The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-24

ment. All the church Is one. If one
church suffers the whole church feels
1t. Here again we stand on a charmed
middle ground between ecclesiastic
democracy or Congrcgationalism and
ecclesiastic monarchy or Roman Catho-
licism. We have all the liberty of the
one and all the stability OF the other.
minus the vices of both. Another bond
binding us close together is our form
Of worship which is the same in every
part of the world and where again
we occupy middle ground between
the millinery of rltualism and un-
checked devotionalism.
"1he second problem which we find
confronting us is the problem Of edu-
catiop and this problem includes the
whole question of the college as against
the university. The American people
are becoming university intoxicated
and TO my mind the greatest educa-
tlonal heresy of the time Is the sub
sttution of the university for the col
lege. Professor Butler. the new presi-
dent of Columbia, recently said that
what this country needs most Is broad
men sharpened to a point The situa-
ton could not have been better sum-
encd first in the college before they
undergo the sharpening process of the
university. If you sharpen a man who
isn't broad you have very little left.
The college developS the man ana
that's what we want to develop.
Real education is not simply the
requirement of lot of technical
knowledge or book-lore. Education
is the ennobling and enkindlng infu-
ence of great and good teacher. You
remember what Garfield said. He WAS
a graduate of Williams college in the
palmy days of the celebrated Mark
Hopkins. Education said he, is
Mark Hopkins saving wood on one
end of log and me on the other end
In the great universities Mark Hop
pins and the log have got separated.
The log has got longer and is filed
with tutors and instructors so that
when the boy sees Mark on COM
mencement day in his academic robes
he gazes at him OPEN -moutheG. We
can't have real education that is i'm
personal.
THE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.
"rhe Presbyterian church believes
in the Christian college. We believe
that the training of the mind and the
neglect of the character is the training
Of traitors. l plead for Christian
education in the public schools, not
denominational simply Christian. The
attorney general of Wisconsin has iilst
declared that the Bible cannot be read
in the public schools of that state. l
protest against this shutting out of
Gods word in the name of patriotism
and in the name of that faith and free
dom brought here by the Pilgrims and
the Pu,ltans. Assistance in the work
OF building up our colleges is one of
the greatest duties confronting the
Presbyterian church today and S5.0D).-
coo to Sl0,COO,O00 should be contributed
for this purpose within the next ten
years.
The third great problem confronting
tie church / am afraid Of
the sSepticiSm that is nanifesting it
self among; many of our Christians. \
sllepticism which believes the salvation
of man and the redemption of the
world to be to great a task for the
incarnate God. l believe that if it is
too hard for God to save one soul that
no soul can be saved. Is not the Lord
Christ infinite? Oh, brethren, the sin
of all sins is the measuring of iniinity
and the doubling of Gods power to
save unto the uttermost.
The twentieth century movement is
intended to stimulate the church to q
higher and broader platform of loyalty
and liberty in the doing of Gods work
and to realization of the fact that
she must care for her own institutions
aud her own agencies if she would
prosper in the sight Of Cod