The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-30
MAKING GOOD PROGRESS
METHODISTS COMPLETE ONE BUILD
ING OF THEIR UNIVERSITY.
Hall of History Turned Over to Truss
teeS-Churches and the LabOring
Man-Other Religious News.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK Jan. 29.--The commentator
of the new American University at Wash
ington by the commission of federation rep
resenting the Methodist Episcopal Church
and the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
has given to that institution new impe-
tus The hall of history, the first building
of the university, has just been completed
and turned over to the trustees. Its corner
stone was laid not quite two years ago.
Work has not been steady upon 1t owing
to lack of funds, but the building has been
put UP within the past year and, half. IL
is substantial stone structure 1I6 feet long
and of a style of architecture that is to be
maintained throughout an entire group of
more than twenty buildings. The trustees
have announced their intention to profit by
the hit-and-miss appearance OF buildings
on several old college campuses by provid-
ing in advance the location of all buildings,
and waiting for the erection of each until
such time as funds are in hand to put 1t up
in the style and with the materials that its
Importance and position demand.
The trustees of the university have just
purchased triangular piece of ground ~
ing along the eastern front of the campus,
which brings the whole site to frontage
on the new Nebraska avenue, which is to
take the place of the Loughborough road.
This campus is on the heights of northwest
Washington and ideal in all respects. 1t
contains ninety acres, and within the past
few weeks the part of it Immediately
around the hall of history has been graded
and seeded. Details of walks and locations
of buildings have all been fixed upon, and
the building and endowing of this great in
stitution is to be the task of MethodistS
North and South during, at least, the early
part of the new century. In spite of the
hard times the site, valued at 10000, has
been purchased and paid for during the past
five years. Toward the new and future
buildings $350,OOO has been secured and
there is already an endowment of 100000
on hand The trustees include a great
number of prominent MethodiStS in every
part of the country. The new United. States
senator from Maryland, the Hon. L. e. Nc
Comas, is one of them. The university is
intended solely for the promotion of post
graduate study and original inquiry.
On St Pauls day. Jan. %, one year ago
an invitation was sent out for the co-opera-
ton of Christian employers Of labor in
recognizing the moral and religious value of
steady employment and sustained wages.
st. Paul's day was chosen and the move
ment was christened the brotherhood of
Ot. UCCduoS tudl eipOStle, DOlu ny the
example that he set in his trade as tent
maker and by his precepts in favor of in
dustry, is still the foremost human teacher
of the principle of the dignity of labor and
its right to such wages al warrant the COM
forts Of family life. The call was at once
welcomed by such representative friends of
labor as Bishop Huntington, OF central New
York president of the Church Association
for Advancing the Interests of Labor;
Bishops Potter. of New York and Clark,
of Rhode Island; the Rev DIR. William
Prall of Detroit, and Hon. Otto Kirchner,
president of the Michigan Political Science
Association. The first year of the brother
hood, just ended. illustrates the saying that
the two most timid things in the world are
a mouse and capital. A form of combina-
ton that has been proved practicable
thousand times over in the business world
for selfish purposes, every detail of the plan
being actually in use somewhere, was de-
clared unavoidable for Christian motives.