The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-10

England's sending Kitchener to the Soudan
To avenge the death of Gordon. Afterward
Kitchener canvassed England TO raise
fund TO build an educational institution tnat
would be a monument 10 Gordon. He begged
half million dollars. and Kipling wrote a
poem about IL ALL part of which the speaker
recited with fine effect. The lines ran:
That was the magic of Kitchener; cometh
his madness now.
He does not desire you desire, nor devise
as you devise;
He has gone to raise a second army-an
army to make you wise
Knowing that you are forfeit by oattle ana
have no right TO live,
He has gone to England to beg for money
and all the English give.
II is their treasure, IL is their pleasure-thus
are their hearts inclined
For Allah created the English mad-the
maddest Of all mankind.
They do not consider the meaning Of things;
they consult not class nor clan.
Behold they clap the slave on the back,
and, behold, he becometh man.
They terribly carpet the earth with dead,
and before their cannon cool
They walk unarmed by twos and threes
and call the living to school"
'And that Is our justification in the islands
and everywhere else tonight commented
the speaker 1--WE clap the slave on the
back so that the slave may become a man,
Dr. Mcdowell declared that the college is
no clustered institution. dwelling apart put
is all tied I'D with the business of making
a new earth where dwelleth righteousness.
Mr. Wesley said: "And tn. best of all is
God is with us" The speaker said he would
like to put an amendment 10 that and say
that "at the end of life's hard battle we
shall be with God"
Its worth your WHILE, the speaker
continued, Ito send your boy or girl TO the
college where Jesus. the master, walks ana
camps and through the halls, the sovereign
of 1t ALL"
WELCOME FOR DIR. HUGHES.
In introducing DIR. Hughes. the new presi-
dent of DE PAW, DR.. Martin remarked: Il
want you to give him good. old-fashioned
Hoosier welcome" AS the new president
arose a party of young clergymen occupy
ing front seats who happened to be all De
Pauw men. arose and gave DR.. Hughes one
of the college ''rah, rah'' calls. Later they
sang a verse Of Praise for Old De PAW"
DR.. Hughes recalled at the opening of his
talk that a wise man had once said, "A
little learning is a dangerous thing" He
observed that men are not lost because OF
little learning. but because they do not
do the right thing with the learning they
have. He said he had heard the statement
made that college men earn 300 per cent
more than other men. Or. Hughess ais
course was splendid appeal in behalf of
higher learning and in support of the con-
tention that Christianity and learning go
hand in hand. He pointed out that college
men must work for what they get as well
as the less fortunate. THE college man
can't live on education in the abstract"
the doctor held. He told OF having made
study of the voting statistics of Massa-
chusetts a few years ago and found that
In the factory towns more men went 10
In the college towns. 'Shame on college
men that Ii is so,' he cried with passionate
emphasis. He found. he said. that the
poor voters in Boston were more prompt
at the polls and more of them voted than
do the wealthy and educated classes. 'T
believe" said DR.. Hughes, that If the
Ing with the prayer meeting, the Christian
ought TO leave the prayer meeting and go
70 the caucus He should do this because
the prayer meeting comes fifty times
year and the caucus only once. make the
statement that II is the duty of every
healthy man TO go to the polls and vote.
If he does not want to vote for the men
right sort to merit mis- vote-then let him
get up early, dress himself and go and
cast a blank ballot" In support Of his
Hughes quoted from the book of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. american Ideals" in
which the author talks of the college grad
uate, and takes him TO task for his carp
ing criticism and dainty excuses in dealing
with public questions.
HIGHER EDUCATION.
In support of higher education DR..
Hughes described the Lincoln statue in
Lincoln Park. Chicago. referring to the
splendid force of character shown in the
figure. "A man." he said. who was intelli-
gent enough to write the deathless classic
Of Gettysburg and strong enough to grip
the nations into unity" The speaker de-
clared that man is always in danger when
with a certain curl of the lip he begins
to talk of the masses and of the common
herd. THAT man is in bad way" said he,
"and his knowledge Is a curse to him and to
the world"
Or. Hughes admitted that man can
walk among the stars intellectually and
wallow in the mud morally. 1.-The man
must be the whole man, not simply de-
generate on the moral side and genius on
the intellectual SIDE" he said. The doctor
made a strong appeal in behalf of young
men who would like to be Methodist preach
ers Of this period had they the means Of
going through school and combining the
higher education with their Christianity. In
closing his remarks he pointed out that In
every great religious crisis in the history
OF the world God has selected an intellectual
and an educated leader.