The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-21

should be found in such bodies as this
and third, that the professor should
lation, and then he will be able to
men could not achieve.
EDITOR BAILEY TALKS.
Mr.. j. w. Bailey, of The Biblical
Recorder, following his Introductory
remarks said:
L JOY in the new breath of freedom
tina is spreading through North Caro-
lima; through / must say I was o
lonfg in the state before / realized that
there are some things which it is not
lawful for a man to say nj that we
are sometimes bound with the shackles
of prejudice and political hate. But
out of the free press and free school in
North Carolina are coming the men
and women who shall make it impossi-
BILE for a man to think wrong things
and still be respected, for a man to be
a hereto in the church and still be re-
garded as a good a When l fight
for free schools, I am not fighting simp-
ly for the education of six hundred
thousand boys and girls, I am fighting
for free souls, Gods most desired
things in the broad universe. / be-
lieve that Jesus died to make mel. free
and that the state lives to make men
free n each of us cannot live to bet
Ter uTpOS imam 10 lnfuence men to-
wards that ideal freedom.
The press is no longer powerful in the
sense that it once was. The press has
diffused and d~issipated it's power by
multiplication and now it is the sor-
REST man in he world, who cannot be
rlest man i nthe world who cannot be
and bable of voices who wonders that
the great ruler sets no longer on the
tripod. The editor is no longer the big
man on the paper. but the correspon-
dent: thus. the press gives information.
but power?-gonei Yet, though the
press cannot lead. it can talk, and we
need a lot Of talk in this state: We
want a press that will refuse to defend
even Governor Aycock the moment he
goes back on his pledge to give US a
four months school.
The press has upon it the obligation
to disseminate information in North
Carolina; it is a reflection on the press
and on all of US that after thi cam
paign for better free schools, and the
speeches and addresses that have been
made, there are o knows how many
people in this state who do not yet I'M
derstand the status of free schools"
After speaking of what the condition
of things will be in 1908 unless great
strides are made in school work, the
lecturer added hat he had two sugges-
tons to make about this serious mat
ter: You must have a special remedy
for the thousands of boys not now in
and you must improve your
supervising system and make it more
DIR. IVEY'S REMARKS.
Dr.. Ivey said: "'One of the best facts
standing out in the educational life of
the state is the acceptance of a COM
mon definition for the word education.
/ nniV WISH U JI-nra DC nnnr1ry - ,.-,A
In a definition of h word righteous
ness which corresponds it to the word
We often take our idea Of
the word from the old MOSAIC law,
and fail to catch it's wider meaning in
the New Testament. The righteous
man is he VINO has a soul warm with
the breath of God and residing in a
noble bodily tabernacle. l am telling
you all this to show you the vital rela-
ions existing between the cache and
preacher; education is the garden in
which plants have been set out and
righteousness is the bursting of thu
garden into bloom and fruitage.
The pulpit has been true to it's func-
ton as the teacher of a righteous mind
and body and it has been a leader in
prominent educational enterprises, u
it has spent it's energies mainly in it
self, but its energies should have been
at n same int towards the
free school. The state spends it's
thought mainly on the higher institu-
tions. n if there is any stringency in
finances 1 have understood that the
funds go first to the few who can have
nine months school and the rest have
to wait. Men and brethren, this thing
should stop. We ave a right to boast
Of our state, for she has made tremen-
strides forward, but above the
bable and roar of trade and commerce
comes the cry of the children of North
Carolina asking for an equal chance in
the affairs of life, and that call must
be needed.
"A great many cause AVE been as
as to why we are i nthis bad
state. I may be wrong. but
I believe that the great trouble is in our
OF the value of education;
can generally get what we appre-
There may be some here who
think that if we a ten million dol
lars for that purpose it would usher in
golden age of education. I do not
believe it: money is not going to do the
work now. Public opinion must be ed
ucated and this depreciation must be
changed into appreciation.
PROFESSOR MANGUM.
Superintendent E. P. Mangum, of
Wilson, spoke Interestingly of Graded
schools-their growth and influence on
our educational life" He referred Of
to Archibald Murphy, the founder
Of u public school system and whose
after many years of trial
are coming more and more to pass.
The graded schools have had much
opposition in the past to contend with.
There are more than t~hirty-five towns
in the state in which there will be wei
organized graded school systems in the
four months. You ask why this
ideal has not spread more rapidly in
our state. Remember the ante-bel1um
associations and p%rejudices and the
conservatism that has ever character
lied our state. and you have the an
swer.
The priciple of local taxation has
been shown to be a principle OF right
and has grown upon the people until
the time has almost come when it will
be necessary to go about from
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