The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-31
i WAS UNIVERSITY DAY
Celebrated Yesterday at the
Mountain View Church.
THREE MEETINGS HELD
Able Papers on Higher Education Read
at the Platform Meeting Held in the
Evening-Choir Service Was
Pleasing Feature

University day was celebrated at
Mountain View NJ. L. church yesterday
under the direction of Rev. Wilder
Nutting of the Montana Wesleyan uni
versity. The church was tastefully dec
Grated for the occasion in the national
colors, draping the notices of the day,
such as Christian Education, Montana
Wesleyan University" He that get
teth wisdom loveth his own SOUL" etc.
Three meetings were held during the
day, one in the morning, a children's
meeting in the afternoon and a platform
meeting in the evening at which num-
Der of papers on higher education Were
read. AT all of the meetings a special
choir service was a pleasing feature.
The Rev. Mr.. Nutting preached at
the morning service on the subject of
Christian Education of Our Own
Great State" Taking his text from
Isiah Is, Il: II will make man more
precious than fine gold,' Mr.. Nutting
began by observing that values are
largely comparative and fiuctuate with
the ever-changing appreciation of man.
The speaker then spoke of gold and
its connection with mans history, its
influence for good and evil. Montana's
history, he said, illustrates mans ap-
probation of gold, what he will do to
get it and what he will do with it
when he gets it. He then took up the
first discovery of gold in the state, and
said the first who followed the trails
marked by Bozeman, Brdger and 9TH
ers across the plains, bridgeless tor
rents and mountain barriers, left
home, society, ease and all home COM
forts, not because they expected to OBJ
tain any of these at the end of their
journey, but because they expected to
find gold
No thoughtful person can look upon
the huge piles of boulder thrown up
along the gulches of Bannock, Alder,
Confederate, Last Chance Silver Bow
etc, without wishing that those rough
stones could speak the unwritten his
tory of how they We're torn from their
slumbering beds by eager hands to And
the shining gold hidden by them in
ages past
Mr.. Nutting then spoke of the mod
ern methods of mining by machinery,
and compared it with the older and
simpler means required to extract gold,
placing the legitimate delivers in one
column and those who would not dig
but got the gold by illegitimate means
of one kind or another in a second COL
umn and contrasted their industry. AS
ii is more difficult to get gold now than
then it is gotten just the same, and as
1T is more difficult to acquire gold by
devious methods this sort of industry
is practiced with the added zeal
Touching upon what men do with
gold, the speaker said some put it in
houses, lands goods, churches, etc,
not because these things are more pre-
| cious than gold. but because they may
make more gold. Some also put gold
! into these things because they are
more precious to them than the gold
with a view to making the world bet
ter.
In the second division was man.
What is he. David asked as he consid-
cred the heavens the work of God, and
answered it by saying that man was
made a little lower than the angels,
crowned with glory and honor, and put
over all animate creation here on earth.
the works of Gods hands. thus bring
ing him into company with the great
physical universe. the thinking creation
and the angelic world. Man was a
three-fold being, neither part of which
could be neglected without detracting
from his true honor and glory and
dwarfng his nature.
The development and making of COM
plete manhood furnished the subject
for the next division. The time was
when it required very little machinery
to develope man; like the placer miner
cleaned up his days work every night
with his simple appliances. so manhood
was developed in days past without the
expensive machinery. BY the Pickering
light of the log cabin fireside. great
men were made without the machinery
of schools, colleges, etc. Now condi
lions have changed; with them have
come new requirements for this work.
society develops and the appliances
to fit men for these changing conditions
in our public schools. state schools,
church schools. etc: these all require
wealth, money, gold. to make them
what they should be. The speaker
touched upon the foundation of these
institutions in a new state the burdens
falling upon few. demanding sacrifice
and especially demanding sacrifices
from the church and those interested in
developing the highest types of man
hood in sustaining and developing
Christian colleges where the entire
man, body. mind and spirit, are made
and developed
Mr. Nutting in closing referred to the
work of the Montana Wesleyan uniyer-
sty, referred to Butte as the leading
city. the nature of whose industries re-
quired the most vigorous manhood and
prophesied a great future for the edu-
cational work in a state characterized
by such vigorous life. He appealed to
his listeners to use gold as a stepping
stone to something nobler and better.
with the assurance that in heaven il
shall be as the pavement under our
feet, and as the palaces for our habita-
tion with true and perfect MANHOOD.
the only enduring and most. precious
thing forever.
The evening service was very largely
attended and the papers read were of
a very interesting character. The sub
ject of Christian Education was
treated in an able manner by w. @.
Smith: that of tDenominational Edu-
cation" by c. II. Reath. and that of
'Our Denominational Schools" by Mrs.
+. c. Glenn. The musical portion of
the service was also exceptionally