The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-11-16

been an organized school at Hillsboro
it would still have received the patron.
aye of the Conference as before. The
Conference could not be asked to pat
ronize what did not exist. The College
failed not for the want of the patronage
OF the Conference but fron, other causes,
the principal of which, as we regard it,
is from The great excellence of our COM
mon schools system with its high school
department, go that every community
has this advantage even in the count,y
districts with teachers capable of teach
ing the higher branchep,as they generally
are, scholars can take the high school
course and be regularly graduated
WHEN p,rents can educate their children
a. hon. free of cost they will not send
,h, III In college at heavy expense. II
the s,i Mt Hillsbnro failed for want
OF Cor frr-nce patronage, why did the
s'',nt l. at Cincinnati and Xenia apd
Sp" field fail i? All sustained a like
ret,trtu
luunih not intimate that the tiusteas
are to blame for not keeping up an or
ganized school and thus securing the
patronage of the Conference. 1 have no
d ,ubt they have been doing the best
they could 1t would be very difficult
to secure man capable of conducting
such an institution to accept it's presi.
dency at such sacrifice as would have to
bs made
If the people of Hillsboro had con
tributed all the funds invested in the
College, they have been amply repaid in
the facilities furnished them for educat-
ing their children at home and the in
creased business interests of the town,
and in bringing in families and students
from abroad. The citizens of Hillsboro
have paid thousands of dollars to secure
the location of manufacturing plants in
the town or to retain them within it's
limits to advance it's business interests,
and think they have been justified in 80
doing, but nothing has 80 amply repaid
them as having had the College located
in their midst. But this community hes
not furnished all the funds, for in addi-
tion to the five thousand four hundred
dollars paid by the members of the Con-
ference | met the financial agent of the
College appointed by the Conference in
my charges in three counties and how
many more counties they canvassed |
am not prepared to say. What was con
tributed to the College was devoted to
the cause of Christian education and WIS
dedicated and rededicated to that cause
and to the Lord and was placed under
the control of the Cincinnati Conference,
disinterested party, as sacred trust,
and it is held responsible to see that it
be not diverted to any other purpose,
and the trustees as the representative
of the Conference in contending for the
property are not actuated by any per
sonal interest or financial considerations
Tor they receive no compensation and
there is decided conviction that no in
dividual member of the trustees, nor OF
The Conference, nor the Conference as
a body, nor anyone else has any claim
upon the property, nor do the cert Il
Gates OF stock give any such claim. Had
the Conference thought they did, it
would, when it paid over the five thou
sand four hundred dollars, have asked
'or or demanded the certificates of
stock; but which neither the Confer
snce nor any individual member did
But the trustees are contendipg for
principle, and hence it is with them
natter OF conscience. They regard it
hat to take the property for any other
purpose without paying a full equiva-
ent would be an act of sacri ege, tha'
t would be robbery, robbing the cause
If Christian education and robbing God
That the Conference desires to be re-
ieved OF its burden and responsibility,
which has been source of loss, of
rouble and unjust criticism, is true, but
hat it has abandoned the College is not
rue, as seen in the fact of its having
e-electcd its trustees and continued it's
commission. The Conference would be
ratified if the property could still be
lsed in the cause of Christian education
It hillsboro, but if this cannot be done
hen it claims that it should be used +
hat purpose somewhere else, especial
What endowment there is, and rs n.ucI. |
# the property at least as the memb, IL
# the Conference paid to it.
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Brown-As l understand it, an May
Vill 60 straight through a mans head. |
here seems to be nothing more pene.
rating.
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