The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06

Kilgo to deliver an address to the con l ference on the subject of the Birmins
 ham college The bishop responded and
 spoke for half an hour during which his
 audience was several times convulsed 1 with laughter.
 | Bishop Kilgo said false education IS l one of the worst things on earth and IS
 a dangerous thing. No nation, he said, | has ever been overthrown by ignorance. l Solomon was on the throne when Israel l fell and Solomon was not fool How | ever he had got himself tangled up with lot of society women and his nation
 fell so that it has never been able to
 recover. When Athens got her death
 blow her streets were as full of edu-
 cated men as Huntsvilles are of fourth class cooks. The twentieth century, he
 said has not produced the big men. The finest sculptors of this day spend their time trying to become as good as the Persian laborers who carved the stone
 ornamentatons of the Acropols and it IS
 the same way with the men in other pro fessions
 Bishop Kilgo directed his guns on ad- vanced thinking. He derided those who claim that Abraham is a myth. He ad- vsed Methodist preachers not to read the higher criticism of religion. It is bad for them They don't have to read sucn stuff to know that it is not good for them. He said he does not have to Ill up with whisky to know that he ought to fight liauor nor does he have to go
 to a ball room and witness the sicken- ing scenes there to know that dancing is not right. Education, he said. Is good for but two things-to cure ignorance and create potentiality.
 He said the church colleges are the very bulwark of the nation. Disregard them and America will soon become rrt.o todd half so much In danger from lack or
 education as it is from mis-education The mind that I object to most is that which puts it's eye to miscroscope ana goes into the abdominal cavity of tad pole and loses it's God. l want to see few colleges in this land that believe in soul greatness and man greatness. This industrial education that is being talked about so much in this state IS nothing more than teaching boys how to get something to stick in their pockets It is nothing except to show them how to make money. It makes the boys think only of making money.
 "Nurse your denominational college What we want is right education and the church alone Is able to give It. Ahe state cannot Church people represent the highest citizenship of the state we
 use more soap more brooms, more sahu and concentrated lye and are the clean est people in the state. And yet some or your higher critics say that the churcn IS not competent to manage it's colleges It Is not so.'
 Birmingham college is a magnihceht laboratory of learning and VII do great work The church is well flttedto opef
 ne college and can do it snccessfuliV' The state cannot do it right want to express my belief in the good Of an m
 stitution that educates along the rlgnt lines and does not mis-educate.'
 President Simpson Talks pr. J. D. Simpson, pres dent of the
 Birmingham college said tl:a- what th5 trustees want to do is get the Birming' ham college before the people. They
 want the preachers to talk about and help it, for they are going to lave great college there" Dr. Simpson made q snort address full of enthusiasm, and the conference showed its sympathy by ap- riauding him frequently. lie said tha, he wants to have the college a great in
 stitution and if tbe trustees believe thai some one else could fulfill the duties Of pr esident better than he he would gladly | step down and help the man who is bet | ter fitted The Rev. Frank Brandon said: | '"rne conference is all right, Bishop kilgo | is all right, and all working together will make a great college at Birmingham l The Rev. F. NJ. Glenn said this was tfe rappiest day of his life to see that all
 honds are joined together for the build. | ihg up of the Birmingham college. The