The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-18

our educational interests are. we
know that nothing would really 50
seriously wound our educational IN
terests as a tempest Of suspicion, pre-
JUDGE and sectional hate in our ranks.
I'VE have been told recently that
our nine Baptist colleges in the south
are TO be considered by the public as
'board-fed and hoard-cOntrOlled col
leges,' because in their
movements they AVE secured from
/ otr own people over s1,20O,OoO in
three years, with the conditional as
sistance of the general educauon
board to the amount Of only s325.OOO.
Therefore, they are the Gagged birds
Of that board. We simply say that
the epithetS will not stick, because
the germ of truth is not in them.
Every dollar of this million and a
half is ours to keep and use. In the
terms which these, our colleges, have
accepted there is not an item nor a
condition to which there is a reason
able objection. There is not a stipuia-
ton that involves the slightest out
side control of endowment invest
ments or that gives to anybody outside
the trustees a scintilla Of right or ID
erty to interfere directly or indirectly
with what the colleges teach or do.
"Of all people in the world, the Bap-
lists in Georgia and in the South have
a clean record Of resistance to any
clamor of prejudice against professors,
or any violation of academic freedom.
We are jealous of liberty by long and
consistent habit around our colleges.
sectional Prejudice.
1--WE refuse to join in any propa-
ganda of sectional or political pre-
JUDGE, a we NOW that it can
/ C0roatirnaS tc9 ntlrp and control cOI-
leges' and dominate academic Opln-
ion We are afraid of that. We also
beg to decline to designate Southern
erS as 'barbarianS,' even in aCrid Sar-
casn; we Will not stigmatize ourselves
even to make a for the imagination
that somebody else regards us as bar
barians.'
We knOW we are not barbarians,
and We have no reason to believe that
the Northern people so regard us. The
Raptists of the South are in Affection
ate Christian cooperation with their
brethren of the North. We pray Thy
kingdom come and we know that sec
tiOnal bitterness is NJ of the king
dom. We SO teach in our pulpits. In
our colleges of Christian education we
teach as we preach. [ trust we try
to practice what we preach and teach.
For the Baptists of Georgia it is
the day of perseverance apd progress.
We are not divided: all one army
We To our Methodist, Presbyterian
and other people, we aVOW our conf
dence in their competency to admins
ter their colleges as true Southerners,
Americans. Christians and faithful
trustees, believing them to be as
Jealous and as honest as We are and
as intelligent.
If Trinity College, North Carolina,
accepts the gifts of men who manu-
facture tobacco, which is believed by
many people to be an evil and an in
jury, and these gifts are transmitted
into a great Christian institution COM
lnitted to the management n control
of the MethOdists of that State to
mould and shape it, we are not, as
BaptlStS, whatever our views on the
subject of tobacco, to impugn the in
stitution and hold it up to the distrust
of the public,
h freedom and respect we accord
to others, we may claim for ourselves.
The BaptistS, M~ethodists and Presby-
terians have moved tremendously to-
Sether in support Of the needed en-
phasis on Christian education in this
country. We are natural allies in a
common cause We have the same
ideals to maintain, the same forces of
competition to meet, the same great
ministry to the common people to pur-
sue"