The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-26
BISHOP GALLOWAY
 SPOKE YESTERDAY Eloquent Address at the First Methodist Church PROSPERITY OUR PERIL Methodist Mass Meeting in Interest of college-Flfteen Thousand Dol
 lars Ralsed--Hlshop at Five
 Points at Night.

Bishop Charles B. Galloway of Jackson, Miss spoke at the First Methodist church yesterday morning in the interest of the movement to secure funds for building a dormitory and making other improve ments at the North Alabama Conference college at owenton.
 Bishop Galloway discussed the import | ance of Christian education, and his ad- | dress was considered by all who heard
 1t masterful effort. The discourse was characterized by his usual eloquence, and although the church was packed to it's fullest capacity, nothing seemed to divert the attention of the audience from the speaker.
 The occasion was a mass meeting of all the Methodist congregations in the 1 district and it is estimated that about three thousand people were in the church. About thirty pastors of the district oc- cupied seats in front of the pulpit, and section was reserved for the officers of ] the churches
 After Bishop Galloway's address, about sl5,000 was raised for the needed improve ments at Owenton. The meeting yester- | day was the culmination of an active can l yass which has been made in the inter- 1 est of the college. The pastors of the district exchanged pulplts on the preced- ing Sunday and spoke on the subject of | the college.
 Bishop Galloways effort was referred to az,Kx Al. scholarly ever made in this city. He said in part:
 Every church is as strong as it's insti- l tutlons of learning, and this great church must have institutions for training the | young minds. One of the reasons often assigned for the non-acceptance of the doctrine of Christ is the many unseem- ly contentious between the various de- nominations.
 Taught Essential Truths. "The Lord taught only essential truths, truths transmutable into the fibre of young manhood and young womanhood Many unnecessary volumes have been 1 written on the subject of water in bap- 1 tism and apostolic succession. Neverthe- 1 leSS we must Iildlnldin lliSLlutiOllS lOl the right training of the minds of the young Methodsts.
 "Aii men and churches are measured l by the value of the services they render | and churches that provide for the correct l education of the American youth render
 a service that exalts the nation, bene-
 fits humanity and glorifies God
 If I were ambitious to have my name | written highest on the scroll of fame, would ask that I might be given the childhood of the nation, and allowed to 1 i'll the brains of the children with cor. rect ideas and guide their footsteps, and | then l would create your national at
 mosphere and determine your political destiny.
 While not sympathizing with the gloomy prophecy of Lord Macaulay in re- | gard to the downfall of America in the 1 twentieth century, 1t might be well for us to consider the words of that great his-
 torian, when he said that the fall of | America would resemble that of Rome
 except that the Huns and Vandals in de- 1 struction of Rome came from without her
 borders, while with America they would come from within her own territory.
 Foreign foot will never invade Ameri. can soil. We may have conflicts on the high seas but the combined armies of the world could not effect an invasion of oui land. The destruction of our liberty will be because of forces nurtured within Sul land
 Prosperity Our Peril.
 Our peril Is our prosperity. Great l wealth in the hands of the few has ever
 been a peril to republics. In the south during reconstruction days. we talked oi our poverty so long that from force ol habit we still do 1t (except here in Bir. mingham). I have seen in the days after the war noble men and heroic women be. reft of fortune still clinging to the tra- dltions dear to them.
 But the star of industrial prosperity has turned southward. The days of won derful prosperity are upon us, and the day of awful peril has dawned. The danger arising from the remarkable pros. perity is an accumulation of wealth and the undermining of the foundations of bur government.
 "An interesting phase of the discussion | of this subject is the sing influence of the teachers of the country I am be. ginning to believe that the power and op. portunity of the teacher is greater thar that of the preacher. The teacher has al opportunity day after day to fix ideals IT the minds of the future citizens of tn,