The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-08-11
"oaersrrAN EDUcArroN..
Sophfstry Sought to Be Palmed Off
For Logic

For Logic
Charlotte Observer.
This is a catch phrase which has
been mach in use in North Carolina,
for u few years past, the object of it's
employment being to discredit the
State University and colleges. Its
use, as it is used, is an argument, by
indirpction, that there is and can be
no Christian education outside of the
denOminational schools and colleges.
In truth, all the colleges and we dare
say a vast majority of the high
over by Christian men and women,
of this week, lays bare the sophistry
sought to be palmed of on the public
for logic, in an elaborate editorial
which is in part as follows:
christian education can only
mean in the majority of studies, the
influence of the Christian teacher.
There is no such thing as Christian
course of mathematics or an evan
gelistic department of chemistry.
And even the education of a
man in theology does not make a
Christian of him. We cannot ask
for anything better than the influence
of Christian professors and the
Christian ministry at our schools,
both church and State, and we
rejoice to see these influences any
where.
Another fallacy is the commanding
of Church education with Christian
education. We believe in denomina-
tional schools most heartily as
Davidson and our excellent Presby-
terrain colleges for girls well know.
Every church should have them
wherever possible. But schools
which are under the control of some
denomination are not the only
Christian schools. And for cur part,
We hope that as North Carolina re-
fused to Danish the Rible from the
public schools SO it shall
not close it's State institutions or
refuse them the most liberal support,
under the pretense that because they
are not controlled in the interest OF
some one denomination, they are
therefore ''inimical to Christian in
situations and Christian denomina-
tion." We are not afraid of any
such result
There would be no fear of any such
result. This issue has been tried in
North Carolina and in every instance
| the enemies of our State institutions
have been cast. So they will be in
| every trial of the fu lure. North
Carolina has not fostered heI
| University tor more than an hundred
| years to turn her back upon it now
She has not built, equipped anc
| sustained up to this time, the
agricultural and mechanical colleges
| tor the two races and the Sta {
| N lrmal and Industrial College fol
| Women to Withdraw her support
| from them now and allow them tt
| close their doors. She has found {
| pretty low political level, it is true
but there will never 90 to Raleigh s
| Legislature, no matter what thu
color of it's skin or its political com
pleXiOn, with which the friends o
these State institutions will not hav
influence enough to secure the aphro
priations necessary to enable thel
benefi.ent work of furnishing highe
education to boys and girls who ar
not able to buy it.
Mr. Aesop once wrote a fable whicl
we have not read for more years thai
we care to tell, but which, if gu
memory serves us, runs somewha
thus: A rat found n file stuck in
crack through which he wanted t.
pass, and set about to gnaw it away
! Noticing the filings falling on tn
floor, he felt that he was comm
along famously with his undertaken
until sudden soreness of the gum
admonished him to stop and fin
out where he was at, when, lol b
ascertained that the white particle
which he had seen falling were nc
. from the file but represented wha
had once been his fronr teeth, no
worn down smooth with the gums.
Haec fabula docet. etc.