The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-10-25
ANOTHER TRINITY COLLEGE.
Talk Of Re-Establishing One at Old
Trinity.

As Il result Of the Clark-Kilgo con
troyersy, the ~adyisahility of cutting loose
from Trinity college at Durham and re-
establishing Il Methodist college at
Trinity, Randolph county. is being dis
cussed by members Of that denomination.
Rev. DR.. T. y. Ivey adverts to the mat
ter this week i'll his department of the
Christian Advocates, and says:
I've learn that it is being discussed
privately. We assume that the brethren
who favor this idea will have the cour-
age OF their convictions and will speak
out openly. We feel sure that the breth-
rem of the North Carolina Conference
Will see the propriety of saying nothing.
as this liz q matter altogether for the
Western North Carolina Conference"
Dr. Crawford. the Western North
Carolina Conference editor Of the .Ad-
vocate. in the same paper in which the
above appears, has Il leading editorial
which begins thus:
FOR the past two years the belief has
been growing in the Western North
Carolina Conference that the peace of
the church and the proper development
of our educational interests demanded
the withdrawal from all connection
with Trinity college. We have all along
discouraged this view and had come to
think that those who advocated it
would not further press it. But recent
developments have. seemingly, satisfied
them of the correctness of their position
and Il sentiment in its favor is rapidly
gaining strength"
Another editorial he opens in this Ian
guage:
Unless we fail rightly To interpret the
progress OF movements and the logic OF
events the Methodist church in North
Curoina is approaching Il crisis in its
history. 1t cannot be averted and We
must meet it directly and Squarely as
Christian men. animated by a high pur+
pose and by unseli>h motives. The is
sue plainly stated. is this: VIII the
Western North Carolina Conference
shape its own policy for the future. OF
Will it consent FOR the administration al
Trinity college to do it? In other
words. will the Conference control the
administration or be controlled by it,
Also i'll this connection Il writer il
the Charlotte Observer. who signs him
self "Trojan' has this to say about
Trinity's endowment:
1T has come to the ear of your cor
respondent. and he gives it only as III
item OF news. Inlt AFTER all 1rlllltN mas
not 50 great IN endowment as some pco
pie think. 1t has been claimed that il
WAS worth 500 600. This may be true
but Il chilly sensation falls upon me ant
others when the statement iS made t.
The effect that the college grounds ant
buildings are under mortgage for $40.
ESQ ana that the principal and intcreSt
are payable III gold III Baltimore" II
is said that the only assets are $1,000
in the guano trust stock. and oO.UOO il
other stocks and bonds. The above il
exclusive of curse of the dividends to he
earned ly the sol 600 cigarette truSr
stock. the principal Of which. they say
can never he used by the college unit
Mr.. Bon Duke dies. He Is Yet a youn:
man and his friends wish him to live to ;
good old age. Long dis he lives Trinity
mus. necessarily, be. if the sol ,OO(
stock remains as at present. in Il sense
Il partner: and the funny thing to me il
that some of the brethren have been :,
long i'll finding out the fact that thi
stock was in the sense, as above midi
Gated, the property of Trinity