a very interesting and instruc-
tive lecture in the college chapel last
night He held an immense audience
spell bound for nearly two hours. Out
bursts of applause followed his lofty
flights of oratory and eloquence. His
subject, christian Education was
treated in q broad and mastery manner.
II came to speak along educational lines.
Things which have been in the hands of
a few. 1t is doubtful if America ever
produced truly great man The his
tory of the world shows that there have
been but four truly great men, namely,
Confucius, Brahma, Budha, and Jesus
Christ These were teachers and reli-
gious teachers Three of these must be
conquered and the man of Galllee will
be Lord of all.
= wish to lalktao you tonight Of Christ
as a teacher. He organized an electic
school He taught twelve men, The
deeper the Impress on a few Reen the
deeper woIiid be the result. See what
he accomplished He so taught twelve
men that the powers of the world could
not conquer their work. 1t put new life
in civilization, although he had a Judas.
Our colleges and universities need to do
as he did. He spoke as one having au-
thority and for the eternal purpose OF
God.
To-day shrewtiness is for the college,
and the college presidents success de
pends upon his shrewdness. We, the
South, have been humbugged in every
thing and no less in education Higher
education has been dragged in the mud
by putting great names to small mstitu-
tons, such as give a man his degree in
six months. Strange, but these ara get
| ting students at the close of the nine
teenth century When will the South
wake mp. Christ never taught patron
age. He preferred to make one true
man to have a multitude at his heels.
We must have home training to train
the people You cannot do better than
to take Christ as your teacher. Money
making does not constitute an education.
A girl is sent to school to get In society
a boy to become a politician, but educa-
ton is deeper than this. A scholar and
an educated man are not the same.
Education makes life sweeter. Scholars
get the shadows, educated men the sub
stance. Christ measures everything by
his IDEAL Jesus Christ had the largest
and most sublime ideal Of any man. All
human measures are babies when com
pared with his. His is the biggest and
the broadest. No constitution compares
with the sermon on the Mount. So1ac
men love their own State and think it
large, but it is small when compared with
Christ's love. Men put different meas
nres on education. 1t as shame for d
Stape to support a college to teach girls
how TO work. This should be done by
the parents. There was no lazy man in
Christss school.
Christ never sought by any means
to panpcrize the people, and he remained
free If America goes to pieces it win be
because we have pauperized the people
America7s honest and self-supporting
man is disgraced. PateInalism has come
in 1t began in education by taxating
the many for the few. Christ never
gave a man a living by a miracle, but
gave them an opportunity to make one"
"When a government puts a hindrance
in a mans way to keep him from MAX
ing an honest living it becomes criminal.
1t 8s as low to beg an education as bread.
If the State pursues its present course,
the government is gone. Christian col
lege@ want an opportunity. The true
poor boy does not attend State schools.
Poor boys have made North Carolina,
Literature and the world. / am opposed
to free tuition in any college. Because
/ am in a denominat1onal college they call
me unpatriotic love my Master, and
the State is too small for him. There
is no patriotism that lis as broad as that
of Christ. / long for the day when we
all shall have this true patriotism, and
know no bounds of State or section"
DIR. Kilgo completely won the hearts
of all at Elon
Prof Flower. Of Trinity, accompanied
DIR. Kilgo to Elon and made many
friends while here
The Athletic Association has come out
of winter quarters and reorganized for
spring epOrts