The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-30
PLEA FOR MONTPELIER SEMINARY.
Bishop Franklin Hamilton Spoke in Barre
in Statewide Campaign.

Rev. DIR. Franklin Hamilton, chancel-
lor of the American university in Wash
ington, ID, c.. spoke in Hedding Meth
odist church last evening on the advan-
tages of a Christian education. There
was a large congregation present to hear
the gifted Methodist divine issue stir
ring appeal for Montpelier seminary.
| The pastor, Rev. L. +. Newell, presided
at the services and Rev. j. w. Barnett.
pastor of the Congregational church, oc-
cupied place on the rostrum. DIR. Bar
nett offered the invocation and the pas
tor conducted the responsive readings.
Music was furnished by the regular choir
and the Hedding male chorus.
The services were part of an earn
est campaign which the Vermont Meth
odist conference has started for the pur-
pose of increasing the enrolment ar
Montpelier seminary and to extend PEE
cuniary aid to that institution with a
view to increasing its facilities for edu
eating young men and women OF Yer
mont. Among the speakers enlisted in
the cause are Bishop Hamilton, Presi-
dent Lemuel Herbert Murln of Boston
university, President Guy Potter Benton
of the University of Vermont and Presi-
dent William A. Shanklin of Wesleyan
university. Chancellor Hamilton spoke
yesterday in Montpelier and Plainfeld
and other prominent churchmen appeared
for the same purpose elsewhere within
the conference, but nowhere, surely, was
there held more enthusiastic educa-
tional rally than that at the Hedding
church last evening.
Chancellor Hamilton developed his APP |
peal from the contribution which Chris |
tian intellectual training has made in |
the civlizing of the world His ad- |
dress teemed with historical precedents |
to show that education and Christianity |
have always combined TO shed the light |
of truth over the earth. Such institu
tions as Heidelberg university, Harvard, /
the Cooper Union, Drew Theological sem
mary and a host of others have had their
inception through the desire Of Christian
men to propagate the Word among the
oung men and women of their genera
tion and the generations to come.
Dealing in general way with Chris
ian education and the present-day meth
DDS of training. Chancellor Hamilton
took occasion to caution his hearers
against confusing true education with a
Kind of false culture. Cultivation of
character. he contended, has an accepted
,lace in the program, but culture alone,
le added. does not teach the young to
stand foursqllare to the werd. The
golden test of any method training is
Is contribution to the practical problems
# our times Culture may adorn, but
generation. The cultivated men of to- !
Oh he O}of &c nj
eform.
When an honest heart is moved by a
trong purpose. education is bound to
ucceed said the speaker. Throughout I
II the ages there have been examples
,ithout number of men who had the
i'll to do and by the grace Of helpful
ducation they gained the power to I
eheve. 1t has been the men with the a
hristian educational training who have Y
GIFTED torches that will never expire. o
he birth of Methodism may be charged y
the intellectual and religious training d
hch her great founders gained in their p
outh. e.
Continuing, the chancellor said that Il
lie boys and girls who are to be the
lptains and leaders of the next gen
alton must have the benefit of this
me kind of training. Education must
Ave for its basic text book the bible.
he speaker charged his hearers to con- S
der we'll the duty which the welfare NJ
the seminary imposed upon them in
S hour of need. A sum of 100000 is in
eded to continue the good work of the m
sttution and an organized effort is
foot to secure an enrolment of 300 G.
udents by next fall. Chancellor Ham "
on spoke of the crying need for an
-to-date dormitory and an increased Sc
dowment. The seminary's success is A,
be multiplied in the near future, said
!. Hamilton. and his closing remarks fr
re filled with spirit Of optimism as be
emphasized his appeal for loyalty and WI
La roe slnnnrt for the school