The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
MAY SECURE
 THE COLLEGE Montgomery Churchmen
 Are Moving. "A PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL Mass Meeting Sunday to Be Addressed by pr. McIlwain. Synod Requires City Which Gets Institution to Subscribe $25,-
 900 and a site-Local
 Committee is Raised.

Definite plans have been projected for securing the location in Montgomery of the Alabama Presbyterian College for Men" For the purpose of giving an i'm petus to the movement a mass meeting of Presbyterians of Montgomery will De held Sunday afternoon at o'clock at the First Presbyterian Church, which meet ing will be addressed by Rev. William l.. McIlwain, D. D., of Birmingham, pres- ident of the institution.
 The three Presbyterian Churches of Montgomery the First Church. the Gen. tral Church and the Highland Park Church. have created a committee to have charge of a movement to raise a fund of not less than $25, 900 to secure the location of the college for this city. This committee consists of Rev. Neal L. An derson, Rev G. W. Patterson. D. D.. Bradford Hardie, J. M. Kennedy, W. F. Thedford and Frank P. Glass.
 A meeting of this committee was held last night, and Dr. McIlwain, who came from his home in Birmingham, was pres ent The matter of locating the college in Montgomery was discussed in all of it's phases, and it was decided to have mass meeting of Presbyterians at the First Church, Sunday afternoon. At this time Dr. McIlwain will outline the work which 1t is hoped a Presbyterian college in Alabama may accomplish.
 Dr. McIlwain Talks. After the meeting of the committee last | night Dr. McIlwain. in an interview with q representative of 1.e Advertiser. dis cussed the work proposed for the college
 by the Presbyterian Syn7d of Alabama. There is no Presbyterian College for young men in Alabama, i'd Dr. McIl-
 vain. There is no Presbyterian College
 nearer Alabama than 300 miles. There is none in Georgia, none in Florida, nor } in Mississippi, none in Louisiana. The Synod of Alabama has lol.g felt the need of first class college for the training of its young men. It has now fully
 determined to establish such a college in Alabama. Its location. has not been de-
 termined upon. Several cities in the State are very much interested in se-
 curing the institution. The matter of location must be decided by April 5. This is not to be a theological school for. the training of preachers. but 1t is
 to be a literary institution for the train- ing of young men for all of the walks of life. It will have no connection with the proposed Presbyterian University to be located in Atlanta. It Is to be an Alabama college, located by the Alabama
 Synod in some city within the State.
 At least $1O0OOo is to be raised for the establishment of this college. More than $40, 900 has already been subscribed. The Synod has fixed the minimum amount of subscriptions by any city to secure the institution at $25,00O, and site.
 Purpose of College
 "The great purpose of this institution is to give collegiate advantages to worthy young men who are unable to attend eX- pensive institutions. To reduce expenses, the college will own large grounds to be devoted to orchards, vineyards, gardens and farm products In this way the Sy- nod confidently expects to help hundreds and thousands of worthy young men who could never enter more costly institu- tions.'
 The Board of Trustees of the college appointed by the Synod upon its deter imitation to establish the institution con sists of leading ministers of the church and laymen who are representative busi- ness men. The Board is as follows: Rev. A. A. Little, Selma; Rev N. l.. Anderson Montgomery: Rev. J. G. Snedecor Tusca- loosa: Rev. William E. McIlwaine Bir- mingham; Caldwell Bradshaw, Birming- ham; Judge T. w. Coleman, Eutaw; R. T. Simpson, Florence; Mir. Carmichael. Dothan. and F. P. Glass, Montgomery.
 pr. McIlwaine is one of the leading men of his church. He has had wide ex- perience in mission work and has de- cided executive ability. He was called by the Synod of Alabama from Arkansas, where he had been for some time an evangelist under the Assemblys Home Mission Committee, to undertake the ex- ecutive duties of the proposed college. He was for some time Synodical Evangel- ist in Alabama.
 He will remain in Montgomery until next Wednesday as the guest of pr. Pat terson.