The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-01
a PREACHERS MISTAKE.

Wa hnya been favored with g lnarkeo
conv Of the Danvlle Methodist, contain
ne. a report Of tho meeting of the Dan
villa District Conference During the SEES
sion of the conference an address was E'.' de-
slivered on the subject of education pS
the Rev. James Cannon, Jr., from which
NO take the following extract
,.The state secular press Is against de-
ron,inatIonal education: think Of our
Randolph Macon College. the school OF
10000 -Nlcthodists, within twenty-five
miles OF Richmond by actual measure
only receiving twenty-three inches space
notice In The Dispatch, Wllilam
and Mary commencement given iittS
inches space, Washington and Lee TWEEN
ty-one inches given a ball final At VIZ
ginin Military Institute special CORE
sondent sent In column after column M
ali thirty three inches more than all space
given denomination school comneu .ee,
ments: four balls were fully reported
The University OF Virginia commence
ment was given by The Times-Dls'patc:h
rage after page"
Here IS a curious state OF things. some
time ago the Rev. J. II. Light, OF the
Methodist Church. Of Lexington, puloollc1y
declared that Washington and Lee was
a Presbyterian school. and that the Uni-
verslty Of Virginia and the Virginia MIL
itaryi Institute were Episcopal schools'
If MI. Light was right. the argument OF
his Brother Cannon falls to the ground.
we leave these two distinguished Meth
odist diyines to settle the question be-
tween themselves.
In the meantime We take occasion to
remark that 1he Times-Dispatch Is not
opposed to denominational schools or 70
any school whose object Is to educate men
md women in mind and morals. The edi-
torlal policy of this paper is not to be
Judged in any case by the manner IN
which 1t prints the news. We endeavor to
give most prominence to those subjects
| IN which our readers are most interested,
and IL we have given more prominence
to the finals of the University of Vir-
eina and the Virginia Military Institute
than to those Of the denominations
| srhools, It is because our news editor at
| tached more value to the ono than to the
other. AS we'll say we are opposed to all
other denominations because we CHANGED
to give more prominence recently to the
death of the Pope than to the death OF
leading prelates of other denominations
If Mr.. Cannon had been entirely fair IN
his statement he would have told his
hearers that We gave special prominence
to the Virginia Military Institute recently
because of the unwilling of the monu'
ment to the heroes Of New Market, anc
we have given special prominence to the
University of Virginia. not only because
that is tho leading institution In the State
but because It has been more than usua
| In the public eye by reason Of the con
test for the presidency that has beer
going on.
But to infer from all this that we arr
in any sense opposed to denominations
| schools Is to draw an Inference which !!
wholly unwarranted and which In NJ
| sense represents the position of this pa
per. On the contrary. we are only too
glad to aid them In any way we can, ant
we think that Chancellor Smith, of tht
Randolph system. or President Boat
wright. OF Richmond College. will bear u:
out In that assertion.