The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-25
EP|GRAMS AROUSE
THE EPRESBYTER|ANS
Secretary of Board Of Education
Delivers TabaScO-Spiked
Address.
TAKES SOME HOT SHOTS AT
"W0RLDLY" INDULGENCES
Declares That State Universities
Are Goddess Institutions"
Unfit to Educate.

DENVER, Colo, May "a" Grace is
not usually said over champagne and |
lobster a la Newburg.'
Family altars are not raised over
Persian rugs. "
HStudents for the ministry do not, as |
a rule, get their early training by run
ming steam yachts
''Most of Us preachers come of hum
BILE beginnings
These cpigrams from n ''fledgling
secretary as he termed himself, caused
the general assembly Of the Presby-
terian church, as one prominent divine
said, "to sit up and take notice to-
day, The speaker was DR.. Joseph W.
Cochran, secretary of the Presbyterian
board of education,
Basis of the Address.
Dr. Cochran, who IS from Phliadel-
phia, spoke in the afternoon or the re-
port of board of education, which de-
plorcd in upmistakable terms the lack
Of recruits 10 the ministry The re.
port was read by DR.. Edgar 2. Hill OF
Chicago. who stirred the assembly TO
high pitch by his word picture of the
ignorance among immigrants. due he
said TO the fact that no protestant de'
nomination, and surely not the Presby-
terian. has taken the trouble to stir up
n sufficient number of ministerial re-
cruits TO work among these people. nc
demand for more ministers was then
taken up by DE- Cochran
''Whv can t We get the Young men
TO prcach?D asked he 81 III tell you:
In the first place there IS but littie
Christianity in the home. II there is
any. il is gone by the time the young
man is ready for an education: Does
lie 90 for his education 10 CHRISTIAN
school--a Presbyterian schooF NO, ne
goes TO Il goddess state university ana
when he returns to his home TOWN ne
puts religion at low ebb. And It you
ministers find YOUR church IS Mt low
ebb. YOU know where 10 place the blame;
This young man has been educated
where there is no Christianity.
Men, Not Money, Needed.
stTbc need in this board Of education
Is not moro money, but more men. THESE
Young men must be taken in hand when
they are ready for an education. Ihey
must he started right. Now, we can
not christiauizc these state universities:
but we can put a shepherd IN charge Oh
the flock. and in this way keep thesc
bows in the flock, although they, are DC
mo educated at goddess schools.
n, Cochran urged that Sunday
school teachers put before the boys
the ministry as career
The report of the committee urged an
ntcrdcnominationa immigration p0aru
TO work among the immigrants.
1t also urged that cvangoI1suc WORK
be carried on IN the native tongues Oh
the immigrants, and for tins purpose IL
is strongly suggested tnat ministers ana ana
eyanpclists be trained IN theological
,,.boro NAV become pro-
ficieut in tongues that will enable them
to work among foreigners. Two Ter
man theological schools were Endorsed
The Rcv. II. l., Weber of Bloomfield,
n r. one Of the secretaries of the
board of education. urged the necessity
of teaching foreigners IN their own
tongues as part of the home mlsslon
work and in connection WIN 1hc podiu
of education.
Spirited Debate Called Out
The report Of the special committee
on administrative agencies brought on
q hot debate IN the afternoon. The re-
mort rs read bv DR.. J. u. Moffat OF
Pittsburg. president Of Washington and
jefferson college, recommended that fhe
various boards Of the church seek
legal advice for the purpose OF ascer-
tanning The possibilities OF enlargement
oe administrative powers with view
toward the consolidation Win other
boards. DR. Moifat pointed out that
under tho laws Of New York non stock,
holding corporations are prohibited
from awning property in excess of
81 900, 600. and that IN case OF he.
oucst If might work TO the injury OF
thc consolidated board should thc value
of property owned exceed THIS amount
various of the fourteen recommends
tions of the special committee were re-
fcrrcd TO standing committees.
Lack of funds was the principal cry
Of the American Tract society and the
board of Freedmen in reports considered
in the morning session. Dr. Jndson
Swift of New York, secretary of the
Tract society. said the society could do
five times as much work with twice as
much money as it, received now,
One Joke on Teddy,
"Evcn the board of foreign missions
has come to us he said, "rhe board
wants us to print an arithmetic for
the people of Uganda. | suppose the
people of Uganda want to compute the
number Of lions, tigers and glraHes
slain bv our beloved former president
DR. j.. P. Cowan Of Pittsburg. sccrc !
tary and treasurer OF the hoard OF
Freedmen. also made Il plea for more
funds with which to carry on tho work |
among the negroes IN the south.
Following Dr. Cowan, the Rev. r. |
Mavcr of Tennessee and the Rev, James
G.. Walker of Greensboro, \. c.. both |
negroes, said that many negro parishes
in the south arc self-supportiDg,
Tonight there was n popular meeting |
in Central Presbyterian church in be-
half of the Freedmen movement. at |
which a number Of negro ministers
spoke.