The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

where. There are 13,o00 communicants in our Synod representing probably 40.ooo people. So that 100 out of 40,00o or in 4oo Is receiving a liberal education. This number is too small We need c quick sning of our interest in education
 Presbyterians have led the Christian world in education. It cannot be said of our Synod either that we have led the people of this State. or that we have contributed our full share of what edu- cational progress it has made.
 Presbyterianism and education are bound together, not only historically. but logically. An independent and self-gov- erning church. where private opinion is held to be an inalienable right, must either educate its people or go to pieces on the rocks of heretical private opinion.
 Our preservation and our propagation are both vitally concerned in the matter of the real education of our children
 We can think of no good reason why we should seek to evade our obligation to do this, and throw the burden and ex- pense of the Christian education of our sons upon any other church. And if we were willing to do this. We could not in dulge the hope that it could be done with out suffering serious losses. Our sons would owe a debt of gratitude to what ever church had provided them with a liberal Christian education. and they would do no injustice to our church if they should sever their connection with the unnatural mother who had refused to provide them with Christian training and culture from her own abundant re- sources. Such losses have occurred In the past, and will occur, and ought to occur again if we fail to do our full duty to our sons.
 Our sons are too far from any Presby- terian college. To the east 1t Is 400 miles to the Presbyterian College of South Car olina, or Davidson, North Carolina, or King College at Bristol, Tenn. To the north 1t Is a like distance to the Central
 University of Kentucky and Clarksville. Tenn. To the west the nearest Presbyte- rian college is 600 miles away. These are all too far away to win our patron age, and as a matter of fact they do not secure it. except In occasional instances. Our Synod Is not in touch with any Pres byterian College. It has an ecclesiastical connection with the college at Clarksville,
 Tenn, but this school Is too far away (400 miles) to affect our people. Our Sy- nod is not awake to it's educational work. The people of our churches are not ed- ucating their children as we should like to have them. The situation will not im- prove uDiCSS W6 o0Cluo " AAhPAoN0 Ah. We need a college of our own, one that will call upon us for our gifts and awaken the whole Synod to 6 sense of its duty to its sons.
 The Work Begun.
 It is time for us to begin work in earn est The ministers of this Synod have, out of their small resources, subscribed $1O, 900, the part asked of them by the Synod. It is a heroic subscription. It Is an evidence of their desire for the college of their faith in the good work 1t will do.
 We earnestly exhort the good women of the Ladies Societies of our Synod to pledge $10 900 asked for by the Synod, and the Sunday Schools to pledge the $S.ooo asked from them. After that, we ask the people of our church to subscribe s50, 900 asked from them. These amounts together with the s25,O00 from the place where we locate the college. will enable us to found a college, where the expenses will be moderate, where each student shall be particularly and personally taught. where the character of the institution will be of the very highest, where the infiu- ence will be distlnctively Christian and spiritual. We propose an institution for the making of men. We want this for the glory of God and for the good of men. Let us rise up and build.
 D. Clay Lilly, Chairman. A. B. Curry, A. A. Little, J. G. Snedecor. Neal L. Anderson, T. W. Coleman, Caldwell Bradshaw, F. P. Glass, W. s. Anderson.