The news & observer., 1901-11-01
WILSON COLLEGE
To THE CHRISTIANS
Proposition to Donate it is
Quickly Accepted.
NEARLY $4,000 RAISED
They Will Now be Given $4,000 in
Paid up Stock.
AND A S25, 900 COLLEGE WILL BE THEIRS
An Impassioned Address by Or. Motley on
Christian Education Sweeps the Con.
ven.on into Storm Of Re-
sponsiye Enthusiasm.
NEARLY $4,000 RAISED
They Will Now be Given $4,000 in
Paid up Stock.
AND A s25. 900 COLLEGE WILL BE THEIRS
sponsive Enthusiasm.
Especial to News and observer.)

Especial to News and Observer.)
Kinston, N. c., Oct. 31.-This mornings
session fthe North Carolina Christian
Convention was the hapDiest ever held
by the Disciples in North Carolina. Dr..
d. e. Motley entertained and lifted up the
people with the most impassioned and
powerful address on education your cor
respondent ever heard. He closed with
these words
I'VE need an education that is Chris
tian. / would use some other word. but
use the word Christian because / mean
Christian Not ecclesiastical, not
"churchinal," not denominational, not
interdenominational, not undenomination-
al not orthodox, not unorthodoX, but ex-
actly Christian. as the New Testament,
for as Christian was Christian, Christian
multiplied by nothing, divided by nothing
added to by nothing, subtracted fro II
nothing.
Christian education in it's nature,
without any discussion about it, contains
something that Grecian. Roman. English
education does not necessarily contain,
and that is life. Did you know that
person could not possibly be Christian
educated without having it in his life?
What we need is Christian education that
shall not be arrogant or apologetic, for
strange as it may seem. there are two
words that often have the same meaning.
Christian education that shall not be
tame but shall exist for the people with
all the love and power that the word
Christian contains. ] should like to see
one educational institution in America
standing solidly on the principle Chris
tian, not arrogantly, not apologetically,
not SIMULTANEOUSLY, not tamely, not his
torically, not theoretically, but authori-
tatiyely. that is all. The nations edu
cation must come to this before it comes
to it's full state of usefulness and inunto
a complete education. / see with my
eyes hear with my ears as / go up and
down the country | feel with my soul
the peoples need of Christian education,
and oh how long are we going to hold
back from helping to give it to them?
Il might proceed to show in detail what
Christian education would do, but should
feel overwhelmed in the task, and yet it
would be unnecessary. for when | have
said we need Christian education have
education that shall make the desert
places blossom as the rose and the world
a garden of God 1t is the education that
shall make human industries and rela
tions move with the harmonw with which
the morning stars sang together. Chris
tian education is the issue at the fulfill
ment of which the heartache of the cen
turtles shall breath its last agony"
i
which set the whole convention ablaze
with enthusiasm on educational matters.
At the close of the address a PROPOSE
tion was submitted by the educational
secretary of Wilson to donate fourteen
thousand dollars paid up stock and to
turn the college over to the Disciples as
gift on condition that they raise at once
ninOe thousand dollars.
The proposition was accepted with en-
thusiasm and nearly all the nine thous-
and dollars was raised nthe spot. The
remainder will be paid in few days.
This has been happy day for the
Christian church in North Carolina, and
the convention is praising God The dis
ciples now owns magnificent college
building in Wilson, one of the best towns
in .he Stale.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
The principal feature of the afternoon
session was an address on Home Missions
by Rev. B. l.. Smith, of Cincinnati. Mr..
Smith is secretary of the American Home
Christian Missionary Society. His ad
dress was a rare one. He gave official
statistics showing that the Disciples are
increasing in numbers more rapidly than
any religious body in America. In 1900
the net increase of the Congregationalists
was 1,456: Presbyterians, all branches,
1850 BaptiSts. north 258S MethodiStS
CIT branches), Is, 8,460; Disciples Zone body
so, $50. In the Home Mission work of the
Congregationalist during 1900, there was
an average OF five and a half additions to
each missionary employed Missionary
Baptists fNorth), six and half to every
missionary employed Presbyterians. nine
to every missionary. LutheraDs nine
teen to each missionary. Disciples, fifty
five to every missionary employed
fact worth noticing is that the Dis
ciples did their work with only few
thousands of dollars. while the other
bodies used hundreds of thousands And
yet the Disciples far surpassed them In
! their gain in members.
The idea of being a Christian and q
Christian only is taking root all over the
land. The world is sick and tired OF d.
visions and sectarianism.
The Disciples contend for no creed but