The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-08-30

controversy with the Christian N{,r.I
cate and the Biblical Recorder 10 hotl
of whom We tender assurances Of cur
distinguished consideration. \ reply io|
the Christian Advocate Is prccludrI TN.
the narrowing Of the issue 10 the discus
sion of our own good taste. Il question in
which the public generally is very little
interested. We also have Il ma9uau.-
nous motive in refraining from Il re-
ply. We noticed last week the follow
ing resolution passed by the Shcloy
District Conference: HAT
men only in known sympathy with il
(Trinty College, shall be appointed aS
editors Of the North Carolina Christian
Advocate. We cannot strike Il man
with his hands tied. As we have 10
doubt Of our ability to convince those
editors that State aid is not .inimical
to Christian institutions" and as such
conviction has already been charac-
terizcd by the Advocate rs giving pre-
cedcuce to State institutions
over denominatonal institu-
tons of course the editors of the Ad-
yocate would be considered as not ''of
known sympathy" with their own de
nominational college. That would re-
suit in the election of other editors. Il
catastrophe which we sincerely could
not bear to contemplate. But we a,.
wise the Advocate to drop the subject of
Christian Education for Il while, in OF:
der to discuss the vital one Of freedom
of the religious press.
The Recorder is as much distressed
over our lack of culture as the Christian
Advocate over our lack of taste. The
Spanish captain in Manila Bay was
equally distressed at the ungallantry Of
the American officer who refused to al
low him time to get more ammunition.
And. in this weeks issue the Recorder
loses It's temper III way that is not
good for the cause of Christian Educa-
tion and we do not wish that cause
further damaged, by its profeSScd
friends We shall only correct one mis-
representation out of many, and we are
willing to excuse an angry and defeated
man much. We did not make the state
ment that ''the mere fact that one
teacher in q school is a Christian makes
the school Il Christian school," One
Christian professor in the University
would not make the education given
there Christian We named several, not
one. AS Il matter Of fact every one Of
the twenty-five full and associate pro
fcssors are Christian men, distributed
among the denominations as follows: ::
RaptiSt-ProfesSorS Gore Hume. Toy,
Whitehead. Cobb. Howell and Biggs-
seven. Methodist Williams. WiiSun
Harrington. Mangum. Linscott Bynum
six. Epscopalian-Batt Manning,
Cain. Baskerville, \oblc-tive. PreSby-
Alderman, Alexander, Nenable
and Holmcs-four. Isn't it a pretty
business for a religious paper or Il re-
lgious denomination to be instructing
its constituency to vote for the deStrllc-
tion of such an institution. under the
plea of Christian Education. And we
are also inclined to hold the Recorder
to the original contention as to stat"
aid to State institutions. rather than
State aid to church institutions. The
Jesuits have always opposed the tlrst
and welcomed the second.
The Biblical Recorder also has
troubles of its own. 1t has discovered
Il "ccnspiracy" against our church III
stitutions. and is finging its epithets
rather wildly at certain political papers.
We are inclined TO doubt the evidence
for the conspiracy. yet we cannot for
bear asking: What else could be eN
pected: Politics is Il game at which
two can play. and if our religious or
ganiZatiOnS under the lead Of college
presidents are going to advise their ad-
hercnts to vote for the destruction of
State institutions. it would be only nat
ural for the equally misguided friends Of
those institutions to combine III an at
tack on church schools. by prejudicing
the people against them.
And while we 90 not presume TO sp"',
for Davidson college with the same free
dom that the Recorder takes. we feel
sure that that noble institution would
prefer not to have its name used in that
discussion.
The North Carolina Presbyterian. rs
the friend Of every institution III the
State that is doing the work Of edu
ting the people. deplores such n con
tiict. and has 10 sympathy with either
side There is room for every college
that we have and more. Let rivalry be
honorable and competition have free
play. Let each denomination conduct
its own educational system if none
other existed. and let the State furnish
every educational facility for which the
people are willing to pay.
Says the Recorder:
Little did we dream that the exam
pie Of Rome would ever be followed in
North Carolina and that the battle for
separation OF church and State would
have to be fought out again in this
State and against a Protestant church
But slowly, silently and almost stealth
lily. the Presbyterians t\orthernD have
gotten their hands into the treasures
Of our public schools in Western North
Carolina: and to-day men and women
of that church. which boasts this prin-
ciple as no other. men and women not
as individuals. but representatives
of that church, missionaries employed
by that church. which, according to
the North Carolina Presbyterian. has
supplied our nation with about all of
its heroes, advocates and defenders of
liberty since the beginning. that church
has promulgated a school system in
some of our mountain counties whereby