The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-05-23
THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.

TO encourage those already interested to put forth
greater effort, and to inspire confidence in many
quarters where forward movement has been
considered hopeless. Four departments of the
work report cheering progress
L. Our Church colleges for young men were never
more prosperous. They making material adj
dltlons to their equipment and endowment and
there is growing determination to maintain fair
and honorable competition with the State in the
higher education. 1t is more and more evident
that the Church can in this way conserve State
education and help to make it also the handmade
of religion
2. The founding and fostering of high Schools
academies, and fitting schools is receiving larger
attention every year from Presbyteries These
supply better grade of students for our colleges
The demand for teachers for less pretentious but
Invaluable SCHOOLS OF secondary grade parochal
rather than presbyterial, is increasing and such
schools furnish of the best patronage for the
colleges There is tendency to despise the day
OF small things and to suppose that every success
1ul and useful school must be of such proportions
as to attract popular notice.
3. Female education is now attracting more at
tentlon and inspiring effort than all the
other departments of our Church work in educa-
tion We need not argue that the Assembly of
1899 and every Assembly since made no mistake
IN giving special emphasis to female education"
The past year is marked by several new move
ments in this direction, presbyteral and synodi-
cal, and still ether schools have educational fea
lures.
a. Some of the most obvious fruits of church and
Christian education are realized is mission schools
In several of our Presbyteries. Their policy is to
plant the Christian teacher wherever the preacher
goes These schools vary from the primary school
to the collegiate institute and include both sexes
Under this policy mission work in our most desti
tute fields has prospered as never before In such
helds the school is recognized necessary part
of mission work, and the demand for the school
has made these schools in large measure self
supporting.
One minister in the mountains of North Caro-
lima reports twelve such schools as, part of the
mission work in three counties DR.. Guerrant
who work largely under the auspices of the
Synod of Kentucky, in the last annual report of
the Society of Soul-winners, gives summary of
the glorious mission work in Cumberland and AL
leghaney Mountains. He gives the names of
nlnetyseVen workers. male and female Of these
seventeen ministers, some of whom are teach
ing preachers. Nearly all the others, in the main
consecrated cody women, are teaching in the
Witherspoon ('LogO College, the Mt. Victory
Normal School, the Smoky Mountain Seminary
and in forty-four day schools with eighteen hun
dred and sixty 0,S6O) pupils The expenses of
this great mission work of teaching and preaching
for the past year only little over ten thou
sand ($1O,00O) dollars. Other cognate and col
lateral details of that great work are of great
interest but not pertinent to recte here except to
mention lightweight Sabbath-sch with 1921
pupils in which the teachers already noted were
''iiOH9 'H0 AOi0AiOSC "oIheIs IL noC Ine malnStay
in many places.
1t would seem that these facts ought to be- to
the whole Church, great object lesson of what
may be done in a similar way in all our great
Home Mission fields, in the mountains, along the
sea-coast, in newy-settled States and Territories
In our cities, among our mill populations, and es
pecially among the colored people. All that is
needed is mind to the work"
There is a measureless work to be done through
out our Church and possibly in every congregation
to sanctify secular learning and to make educa
tion the handmade Of religion, and that without