The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-16

With brilliant address by Or. W.
II. P. Faunce. president OF Brown Cni-
yersity, Providence r. L. the sessions
OF the Southern Baptist Educational
Baptist Church last night, to continue
through to-day. A large audience, al
most filling the spacious edlfice. gave
close and Interested attention. and at
the conclusion OF the address many
of the ministers and laynlen congratu-
lated the distinguished visitor.
DR.. Faunce is an attractive and
forceful orator: has a full. melodious2
voice. and speaks easily and graceful
~. yet forcefuly. occasionally rising
to eIoqucnce. HIS diction Is elegant
and his sentences are at times cpl.
grammatic and pregnant with throught.
The address last night was on the true
education OF men and women. and
was plea for the broadcast culture Dr.,
Faunce demanded the largest liberty
compatible with faith, and dismissed
(, the fear that the larger culture was
in any way antagonistic to unshaken
faith and consecrated life. He adj
vocated tho intellectual as contrastcd
with the material side of life. but
pleaded for practical education and
advanced methods of instruction.
4 Trained Leaders.
81 The standard OF some was that, the
man who can get the most out Of a
five-dolIar note was the best educated
The man who can get the most out Of
the sunshine, out OF the starlight, out
OF the church. the school. out of art
and music Is the best educated man in
tho true sense. DR.. Faunce then re-
viewed what the schools have done and
what the church wishes them to do
The church is looking to the schools
for trained leaders. men thoroughly
qualified to teach and to lead others
upward into a higher realm intellect
ually and relig!ousy. The twelve
apostles were shrewd, practical but un-
trained men. In the Book Of Acts. how
ever, one finds different type of men
enlisted in the work Of evangelizing
the world. Paul was educated IN all
tho learning OF his day, trained at the
feet OF Famaliel. There were also
Apollos and Timothy. leading In the
work of instructing the world in the
truths of Christianity and spreading
tho gospel among men. In later
periods there We're Wickliffe Tyndale.
Melancthon. Luther and Calvin and q
host of others, men capable Of inter-
pretinE the mind of Christ to their
fellowmen.
Methodism was established by man
OF culture who spoke many languages.
Roger Williams was also man of
large culture, and 1t was related OF
rim that he would row thirty miles
for the mere pleasure of taking part
in religious discussion. It is tho
natural lazy In the spiritual world.
God never uses n poor instrument
when he has better at hand. The
church needs for It's work ripened
men. Christ gave thirty years Of His
life to preparation for a ministry COW
erng only about three years. The
speakers advice to young men was
to give themselves time. There is
needed not so much more minister's
but more minister, in the sense of meQ
equipped with the best preparation and
the highest culture.
iDr. Faunce declared that 1t was sig
nihcant that the three greatest evan
gelists Of modern tim mes-Phnney
6purgeon and Moody-had spent the
closing years Of their lives and the
ripened fruits of their learning in the
christian education or young men
Moody's most enduring monument to-
day Is the great Bible school which ne
] founded in Massachusetts,. These men
gifted with the evangelistic temper
and power thought 1t worth while te
devote their ripened years to the train
ing Of young men,
Passion for Reality.
There is in the present day In edu.
cation as in other affairs a passion fol
reality. People arc turning away from
& words and names to things. Nature
study. object methods and other practi
\ GAL forms of instruction now In vogue
were cited as evidences of this ten
dency to study things rather than
words. DIR, Fnunce illustrated thu
4 differences by describing the method
used In the instruction of children
In the study Of "Hinwatha." Tho!
were now brought in contact with th
bark, the trees, and all thel object
# cited in the poetic story. and wer
B thoroughly familiar with the tangtbl
things that figure ingthe poem befoS
reading the poem itself. In the oil
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