The Savannah morning news., 1900-11-28
CLOSED THE CELEBRATION.
CENTENNI SAVANNAH
BAPTIST CHUHCH ~ oVER.

REV. ~. ,. u. Taylor spoke Last
Night on the work Of the baptist
orphans an Ccorgta-Addrc.s of the
Evening Was on Christinn Eduea-
fton-nev nr. Pollock President 81
MERCER Inivcr.ity, Was the speak
rr-Enccts OF state University I'D
ucatlon and THAT 90 nr Received
~ Drnomlnntional schools Define
nted.
a large congres1flon az tho First Bap-
tist Church las, nisht witressoieUo cios-
INK exercises of trc centennial 10 et.nes.
Rev Dr. j p TAYLOR made "a short ui-
dross Of general interest. dwelling gar
ucuar5 upon ,he orphan home work. o.
which ne b. she roDre.outat.Vc. Ttis
work has grown wonderfully since be took
charge of BE- little more than yeas
ago. Dr. Taylor lon for Atlanta hast
night.
The closing address was by Dr. J.. j..
Pollock the able ana popular pre- Do ut
81 Mercer University Tho address wa
broad % its scope. able aud wei de.iv-
erred. Dr Pollock said. n brief
'sThe ast century eliminated Do SEE
rles Of great revolutionary movements De-
elIedIy iudlvdualistlc ard Democrat in
their tendency The American revolution
MS significant. but tne great democratic
revolution In American history was dI-
rected ana inspired by Thomas Jefferson
a. ,he beginning % this century Jcuer-
sons Ideals have powerfully affected
southern nfe ln ala its phases-es2eoi nlly
lu our educational ideals and systems
TIE speaker then gave a comprehensive
setting 20 general conditions in virginia.
south Carolina. North Carolina aud Geor-
ela n the opening or the century. Hc said
that law ana politics being tne predomi-
mating ideal in the first quarter OF the
century. had i.d 10 the founding OF state
universities IN ,he South that were esscn-
tlal sristocratic. that were mean, pr.-
marils 10 provide an ONCE holding class.
that only with the disappearance 90 slave
cry was any progress made in che cdu 1-
ton of the masses. that ln New Eng ana
the fundamental impulse mat led 20 its
settlement was religious and the
first step towards the demo
I cratizatlon OF culture was thc
Z
Princeton tor the education Of ministers,
tnat these institutions had met SO well
the religious. political aud social needs ~
New England that the state was excluded
from the Held ~ higher education boo tnt
New England ana Middle states. tha hall
tHc state universities ga America are in
inc southern states
In the south" said Or Pollock Elm
the early thirtles such men as Richard
z l.
and Henry Holcombs in Georgia repre-.
scented the same type of statesman nip, in
/ religion, that Thomas jefferson, NuthaH
[ iei Macon and Abraham Baldwin dd in
politics. and these men stood ben nd
/ fhe organization OF dcnomiratlonal col
/ l-ges for the training of ministers zoe
! State University. hc continued. mad ir'"
the ideal Of a liberal culture for all classes
OF students. and che deuomlntuonnl coll
leees admitted an classes u students
soon after their organiza ion Now %
stand IN the largo sense Tor an eductlel
The speaker then traced the great
T movements Ia Baptist history, gave
l~ief history % Che Baptist
deuomiuatloual colleges % aN ~
southern states. showed that $t'",.' y
waa Invested ln them; thot iA'} h'n
fr,fned IL 90 etndeuts. that these men had
zone out az ministers teachers. ph> e.
clans. Statesmen. lawyers. fhrmers. ei''
4 INTO every corner 81 tho south represent
4 .ne the sacred union and power ~ chris
/ tIan culture for the redemption or society
Co higher Ideals.
An interesting phase OF the discussion
was the statement that thc problem OF enc
/ south IN tho field OF higher oiuratiCn was
n peculiar one. that herc the aote urivrr
sltv and the denominauoual cotrFc wer"
I lids. hR side. that tho state was NOT ln flt