Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-03

lege. sympathize so deeply with your /
difficult responsibility that ] am UNI
willing to leave you in a position where
you are forced to choose between my L
freedom to teach and the financial sup
port upon which the college must de-
pend for it's growth. ] am myself I'M
willing to retain position in which I
can remain only by being chargeable
with the possible impoverishment of I
the college.
While feel that you have been mis-
taken in allowing this department to be |
officially discussed. once you had ac-
cepted it, I also feel that during these
years of controversy you have met
your trying position with the sincere
purpose to do your whole duty to all. /
No amount of public clamor has in-I
duced you to take any official steps
towards satisfying it. However you
may have felt like disowning my teach
lings as individuals. you have sought to
take patiently the official consequences
of my remaining as a teacher. / am
glad to relieve you of this responsible
lity, trusting that the constituency of
the college will now amply and imme-
fdiately respond to its pressing financial
needs
Let me say that I do this With no
/ thought of its being sacrifice. Not for
moment Will | allow myself to be
! thought of as a martyr to the cause OF
| free teaching. | shall defend the con-
( stituency and trustees of Iowa College
in their right to choose what they shall
have taught 1t is certainly true that
the doctrines of property which hold
are subversive Of the existing Industrial
~,
our system of private ownership of nat
1 ural resources is a crime against Cod
4 and man and nature; that natural re-
i sources are not property, and can not
be so held without destroying the lloer-
.Ity of man and the bass of the religion
of Christ. This common and equal
right of all men to the earth and its re-
j sources, as their common Inheritance
from God, j expect to always and ev-
4 erywhere teach. The faith that ii is
4 true. and that it must ultimately be
applied, is dearer to me than my bread
| or life. But ] recognize that the con-
4 sttuency of this college is equally sim
cere in believing such tearching 10 be
4 dangerous and untrue. recognize full
/ ~ the right of men to support only such
| freedom as they sincerely believe in.
and 1 am unwilling to force them to
4 even seem to support such freedom and
teaching as they DO not believe in.
i Furthermore, l am unwilling to have
4 my brethren in the faculty involved,
n each year and commencement, in the
controversy over my position. No words
4 cam express my gratitude for the noble
tolerance and patient self-denial of
these men. Each year has found my re-
lation with them more cordial, and their
sympathy and tolerance more brother
~ They do not know that j am writ
i ing this letter of resignation, and such
as / have talked With have expressed
themselves against such step But
! they have their own vastly important
work, and ought not to be involved in a
I controversy about any one department
Z feel that it is not light for tnem 10 be
any longer kept in such a position.
4 nave right to make any sacrifice Of
: myself may think worth while, for
e what 1 believe to be the truth, but
/ have no right to keep others in a posi-
f ton of sacrifice for that which is other
than their chosen work.
i BY the terms of the endowment, the
: department of applied Christianity cal
I remain In the college only by my NoluIl
I tary retirement from the chair, or b.
: my removal by the three special trus
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