Evening star., 1898-10-22

institutions at Tutksgee and at Hampton,
Va. Notice was dlb directed to the fail
ure to note the work being done by Sun
day schools in the cause of Christian edu-
cation.
The committee recommended the adop-
ton of resolutions thanking Rev. DIR.
Charles F. Hoffman, for his efforts in pro-
noting the irtereStsJ of the society for the
encouragement of Schools. and to urge upon
the rich the advisabilty of establishing
schools and colleges for the Christian edu-
cation of the young
Bishop GiIlert's Remarks.
Bishop Gilbert of Minnesota opened the
discussion of the report. and gave most
interesting history of the progress of een-
cation under his direction in Minnesota.
The schools he SAID were open and at
tended by children whose parents belonged
to various denomina tions children of Ro
man Catholics, of Jews. were taught, hut
never word was uttered in the walls of
the schools that could make these persons
feel hurt. The consequence was the schools
had the hearty support of all the patrons,
no matter what religious denomination they
belonged to: When INQUIRIES were made
about the church they were answered and
its beauties and blessings described and ex-
planned
In conclusion. Bishop Gilbert said he had
no nope for the future of the secondary
schools unless they were endowed, and he
eloquently pleaded to the laity to give them
their love, their loyalty and their aims.
Hobart College.
Rev. DIR. Nelson. the next speaker, took
for his subject Hobart College," the state
college of New York at Geneva. He said
1t had graduated about 1900 men. He
called attention to the fact that in the
alumni the lawyers outnumbered the
churchmen, but that Hobart was not a
theological college He spoke of its present
overcrowded condition over 50 per cent of
It's students not being able to secure room
IN the dormitorieS. Give Hobart more en-
dowment, said the speaker, and her number
OF students would be doubled.
Kenyon College.
Kenyon College was the subject upon
which Rev. DR.. Jones spoke. 1t was not a
diocesan institution. he said, but on it's
board sat representatives of several do
ceses. 1t had reached an exalted place, and
this was due to the self-sacrifcing devotion
of Bishop Philander Chase in the early part
Of the century, the founder, who established
Kenyon in the wilderness, and to those who
have followed him and cndeavored to carry
out and continue his work. DR. Jones said
Kenyon now had ninety students, and
would increase this number to over a hun
dred soon.
He described its high standing in the
contest for intercollegiate supremacy
where the judges were all representatives
of eastern Institutions such as Yale
Princeton, Columbia, etc. and quoted sta
tistics showing a remarkably high degree
of excellence On the part of kenyons col
legians. On behalf of the college. which
he said was founded in faith and nurtured
by the prayers of the faithful. he urged
the constituency of the church to recog
nize the demand of church colleges for
proper support. These colleges We're either
great powers for good or were not. If the
first, they should be helped, if the latter,
they should be done away with. In con-
clusion DR.: Jones said he could not refrain
here in Washington from mentioning the
names Of some of Kenyon's alumni who
had been so prominent in the capitals pub
lie life, and he recalled those of Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, Edwin NJ. Stanton, Henry
Winter Davis, David Davis and Stanley
Matthews.
Bishop Dudfey's Address.
What will probaBly prove to be the most
memorable incident, of the convention was
the address of Bishop Dudley of Kentucky.
chancellor of the Il University of the South
at Sewanee, Tenn. who took that institu-
tion for his subject. Impressive and earnest
he held all spellbound with admiration and
approval. He declared he did not consider
the subject of the church school because
1t was church school, but because 1t was
school. He would place the emphasis on
the school and not on the church. At Sc
vance the object was to make men. Chris
tan men. The conception of the University
Of the South was that of Leonidas Polk in
1oo9. Inc amount OF SI,Ooo,oOO was finally
raised and plans were projected when the
war came on and in the desolation that
came upon the south the university shared
When peace was restored the great Quin-
tard determined that the university should
not die.
What did Bishop Quntard do?" ex-
claimed Bishop Dudley. He went up on
that mountain height with half a dozen de-
voted ones and planted a wooden cross
and recited the Nfcene creed. Then with
one teacher and four pupils in small
cabin he began the work and announced
that the University of the South was open
and thus saved the title to 10000 acres of
land that was about to lapse"
Reciting the early struggles of the insti-
tuition, Bishop Dudley stated that it was
not a diocesan one. There were seventeen
diOceses interested in IT.
The Transition Period.
I'VE are not bothered about the pro-
posed canon on Provinces he said. II
tell you, for we've got one 1t has grown
from community interest, from a common
purpose, and that is the way they all will
cCme."
ST eaking of the university buildings, he
said:
Brick and mortar cannot make a uni
yersity. 1t takes men. And that's what
we've got at Sewanee."
Passing over the transition period he
spoke of the present condition of the uni
Versity.
1t now had 427 students and 4S officers
and teachers The work it was doing was
equal to that being done anywhere in the
country. All they had in the way of en-
dowments. he said, were the men that are
there.
He paid high encomiums to Du Bose.
White, Trent, Wells Virgins and the other
Intellectual giants at Sewanee whose con-
triEutions to literature are so generally
regarded as standard, and quoted Richard
Garnett of the British Museum, who said
the only purely literary review published
in the United States was published at
SEWanee.
In conclusion he said the object at Suwa-
nee was not only to make men able to read
Latin and Greek and understand differen-
tial calculus, but to make them men, Chris
tian men, full panoplied with the knowledge
that fear of the Lord is the beginning of all
wisdom.
For a National University.
Bishop Dudley was followed by the elo-
quent Rev. DR.. David H. Greer of New
York, who made a striking appeal for the
establishment by the church of a great ma