The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-08-09

issue betWeen rs. Inc News anu w
server with nice discrimination says:
The Biblical Recorder replies to the
North Carolina Presbyterian.
The first issue is Il question OF 1acl.
The PRESBYTERIAN objected to the state
mont Inv the Recorder that there We're
..many Presbyterians who are convinced
that the States policy Is lnllnlcal 10
Christian institutions and Christian de-
noninationS.' The Recorder attempts 10
Drove its allegation by saying The actlN-
itv of President Shearer before the telte-
raj Assembly Il few years ago WoHld :"
10 Indicate that at that time ne was
not far from holding that position. He
Recorder ought to know that DR.. Shear
pr's bill before the Assembly contellpla-
ted an increase iii the Appropriation TO
the University and simply Il change III the
Dolicv Of the University itself. the eleNa-
ton of its standard for graduation anu
the elimination of the lower classes. This
was. avoWedly, one way or taxing the
University out Of competition with the
private colleges. He authorizes us to say
for him now, that the State institutions
ARE here to stay and that it Is both
patriotic and Christian to do all that Is
possible to keep them free from abuses
While the Church-school> IN fair ana
honorable competition, serve the purpose
of lifting the State institutions above
the plane of politics, with its contami-
nations.
That other "~Presbyterian leader might
go that far without being yWhere near
the Recorders extreme positions. II there
are any abuses in our State institutions,
if is the function of Il religious newspaper
to point them out-and the presbyterian
will Join the Recorder in the effort to
,afor,, n OWL IlrDCad To exist. III the
management of them.
AS another proof of the many Pres
byterians' the Recorder says: For III
stance. we were never more cordially ell
dorsed than when we made Il speech III
elaboration of this position at Red
Springs, in the heart of the Presbyterian
country. to an audience i'll which there
were supposed to be five hundred Pres
hyterians." Here again. with Il degree
of uncandor that we are compelled to
condemn, the Recorder omits 10 state
that the speech was made 1T a Baptist
Chautauqua. But we let Red Springs
speak for itself:
Red Springs, \. c.. July %, 1893.
Rev. A. j. McKeIway, Charlotte. \. c.:
My Dear Sir:-The five hundred Pres
byterians who assented to Mr.. Bailey's
views on State Aid. on the occasion of his
address here last year, exist simply in the
young mans imagination. While he may
have been complimented for his effort. |
know of no Presbyterian here or else
where in this community who faVorS
his views. There may be some. but l
don't know them. | simply write you
this in the interest Of truth. | think Mr..
Bailey mistook Baptists for Presbyte-
rlans.
Yours very truly,
d. L. M'EACHERN.
In view of which unsolicited testimony
the Recorder will pardon us if We ask
for the names of the many IreSbytc-
rians'' it has ''seen. talked with and hao
letters FROM endorsing its proposition
that the policy of State aid Is ''inimical
to Christian institutions and Christian
denominations" We should like to see
how large their number and Influence
is as compared with the number of our
adherents in this State.
NO higher education by the State is
better for Christianity than for the State
to maintain higher education. And upoI
this proposition we take our stand re
which We can only reply: There art
things at which one stands struck silent
as at first sight of the Infinite.'
The Recorder fishes out the same ole
dead fly. from the Christian Advocates
ointment and buries it in its own. Al
though the fly is in a still more decom
posed state and the protest of our olfac
tory nerves is a strong one, we shall try
to take it out of the ointment, and de
nominational jealousy out of this discus
sion.
The Recorder, following the Christian
Advocates lead, insinuates that we ar,
influenced in our position by the fact tha
President Alderman, President McIve
and President Holiday are Presbyte
rians. The Recorder is our first inform
ant as to the denOminationaI complexion
of one of these gentlemen. But We ar
sure that the Recorder will admit tina
their Presbyterianism is nothing agains
their Christianity. Neither is that O
Professor Holmes and Professor Nena
BILE. Nor is the Methodism of Professo
Williams. who is Il minister as Well Il
a Christian. Nor is the faith of DR.
Hume. one of the prominent Baptis
preachers of North Carolina. Nor of Pro
fessor Gore. another Baptist. nor of Dl
Manning, Il devout Episcopalian, thes
and other such being of the University
Nor will the Recorder raise any ques
ton rs to the Christianit, of profesSo
CfaXton. of the Greensboro Normal, VIII
is superintendent of Il Methodist Sunda
School, nor of Professor Joyner. who is
Ill we are correctly informed, Il de1co
in the Baptist church.
Now the Recorders catch-word
Christian Education. 1t begs the Who'll
question when it assumes that 'institu
tons with such men as these i'll the
faculties, cannot be Christian institution
because they are partly supported b
the State. We happen to know tina
there is an optional Bible course in a
least one of these schools. And ye
when the Recorder is looking for a
illustration to justify the Baptist Conver
ton for meddling with the polite;
question of State aid it chooses the s;
loon. the Devils trap for souls. as
parallel to our State educational inst
tutions. In view of its position it say,
the Presbyterian cannot encourage il
readers to vote against liquor me no
the ground of Christianity"
just let North Carolinians consider TN:
parallel. and ask themselves what The
think of the insult. Out on such nol
sense.