The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-21

Board of Trustees. which means also inc
aSsumption OF a debt Of $40. 600. the prin-
OF which : not due fer ten years.
50 il would seem that the college has been
run. not only without endowment. but
with an interest charge on a debt OF sac.
GOO. Besides. the trustees We're offered
SIS. 900 for the college property which was
the reason for closing the college just nov.
1t cost $4,000.
Furthermore. the Greensboro Christian
Advocate puts a. the reason toI the clos
ing of the college the apathy u the
Methodist church. 1t ~
The reproach OF Methodlsm IN
North Caroline l. her apathy IN the
matter Of giving moral and material
support to her educational instltu-
tons. They have allowed Greensboro
to ~languish. while Davenport. Ruther
ford. Weaverville and Brevard have
zone Vainly begging Tor the help they
have needed, and Trinity would have
been dead and buried but for the bene-
factions OF a few whose unselilsh do
nations have never been fully appre-
GATED
1t is T that after having printed tins.
our contemporary read the little post
scrip III the Standard and lost ITS temper,
which we can pardon this hot weather.
1t says in the same issue:
Just AZ our columns are full. We find
the following IN the Presbyterian stand
ard:
p s. again. Why should the
PRESBYTERIAN Church be able to keep
five fourishing female colleges open
in North Caroline and the Methodist
Church with all its money and its
numerical strength celebrate the TWO
Hundredth anniversary of John Yves
ley's birth by closing the one such
college it had? We hope the answer
to that question viii be the reopen
ing of its doors"
Mr.. Mckelway is exceedingly anxl-
Gus to be known as very smart. We
suggestthat he go way back and SIT
down. or else take a new start. 1t
seems that he does not know that in
North Carolina, besides Greensboro.
the Methodists have Davenport, Louis
burg and Littleton Female colleges,
each chock full of girls. besides a
large number of. girls at Rutherford,
Weaverville and Trinity. Upon the
whole we are doing fairly well. and
if Mr.. McKelway, Joe Reece and the
lcSJ Will ColllllIuC " tlP ~ otA'iii
to our business, we have good hope
of yet coming out at the end OF the
lane"
Expressing our sympathies for Joe
Reece,'' who has to live in the same town
with the editor of the Greensboro Chris
tian Advocate, the standard desires to
apologize for overlooking the colleges
mentioned above. But while the two
paragraphs quoted are slightly confusing,
taken together, we get these questions out
of them for the Biblical Recorder. II il
was the apathy of Methodlsm IN North
Carolina that struck down the college,
why lay the death at the doors Of the
State? Or, if the MethOdists have these
colleges and the Presbyterians five, all
chuck full of girls why was it that
the Greensboro College alone fell a victim
to the cruel hand of the State? And then
suppose it enters upon a new career OF
prosperity under new management, as we
hope. What becomes of the Recorders
contention? And suppose they build the
million dollar Methodist College for Wo
men at Durham, will not State COMPETE
ton be responsible for that too? The
facts are that the Presbyterians, tn.
Baptists, and the Methodists are educat
ing more boys and girls right now thar
ever before and the State is doing the
same thing.
And now what is the State of NORTH
| Carolina if it is not the people Of Nortf
Carolina? And who are the people o
North Carolina? Why they are mostly
Baptists and Methodists and Presbyte
rians and Episcopalians and Lutheran:
and Quakers and so on. And these say
through their representatives in theiI
church courts: We must have Churcl
Schools in which to train for our churcl
its boys and girls. This IS one of tn,
most effective methods of denominations
propagandlsm and we adopt 1T. And thel
these same people, Baptlsts. Methodists
Presbyterians, Episcopalians, P~resbyteri
ans, Lutherans, Quakers and others say
through their representatives IN the Leg
%lslature, We must have a State Univer
slty and a State Normal and a State A
and M. The same people say these tWt
things, and they put their money into tn,
church treasures for the church college
and they pay their taxes INTO the Stat,
Treasury for the State colleges, and they
know that both contributions are going t.
the great cause of education, and tina.
there IS no conflict between Church am
state IN this matter. Rivalry betweeI
the institutions themselves is wholesome
II 1t IS fair and honorable, just as rivalr,
between the colleges Of a single denomina
ton helps to put each on its mettle a
to equipment and standing and helps t.
get pupils that would never go to any
school except for the competition 70
them.
The Standard believes in Church Edu
cation and also in State Education. |
could not believe in the common school
If 1t did not believe in State Education
The Catholic Church is consistent il
teaching that no education should be b,
the State and in fighting the publ
schools. The Recorder is illogical and in
consistent because it believes that tn
State should educate the child in the for
native period of its life and that it i
wrong for the State to educate him afte
the character has been largely formed. TIL,
Standard believes in Church Education
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