The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-15

ator Morrill, devised the grand system
for the training for the best citizenship,
he was endeavoring to lift man up to
the Savior's high ideal, and to do what
ecceSiasticism had Through all the ages
failed to do. to educate and train. rather
than to merely preach to the young But
tbe spirit of cccleSiastiCiSm says Still
.'nnlcss this educa.ion is under tbs sole
control of a priest and under the man
agenlent of Our particular form OF
christianity, it is necessarily goddess for
no Christian education can be given out
idc cur sacred precincts. Bugs the years
pass ON even the churches will rise 5o'
their full duty in the matter of edura-
sion. for there is or should he no an
tagonism between those who are Iahoring
sincerely to the same and. The college
endowed by the hberality of national and
State governments have never antagon-
lied the efforts that the churches ARE
u.a['1g for the elevation of mankind.
They are simply trying to blaze out a
hester way and hoping that the churches
viii follow in the improved method and
train and educate instead of cramp.
There is nothing to gain, but everything
to lose to the State by antagoniSm
among those who are or should be work
inc simply for the betterment of mankind
and the building up of Il Christian cltI-
zenShip.
THE young people of North Carolina
are her most precious product. The
material interests of the State can never
be served by ignorance, and the elevation
of men to a better use of the gifts OF
the Creator i'm their inheritance IN the
soil they till. and to better modes of
living can only he an aid in the efforts
of the church to make them better men
morally. / have often thought that our
preachers would be more effective in
their work Of saving men if all of them
were compelled to take a course of study
lin a College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts before taking up their theo-
logical studies. Preaching to men who
are in straits to know how to feed and
clothe their families could be made far
more effective If the preacher could ut
the same time Sh0w them how they could
Improve in thcir work on tne farm. how
they could better provide for their fami-
hes. and how they have been wasting
the heritage in the soil, and how they ar
responsible to God for the use they make
Of it, The world needs not only thiS
practical education eff the young, but Il
practical Christianity that shall not
merely say be ya warmed and be We
clothed hut shah he able to help men
the better to clothc and warm them
selves and fe5d their herads and tlockS.
"Th,re is not Il school or college III
North Carolina that is nGt needed to lit
the cloud Of ignorance that covers us
IKE pail, but they viii never do their
full part till all rise ont OF narruwneSS,
and JOIN heartily in the work. There is
not college in til State. that is not
under the control Of Christian men, and
men are fast UUtgrowing the idea that
Christian men will give amy but Christian
education in its broadcast SENSE.
When educators drop forever the id a
that their colleges are intended to make
men EpiscopalianS. MethOdists, Baptists
or any particular brand or sect. and
Irealize CHAT their duty is 20 prepare their
students for the highest type of Chris
tian manhood they will be ready to eX-
Etend the hand of brotherhood To all who
are laEoI.ng in the same cause, and bid
,th M God speed. no matter whether they
are working in the broad field Of the col
IRegeS of technology or in the colleges of
their or other churches. The founda-
ItiQns Of the land grant colleges nave ben
laid too broad and deep for petty jeaI-
ouSy TO harm them, and as year after
year they send ont to the active work of
life the men trained IN the liberal man
ner ltheir foundation calls for, there will
be built up in future years citizenship
Ethat Will be more and more liberal to-
wards their Alma Mater, until these
colleges now struggling with Il grand
idea will attain to their ideal and be-
come the great universities oil che people
and the great builders up OF the kingdom
of love founded by Him whom the com
n.on people heard gladly"