The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-19
CAUSED SURPRISE
IN CHARLESTON WHEN THE NEWS
REACHED THERE.
The Citidel's System as to Church
Attendance Has Always Giyeh Sat
1ec,o4;on-No D;ccvf ,o,<fon

Attendance Has Always Giyeh Sat.
! issaction-No Discrimination.
The News and Courier says the
reports from Spartanburg of the at
tempt of the Rev. C. H. Jordan, of
| Union, a member of the Diocesan
Council of the Episcopal church, to
bring about. an Investigation of re-
ligious conditions at the Citadel, al
leging mat the cadets Of the Ep!s-
copa1 faith were Disseminated
against and prevented from attend
ing Episcopal churches, were, read
with astonishment in Charleston,
where curiosity was generally ex-
pressed as to how an impression so
erroneous as that indicated could
have been formed By any one. Col.
o. J. Bond, the superintendent OF
the South Carolina Militay Academy.
had heard nothing of the matter
when representative of The News
and Courier visited him at the Clta-
del few evenings ago, and he read
the dispatch with the greatest sur
prise.
Il cant understand the matter az
ALL he said with a smile. We are
using today the same system as to
church attendance that we have used
for the last twenty years, and this
is the frst complaint I have ever
heard in regard to the matter.
Col. Bond did not think that the
situation was such as to renoer
necessary any statement by him, but
he did not object to explaining the
system Of church attendance as fol-
lowed at the Citadel. The cadets
every Sunday morning are seat out
by companies, he said, a company to
3 church. There are eleven church
es on the list, which are attended IN
rotation. Five Of these are Episco-
pal ehurches-St. Aichaefs, st.
Philips, st. Paurs, ST. Luke's and
Grace Church; three ara Presoyte-
rian, the First Presbyterian, Second
Presbyterian and Westminster Pres
byterian churches; two are Methodist
Bethel and Trisity; oae Baptist
church is included, the Citadel
Square Baptist church.
There are only six or seven Ro-
man Catholics in the student body.
These are allowed to attend church
es Of their own faith. The students
Of the Jewish faith, are not reQutf-
ed to attend services at Christian
churches against their will.
Once each month commandments
are allowed individual leave to at
end churches of their own denonl-
nation for the purpose Of taking
communion.
The cadets are allowed Sunday !
afternoons of and may then attend
apy church they wish to attend.
rhe 6rst class has Sunday evenings
IF, and members of this class may |
go to any church they please on Sun
lay evenings.
Col. Bond also added that relig-
ious services are held in the chapel
at the Citadel each morning, that
here is a Bible class every Sunday
and that the Citadel Y. NJ. |
c. A. holds services every Wednes-
lay evening and every Sunday even
ing.
There is absolutely no d!scri1n-
ination at the Citadel against stud
ents of the Episcopal faith or Of any
other faith" continued Col. Bond.
TT is not one of the entrance quail
hcations that student be an Episco-
palian, but as matter Of fact It
happens that more students are mem-
bers Of the Episcopal church than OF
any other, more Episcopal churches
are attended than the churches, OF
any other one faith--because of this
fact and because the Episcopal
are most numerous of the
Protestant churches in Charleston
and at least four members of the
faculty are Episcopalians, while
fifth attends the Episcopal church
regularly"
Col. Bond is himself vestryman
of st. Paul's Episcopal church, IN
Charleston.