The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-25
TREY DO A GREAT WORK
a WORD IN PRAISE OF DEEOlI-
NATIONAL COLLEGES.

NATIONAL COLLEGES.
Five Sixths of the Colleges in the
United States Belong to that Glass
of Institutions.
DR.. A. P. Montague, President of
Harvard College, Birmingham, Ala,
shows the great benefit the denonni-
national colleges are to the country
by pointing out what they are doing
for the uplift and bettermenr Of the
young people Of the United States.
Here is what DR.. Montague says:
In a talk to certain educators OF
Alabama, gathered in the First Pres
byterian church of Birmingham, DR..
Wallace Butterck, executive secre-
tary of the general education board
of New York, stated that of the SOC
leading American institutions OF
learning carried on the books in his
Office, sol were founded by religious
denominations. In this list are in
cluded Harvard, Yale, Brown and
kindred universities and colleges.
From this fact alone we see the
vast debt which American ciViliza-
ton. Take out from the catalogue OF
ton. Take out front he catalogue OF
our colleges all founded and for gem
erations fostered by religious senti-
ment and sacrifice, and you leave
gaps in education which could not for
a century be bridged.
These institutions have led the ed
ucatlonal activities .of the United
States; more, they have inaugurated
these activities; and, while some Of
these foremost schools have drifted
in a way from their ancient moorings
of religion or certainly Of denomi-
national control, education in Ameri-
ca can never forget it's debt to them
while governed solely by the denom-
nations which gave them birth.
From these institutions have come
presidents and supreme court JUS
tices, senator's and ambassadors, ed
itors Of international fame and law
yers foremost in many states, busi'-
ness men who have made the in
dustrial life Of our land and scien-
lists who have interpreted the mys-
teries of nature. From their doors
have gone forth teachers who have
given farther vision to education
and preachers who in the leading
pulpits of America, as in the foreign
field, have given fresh and vigorous
impetus to Christian thought and
practice. In short, our country to-
day would lag far in the rear of the
greater nations, were it not for the
lives and the service of colleges and
universities, established by the gen
eral Christian denominations of our
land.
In the second place, the denomi-
national College furnishes the. finest
type Of democracy. Controlled by
trustees, elected by conventions,
themselves chosen by individual
churches and hence by the people,
these schools are directed for the
great people and by their direct rep
resentatives. Drawing their inspira-
ton from the people, responsible to
the people, they live near the great
heart of the people Representing in
their control, as in their student
classes, the humblest homes and the
thought too of those in afluence,
they are exponents Of all classes Of
free America.
In the third place, there is no I'M
er training school for economy and
simple living than the average de-
nominational college.
Itself supported by the gifts of its
own denomination, in a way depend
ent, it inculcates the principles OF
economy and necessity, observes the
practices of simplicity in living. Its
students must learn the value Of a
dollar, and thus they realize the ne
cessity of careful financial manage
ment.
So trained, they know not the ways
of the spendthrift and are taught to
spend with a measure Of caTefulness
that conserves in youthful days, as
in the years of their old, resources
that are theirs.
This simplicity of living and ne
cessity for economy do not produce
niggardly meanness or small par
simony; on the other hand, they
teach the true value of money. Then
the knowledge that their opportun-
tiles for education come from the
large e-hearted men and women who
give generously of their means teach
es them lessons in iberality; and
gratitude for kindness received gives
birth to acts of similar kindness.
In the fourth place, true religion
and undef!ed has its home in the
denominaltional college. There pro-
fessors and students hold the Bible
as the standard of thought and the
rule of action. There Christianity
trains it's disciples and movements
for world evangelization have their
birth.
There the finest patriotism, that
of the Christian citizen, teaches love
of country and inculcates the prln-
ciple of individual service for the
country and the country's service
in the parliament of nations.
AS the activities Of the denomlna-
tional school came into being with
the needs of education in our land,
so will its continuance and develop
ment keep pace with the expansion
Of American thought and American