The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-22
BAPTIST EDITORS
WERE HIS GUESTS.
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schildren-we need the earnest co-opera-
ton of the press. Our schools or to-mor-l
row are going to be largely what the
press Of to-day demands that they shali
be. We need Industrial training IN our
schools; we need moral training; we need
physical culture: we need nature study,
and /. make bold to say we need music
also There is not a school IN the land
where we may not have all OF these
things The work may be done crudely,
perhaps, but it may be DONE
Mr. johnson briefly explained how these
studies could be taken up In the humblest
schools. and. continuing. said:
These are the things we have before
us in our educational work. and I say
to you again, gentlemen OF the Southern
Baptist Press Association, our educators
need your help. Let us give our time TO
these great questions of Development
rather than to discussions which encour-
age bitterness and bigotry. These ques-
lions of minor denorninationa1 differences
won't make much difference up yonder.
sWhen.I grew up doubted ESerfousiy
whether anybody outside of Baptist
Church would ever go to heaven; put
when am called home. if do not met
my friends of every name. / VIII conclude
that there is higher and a better heaven
yet which am unworthy to enter. Whe1,
was a green country boy just come tn
!. town, with my subscription book under
my arm, I went to see the late Moses Y
sHoge I remember how trembled as i
{ rang the bell and sent in my name.
was invited up to his study and was re-
ceived in the most cordial manner; ana
even after 1 had explained my business
hoy tra
teously if / had been of royal blood. My
Young FRIEND he said. I have your book
already It is a good one and Will most
cordially endorse it,. And he sat down
and wrote a few lines. recommending my
book. in the highest terms-an endorse
ment that was worth hundreds OF uotiars
to me in my subsequent canvass OF the
city. That was one of the incidents In
my early life which helped to change
nv mind regarding people of other faiths
than my own. I never forgot his kind
ness. Moses d. Hoge was indeed prince
among men.
! ..The press is our great popular educa.
tor, and the religious press especially
ought to be a powerful factor in the
movement of the world TO betters things.
1t ought to let minor matters alone and
give its strength wholly. to the things
that tend to make men better"
PICTURE OF THE FUTURE.
In concluding 4Ir. Johnson spoke OF the
| power Of the press, and the future Oh the
church, which, he said. is entering on a
| new and larger mission of usefulness.
| laying its lines to meet the changed con-
| ditions which are confronting us at the
| beginning Of the new century. Inc
| church in the future will be all that 1t
| has been to the world in the past he
| said, .but it will be more. 1t will be the
center of social and intellectual as well
l nh oo1,c Of -
| ture will do more to help men ana Wo-
4 men in everyday life" Mr.. Johnson al
| so said he expected to see the time come
J when it will be as disgraceful TO hSht
( a duel in any part of Europe as 1t is Ill
| this country; when lynching will be rec
| ognized as crime against law ana or
| der from Maine to Texas; when men Will
! insist on enacting just laws and Will de-
| mand their prompt execution; When IL
] will be as great a crime to steal vote
1 as to steal dollar: when men Who are
employed by the Government Will WORK
| as faithfully as men who work for andl-
| Viduals; when a dollar received from the
| Government without corresponding value
| being given will be a tainted dollar ana
| spurned by the man that now stretches
eagerly forth to grasp it. THESE great
changes, he said must come about
| through the blessed influences OF our re-
= lision, through the efforts OF our great
religious leaders, through our schools ana
/ our schoo1-books, and the press OF the
/ day, both religious and secular
IF what has been spoken here tonight
shall give an impetus to the influences
which are tending to develop our people,
the object of. this gathering will be ac-
complished.',
MESSAGES OF REGRET.
Letters were received from President
and Mrs. Mckinley regretting their ability
to attend. kilograms and letters were
| also read from DR.. W. T. Harris. United
States Commissioner of Education Wash
/ ington, D. c.; Hon. T. r. McGahan, Mayor
1 os Charleston: Hon Richard NJ. Taylor
Mayor Of Richmond; DR.. George e. Horr
editor of The Waterman, Boston: Dr.
William f. Harper, president of the TINT
! versity of Chicago; William r. George
president of the Junior George Union
Freeville N Y; DR.. Lansing Burrows, OIL
Nashville, Tenn; DIR. Charles w Dabney
president Of the University Of Tennessee
/ DR.. r. F. Campbell. Asheville, n. c.: Miss
Susan r. Blow, Washington; Prof. Wait
/ man Barbee. West Virginia University
\ Prof. and Mrs woodrow Wilson. Prince
/ ton, y T.: Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Leverins
I Baltimore; G. W. Watts, Durham, n. c.
3. L. Duke, Durham, \. C.
William IF. King, of New York City: F
NJ. Roaf, president Howard College. -Eas
Lake, Ala; Prof. F. L. Riley. University
of Mississippi and many others.
DR.. William III. Wnittsitt. of Louisville
writes: ct desire to thank you with al
nv heart, both in my own name and tina
4 of my wife, for the invitation YOU hav'
i sent us to attend the banquet you vii
/ tender to the Baptist Press Association
i at the Jefferson Hotel, and to assure yo,
7 how much I regret that circumstance
i will render it impossible for me to b
present. / trust that you will have RICH
i good time with the brethren. and that tn
occasion may be memorable one. Pleas
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