Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-24
THE REPORT ADOPTED
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substituting the words under Presby
terrain domination" for under Church con
troll.
DR.. Woodrow said IL was necessary
that the candidates should be subjected
to the presbyteries and not to the com
mittee. a number Of suggestions and
motions were offered, including one &c
recommit to the committee. DIR. sum-
mey opposed the recommittal. and sug-
gested that the words "and influence
after the words Church control" would
meet all objections. The motion to re-
commit was lost, and the amendment
proposed by DR.. Venable was adopted.
When the amended paragraph was read
there was much objection to II, which
found expression in protracted debate,
and the Offering OF amendments and sub
stitutes. Finally the third recommends
ton of the committee was adopted as
amended. After some amendments OF
minor Importance to the other sections,
the report was adopted as whole.
COLORED DELEGATE RECEIVED.
The report of a committee recommend
ing that Rev. f. W. Williams, a delegate
from the col0red synod. should be adj
mitted as a corresponding member Of the
assembly, and admitted TO the privilege
of the floor upon the discussion OF the
report on Coored Evangelization. was
adopted.
CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN EDUCA-
TION.
The second order of the day gave
way to the unfinished business Of
Monday, which was the consideration
Of the report OF the AID Interim Commit
tee on Church and Christian Education.
DIR. Shearer, who was advocating the
adoption of the report when the assem-
bly, adjourned on Monday night, again
took the floor. He traced the preceden,s
established by the Church in bygone gene
rations. The reason that the union OF
Church and State did not run sooner TO
ruin was that the education was left in
the hands OF the Church, where II had
always been. A State establishment for
education, without the Intervention of the
Church, he said, was a novelty in Chris
tendon. Presbyterians had always re-
garded education as a junction OK the
Church. The report recognizes that
State education is here to stay. AS good
citizens 1t is our duty to make the best
of it. The paper is not intended to an
ldBOIllLc the AUulCU against the Sldle
except a fair and honorable rivalry in
the matter OF education. If the Church
shall allow herself to be beaten out of
the field and whipped i'm details. he be-
lieved that the thing would become cor
rupt. He believed that an honest rivalry
would be a benefit to each Church.
DR.. Shearer spoke at some length upon
the difference between Church admins
tration and Church control.
Or. Summey advocated the adoption Of
The report Of the committee, dwelling
upon the practicabiity of the
PLAN and the principles 1t involves. Ed
ucation without religion, he said, IS a
menace to Christianity
Judge James argued that the State was
bound TO educate. There was nothing in !
Latin. Greek. or mathematics conducive |
to atheism. He opposed the teaching Of !
the Bible in public schools, as an ire |
ligious act. The State. he said. had no |
religion. In some localities the right 10 |
educate might devolve upon the Church. |
He spoke of the possible evil Of the es-
adjustment of schools by all the differ !
emit denominations. The suggestion con-
tanned i'm the report of the committee was
not needed. The State schools We're en-
and there was no religious
color i'm them. II was not necessary 10
ramify the country with denomlnational
schools.