The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-08
TO RAISE $500, 900.

Among the visitors VINO ca me to Raj
oigb TO hear the Trinity-yVake Forest
debate was Rev. John w. Stage, ID. D.,
who acted as one of the judges of the
debate. Dr. Stag.g has recently accepted
the call of the Synod to undertake the
raising of 100000 as Twentieth Cen
fury fund for Educa ton. 1t is a hercu-
lean eft which DR.. Stage has under
taken but is the type of man built
to SUGGEST carry heavy loads He is
not satisfied With the Accomplishment
of every day things--he wishes TO see MS
church do great things and responds to
the call to lead in the great work
which the Synod has undertaken.
1.-The first voice raised in America to
destroy all connection with Great Britain
came from the Scotch-Irish Presby-
terians,'' says Bancroft the great his
torian "They were the same North
Carolina Presbyterians who established
tho earliest and best schools North Car
DINA knew in it's early history-schools,
too. that have not been surpassed to
this day. In the past year the Presby-
terians of Charlotte raised $4,000 to
build a magnificent college for the edu-
cation of women while Davidson College
added two handsome new buildings to its
fine plant. The Presbyterians have al
ready begun the new century with doing
great things for education. and at the
recent session of the Synod in Charlotte
fit place for Presbyterians to make
declaration of accomplishing great
achievements-it was decided to raise
100000 for education.
Will they succeed? Hear DR.. Stages
inspiring optimism:
..It is my firm belief and it is likewise
the Judgment of some of the best and
most successful among the men in our
community, in both the first and second
churches, that Charlotte will give one
sixth of the 100000 assigned to the
Synod of North Carolina. 1t does seem
to me that the Presbyterians of this
State would feel too keenly the disparity
between one community with one-s1xth
and the entire State with five-sixths OF
$500, O00 to let this amount come short
one cent of the 900 mark that has
been set by the Synod and acknowledged
by every Presbyterian minister in the
State and confirmed by representative
of every church session.
II enter upon the work realizing that
it is herculean undertaking, and that
the people will have to be aroused to
conception of liberality that probably has
not dominated North Carolina Presby-
terianism hitherto, and that every Pres
byterian in the State must be seen, and
that every Presbyterian in the State
must contribute. To this end every pas
tor, every session, every board of dea-
cons, every congregation in the bounds of
the Synod should recognize that he who
speaks in behalf of this movement
speaks in the interest of Gods kingdom,
in the interest of the Presbyterian
church South, generally, in the interest
of Presbyteriansm in North Carolina
particularly and is helping to place the
Presbyterian church, in this Twentieth
Century with all its wealth and great
institutions, where our forefathers
placed it in the centuries less blessed
with material wealth, and not so char.
dcteTlZeu ny great 1HStlIutlOnS, VINO yet
placed it in the forefront by self de-
NAL, devotion and loyalty to God and TO
Gods church, that we fear does not and
has not for some time characterized the
life of our people
The whole State is interested in the
success Of this movement for education
is to be the lever that must lift up the
State and develop its resources. The
Presbyterians give more largely to ed
ucation and beneyoience in proportion to
numbers than any other church. This is
true not only in North Carolina. but true
also in the United States. They plan
large enterprises on broad lines and car
ry them to successful completion They
will not fail in the great work they
have set themselves to do. In Dr. Stage
they have selected a leader who belongs
to the class called by Carlyle, The men
who do things and he represents q
church that in North Carolina has led in
all the past in educational achievement
little while ago we were told that
Aguinaldo was doing all he could to get
the Filipinos to be loyal to the govern
ment. Now we are told that he has been
detected in carrying on Unreasonable cor
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