New-York tribune., 1900-04-26
THE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.
PRESIDENT WASHBURN OF ROBERT
TELLS OF ITS WORK IN CON
STANTINOPLE.

Canon Edmonds, of Exeter Cathedral England
presided at the meeting last night at the Central
Presbyterian Church. and spoke interestingly, by
of prefacns the other addresses of the library
OF the cathedral, OF which he holds the keys when
at home. He said that the first book marking the
revival of English literature the property of
the Exeter Cathedral library, and was entitled
The Christus." telling of the Masters birth, works
and crucifxion. 1t had come to Exeter in 1850 and
had been there ever since OF Christian educa-
tion the topic of the evening. Canon Edmonds
said: AN things speak of the God around He
who has made the external world has given
voice to 1t. and men hear the voice Christian edu-
cation will enable to answer"
DIR. WASHBURNS ADDRESS
The Rev. DR.. George Washburn president of
Robert College, Constantinope, was the first
speaker. His subject The Christian College"
He said in part:
auxiliary to the missionary work depends upon
what sort of college it is. No one knows better
tion that neither knowledge nor intellectual train
Gs Gese wa Re s F0Ga of sue
founded by Americans in mission fields, and i has
1861 by ,,, Christ9pher Robert merchant OF New
American Board % Consaantnope IT was 0 char
tered in the State of New-York. and is under the
Board of Regents. 1t also received charter from
longing to edudationai nstit~tons in that Country
% AIRY society Gle but is lndspedent M instutio9 gov
York. 1t has now three hundred students. repre-
sentng fifteen different nationalties and almost
ton, and do not trouble our students with
the results M Of aighsq Crtifsm nifi,n9r and 10.
much concerned with the conventionalities of re-
Of some one Of the Oriental churches and we do not
seek to make them Presbyterians or Congrega-
Protestants: we simply seek to make them true
b 4g es brs t. oil o4 @ of
students Just what first class Christian college In
primary end Of the college to train athletes but we
believe in athletics. and our students can play as
good a game of football as those in many an Amer
lean college. 1t is our chief aim to sharpen the
more rapidly, but many of our graduates are dis
tinguished merchants in the great cities of the
scholars but our graduates has s5ingushed them
selves and won high honor in tae universities and
technical schools of Europe
TRUE OBJECT OF EDUCATION
We hold that the true object of college education
is make to discipline and develop character.
pxed by he an the ana
m as de to TG5f he as 0 of h
mind; In America. as we all know. the question
In France it is the most important political aues-
on Of the day In n our , theory to carry Try
different mental faSutes And we mean to give
branches Of study than can be had In any other
stitutfon in the Turkish Empire. We do not follow
cause cause we believe that every college in mission
fields should be adapted first of all to the needs OF
the people of the country. 1t does not make so
much difference what boy studies as how he
studies
It should also be remembered that in this age OF
the world every young man who has the means is
not d Christian education, ii is anti-Christian
one and the head OF of the great Christian
churches of the East said to me not long ago that
among all his people the only young who
those who had been educated in Robert College. If
Christianity is to hold its in the East. If the
old churches to be won back to spiritual lifes.
II they are to become instrumental in teaching
through the influence of trained and educated men,
men who know what they believe and why they
believe it-men who not only have a heart believe
but who have also sufficient knowledge and train
those unbelievers who now flooding the world
with their attacks. not only upon Christianity,
"pOn all religion
OTHER SPEAKERS
The Rev\ Richard Lovett. secretary of the Re
Gious Tract Society of England said in part:
Civilization never precedes Christianity civili-
cation has done nothing whatever to enrich the
world with Christian literature" On the other
hand he said. the Christian missionaries with
limited means. had done marvels in providing
Christian literature for the heather with whom
they had come into contact The speaker made a
strenuous plea for the doing away of the present
haphazard method of providing reading matter In
its place he wanted larger volume of literature
from well directed and compe. ent writers
Nyassa Lake. told of the early struggles there
twenty five years ago His story kept the audience
intensely interested until a late hour. The field
there now Sus-ainS 123 schools. $50 teachers and
day. The speaker enthusiastically appiauded.