The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-18
GAVE AID TO MERCER
pAprIsTs OF SAVANNAH HELP THE
UNIVERSITY.
SERVICES AT FIRST BAPTIST.
nm D.POLLOCIx, MERGERS PRES
IDENT, MADE TWO ADDRESSES.

Dr. Pollock Addressed the Congre-
tration Yesterday Morning on
christian EducatiOn-ShOwed the
Necessary Requirements for n
NVeIl-Rounded Education.
Services at the First Baptist church yes
,arday morning and last night were of
more than ordinary interest. DR.. P. d.
pollock, president of Mercer University
was present at both services, and deliv-
cred addresses. He was here on behalf
IF Mercer University, for which, with
the trustees, he is seeking to raise an
additional endowment fund.
DR.. Pollock and Rev. DR. John d. Jor-
IAN. pastor of the church, We're at Quit
man last week in the interest of the fund.
Dr. Pollock addressed the congregation
of the First Baptist Church there on
Thursday night, and DR.. Jordan on Fri
day night 81 900 was desired for the fund
from the Quitman church, but even bet
ter than that was done, as $3.50 was sub
scribed. 1t is expected that fully 81 ,5OO
will be raised there, and, with such sue
cess in Qutman, it seems that Georgia
will be sure to raise the desired amount.
At the services a the church in this
city, collections were taken up, and
large amount was realized. Until Oct.
is allowed for payments of amounts sub
scribed.
Education" said DR.. Pollock, accord
Ing TO Butler, is the adaptation of per-
SOMA self-conscious being-to environ
ment, and the development of capacity in
a person to modify and control that en-
vironment. Environment is of two kinds
physical and spiritual.
THE child, unlike the remainder of the
animal kingdom, has a heightened in
fancy In this period OF dependence
and helplessness, John Fiske has seen the
principle at the basis of family lift, hence
of the entire social order. The adjust
ment to the physical environment re
quires but a few years. While the adjust
ment to the spiritual environment re-
quires decades. The latter is the serious
problem of education. At least, one-half
of the life of each generation is required
10 develop in the young some conception
of the vast achievements of the historic
past. and some mastery of the conditions
of thcimmediate present.
Another name for our spiritual envi-
ronment is civilization Every fact in
civilization can be classified under one of
five heads-the scientific, the literary, the
aesthetic the institutional and the re-
ligious. They are the five great streams
of human effort or attainment, flowing
slowly down through the centuries. If
education omits any one of these, it can
not be called liberal or complete. The
family, the school and the church must
lead the race into an understanding OF
them a sympathy for them and an in
sight into them.
The scientific includes the record of
mans knowledge in astronomy, geology,
biology, anthropoIogy, etc. The literary
includes all that Chanting meant when
he said, God be thanked for books! They
are The voices of the distant and the
dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual
life of past ages
The aesthetic includes all those forms
of art as expressions of the soul of man,
which Dante ca led Gods grandch ID, .
and which Michael Angelo called "a shad-
ow of divine perfection
',rhe institutional includes the forces
which originated government among
men, the political struggles for freedom,
the birth of democracy, the right of prop
erty and person, the common law, the
freedom of the press. The religious in
cludes what the church as a divine insti-
tuition has contributed to human history.
1t answers whether our attainm II n
science, in literature, in art and in insti-
t,,+ioral Iifo have an end and what end
and vbetbo,. tbev have permanent
value
..r,besa dve tho scientific the literary
tbc aestboti. tho institut onaI and the
,olioio,,e make nm what we call true
c1IltHro. bnt tho greatest of these is the
,.eIioto,,s astit has to do with the heart
ont of which are tho issues of life.
Nov, annlv this standard to some of
Al inG Of tint
1Ii1itar,, Ac,dayov, at West Point ful6lls
t-,t o,,, - fhass ,.ac,,,re,nants nancy
tbo scio,tifc and mat only in mart The
,,oat sorio,,s' unitarian on euch an insti-
+ntiop y-bother we may say of its ne
ressit,--is re nurnosa and this in turn
lir,,its it,. scona. az work and it's ideals
Arain an INSTITUTION of higher learning
ot9,,ad CONTROLLED and fostared bv the
sta+e In a denaocracv cannot in an Off
,iaI Wv diecIiss or utilize the rel gious
oIarnar+ of c,,It,,ro. cannot teach the es-
santiaI nrincsrIes Of C,bristianitv The
rIaa fo,- raIis,.ous ins+r,icti-n in education
&C. ona of +Lo roarlred facts of the new
co,tI,r,, IN Ar1erica Dr De Garmo of
Cor,nu tn, prt1ar Of columbia DIR
GIouertb of Cbicaoo Dr Stahlev Han of
C1or1,' ana ,,anv others are nlead ng-
rot 100, tbn standno.nt Of the church
49, T,,+ ~ +6a eoc.ooIooist for a larger
a,,,rbogis ~ ral.gions Instruction i'm ed
,,ll4io,,
..pnntosto,+is,, ond democracy have
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